Technik Museum Sinsheim & Speyer
Things worth knowing about the Technik Museum Sinsheim
The history of the Technik Museum Sinsheim began in late 1980. During a meeting of technology enthusiasts the idea was born to give the public access to all the gems of technological history that had been restored, often in years of painstaking attention to detail. A museum club was founded and but few months later the Technik Museum Sinsheim opened its doors for the first time on 6 May 1981. From the beginning the museum was a great success and the ever increasing number of visitors made it possible to quickly extend the exhibition area from the initial 5,000 m2 to more than 33,000 m2. Besides many other vintage cars from all eras of automobile history and many other exhibit items the Technik Museum Sinsheim today presents the largest private collection of vintage Maybach, supercharged Mercedes, and Bugatti automobiles in Germany, several hundred motorcycles, aircraft, record vehicles, racing and sports cars, locomotives, military and utility cars, engines and much more.
In 1999 the museum club managed to acquire a Russian Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic passenger aircraft. In a spectacular transport, the aircraft was transported from Moscow to Sinsheim over land and sea and mounted in starting position on the roof of one of the museum halls in early 2001. Enough room was left for the only other supersonic passenger aircraft ever built, the French / British Concorde, which at that time was still in service. Only four years later this gap could be filled when a Concorde was donated to the museum by Air France after the retirement of their Concorde fleet. The Technik Museum Sinsheim is the only museum in the world in which the only two supersonic aircraft ever flying in regular service can be visited side by side.
Over the last three decades Technik Museum Sinsheim has been displaying over 3.000 exhibits throughout the world of technology and they are constantly increasing. Therefore, it was only a matter of time until the capacity limit was reached – new facilities were needed.
The Association’s Board of Directors agreed on an extension- the so called Hall 3. The new museum’s hall (approx. length 65 m, width 45 m) a cubic construction with a size of approx. 3.000 sqm as well as an attic hight of 12 m hosts mainly periodically changing special-themed exhibitions. The endurance race on the Sarthe celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2023. Till summer 2024, the Technik Museum Sinsheim will be dedicating the special exhibition 100 years of the 24h of Le Mans” to this special occasion. Around 30 racing cars from the beginnings to the present day will form the core of the exhibition.
How to find us:
Technik Museum Sinsheim, Museumsplatz, 74889 Sinsheim
Phone +49 (0)7261 / 9299-0
Internet: sinsheim.technik-museum
About the Technik Museen Sinsheim & Speyer – from underwater into space
Supported by the non-profit club Auto + Technik Museum e. V. and based on the motto “for fans from fans”, the Technik Museen Sinsheim Speyer have more than 5,000 members worldwide. In 2023, almost one million people passed through the doors of the two institutions. The financing is exclusively based on admission fees, donations as well as membership fees of club members. All surpluses are used for the museum’s maintenance and expansion. Open 365 days a year, the Technik Museen Sinsheim Speyer present more than 6,000 exhibits from all fields of technological history in a worldwide unique variety on an area of more than 200,000 sqm. The exhibits range from submarines to vintage cars, from the Concorde to the Space Shuttle BURAN. Besides the permanent exhibition and the changing special exhibitions, there are numerous vehicle and club meetings as well as events. Our two IMAX large-format cinemas are a true highlight. While the IMAX 3D cinema in Sinsheim – “the cinema with the highest resolution in the world” – shows exclusive documentations and the latest Hollywood blockbusters, films are projected onto a giant dome in the IMAX DOME cinema in Speyer.