Hightech meets Lowtech: EinDollarBrille at the Deutsches Museum Munich
From April 4 to 8, 2026, EinDollarBrille will be part of the Science Communication Lab at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. Over five days, visitors can experience our work up close—hands-on, accessible, and grounded in real-world impact.
As part of High-Tech Meets Low-Tech, we bring our work from our 11 program countries directly to Munich. Across three interactive stations, visitors can explore how vision care can work without complex infrastructure, and why this simplicity has the power to profoundly change lives.
What to Expect
Station 1 – Be the One Giving Sight: Become a Vision Technician for a Day
Step inside an eye camp and see how trained GoodVision Technicians carry out vision screenings and provide affordable glasses within their own communities, often for the first time in a person’s life.
Station 2 – Simple Idea. Global Impact
At our information stand, visitors can explore how a simple idea grew into a global health innovation now active in eleven countries.
In a live demonstration, our team shows how a durable pair of glasses is made from spring steel wire using a small bending machine and simple hand tools. No electricity required! Material cost: around one US dollar.
Station 3 – The Craft of Vision: Handmaking a Pair of Glasses
Sit down, take the tools, and try it for yourself. What looks simple quickly reveals the precision and focus it takes to make a pair of glasses: a pair of functional quality glasses that changes lives.
Why Visit
Join our daily hands-on activity and bend your own miniature pair of glasses to take home. In a museum that spans everything from early inventions to cutting-edge technology, this is a quieter moment where a simple piece of wire takes shape in your hands and becomes something that is truly functional.
A pair of glasses is a small object, but it changes everything: it restores vision, opens the door to learning, and allows people to take part fully in the world around them.
The Deutsches Museum is a place where science and innovation become tangible, and is the perfect setting to show that sometimes the simplest ideas can affect the greatest change. And that each of us can be part of that change.
At a Glance
- When: April 4–8, 2026 // 10 a.m.–5 p.m. (Last admission to the museum at 4:30 p.m.)
Evening event: April 7, 2026 // starting at 6:30 p.m.
Where: Science Communication Lab, Deutsches Museum, Museumsinsel 1, 80538 Munich - Entry: included with a valid museum ticket
- For: Everyone—families, school groups, students, seniors, and anyone looking for a meaningful experience
We look forward to welcoming you.
Many thanks to the team at the Deutsches Museum for this opportunity.
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