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Technik Museum Sinsheim

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name	Technik Museum Sinsheim
image	Technik Museum Sinsheim, Tu-134, Tu-144, Concorde.jpg
imagesize	250
caption	Aircraft on display, including Concorde, a Tupolev Tu-144, and a Tupolev Tu-134
map_type	Baden-Württemberg#Germany
map_dot_label	Technik Museum Sinsheim
coordinates
former_name	Auto & Technik Museum Sinsheim
established
location	Sinsheim, Germany
type	Technology museum
collection_size	3,000
visitors	More than 1 million per year
website

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

, the museum had more than 3,000 exhibits and an exhibition area of more than 50,000 m2, indoors and outdoors. In addition to exhibitions, the museum also has a 22 x 27 m 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

Aerospatiale-BAC Concorde
Tupolev Tu-144
Junkers Ju 52
Canadair CL-215
Ilyushin Il-18
Douglas DC-3
Tupolev 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

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Nancy Parode. "Auto und Technik Museum Photo Tour – Tour of Auto und Technik Museum, Sinsheim, Germany". Seniortravel.about.com.
"Concorde F-BVFB".
"Sinsheim Auto Technik Museum – Racing Cars, Classic Cars, WWII Cold War Military, 50's Memorabilia, Trains and Planes". Bargaintraveleurope.com.
(2023-08-22). "Spaceshuttle Buran {{!}} Technik Museum Speyer {{!}} Germany".

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