Hansaplatz, near Hamburg Central Station, is the AI surveillance laboratory of the city. The Hamburg Police is experimenting with behavior recognition. Using a Fraunhofer Institute stick figure AI, passers-by were “digitally skinned” and analyzed. During this surveillance walk, we take a closer look at this project and demand the city stop this surveillance.
Cap San Diego is a general cargo ship built in 1961 that still is seaworthy and offers excursions. On our tour we will see the bridge as well as the engine room. An exhibition takes us back in time to worldwide shipping before the introduction of containers.
The electrum is Hamburgs Museum of Electricity and Technology. Nothing works without electricity—for 130 years, electricity is part of our daily lives. You’ll find around one thousands technical devices from all ages in electrum, Hamburgs museum of electricity in Harburgs inner harbour.
A beacon of the energy transition: For far too long, the old anti-aircraft bunker in Wilhelmsburg was an architectural eyesore. Today, the former wartime building is a globally unique example of the innovative use of renewable energy and a pioneer for other regional power plants around the world. The tour of the bunker shows the development from a wartime building to an innovative lighthouse project for the energy transition. Afterwards, you can enjoy the incomparable panoramic view over the city at Café vju.
Would you like to see where the rc3 teleshop studio actually stood? Or what a ship of the GDR deep-sea fishing fleet looks like from the inside? And what the technology looks like that still keeps the ship afloat and visible in Hamburg today as a non-profit, participatory cultural spaceship? Come along for a tour on the motor vessel Stubnitz!
Look behind the curtain: the St. Pauli Elbtunnel connects the St. Pauli neighborhood with Steinwerder island. It was built between 1907 and 1911, and was one of the first road tunnels in the world. On this tour, Thomas Heidborn takes you to the cupola of the head building on the St. Pauli side and mentally back to the time where it all began.
At the Train Museum Loco Shed Aumühle the Verein Verkehrsamateure und Museumsbahn e. V. has collected and restored trains from 150 years of railroad history, among them multiple generations of Hamburg rapid transit trains. Using the Field Train, we take a tour around the grounds of the museum at its exhibits. Competent volunteer members explain the history of the moving stock, the signal tours and safety equipment, track construction and many other aspects. Where possible, everthing is in operation and can be touched!
A technical adventure awaits you, where you can descend into one of the largest non-nuclear hunting and espionage submarines of its time. Our guides will not only give you a tour of the submarine with great background information, but also an exclusive tour of the command center.
