The museum was opened in 1991 as a daughter of the Sinsheim Auto & Technik Museum and is run by a registered alliance called "Auto & Technik Museum Sinsheim e.V.". As of 2004[update], it has more than 2,000 exhibits and an exhibition area of more than 150,000 m² (indoors and outdoors). It pulls more than half a million visitors per year. Additionally to the exhibitions, the museum also sports a 22m x 27m giant IMAX Dome theatre.
In spring 2002, Lufthansa donated a retired Boeing 747aircraft to the museum which is now accessible to the visitors. In April 2008, a Russian Buran spacecraft was transported to the Technikmuseum where it will be another walk-in exhibition. Other highlights are the houseboat Sean o'Kelley of the Kelly Family or the submarine U9 of the German Navy.
Wilhelmsbau: a separate building which shows a lot of rare objects including historic fashion, weapons, jewels, dolls and toys, uniforms and automatic musical instruments.
Gallery
Buran spacecraft being transported to the Technikmuseum Speyer, where it will be open to be exhibited by the public
Royal Canadian Air Force F-86 Sabre suspended in the Technik Museum Speyer
Reference
^Kursbuch der deutschen Museums-Eisenbahnen 2008 (Handbook of German Museum Railways), Verlag Uhle und Kleimann, ISBN 978-3-928959-50-6, serial 208
Literature
Musikautomaten im Auto & Technik Museum Sinsheim bzw. Musikautomaten, Moden und Uniformen im Technik Museum Speyer: 192 p, two Languages: German and Englisch; ISBN 3980943747
Heinz Elser, Margrit Elser-Haft, Vladim Lukashevich: Buran - History and Transportation of the Russian Space shuttle OK-GLI to the Technik Museum Speyer, two Languages: German and Englisch, 2008, ISBN 3-9809437-7-1
