The Technik Museum Speyer is a museum in Speyer (Rhineland-Palatinate), Germany.
History
The museum was opened in 1991 as a daughter of the Sinsheim
Auto & Technik Museum and is run by a registered alliance
called "Auto & Technik Museum Sinsheim e.V.". As of 2004[update],
it has more than 2,000 exhibits and an exhibition area of more than
150,000 m² (indoors and outdoors). It pulls more than half a
million visitors per year. Additionally to the exhibitions, the
museum also sports a 22m x 27m giant IMAX Dome theatre.
Walk-in
exhibitions
, Liller hall]] at the Technikmuseum]] In spring 2002, Lufthansa
donated a retired Boeing 747 aircraft to the museum which is now
accessible to the visitors. In April 2008, a Russian Buran
spacecraft, OK-GLI was transported to the Technikmuseum and is now
another walk-in exhibition. Other highlights are the houseboat Sean
O'Kelley of the Kelly Family or the submarine U9 of the German
Navy.
- Boeing 747
- Buran spacecraft
- Antonov An-22
- Submarine U9
- Houseboat Sean O'Kelley
- Several aircraft types
- Locomotives
Other
exhibits
- Fire engines collection
- Musical organs
- Vintage cars
- Helicopters
- Military aircraft
- Motorcycles
- Locomotives
- Maritime museum
- Miniature model museum
- Wilhelmsbau: a separate building which shows a lot of rare
objects including historic fashion, weapons, jewels, dolls and
toys, uniforms and automatic musical instruments.
References
Literature
-
Musikautomaten im Auto & Technik Museum Sinsheim bzw.
Musikautomaten, Moden und Uniformen im Technik Museum
Speyer: 192 p, two Languages: German and Englisch; ISBN
3980943747
- Heinz Elser, Margrit Elser-Haft, Vladim Lukashevich: Buran -
History and Transportation of the Russian Space shuttle OK-GLI to
the Technik Museum Speyer, two Languages: German and Englisch,
2008, ISBN 3-9809437-7-1
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