Sinsheim Auto & Technik Museum
| Aircraft on the roof of the museum building.
Aircraft on the roof of the museum building.
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 Location within Baden-Württemberg
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| Established | 1981 |
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| Type | Technology museum |
| Website | sinsheim |
The Auto & Technik Museum Sinsheim is a technology museum in Sinsheim, Germany.[1] Opened in 1981, it is run by a registered association called "Auto & Technik Museum Sinsheim e. V." which also runs the Technik Museum Speyer.
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As of 2004[update], the museum had more than 3,000 exhibits and an exhibition area of more than 50,000 m² (indoors and outdoors). In addition to exhibitions, the museum also has a 22 m × 27 m IMAX 3D theatre. It receives more than 1 million visitors per year and is the largest privately owned museum in Europe.[2]
Exhibits
Feature exhibits
In 2003, Air France donated one of its retiring Concorde aircraft (F-BVFB) to the museum. With a Tupolev Tu-144[3] on display since 2001, it is the only place where both supersonic passenger aircraft are shown. Both are fully accessible by the public.
The museum's alliance acquired a Russian shuttle Buran in 2004 which opened as a walk-in exhibition at the Technikmuseum Speyer on October 3, 2008.[citation needed]
Sinsheim Museum also has the largest permanent Formula One collection in Europe along with Ferraris, motorcycles, land speed record holders and classic cars.[3]
The Sinsheim Auto und Technik Museum is open 365 days per year.[2]
Walk-in aircraft
Other exhibits
- 300 vintage cars
- "American Dream Cars" collection from the 1950s
- 40 race and sports cars
- Formula-1 collection
- "Blue flame" - American rocket-propelled ground vehicle once holding the world speed record.
- 200 motorcycles
- 27 locomotives
- 50 aircraft, including fighters from both world wars and the early jet era, passenger airliners
- 150 tractors
- steam engines and trucks
- steam organs
- several early jet fighters and other aircraft
- tanks, artillery and other military equipment.
Access
The museum is easily reached by car and has a large car park.
More notably it has a dedicated railway station as part of the local rail network.
References
- ↑ Listed in Kursbuch der deutschen Museums-Eisenbahnen 2008 (Handbook of German Museum Railways), Verlag Uhle und Kleimann, ISBN 978-3-928959-50-6, serial 208
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 http://seniortravel.about.com/b/2008/09/18/auto-und-technik-museum-sinsheim-ferraris-and-more.htm - 12 Nov 08
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 http://www.bargaintraveleurope.com/07/Germany_Sinsheim_Technik_Museum.htm as at 12 Nov 08
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- Technology museums in Germany
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- Transport museums in Germany
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- Museums in Baden-Württemberg
- Museums established in 1981
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