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Porsche Museum – Zuffenhausen, Germany
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Porscheplatz 1 D – 70435 Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen, Germany http://www.porsche.com/international...porschemuseum/ Opening Hours of the Porsche Museum Tuesday through Sunday 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Tickets can be purchased until 5:00 pm Closed Mondays Special Opening Hours Monday, November 1, 2010 Monday, January 3, 2011 Days off Tuesday, November 30, 2010: Very probably on Tuesday, November 30, 2010, the museum shop will be closed because of inventory. Friday, December 24 until Sunday, December 26, 2010 Friday, December 31, 2010 Saturday, January 1, 2011 Admission price Adult: 8 Euros Also note: there a small snack café down in the museum’s lobby, you can also get a Boxster Burger there. They also have snack bar for sandwhiches and coffee and cake. Upstairs there is a really nice, high end restaurant too. They sell $$$ Porsche steaks there! lol Directions – coming from the North. • Freeway A 81 Stuttgart – Heilbronn (Heilbronn – Stuttgart) • Exit Zuffenhausen • B10 in the direction of Stuttgart Zentrum/Messe • Just follow the signs to Porsche SE (five mins on the B10). • Once you get to the traffic circle with the museum & dealership, turn right and park in the garage under the museum. Its on the left side of the museum. I know there are a lot of Porsche fans here on BimmerPost.com… so I thought I would treat you to a very special museum. This is a MUST SEE place when coming to Germany – I think. In fact I saw THREE M3’s on ED tour while driving around near Porsche Musuem. Ok, onto my photo tour… Dackel Porsche SE photos of the outside of the museum…    Factory run dealership…  And here are my photos of this wonderful museum… Enjoy!  Porsche SE (HQ building on right, factory dealership on left)      Ferdinand Porsche…   Going up the long escalator...  The view going up...  This is the first thing you see… The Berlin to Rome rally car that never raced.      MG]Ferdinand Porsche invented this hybrid electric powered wagon in 1900!                        Simply and clean…               Built light…     Type 909 Bergspyder racer (1968)… no fuel pump needed, just a pressurized ball!  In 1968 titanium crankshaft used 13Kg it was 10Kg lighter than the steel version!  Steering wheel from a 917/10 built in 1972, weighed only 595 grams!  908 shifter only weighed in at 18grams. Balsa wood ball on end of shifter for added weight savings!  Light weight racing shoes tailored made for Vic Elford. Only 550 grams.  In 1996 Porsche introduced hallow spoke alloy wheels on the type 993 Turbo model.   917 twelve cylinder engine…   The first attempt at a 356 successor…     Another long wheel base experiment on the early 911 platform…      Panamera Concept… love those P-crests cut into the tire profile!     Got Zipper?  Boxster Concept…             914/8 flat eight with 300 PS! Only two were made! One for Ferry and one for Piech.                                  The first 911 turbo (model type 930)    924 prototype…   917 racers…             959…        Engines!     Twin turbo boat motor based on the 928 V8 design…    Porsche Jeep for the Bundeswehr    Not many people know Porsche did all the design and R&D for HD on their V-Rod bike.  Stainless steel 928 study…   924 Carrera GTS                 Achtung Polizei!     Made in Flacht... GT1 racer for the street!     Carrera GT...          The view out side, Porsche Platz…  Factory dealership (left), Porsche SE HQ tall building (center)  Dead center is a single story building… this is the old Reuter Werk were the first cars were built.  The special exhibition…                    Sound booths…   New stuff…           Art work…     Polizei 356…       914-4   Four door 928 built for Ferry’s B-day.   Toy display…        Father and son…  From the trip to NYC and Max Hoffman…     The very first Porsche. 356-1         Back downstairs…   Porsche archives & coffee bar. The museum’s restoration shop behind the glass…       Coffee bar…   Car models…   Gift Shop…   Post cards...   Porsche hybrid, it ran 22:15 @Ring...           A nice new 997 in the Museum’s parking garage. I love those new FUCH’s style wheels.  More pictures here... http://s764.photobucket.com/albums/x...0Zuffenhausen/ |
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Spectacular job capturing the photos. Love the plaza, with the original building, HQ, Museum, and Factory Dealership. I would love to visit that place.
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Hey David,
thanks for those great Pic´s  I love them  I am a huge Porsche Fan since my early Days   Uploaded with ImageShack.us Greetz Marco
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| 11-01-2010, 04:50 PM | #4 |
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I thought I would share some (more) of my photos of the Porsche museum. These photos are of the old original museum. It was really tiny, but charming and special, I kind of miss the old museum. It was located on the factory grounds… so you always got to see some “fresh” Porsches being tested out on the public streets of Zuffenhausen.
The old brick building is the current customer service dept in Werk-I. This is where the "special wishes dept" was located and where very special Porsche customers can take their car in for service or exclusive options to be installed. When I was there in 2001 I saw THREE 959's with USA tags on them. One from CA and two from Nevada I think.  Enjoy, Dackel Some of the street signs pointing you to Porsche.  On the B10 coming from the A-81 autobahn.   Signs to where the old museum was located…   Old museum entrance was just to the right of photo…  The old museum’s entrance…   Inside the factory, just under the old museum…  The understated entrance to the old museum…  Love those door pulls!  The old charming (small) museum…         959 concept car…            One of my favorite things about the old museum was this wall of models. Every Porsche ever made had its mini model up on that wall!    356-1 the very first car Porsche made in Gmuend, Austria.   Toys big and small…   Back outside on the streets of Zuffenhausen…  Mmmmmm….  HQ building…  Factory run and owned P-Zentrum…  Werk-1 This was where Ferry’s office was. Also the Motorsports Dept was located here. Now it is in Weissach. This is where Porsche Exclusive and the parts dept and special customer cars are serviced.  Inside Werk-I’s service dept…  993TT engine display…        Production bridge that connects the body shop with the final production hall…    Finished production cars awaiting transport to their new owners…   |
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Do they still have the Porsche that was cut into three sections on display on the second floor?
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| 11-02-2010, 08:52 AM | #7 | |
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The cars that are displayed up on the 2nd floor (like the American roadsters) are always changing. When I first went to the museum they had all the Turbo evolutions of the 911 on those turn tables & steps area. Feel free to post a pic IF you have one of thise cut up car. Dackel |
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| 11-03-2010, 05:50 PM | #8 |
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Unbelievable display of cars (and pics)!
Thanks (as usual) for posting them! The Moby Dick 935, Martini 935 RSR, Rothman's 962's, Ferry's b'day 918, Gulf 917 and a bonus exploded 917 motor all in one roof? My God; I never would have gotten out of that place! Makes the odd 930 seem humdrum! Tell me, how cool would it be to work in the Porsche Musuem's restoration shop? Fantastic post, ianc
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What's with the "new" 996s?
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Those photos of the old museum were taken back in 2004 & '05. The new mega museum opened in fall of 2007. Thats why the photos are smaller bc I had a lower pixel digital camera back then. I went there a few months after Porsche opened the new Musuem in 2007. I have been fortunate enough to visit the Porsche museum many, many times. I think four or five times already. I lost count of how many times I visited the old Museum. First time was in 1991 for me. Anytime I am near Stuttgart I make it a point of stopping by. Besides the new Porsche Museum being on anyones Bucket List... I would also say MB's Musuem in near by Untertürkheim (also in Stuttgart) just across town - is a MUST SEE place. And of course BMW's Welt and Musuem too. |
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| 12-08-2011, 12:40 PM | #13 |
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Awesome photo's and info! You really did a nice job. It is not easy to get all those shot's at the Museum as you did. I was there in Aug of this year as well as the MBZ museum across town while attending one of the factory Porsche driving tours.
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^^Thanks. Yes, the MB Musem is quite nice. I also enjoy going to Ssheim's Technik Musuem only about 30 minutes from Stuttgart. You might be interested in seeing some of the other cool auto musuems I have been to in Germany. Have you seen this thread? Dackel's European Delivery Museum Guide http://www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=494657 |
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| 12-08-2011, 01:55 PM | #15 |
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I sure did! That is where I found this thread. You have been blessed for sure! Bastard!
Have you been up to the ring? Did not get a chance this summer to go myself, but that is still on my bucket list! Really would like to order a new car and pick it up over there, and drive around touring for a couple of weeks and then ship it back here. To drive a new M3 or 911 on the ring and then head south for the Alps and in to Italy would be a dream holiday! Well one can dream... and it keep's me getting up in the morning to make the doughnuts!! |
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my dad had a modded orange 914 when he was a kid
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Sometimes the Porche Museum has on display Ferry's red B-day 914. It had a flat 8-boxer motor with 300 PS and quad headlights. Piech also loved the idea of a flat eight 914 that he had the boys at Porsche build him one too. But Piech's had more power!! |
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I had the pleasure of visiting the Porsche Musum and Zentrum this past weekend. Picked up some models too!
New Porsche museum... Porsche Zentrum and Porsche HQ offices... a really cool Porsche 918 Spyder model I picked up... the famous bridge on the A81 Autobahn just before the Zuffenhausen ausgang.
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Great shots Dack, thanks for posting!
Except for the Panamera that is. Oh well, at least Wiedeking's gone... ianc
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But here are some cool Porsche racers, Enjoy...
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