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People, cables, data streams

How do networks work? How do they change our everyday lives? Spanning 1,600 square metres, the new permanent exhibition ‘The Network: People, Cables, Data Streams’ offers insights into our interconnected world. Whether it’s telegraphy or hyperlinks, exchanging information is a fundamental human need.


The exhibition brings the technology, applications and impacts of information and communication networks to life for explorers of all ages.

It explores the opportunities networks offer and the challenges they present. Taking the internet as the ‘network of networks’ as its starting point, numerous objects, interactive stations and media convey a vivid picture of two hundred years of technical networking.


For the exhibition, as well as additional spaces for special exhibitions, events, educational programmes and a catering facility, four further warehouses of the former Anhalter freight station were converted along a 200-metre stretch of the historic Ladestraße at the German Museum of Technology.

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Opening hours

  • Closed on Mondays
  • Tuesday to Friday: 9 am–5.30 pm
  • Saturday, Sunday and public holidays: 10 am–6 pm
  • Last admission: 5 pm
Dates
November 2026
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