Mercedes Benz Museum, Stuttgart, Germany
Walk around Stuttgart surely lead us to visit at any time any car museum on the outskirts of the city. One of them, probably the most visited, It is the Mercedes Benz Museum.
Lovers or not cars, I think anyone who decides to visit the Mercedes Museum, you will not regret and be more than satisfied with the course and how to tell the story of the car that the museum offers.
In addition to the exhibition itself, is remarkable in itself the building that houses. The design was made by a Dutch study, UN Studio. The project proposes a tour of the museum visit starting from the top level. It is accessed via modern lifts there are at the center of the main hall. Two silver capsules made his short tour in a few seconds, allowing us a glimpse from a small window on their foreheads, different levels. The museum was opened in 2007.
Once you reach the highest point it starts accompanied by an audio device graciously delivered at the entrance to visit and in our own language. It can be activated at each point of the museum that interests us hear. Also typically it triggered suddenly alone and as we make the journey, describing part of what was happening in the world at that time.
The first large room is dedicated to telling the Story of the birth of the first vehicles, there are exposed the first automobiles, described and sorted according to the year of his invention. We can also see the first motorcycle.
Rampado broad corridor flanked by the first vehicles, transport and transport of goods, condude us to the next room.
The route is descending from level to level through gentle ramps that connect the different rooms, which they are not closed but rather integrated with each other and with the total space of the museum. Each level has two rooms, one to which we got through the ramp and other continuous to the first, so that, Attention, before retaking the ramp down to the next level, we should head in the opposite direction to visit the second room that level.
We also find audio and screens where you can see various documentaries related to the period referred to in cars exposed in the respective floors.
Not only is narrated in these audios automotive history and evolution, but the main events are also described occurred in the world since the creation of the first car to today.
highlight the “Room transport " where they are exposed first buses, taxis and motor transport means. there are, as we call it in Argentina, our dear Collective, initially called collective self, an urban bus began to circulate around Buenos Aires 1930. The collective model we see here was donated by its owner stopped once used to be replaced by newer vehicles. Painted with motifs characteristic of Argentina and tucked in his back with a painting of the face of Carlos Gardel. Of course there are also the ancestors of the collective, as the double-decker circulating in London from 1907.
sports cars are also exposed in all ages. Protrudes understood as defined by most beautiful car in history, which it has the peculiarity that its doors open upwards. There I learned that such a design actually due to a chassis problem somewhat elevated so otherwise the doors would not close, for that reason and with great success, designers found this contraption to open doors. It's really beautiful.
The rooms are perfectly grouped by themes. Thus we find the room that exposes the Goods transport vehicles, the first vans, trucks, milk transport vehicles and even a mail truck that was used as mobile email in areas where there was no post office or where an emergency arose, had mounted inside an office as it is the only mail that on wheels. We also find a "Pope Mobile" and beside a vehicle that Mercedes Benz had given to Princess Diana of Wales and she finally decided to return because the British royals had only mobilize domestic industry vehicles.
The last thing you see is the "Racetrack", a space designed as a circuit where they are exposed from the first Formula One cars until today as well as other vehicles, including trucks that have ever participated in motorsport competitions.
In front of the track are the trophies and costumes used by the runners.
If they want to wait, are over 1, 50 meters and courage to face speed, Here you can try the adventure of a race in a simulator installed on the side facing the cars exposed.
It is very remarkable and deserves a separate paragraph, Commenting on the recognition that Mercedes Benz has for the quintuple Formula One champion, the Argentinian Juan Manuel Fangio, who in 1954 and in 1955 win the world championships for Mercedes Benz running. His sculpture from an access ramp, standing next to his car and it is also the only sculpture of a runner throughout the museum, to audios, posters, trophies, dress. Particularly, This fills me with emotion and pride.
Of course we can take a souvenir museum. We find on the ground floor and predating area restaurants and cafes, the store, must in any museum. There are a variety of books related with the automotive theme, miniatures in different scales of a variety of vehicles Mercedes Benz and countless objects, I remember the museum.
Also on the ground floor is a space that offers opportunities in many recreational activities for little ones.
Mercedes Benz Museum is a place that enjoys full, both exposure and the building itself.
It is very easy to get there from the center of Stuttgart. The train station leaves us about 300 meters from the entrance. The tickets are very affordable, 11 euros for adults 6 for children.
Really a highly recommended visit for the whole family.
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