Technikmuseum Speyer

The Technik Museum Speyer is a museum in Speyer (Rhineland-Palatinate), Germany [Kursbuch208] .

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, 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

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 was transported to the Technikmuseum where it will be 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.

Gallery

Reference

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

External links

* [http://www.museumspeyer.de/ Homepage: Technik Museum Speyer]
* [http://www.technik-museum.de/uk/speyer Homepage: Technik Museum Speyer (English)]