Top Secret: Spy Museum in Germany

Top Secret: Spy Museum in Germany

Categories: Exhibition

"Top Secret" is a spy museum in the German city of Oberhausen. Its exhibition offers a glimpse into the past and present of espionage. Visitors here can find out everything there is to know about the legendary world: secret technological advances by intelligence agencies, legends surrounding spies and their organizations, and current espionage data. There is also a collection of spy devices from different centuries.

Top Secret: Spy Museum in Germany

Top Secret: Spy Museum in Germany

1. A gun that fires chemicals to mark people and objects used by the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) Federal Intelligence Service, on display at the Top Secret espionage museum in Oberhausen.

Top Secret: Spy Museum in Germany

2. Listening devices from the Stasi in East Germany on display at the espionage museum.

Top Secret: Spy Museum in Germany

3. Encryption equipment used by the Federal Intelligence Service (BND).

Top Secret: Spy Museum in Germany

4. Various types of weapons used by spies.

Top Secret: Spy Museum in Germany

5. Gilded Kalashnikov.

Top Secret: Spy Museum in Germany

6. Pigeon layout with a small camera.

Top Secret: Spy Museum in Germany

7. Sign "Watch the conversations - the enemy is listening!".

Top Secret: Spy Museum in Germany

8. Phone for wiretapping.

Top Secret: Spy Museum in Germany

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Top Secret: Spy Museum in Germany

10. A visitor watches a video about spies on the screen.

Top Secret: Spy Museum in Germany

11. A small camera housed in a book used by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Top Secret: Spy Museum in Germany

12. A microphone hidden inside an artificial cherry in a martini glass.

Top Secret: Spy Museum in Germany

13. German cipher machine "Enigma", used during the Second World War.

Top Secret: Spy Museum in Germany

14. The coat, a traditional symbol of espionage, is located at the entrance to the Top Secret espionage museum in Oberhausen.

Keywords: Germany | Museum | Spies

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