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Technik Museum Speyer
Aerial overview of the museum's groundsAerial overview of the museum's grounds
Technik Museum Speyer is located in Rhineland-PalatinateTechnik Museum SpeyerTechnik Museum SpeyerLocation within Rhineland-PalatinateShow map of Rhineland-PalatinateTechnik Museum Speyer is located in GermanyTechnik Museum SpeyerTechnik Museum SpeyerTechnik Museum Speyer (Germany)Show map of Germany
Established1991; 34 years ago (1991)
Location
  • Am Technik Museum 1
  • 67346 Speyer
  • Germany
Coordinates49°18′45″N 08°26′47″E / 49.31250°N 8.44639°E / 49.31250; 8.44639
TypeTechnology museum
WebsiteTechnik Museum Speyer (in English)

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

History

The museum was opened in 1991 as a sister museum of the Auto & Technik Museum Sinsheim 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 m (indoors and outdoors). It attracts more than half a million visitors per year. In addition to the exhibitions, the museum also has a 22 m x 27 m IMAX dome theatre.

Exhibits

Central pieces of the exhibition include several preserved aircraft. 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 Technik Museum 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 display fire engines, mechanical organs, vintage cars, motorcycles, locomotives, helicopters and military aircraft. Additionally, there is a maritime and miniature model museum section. There is also the Wilhelmsbau, a separate building which shows rare objects including historic fashion, weapons, jewels, dolls, toys, uniforms, and automatic musical instruments.

References

Citations

  1. Kursbuch der deutschen Museums-Eisenbahnen 2008 (Handbook of German Museum Railways), Verlag Uhle und Kleimann, ISBN 978-3-928959-50-6, serial 208
  2. airportzentrale.de - "A piece of history: The Boeing 747 at Technikmuseum Sinsheim/Speyer" (German) 9 August 2020

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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