Museum of Technology in Sinsheim ( German: Auto- und Technikmuseum Sinsheim ) - Museum in Sinsheim , Baden-Württemberg , Germany ( ). It was opened in 1981. Today it has more than 3,000 exhibits on an area of over 50,000 m² (of which the area of the pavilions is 30,000 m²). The museum is visited annually by over a million visitors, for whom it is open 365 days a year. The museum is linked to the Speyer Technical Museum , which can be reached by car in 30 minutes. The museum has a restaurant and a snack bar, playgrounds, attractions and a store where souvenirs, models and special literature can be purchased as a keepsake.
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Main exhibits
Most of the exhibits are vehicles in the broadest sense: from the exhibition of prams, the original collection of bicycles made using fischertechnik motorcycles , cars (including sports cars), Formula 1 cars, dragsters and the car - the world record holder Blue Flame to military collection of armored vehicles , as well as numerous historical locomotives (including steam). The next main area is airplanes , some of which can be seen from the inside. The highlight of the program is certainly Concord and Tu-144 . The first was donated to the museum in 2003 by Air France . Sinsheim is now the only place where you can see both supersonic passenger aircraft standing next to each other.
In addition to the exhibition pavilions, the museum has an IMAX 3D cinema with a screen size of 22 × 27 meters.
The exhibits are grouped thematically so that any visitor can see them in close proximity. For individual exhibits there are information plates with important data. Upon request, visitors can book a tour of the museum with explanations of the exhibits.
The following aircraft can be seen from the inside: Concord , Tu-144 , Junkers Ju 52 and Douglas DC-3 . After inspecting the passenger compartment, the detour ends at the cockpit, fenced off from visitors by plexiglass .
Other exhibits
- Entirely preserved steam engine , which can be seen in action by throwing a coin into the machine.
- 300 oldtimers
- large collection of Mercedes-Benz and Maybach cars
- American Dream Car Collection (from the 1950s)
- all Corvette sixties
- American LaFrance “Brutus” (a racing car , the museum’s own work on a 1907 chassis with a 12-cylinder aircraft engine of the 8 BMW-VI series, with a displacement of 47 liters.)
- 40 racing and sports cars
- Formula 1 CollectionBlue flame
- Blue Flame is a car that set in 1970 the world speed record for land vehicles (1,001,452 km / h). The record lasted until 1983.
- De lorean
- many famous Ferrari models
- Formula 1 Collection
- 200 motorcycles
- 27 locomotives, including the BR 41 steam locomotive
- 60 aircraft
- 150 tractors
- trucks
- dance and orchestral organs , orchestrions
- tanks , artillery and other military ammunition
- wind generators
See also
- Museum of Technology in Speyer
Literature
- Museums of technology of Sinsheim and Speyer (Technik Museen Sinsheim und Speyer: Das große Museumsbuch ): 416 pages, 800 illustrations, bound, with CD, all texts in German and English, publisher Motorbuchverlag; ISBN 3613305127
- Military equipment in the museums of technology of Sinsheim and Speyer (Militärtechnik - in den Technik Museen Sinsheim und Speyer ): 160 pages, 300 illustrations, bound, Motorbuch Verlag, 1st edition, February 28, 2007; ISBN 3613305771
- Jukeboxes at the Sinsheim Museum of Technology ( Musikautomaten im Auto & Technik Museum Sinsheim respectively Musikautomaten, Moden und Uniformen im Technik Museum Speyer ): 192 pages, bound, with Audio-CD, all texts in German and English; ISBN 3980943747