Saxon and Dresden industrial history in particular in a historical industrial building.
The Dresden Technical Collections are a museum and science center and make technology and science an experience for the whole family. The museum is located in one of Saxony's most beautiful industrial monuments. The factory building once produced world-famous cameras and projectors made by Ernemann, Zeiss Ikon and Pentacon.
Built in 1923, the "Ernemannbau" was the landmark of Dresden's photography and cinema industry for many decades. Today, the imposing industrial building offers over 6,500 m² of space for exhibitions, experience workshops and events. There is a small café in the tower and from the highest point you can enjoy a unique view over Dresden and the Elbe valley.
The permanent exhibition extends over 5 floors and is divided into different areas.
The museum achieves something unique with the "Adventure Land of Mathematics": beyond tables and formulas, science becomes an adventure. Over 100 play and experiment stations arouse curiosity about mathematics. Walk-in musical instruments, a climbing sculpture and a giant soap bubble entice visitors to immerse themselves in the dimensions of mathematical systems and their aesthetics. Puzzles and tinkering lure them onto the trail of mathematical proofs.
More than 50 hands-on stations with amazing phenomena and astounding effects await young and old researchers in the "Wellenreiter" experimental area. Playing with light and sound provides food for thought about the physical foundations of our world.
The "Cat Q" escape room is also located here, where families and groups can immerse themselves in the crazy world of quantum physics. Four colorful rooms are full of puzzle fun based on real quantum physics phenomena. Different rules apply here than in everyday life, but you don't have to be a math or physics genius to play along.
In the "Camera City Dresden" exhibition, the museum looks back on a century in which over 40 manufacturers of cameras, film cameras, projectors, photographic papers, film material and special accessories made Dresden the largest location for the industry in Europe. Many innovations and the quality of the Dresden camera industry are still legendary today.
Families can explore the museum on their own with the "Ernemann Rally", a "magnifying glass game" or interactive tours in the "Actionbound" app. DEFA animated film classics are shown twice a day in the museum's own cinema.
