All sugar!

Food - Material - Energy

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  Diese Zuckerrohrmühle stammt aus Bolivien und ist über 300 Jahre alt. Sie wurde zur Verkleinerung und zum Pressen von Zuckerrohr verwendet. – Eine große, hölzerne Zuckerrohrmühle. Sie besteht aus einer langen Antriebsstange oben, die eine Antriebswalze zum Rotieren bringt. Diese setzt zwei weitere Walzen in Gang, die das Zuckerrohr auspressen.

• Das Präparatekabinett zeigt unterschiedliche Nasspräparate von Zuckerrüben, Rohrzuckerstangen und deren Schädlingen und Nützlingen. – Das Präparatekabinett mit großen und kleinen zylindrischen Glasgefäßen. Darin werden Zuckerrüben und Rohrzuckerstangen in Alkohol aufbewahrt.

• Zucker sind überall! Pflanzen, wie beispielsweise Bäume, bestehen aus der Zuckerverbindung Zellulose. – Eine junge Frau läuft durch den Ausstellungsbereich „Zucker sind überall“. An der Decke befindet sich ein großes hinterleuchtetes Foto. Darauf ist das grüne Blätterdach eines Waldes zu sehen. Am Fußboden befindet sich die Baumscheibe einer Pappel.

Sugar is more than a substance used to sweeten coffee or tea. There are few things in the world that don't involve sugar in one way or another. Discover the exciting history of this biomolecule in our permanent exhibition "Everything Sugar! Food - Material - Energy" to discover the exciting history of this biomolecule!

With the exhibition "Everything Sugar!" the Sugar Museum, which started in 1904 in the Institute for the Sugar Industry in Berlin-Wedding, has found a new home in the German Museum of Technology. It offers a fascinating panorama of sugary possibilities and the social changes they set in motion. The "queen of crops", the sugar beet, represents an agro-industrial revolution of the past. The new technologies for using sugar molecules as energy storage, bioreactors, or building materials for anything the 3D printer can make represent the future.

In the past, sugar came from sugar cane grown in the colonies. The cultivation and production of sugar was therefore closely linked to the exploitation and enslavement of mostly African people. The sugar beet then opened up a new source of sugar from their own production. The scientific foundations for the cultivation of the sugar beet were laid by the chemists Andreas Sigismund Marggraf and Franz Carl Achard in Berlin from the middle of the 18th century. "All Sugar!" explains to visitors how this breeding innovation triggered an economic revolution in agriculture. By the end of the 19th century, beet sugar was already the German Empire's most important export. Among other things, the exhibition shows the equipment that made this possible - from the beet topping sledge to the furrow opener to the modern beet harvester in Ferrari red.

Runtime: from November 2015

Price info: Admission is free for those under 18 and up to the completion of regular schooling.

Price: €8.00

Reduced price: €4.00

Reduced price info: Discounts are available to the following, with appropriate proof:

Students

Unemployed persons

Severely disabled persons (from 50%)

Recipients of social welfare

Recipients of benefits under the Asylum Seekers' Benefits Act (Asylbewerberleistungsgesetz)

Federal volunteers and those doing voluntary military service

Berliners with the berlinpass and berlinpass-BuT

Groups from institutions for the disabled

Takes place here:

• Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin