Sinsheim Auto & Technik Museum
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The Sinsheim Auto & Technik Museum is a museum in Sinsheim, Germany.
The museum was opened in 1981. As of 2004, it has more than 3,000 exhibits and an exhibition area of more than 50,000 mē (indoors and outdoors). It pulls more than 1 million visitors per year.
Additionally to the exhibitions, the museum also sports a 22m x 27m giant IMAX 3D theatre.
In 2003, Air France donated one of its retiring Concorde airplanes to the museum. With a Tupolev Tu-144 on display since 2001, it is the only place where both supersonic passenger aircraft are shown.
The museum has acquired a Russian Buran space shuttle in 2004 which is currently stored in Bahrain. It is planned to be transported to Germany and to be included in the museum's collection in early 2005.
Walk-in Planes
Other exhibits
- 300 vintage cars
- 40 race and sports cars
- Formula-1 collection
- "Blue flame" - american rocket-propelled ground vehicle once holding the world speed record.
- 200 motorbikes
- 27 locomotives
- 50 airplanes, including fighters from both world wars and the early jet era.
- 150 tractors
- steam engines and trucks
- steam organs
- several early jet fighters and other aircraft
- panzers, artillery, and other militaria.
External links
- Sinsheim Museum Homepage (http://www.museum-sinsheim.de/)