Technik Museum Speyer
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  Technik Museum Speyer Location within Rhineland-Palatinate  Technik Museum Speyer Technik Museum Speyer (Germany) | |
| Established | 1991 |
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| Coordinates | 49°18′45″N 08°26′47″E / 49.31250°N 8.44639°E |
| 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,
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
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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
- ISBN 978-3-928959-50-6, serial 208
- ^ 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
External links
Media related to Technik Museum Speyer at Wikimedia Commons
- Astrotalkuk.org Interview from Technik Museum Speyer 23 December 2013
- Technik Museum Speyer (in English)
- Technik Museum Speyer (in German)
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