Technik Museum Speyer

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

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.

A Royal Canadian Air Force F-86 Sabre hanging in the Technik Museum Speyer.

Additionally to the exhibitions, the museum also sports a 22m x 27m giant IMAX Dome theatre.

In spring 2002, Lufthansa donated a retired Boeing 747 aircraft to the museum which is now accessible to the visitors. Other highlights are the houseboat Sean o'Kelley of the Kelly Family or the submarine U9 of the German navy.

[edit] Walk-in exhibitions

Boeing 747
Antonov An-22
Submarine U9
Houseboat Sean o'Kelley

[edit] Other exhibits

Fire engines collection
Musical organs
Vintage cars
Locomotives
Maritime museum
Miniature model museum
Wilhelmsbau: a separate building which shows a lot of rare objects including historic fashion, jewels, dolls and toys, uniforms and automatic musical instruments