Sinsheim Auto & Technik Museum
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The Auto & Technik Museum Sinsheim opened in 1981 in Sinsheim, Germany and is run by a registered alliance called "Auto & Technik Museum Sinsheim e.V." which runs also the Technik Museum Speyer. As of 2004, it has 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 sports a 22m x 27m giant IMAX 3D theatre. It receives more than 1 million visitors per year.
In 2003, Air France donated one of its retiring Concorde aircraft to the museum. With a Tupolev Tu-144 on display since 2001, it is the only place where both supersonic passenger aircraft are shown.
The museums alliance has acquired a Russian Buran space shuttle in 2004 which is planned to be included in the museum's collection soon.
[edit] Walk-in planes
[edit] 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 motorbikes
- 27 locomotives
- 50 airplanes, including fighters from both world wars and the early jet era, passenger air planes and the Buran shuttle.
- 150 tractors
- steam engines and trucks
- steam organs
- several early jet fighters and other aircraft
- panzers, artillery, and other militaria.
