Technik Museum Speyer
.JPG) Liller Halle from the Boeing 747 | |
  Location within Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| Established | 1991 |
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| Location |
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| Coordinates | 49°18′45″N 08°26′47″E / 49.31250°N 8.44639°ECoordinates: 49°18′45″N 08°26′47″E / 49.31250°N 8.44639°E |
| Type | Technology museum |
| Website | Technik Museum Speyer (English) |
The Technik Museum Speyer is a technology museum in Speyer (Rhineland-Palatinate), Germany.[1]
History
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. In addition to the exhibitions, the museum also sports a 22 m x 27 m giant IMAX Dome theatre.
Walk-in exhibits
In spring 2002, Lufthansa donated a retired Boeing 747-200 aircraft, which is now accessible to visitors.
In April 2008, a Soviet/Russian Buran spacecraft, OK-GLI, was transported to the Technikmuseum and is now another walk-in exhibit.
Other walk-in highlights are an Antonov An-22 and several other aircraft types, locomotives, the houseboat Sean O'Kelley of the Kelly Family, and submarine U9 of the German Navy.
Other exhibits
- Fire engines
- Musical organs
- Vintage cars
- Helicopters
- Military aircraft
- Motorcycles
- Locomotives
- Maritime museum
- Miniature model museum
- Wilhelmsbau: a separate building which shows rare objects including historic fashion, weapons, jewels, dolls, toys, uniforms, and automatic musical instruments.
Gallery
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Buran spacecraft being transported to the Technikmuseum Speyer
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BMW Dixi DA2
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Heinkel Kabine vl bubble car
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McDonnell F-101 Voodoo
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Royal Canadian Air Force F-86 Sabre
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Welte Philharmonic Organ
References
Notes
- ↑ Kursbuch der deutschen Museums-Eisenbahnen 2008 (Handbook of German Museum Railways), Verlag Uhle und Kleimann, ISBN 978-3-928959-50-6, serial 208
Bibliography
- Musikautomaten im Auto & Technik Museum Sinsheim bzw. Musikautomaten, Moden und Uniformen im Technik Museum Speyer: 192 p, two Languages: German and English; ISBN 3-9809437-4-7
- 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
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- Technik Museum Speyer (English)
- Technik Museum Speyer (German)