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 also runs 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 has a 22m x 27m 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 museum's alliance acquired a Russian Buran space shuttle in 2004 which will be opent to walk-in exhibition in the Technikmuseum Speyer in September 2008.

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[edit] Walk-in planes


[edit] Other exhibits

British AEC Regent double decker bus
British AEC Regent double decker bus
  • 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 motorcycles
  • 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.

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