Children in the museum

Family exhibition

Age: Recommended for ages 8 and up

Stay: Allow 1.5 – 2 hours

reduced price: up to 17 years

Highlights: Laser parcours, secret laboratory, Morse station, bug searches, coding messages, finding microdots, puzzles

Time travel through the world of espionage

Children quickly find out in the German Spy Museum that agents already existed when there was no cell phone or internet. Modern touchscreens with pictures and maps show that numerous successful spies worked in antiquity and the Middle Ages. In addition, children gain practical espionage experience: How agents used to encrypt their messages can be found out using the Skytale or the encryption disk. The "air agents" that dangle from the ceiling cause astonishment: pigeons equipped with 100-year-old mini cameras (the first "drones"). Since communication techniques have always been very important to agents, children learn how to write their name in Morse code at an interactive station.

In the area of the Second World War there is not only the original of an »Enigma«, the famous German encryption machine, but children can try out the technology of this machine themselves at a digital coding station. They write messages and encrypt them beyond recognition. The recipient must first decrypt the secret message before he can reply. In addition to the Enigma, there are other secret fonts to be discovered here. The children also use the password hacker to test how secure their password is. With a little trial and error, you can create a super secure password.

Children and parents are enthusiastic about espionage technology. The German Spy Museum shows over 300 unique pieces of equipment from agents: pistols in pipes and lipsticks, cameras in lighters and watering cans, microphones in books and shoe heels or secret hiding places in chess sets and murals.

This room is bugged! Who can find all the bugs?

Discover the world of secret fonts in our children’s laboratory

Adventure exhibition for the whole family

Many missions await in the Cold War adventure exhibition: hidden bugs must be found in a reconstructed office with a bug detector. Radio stations send secret messages, which the young agents can crack with an individual code. A microscope searches for tiny micro dots that are hidden on everyday objects. Good observation skills are also important at the lip reading station: who can find out what other people are talking about without hearing them? The largest object in the exhibition is a spy car: a Trabant with built-in infrared flash and a camera that costs 200,000 marks. Brave children explore how efficient infrared photography is in the dark in a mysterious dark room.

A dedicated department is dedicated to the most famous secret agent of all time: James Bond. Original props from the films take the children into the world of 007.

In the agent laboratory, children independently experiment with various secret inks and discover hidden messages on the walls. With a smock and safety glasses you feel like Q, the legendary inventor from the James Bond films. Detective skills are required for the file puzzle, since the destroyed documents contain valuable information. Only those who put the parts together quickly can find out what is hidden behind the snippets. Dressing up is also part of an agent’s work to observe people unnoticed. Therefore, trench coats, floppy hats, sunglasses and wigs as well as great background motifs for the ultimate agent photo await in the corner of the fairing.

Espionage satellite with infrared flash light

Hidden firearms: pipe, lipstick and glove gun

You can’t crack this ancient code with pen and paper – only with a good sense of observation

Action in the laser course

Then the children embark on their own mission – who has never dreamed of saving the world? The aim of the laser course is to stop the launching of enemy rockets by hand scan. To do this, however, a room must first be overcome that is secured with an alarm system made of laser beams without touching the beams. In several levels of difficulty, the children (and also the parents) feel like 007 themselves.

The last area of the museum is dedicated to the present. Multimedia stations playfully show children how much information is collected and used on the Internet and social media. In the digital Facebook puzzle, they put together the private information that the company collects about its users. In the big data ball track, they create an avatar by throwing balls into different characteristics and habits, such as clothing, food or consumer behavior. With each additional ball they determine how the image changes that users leave behind on the Internet. And at the hacker station, current websites can be “manipulated” and fake news produced – for example, you can insert Papa’s name instead of Donald Trump.

The laser course in the German Spy Museum

The file puzzle: who can restore the Stasi file??

Code name: Children’s birthday

Reward after passing the agent training: the agent ID

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