Deutch Museum ( Transportation )

[VRoss]

This wasn't strictly speaking a RIDING adventure, but rather a driving one (BMW ED). Nevertheless, I thought I'd share with TWT some pictures from a recent visit to the Deutch museum, the transportation section. It is located in Munich and is in my opinion worth the trip if you are in the neighborhood. My boy loved it and so did the boy inside me. The place is Big, but not too big. You could compare it to a Smitsonian IMHO, won't be too much of a stretch. Anyhow if there is interest I'll post more.

In no particular order:

A Mercedes diesel mechanicals, cutaway, but completely mechanically functional. If you love things mechanical and automotive, you can spend half an hour just crawling over this

Front pavilion, exibits likely selected from design considerations, rather than function. I.E if it looks good/cool, put it up front, like this bike or the rather ancient steam engines behind it

or a stainless Porshe (hello Delorean)

or the best looking car of all times

or this Alfa

There was a bit of history, racing, like this Audi:

or this boxer:

or just the plain antiques of the two-wheel variety:

Some more shots of the pavilion (first of three), to give you an idea of size:

 

[Tourmeister]

Uhhh.... MORE PLEASE!

 

[VRoss]

Well, OK, more history then:

This was the German entry into the Great Race of 1908, NY to Paris the hard way (via Siberia). I took it from the description of the piece that Germans were still sour about the cheating penalty that placed this car behind the Thomas Flyer, which in actuality reached Paris four days behind the german Protos. Anyhow, here is the "winner".

 

[VRoss]

The cool thing about the place is that it is in places two or sometimes three stories high, with multiple ways of getting up and down. My boy shows the best way to the ground floor:

More two-wheeled antiques down there.

 

[VRoss]

This caught my eye:

I couldn't tell why it was there. It was either promoting ice skates as an affordable and fun mode of transportation or making a point that there were at least two openly gay people in the 19th century Germany.

 

[VRoss]

Next door there were more cars and bikes, but the center of the pavilion was taken by trains of all kinds.

A diesel and a Pullman car. Pullman was the 1st class rairoad travel. I don't know what I was expecting, but fairly spartan 4 person compartments with velour seating just didn't look like 1st class to me. Better than an economy class on Lufthansa but barely so. Maybe they had a more restrained view of luxury back then.

There is a funicular car in the background. Why? Because it is on rails.

The curious part about the diesel was that the wheels and the connected "drivetrain" was a fairly close copy of the steam locomotive. I guess when something is made the same way over a hundred years the design becomes canonical and pretty difficult to break away from. The electric drive for the wheels looked like an tacked on afterthought, like a paddle wheel on a sailboat.

 

[VRoss]

More trains:

I tried to see if there were rails outside the museum, but couldn't, the area looked pretty developed with apartments all around. I have no idea how they got these here

The wheel on the green engine is human-sized.

 

[VRoss]

There we cool bikes and cars in that building too:

This is a Zundapp. I've only heard of the brand as a WW2 trophy until now

I don't know what it is (Tatra maybe?) but it sure looks cool.

What german museum wouldn't have a Benz I think this was a 1937 (?)

 

[VRoss]

They even had the best looking bus of all times. Timeless design.

next to what I thought was the best eco tourism poster of all times. Evidently they thought it worth the smitsonian too, wacky germans
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[VRoss]

I'm still a bit jetlagged, so if there is interest I'll post more tomorrow

 

[donroger1]

I don't know what it is (Tatra maybe?) but it sure looks cool.

Looks like a 1937 Tatra T87

By all means, more photos!!!!

 

[Tourmeister]

Man, that place looks COOL!! I could easily get lost there for days...

 

[WoodButcher]

Thank you very much for posting those pictures. I went through that museum when I about about 10 years old and loved it. The pictures brought back some good memories.

 

[VRoss]

I'm happy to share. I had a family in tow and couldn't give the museum the attention it deserved. With little children you have no ability to go for anything other than the quick scan. When my boy is older I hope I get a chance to visit once again, giving it a proper attention.

Look at this exhibit of the central clock for the german railroad system. As I understood there were two active masterclocks with the third being brought online if one of the two stumbles. This was how they kept every station synched to the same clock.

Or this, which I think is the steam engine boiler cut open

You really have to stop and read the print to understand what's being displayed. This is why you see "I think" liberally sprinkled through my postings

 

[VRoss]

I can't help but think that the museum was in some kind of reconstruction phase. It was totally unGerman to have to enter hall 3 and them go backwards to hall 1. That's not Ordung. Also there were no any particular theme to the "flow" of the exhibits. You'd see old and new parked next to each other almost haphazardly at times.

Next door the pattern continues:

Look there is a helo:

and a strange hand waving dude...I think he is excited about the fuel economy of this little wonder:

or maybe it's more family friendly cousin

Look here is Buell's fuel in frame inspiration:

And a dude taking a nap while riding

 

[VRoss]

There are trams

EMS

and utility trucks of all kinds:

check out this street cleaner:

 

[VRoss]

Hard times, Ford(?) with wood gas generator retrofitted:

 

[VRoss]

next to more "horseless carriages":

and a bikeshop:

 

[VRoss]

This 1-series was tested for 100 kph front crash... incidentally (or not) parked next to a beer delivery truck (Bavarian beer, let me count the ways)...

 

[VRoss]

All in all I liked the museum a great deal. It wasn't stuffy, the way a lot of museums are. I felt like a proverbial kid in a candy shop there. Bavaria rocks too, but that's another story!

 

[Thrasherg]

I use to fly to Munich every week for about 5 years and regularly visited that museum, there always seems to be some rebuilding going on somewhere. A lot of the exhibits (where you can turn handles to make things happen) were worn out or broken, I hope they find the money to fix them, It is a great place to go (with or without kids!!) and I love Bavaria, it's very different to mainland Germany.. It's great to visit the surrounding mountains and castle's and try local beer!! You are almost making me homesick...

Gary

 

[VRoss]

Yes, Bavaria is wonderful. Berchtesgaden FTW!

Sorry for the tease.