2024-07-29 05:48:00
The Porsche MuseumPorsche Museum) was founded in Stuttgart in 1976. In 2009, many exhibitions, history books and other historical archives of this German car concern moved to a new modern complex in the Zuffenhausen area.
Museum in Stuttgart
Porsche Museum in Stuttgart Photo: Photo Alliance/Robert Harding World Photography
The old museum, in which only a dozen items from the collection of a rich company can be displayed at a time, is visited by 70-80 thousand people annually. The exhibition we visited was followed by a workshop engine. The new Porsche Museum immediately became one of the most famous car museums in Germany.
About 450 thousand tourists visit this exhibition every year. The Stuttgart Mercedes-Benz Museum has even more visitors – up to 850 thousand annually. Of course, BMW concerns have their own car museums in Germany, in Munich, Audi in Ingolstadt and Volkswagen in Wolfsburg.
Inspiration
The “911 Mark” statue in front of the Porsche Museum in StuttgartPhoto: Sebastian Gollnow/dpa/image association
The new futuristic palace has the opportunity to present eighty legendary models from different eras. It seems that this building is a strange ship that has suddenly arrived within the industrial centers of Zuffenhausen. The museum’s furniture is white metal, with areas of mirrored metal. The gigantic complex with a total exhibition area of more than 5.5 thousand square meters is installed on three pillars and seems to float at a height of sixteen meters.
Porsche site
Variations of the 911 in the museum collection Photo: Egon Bömsch/imageBROKER/imagebroker
Visitors enter the “Porsche Cosmos,” as the museum’s developers call it, through a white-lighted foyer, then climb an 18-meter escalator. The exhibition hall itself is imbued with an atmosphere of restricted activity: white screens and stages where museum exhibits are installed.
Modern architecture
Image of the facade of the Porsche Museum Photo: Daniel Schoenen/imageBROKER/image partnership
To enjoy your visit, you don’t even have to understand models or be interested in the history of sports and racing cars. It is worth a visit if only for the architecture, which is impressive now and will continue to impress in the future.
“It would not have been possible to build such a building four or five years ago,” said the architect and author of the project Roman Delugan at the opening of the museum in 2009.” Take, for example, the Eiffel Tower in Paris The weight does not exceed 7,800 tons, the steel of the Porsche Museum weighs 10,000 tons, and this is due to the complexity of the structure, which includes only three supports.
According to the first director of the museum, Klaus Bischof, many doubt that such a project is even possible. “But nothing is impossible for us.
calendar of events
Porsche cars from the 24 Hours of Le Mans are on display in the mirror image of the museum Photo: Thomas Kienzle/dpa/image association
Various events and presentations are regularly held in this building or in front of it, and such displays of cars that stop for a while in front of the door have become a very popular tradition for photographers – professional and sponsored.
Family Affairs
Ferdinand Porsche and Ferry Porsche (left) in 1948 Photo: Porsche/dpa/image association
Ferdinand Porsche (1875-1951) opened his company in Stuttgart in 1931. The business of the founder of the company was then continued by his son, Ferry Porsche (Ferdinand “Ferry” Anton Ernst Porsche, 1909-1998). This photo of father and son was taken in 1948.
The first Porsche
Porsche 356 “No. 1” Roadster Photo: Christoph Schmidt/images association/dpa
The first car to receive the “family name” of the German engineer Ferdinand Porsche is a classic car built in 1948. It is displayed in the center, at the intersection of the main architectural lines, and is visible from all vehicles plane of the great hall.
“This car is a philosophy, a collection of ideas about how a car from Porsche should look,” observes Klaus Bischof “The body design, rear-engine configuration, and indeed the vision of a sports car is ahead of their time. Until now, in all models from Porsche you can recognize the pattern of a 1948 model.”
Porsche and others
The millionth Beetle rolled off the assembly line in Wolfsburg in 1955 Photo: picture-alliance/dpa
At the entrance to the hall are other models created by Ferdinand Porsche and Ferry Porsche. Some of them became real milestones in the history of the automotive industry, in particular, the most famous car of all time, the Volkswagen Beetle.
The museum is a true retrospective of the company’s achievements, where you can see all the key models produced by Porsche during its existence. Also, in the workshop, which is not accessible to all visitors, another 350 car properties are presented, completely restored and periodically take part in various rallies and old-time races.
Manuscript from the collection
Porsche Typ 64 – Prototype 1939 Photo: Egon Bömsch/imageBROKER/image association
In total, the company’s collection includes more than 600 different cars – production, racing, prototypes and so on. To show more of their properties, the display is constantly updated. Here we see a design from 1939 – the Porsche Typ 64.
Races and victories
Racing cars on display at the Porsche MuseumPhoto: Bernd Weißbrod/dpa/images association
The museum and the concern itself is especially proud of its sporting victories and achievements – for example, the Porsche 917 racing cars in 1969 to participate in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Cups and gifts, by the way, are also displayed in one of the halls.
Year 1898
Egger-Lohner-Elektromobil Modell C.2 PhaetonPhoto: Daniel Kalker/photo association
Here in front of us is Ferdinand Porsche’s first car in general. The first thing didn’t happen. And it’s electric! The Egger-Lohner-Elektromobil Modell C.2 Phaeton bicycle was designed and assembled by Ferdinand Porsche in Vienna in 1898. A few years later it was sent to a warehouse and stayed there until it ended up in a museum collection.
At the beginning of the century
Ferdinand Porsche in 1902 Photo: Sammlung Hubmann/IMAGNO/art association
Here is a black and white photo of those times – 1902, in which the young engineer Ferdinand Porsche is shown in Vienna next to a car from the Hofwagenfabrik Ludwig Lohner & Co.
Historical meeting
Oldtimer Parade in front of the Porsche Museum in 2011 Photo: Bernd Weißbrod/dpa/picture association
This picture was taken in Stuttgart in 2011, when, on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the invention of the car, the same Benz Patent-Motorwagen and the copy of the Semper Vivus production car, developed by Ferdinand Porsche in 1900, were equipped with a monument (!!!) meet in front of the Porsche Museum, and talk ) engine. On the right, in the back seat, Wolfgang Porsche, the grandson of the company’s founder cried.
“luggage”
Volkswagen Typ 60 KäferPhoto: Egon Bömsch/imageBROKER/image association
As previously noted, the legendary VW Käfer Beetle occupies an important place in the Porsche Museum exhibit. Pictured here is a 1950 model. This passenger car, designed by Ferdinand Prochet, was produced by the Volkswagen concern from 1946 to 2003. During this time, more than 21.5 million different modifications were received. The last Beetle rolled off the assembly line at a factory in Mexico, and production in Germany in 1974.
Motorcycle engines
Harley-Davidson motorcycle Photo: Egon Bömsch/imageBROKER/image association
Just because something doesn’t say “Porsche” doesn’t mean it can’t be a Porsche inside. It is no coincidence that the Harley-Davidson motorcycle of 2002 ended up in the collection of the Stuttgart museum. It is equipped with a 117-horsepower engine developed by the engineers of the German concern as part of a cooperation program launched in 1997.
Porsche tractor
Porsche “Standard 218” tractor 1959 Photo: Benjamin Beytekin/art association
By the way, not all vehicles with the title “Porsche”, and even the classic red color, can accelerate to dizzying speeds. The company produced such diesel tractors at a plant in the Lake Constance region in the 1950s and early 1960s. In total, about 16 thousand were collected. Then the production of large engines for Mercedes-Benz is here.
Porsche Police
Porsche 911 Carrera police carPhoto: Benjamin Beytekin/Photo Alliance
The days when the German police drove around in official sports cars are a thing of the past, but for about three decades Porsches have been used to patrol the autobahn in some federal states. The last such car was donated by the concern to the Stuttgart police in 1996 on the occasion of a production anniversary. It is you who is in the museum.
Fire truck
Electric train from 1912 Photo: Egon Bömsch/imageBROKER/images association
Specially equipped Porsche SUVs are used by some fire and rescue services in Germany. This historic electric car from the museum collection was manufactured in 1912 by Austro-Daimler. It was created with the participation of Ferdinand Porsche.
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