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The Technik Museum Sinsheim is a technology museum in Sinsheim, Germany. 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, 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.
Exhibits
= Feature exhibits
=In 2003, Air France donated one of its retiring Concorde aircraft (F-BVFB) to the museum. With a Tupolev Tu-144 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.
The museum's alliance acquired Buran prototype OK-GLI in 2004 which opened as a walk-in exhibition at the Technikmuseum Speyer on 3 October 2008.
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.
The Sinsheim Auto und Technik Museum is open 365 days per year.
= 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.
References
External links
Media related to Auto und Technik Museum Sinsheim at Wikimedia Commons
Official website
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Jagdpanther
- Concorde
- Tupolev Tu-144
- Maybach HL230
- Technik Museum Sinsheim
- Technik Museum Speyer
- Sinsheim
- Aero L-39 Albatros
- Concorde histories and aircraft on display
- Blue Flame
- CASA 2.111
- Tupolev Tu-144
- Brutus (car)
- Technology museum