Repair!

Use instead of waste

German Museum of Technology
This special exhibition ended in September 2023 – there is still plenty of tips and information available at the museum and on the website.

Special exhibition for families: Repairing is sustainable and fun! With lots of hands-on activities and free workshops.

Whether it’s a cell phone, a sneaker or a bicycle – repairing something is always worth a try. When we repair things, we understand how they work instead of throwing them away and buying new ones. Repairing is living sustainability in everyday life. The exhibition “Repair!” shows the diversity of repair from the old Japanese gold repair to the super special tool for game consoles. At interactive stations, young and old exhibition guests get to work together, plugging a hole in a giant sock or mending a dike. This makes it clear that repairing is not only sensible, but also a lot of fun!

Many people no longer have the confidence to carry out everyday repairs. They lack the tools or the knowledge. The exhibition invites you to lend a hand yourself and discover repairing in a new way. On weekends, there are various hands-on activities at the exhibition: a monthly Repair Café, where visitors can repair things themselves with support, demonstrations on printing spare parts from the 3D printer, and family workshops, where you can sew axolotl hand puppets from broken socks and old buttons, for example.