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Mercedes-Benz Museum 
Established 2006 Location Stuttgart, Germany Type Automobile museum Visitor figures 860,000 (2007) Website www.museum-mercedes-benz.com 
The inner atrium of the museum with lift and entrance area
The Mercedes-Benz Museum is an automotive museum housed in Stuttgart, Germany. Stuttgart is home to the Mercedes-Benz brand and the international headquarters of Daimler AG. The current building, which stands directly outside the main gate of the Daimler factory in Stuttgart-Untertürkheim, was designed by UN Studio. It is based on a unique cloverleaf concept using three overlapping circles with the center removed to form a triangular atrium. The building was completed and opened on 19 May 2006. Previously, the museum was housed in a dedicated building within the factory complex and visitors had in recent decades been transported from the main gate by a secured shuttle.
The building's height and "double helix" interior were designed to maximise space, providing 16,500 square metres (178,000 sq ft) of exhibition space on a footprint of just 4,800 square metres (52,000 sq ft). The museum contains more than 160 vehicles, some dating back to the very earliest days of the motor engine. The vehicles are maintained by the Mercedes-Benz Classic Center of Fellbach.
The museum provides visitors with free audio tours in a variety of languages. In 2007 the museum was visited by 860,000 people.[1]
Mercedes-Benz Welt, with the museum (left) and sales center (right)
Contents
See also
- Mercedes-Benz World at Brooklands, UK
Further reading
- Buy Me a Mercedes-Benz: The Book of the Museum. ACTAR. ISBN 978-84-96540-37-8.
- Mercedes-Benz Museum. Mercedes-Benz Museum GmbH.
References
- ^ "Stuttgart Journal, German, 24 April 2008". Stuttgart-journal.de. http://www.stuttgart-journal.de/tp/index.php?id=53&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=713&cHash=97a93767e3. Retrieved 2011-09-27.
External links
- Official Site
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- Technical profile of the building of the museum in Specifier Magazine
Coordinates: 48°47′15″N 9°14′00″E / 48.7875°N 9.2333333°E
Categories:- Mercedes-Benz
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- Automobile museums in Germany
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