German Museum of Technology

Carbon Culture

Museum of the Fossile Age

A digital rendering of an aeroplane viewed from below, combined with a yellow grid outline that highlights the shape and structure of the fuselage, wings and engines, set against a dark background with a violet glow.

Carbon Culture

© Lion Sauterleute

What are the dependencies between technology and fossil fuels? Selected objects show how closely coal, oil and natural gas have been linked to our everyday technology since industrialisation. Follow the journey from the dawn of the fossil fuel era with the steam engine to today's questions about the ecological consequences of our dependence on coal, oil and gas. 

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