Technik Museum Speyer

Technik Museum Speyer

Liller Halle from the Boeing 747
Location within Rhineland-Palatinate
Established	1991 (1991)
Location	Am Technik Museum 1 67346 Speyer Germany
Coordinates	49°18′45″N 08°26′47″E
Type	Technology museum
Website	Technik Museum Speyer (in English)

The Technik Museum Speyer is a technology museum in Speyer (Rhineland-Palatinate), Germany.

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, it has more than 2,000 exhibits and an exhibition area of more than 150,000 m² (indoors and outdoors). It pulls more than half a million visitors per year. In addition to the exhibitions, the museum also sports a 22 m x 27 m giant IMAX Dome theatre.

Walk-in exhibits

In spring 2002, Lufthansa donated a retired Boeing 747-200 aircraft, which is now accessible to visitors.

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

• Fire engines
• Mechanical organs
• Vintage cars
• Helicopters
• Military aircraft
• Motorcycles
• Locomotives
• Maritime museum
• Miniature model museum
• Wilhelmsbau: a separate building which shows rare objects including historic fashion, weapons, jewels, dolls, toys, uniforms, and automatic musical instruments.

Gallery

• 
  OK-GLI being transported to the Technik Museum Speyer
• 
  BMW Dixi DA2
• 
  Heinkel Kabine bubble car
• 
  McDonnell F-101 Voodoo
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  Royal Canadian Air Force F-86 Sabre
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  NSU Kettenkrad halftrack
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  Aero L-39 Albatros
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  Welte Philharmonic Organ

References

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

• Astrotalkuk.org Interview from Technik Museum Speyer 23 December 2013
• Technik Museum Speyer (in English)
• Technik Museum Speyer (in German)