Museums in Germany

Dauphin Speed Event in Hersbruck accommodates a top-class private collection of exclusive vintage cars, including more than 100 historical racing cars, sports cars, and more than 150 motorbikes - excellently restored and ready for use. Moreover, the venue provides outstanding conditions for indoor and outdoor events of all kinds: the repertoire comprises a park with a wide green space as well as an event hall and a unique gallery of motorbikes

At the mirrored museum, you can marvel at shiny vintage cars from more than 100 years of automobile history. Discover known and unknown automobile brands from Great Britain, the United States, Czech Republic and Germany. In addition to that, original fashion from the Twenties to the Fifties is on display. Some of the vintage cars can also be rented with a chauffeur.

The Verkehrszentrum, a branch of the respected Deutsches Museum has adopted a new concept to showcase land transport in the exhibitions 'Urban Transport', 'Travel' and 'Mobility und Technology' in three historic former trade fair halls at the Theresienhöhe facility. Trams, buses, cars, and two-wheelers drive down a road through time to the past and tell the stories of inner-city transport systems, infrastructures and traffic safety. Coaches, fast train locomotives, Pullman cars, and caravans paint a picture of the urge to travel from the pilgrimage to modern camper vans.

The historical factory, in which the vehicles of the C. Benz Söhne brand were manufactured in the early 20th century provides the appropriate setting for the historical exhibits of collector Winfried A. Seidel. The objects include biographical exhibits relating to Carl Benz, among them his workshop and two rare vehicles of the C. Benz Söhne brand. In addition, the museum presents some 40 passenger cars, trucks and racing cars – most of these of the Benz and Mercedes-Benz brands. These are complemented by bicycles, motorcycles and other exhibits relating to engineering history.

Housed in the Johanneum, which was built in the 16th century as the royal mews Verkehrsmuseum Dresden was set up by the East German Republic in the 1950s with the intention of developing a dedicated science museum for the newly set up states. When the two German states reunited, the museum had to reconfigure itself. In the early 2010s the museum pursued a course of reorientation, moving away from a purely technical museum to one which talks about social topics. The motoring exhibition was also reinvented following the new guidelines.

In 1990, the father of Ernst Freiberger founded the “EFA Museum of German Automobile History”. As a private collector fascinated by old-timers, he decided to let the viewing public share in his collection of veteran cars which had grown rapidly over the years. Today, the EFA Museum of German Automobile History in Amerang, Chiemgau, is one of the largest museums of its kind in Germany. It boasts a display of more than 200 automobiles of historical significance and includes legends of all makes.

Ludwig Elsbett was an engineer and inventor. In the 1970s he devised an engine which ran on vegetable oil. This museum commemorates his life and work.

Bert Grimmer's collection of microcars, including a bunch of Messerschmitt Kabinrollers and mopeds. Altogether there are about 40 cars, 25 mopeds, plus old radios, furniture etc.

In this museum you get insights into contemporary history, the world of vehicles and everyday life from the end of WW II until the 1970s on five floors. The Martin Sauter Collection documents the rural motorism and everyday life of the “little man” from reconstruction after 1945 to the economic miracle. Lovingly and authentically furnished everyday scenes with many unique pieces and typical consumer articles bring the contemporary German history of the 50s to life.

The Erwin Hymer Museum tells the cultural and technical history of caravanning from the point of view of adventurers, pioneers and travelers. The interactive exhibition invites you to participate and experience it yourself. A cheerful parade of more than 80 historical vehicles; caravans, camping buses, cars, motorbikes and much more from all over the world, from tiny to huge, sometimes bizarre and rare, evoke memories, tell stories and invite you to be amazed.