Technik Museum Sinsheim

Aircraft on display, including Concorde and a Tupolev Tu-144
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Former name	Auto & Technik Museum Sinsheim
Established	1981; 43 years ago (1981)
Location	Sinsheim, Germany
Coordinates	49°14′19″N 08°53′48″E / 49.23861°N 8.89667°E / 49.23861; 8.89667
Type	Technology museum
Collection size	3,000
Visitors	More than 1 million per year
Website	sinsheim.technik-museum.de

The Technik Museum Sinsheim is a technology museum in Sinsheim, Germany.^[1] Opened in 1981, it is run by a registered association called "Auto & Technik Museum Sinsheim e. V." which also runs the nearby Technik Museum Speyer.

Statistics

As of 2004^[update], the museum had more than 3,000 exhibits and an exhibition area of more than 50,000 m² (540,000 sq ft), indoors and outdoors. In addition to exhibitions, the museum also has a 22 m × 27 m (72 ft × 89 ft) IMAX 3D theatre. It receives more than 1 million visitors per year and is the largest privately owned museum in Europe.^[2]

Exhibits

Feature exhibits

In 2003, Air France donated one of its retiring Concorde aircraft (F-BVFB) to the museum.^[3] With a Tupolev Tu-144^[4] already on display since 2001, it is the only place where both supersonic passenger aircraft are shown. Both aircraft's preserved interiors can be accessed by the public.^{[citation needed]}

The museum's alliance acquired Buran prototype OK-GLI^[5] in 2004 which opened as a walk-in exhibition at the Technikmuseum Speyer on 3 October 2008.^{[citation needed]}

Sinsheim Museum also has the largest permanent Formula One collection in Europe along with Ferraris, motorcycles, land speed record holders and classic cars along with a large collection of military tanks, aircraft, and miscellaneous equipment.^[4]

The Sinsheim Auto und Technik Museum is open 365 days per year.^[2]

Walk-in aircraft

• Concorde
• Tu-144
• Ju 52
• Canadair CL-215
• Douglas DC-3
• Tu-134

Other exhibits

• 300 vintage cars
  • Mercedes and Maybach collection
• "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 aircraft, including fighters from both world wars and the early jet era, passenger airliners
• 150 tractors
• Steam engines and trucks
• Mechanical organs
• Several early jet fighters and other aircraft
• Tanks, artillery and other military equipment.

Access

The museum is easily reached by car and has a large car park. It also has a dedicated railway station as part of the local rail network.