This year will be a special one for the Deutsches Museum. If everything goes as planned, the first part of the renovation will be finished in May. For visitors this means: Numerous exhibits that they have had to do without in the past few years are finding their way back from the depot, the Schleissheim aircraft yard or the traffic center back to the Museum Island. The giant model railway will then be technically outdated again, as will the alpine hut from the Tegernsee region, and the Munich residents were able to watch the plane “Tante Ju” when it returned in the summer.
Some things will appear familiar to visitors, but many things will also be new – and some things they will have to do without from May onwards. The popular mine, one of the museum’s attractions, will be dismantled, because then the other part of the ailing building will be renovated. And this work will have to be carried out more cheaply than the previous one.
The first section cost 450 million euros, which is already 50 million more than was once discussed for the entire renovation. In the meantime there is talk of 750 million euros, and it will stay that way, says the commercial director of the Deutsches Museum, Henrik Häcker, in an interview with SZ: “If necessary, you have to opt for a cheaper option.”
In an interview with my colleague Martina Scherf, Häcker also explains how great the facility’s losses are due to the corona pandemic and what plans and projects there are beyond renovation (SZ Plus).
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