Only a couple of hours free in Munich, I went straight to the Deutches, my first visit since 1976.

The Deutsches Museum (German Museum) in Munich, Germany, is the world’s largest museum of technology and science, with approximately 1.5 million visitors per year and about 28,000 exhibited objects from 50 fields of science and technology. …

It always listed one of the most interesting museums in the world.

Astronomy, mapping, weights & measures, musical instruments. I loved the full size wooden tower – 50m high – an amazing technological advance in prehistory.

Certainly the evolution of technology: phone, typewriters, computers … is fascinating. (They had neither an Apple 1 nor Apple 2 in the collection, an unforgivable oversight.)

The history of photography included pictures from 1850 of excellent quality. Digital photography was introduced in 1982, but was not affordable until 1996.

The history of agriculture fascinates me too. How did early man figure out how to turn grass into maize?

A full size replica of the Cave of Altamira in Spain surprised me. It’s one of the two best sites ever discovered for drawings and polychrome rock paintings of wild mammals.