The museum
The Deutsches Museum main building on Munich Museum Island brings aviation into a broader history of science and technology, alongside astronautics and engineering.
Deutsches Museum on Munich’s Museum Island treats aviation as part of a wider history of engineering. The Historic Aviation exhibition connects interwar travel, flying performance and the consequences of military research. Its Junkers F 13 and Ju 52 explain the rapid advance of all-metal transport aircraft, while the Me 262, Me 163 and Bf 109 illustrate the pace and cost of German wartime aircraft development.
The Modern Aviation galleries investigate the technologies behind safe flight since 1945, using aircraft such as an F-104, a Hansa Jet and a Grob business machine. Cabins, cockpits and wings are shown with complete aircraft. The Air Archive labels a Boeing 707 cockpit section as a partial airframe and records only the types individually identified by the museum’s own exhibition text and photographs.
What defines the collection
The aviation and astronautics exhibitions place flight within the development of modern technology. This venue is distinct from the Flugwerft Schleißheim aviation branch.
What to expect
Visit Historic Aviation and Modern Aviation in succession to compare early aircraft materials and propulsion with postwar flight systems. The rest of Museum Island provides an unusually rich engineering context for the aviation exhibits, including adjacent astronautics and technology collections.
What the museum holds
Historic Aviation: 16 complete aircraft; Modern Aviation: 10 planes and 6 helicopters
The inventory below separates what the museum or its sources say the institution holds from the smaller set of aircraft histories already connected to the Air Archive.
- Boeing 707 cockpit sectionOn Display
- Junkers F 13On Display
- Lockheed F-104 StarfighterOn Display
- Messerschmitt Bf 109On Display
- Messerschmitt Me 163 KometOn Display
- Messerschmitt Me 262On Display
- Dornier LibelleOn Display
- Grob business jetOn Display
- HFB 320 Hansa JetOn Display
- Junkers A 50 JuniorOn Display
- Junkers Ju 52On Display
- Klemm Kl 25On Display
- Messerschmitt M 17On Display
- Sikorsky helicopterOn Display
Open full museum-listed inventory (14 entries)
| Aircraft | Status | Identity |
|---|---|---|
| Boeing 707 cockpit section | On Display | — |
| Dornier Libelle | On Display | — |
| Grob business jet | On Display | — |
| HFB 320 Hansa Jet | On Display | — |
| Junkers A 50 Junior | On Display | — |
| Junkers F 13 | On Display | — |
| Junkers Ju 52 | On Display | — |
| Klemm Kl 25 | On Display | — |
| Lockheed F-104 Starfighter Lockheed F-104 Starfighter | On Display | — |
| Messerschmitt Bf 109 Messerschmitt Bf 109 E | On Display | — |
| Messerschmitt M 17 | On Display | — |
| Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet | On Display | — |
| Messerschmitt Me 262 Messerschmitt Me 262 | On Display | — |
| Sikorsky helicopter | On Display | — |
Aircraft histories connected to this museum
These links connect museum holdings to aircraft histories already in the Trackpads Air Archive. They are not intended to imply that every museum aircraft has a dedicated archive profile yet.