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W&H Dental Museum
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On the trail of Weber and Hampel
The W&H dental museum is a testament to the company’s development through the generations.
The factory museum has been open in its present form to visitors from the industry since 2001. In the rooms of the museum in Bürmoos, visitors take a trip through the history of the company and its world-renowned products.
The museum features an almost complete cross-section of W&H’s extensive product range, from its establishment in 1890 to the present day. The exhibits are presented with great attention to detail and cover a surface area of approximately 125 m2. They range from the first straight and contra-angle handpieces, to the nostalgic turbine floor-mounted appliance and the high-tech instruments.
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Highlights
More than 90 % of the exhibits exhibited are still in working order. Each one was painstakingly restored and some incorporate reworked original parts. The oldest exhibits are the straight and contra-angle handpieces from 1890 and the universal instrument which was patented in 1895.
Take a seat on the original pneumatic dentist’s chair from Adam Schneider, manufactured in 1935, which was operated using only pressurised oil by means of a foot pedal. Or experience the background noise of a hanging motor from 1950 and take a look at the world of dentistry through the eyes of our ancestors – this is just one of the many highlights.
The W&H Museum is particularly proud to present exhibits from across the ages – products from each period in the proprietor’s history. For example, with the emergency program for the provision of work in 1946, W&H was most resourceful and produced curlers and water wave clips from cheese and biscuit tins belonging to the American occupying forces, which are naturally also displayed in the W&H dental museum.
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One-off exhibits
Beginning with the production in Berlin and later the direct production in Bürmoos, a treasure chest of old dental products was put together , which was carefully sorted and recorded: e.g. a foot-operated drilling machine, 1939 model, with a cord drive unit, a clinical floor-standing drilling machine, 1935 model, a hanging motor with sliding bearings, amalgam metering scales, straight and contra-angle handpieces from the turn of the century, a motor handpiece from 1939 and a wide variety of accessories for dental treatment.
In addition, there is an abundance of fascinating documentation e.g. photos from the dental exhibitions, reference books for old brochures, operating instructions and of course the book, “The W&H dental family” to gaze at.
Factory visitors come for the pleasure of experiencing the superb collection in the W&H dental museum and being taken back in time by the numerous stories and anecdotes of the museum’s manager, who is now retired but will always remain connected with W&H.
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