Technik Museum Speyer

Aerial overview of the museum's grounds
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Established	1991; 33 years ago (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; 8.44639
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 Auto & Technik Museum Sinsheim and is run by a registered alliance called "Auto & Technik Museum Sinsheim e.V.". As of 2004^[update], it has more than 2,000 exhibits and an exhibition area of more than 150,000 m² (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.^[2] 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 and 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.