Technik Museum Speyer

Technik Museum Speyer
Liller Halle from the Boeing 747
Location within Rhineland-Palatinate
Established	1991 (1991)
Location	Am Technik Museum 1 67346 Speyer Germany
Coordinates	49°18′45″N 08°26′47″E / 49.31250°N 8.44639°E / 49.31250; 8.44639Coordinates: 49°18′45″N 08°26′47″E / 49.31250°N 8.44639°E / 49.31250; 8.44639
Type	Technology museum
Website	Technik Museum Speyer (in English)

The Technik Museum Speyer is a technology museum in Speyer (Rhineland-Palatinate), Germany.^[1]

History

The museum was opened in 1991 as a sister museum 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
Mechanical 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

Buran spacecraft being transported to the Technikmuseum Speyer
BMW Dixi DA2
Heinkel Kabine vl bubble car
McDonnell F-101 Voodoo
Royal Canadian Air Force F-86 Sabre
NSU Kettenkrad halftrack
Aero L-39 Albatros
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

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