Historisch-Technisches Museum Peenemünde
Im Kraftwerk
17449 Peenemünde
+49 38371 5050
Fax +49 38371 505111
April – September
- Daily 10:00 – 18:00
October – March
- Daily 10:00 – 16:00
- November to March closed on Mondays
Admission fee
Gift shop
Aircraft collection
| DDR-SPW
992 911 |
Kamov Ka-26
Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-21PFM Mil Mi-8T |
The Peenemünde Military Test Site was one of the most modern technological facilities in the world in the years between 1936 and 1945. The first launch of a missile into space took place here in October 1942. In the nearby air force testing area, rocket engineers tested numerous flight objects equipped with revolutionary technology.
The Historisch-Technisches Museum Peenemünde exhibition in the power station is primarily a historical exhibition, in which the history of technology and the memory of the victims are also displayed.
Exhibits, documents and films inform visitors about the fateful pact that the rocket builders and their technical director Wernher von Braun entered into with the rulers of the time. Building on the technical experience gained in Peenemünde, Wernher von Braun and many of the former employees from Peenemünde were able to design the Saturn V rocket for NASA in the mid-1960s for the flight to the moon. However, the order for the rocket builders at that time in the Heeresversuchsanstalt (military research station) was to develop weapons of war.
The effect of the so-called “wonder weapons” is shown to the visitor, for example, by means of films. The wealth of knowledge from the Heeresversuchsanstalt (military research station) formed the basis of the nuclear missile development of the victorious powers. In the USA, the USSR, Great Britain and France (Force de frappe), experts from Peenemünde were involved. The situation and working conditions of the forced labourers are highlighted in a detailed chronicle of the experimental station. The concentration camp prisoners who had to assemble the “wonder weapons” under inhuman conditions are remembered in detail.