German Tank Museum Munster

Photo of the tank museum outdoor area — Photo: German Tank Museum Munster

Xpedeo offers a multimedia tour in which the exhibits are placed in a critical and multifaceted historical context.

2025

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The Tank Museum had set itself the goal of offering its visitors a completely new service: a multimedia tour through the exhibition, in which the exhibits are placed in a critical and multifaceted historical context.

At over 20 stations in the museum, interesting and interesting facts about the history of the tanks were to be told via headphones and accompanied by historical images. One of the museum management's special requests was to have the German dubbing actor of Jean Luc Picard, Ernst Meincke, as the voice for the audio tour. In addition to being multilingual (German and English), it was also important to the Armoured Museum that the visitor guidance system was designed to be simple enough for visitors of all ages to use the multimedia guide.

When selecting the multimedia guide, it was also crucial to ensure that the content could be expanded so that additional languages and themed tours could be added in the future.

When implementing the xpedeo system in the form of the multimedia guide, we created a clear and detailed exhibition plan for easy navigation. Depending on their wishes, visitors can choose a guided tour, i.e. a predetermined route, or explore the museum individually.

The combination of original armour and detailed information in the form of spoken text and historical images on technical details, background information and anecdotes suddenly brings history to life and makes it an intense experience. The calm and powerful voice of Jean Luc Picard emphasises the poignant mood of the tour and at the same time gives the sometimes very emotional topic the necessary objectivity.

In addition to the German multimedia guide tour, an English version has also been realised. Further themed tours are also being planned, which can be quickly and easily added to the xpedeo multimedia guide with the help of the additor editing system.

The German Tank Museum Munster is a joint institution of the town of Munster and the Bundeswehr's Munster Training Centre, the central training centre for junior officers and non-commissioned officers of the armoured combat troops, army reconnaissance troops and army air defence troops of the Bundeswehr.

The museum's mission is to document the history of German armoured troops since 1917. The core of the exhibition consists of around 40 tanks from the Bundeswehr and NVA as well as 40 tanks and other vehicles from the German Wehrmacht. There are also tanks from the Red Army, British Army and United States Army from the Second World War.

Since it was founded in 1983, the museum has had over 1.8 million visitors, around 70,000 a year. This makes the museum one of the most visited leisure facilities in Lüneburg Heath and one of only 5% of German museums with over 50,000 visitors per year.

Further information at:
www.deutsches-panzermuseum.de