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