Tickets were very reasonable and Mercedes also gave everyone headsets, in multiple languages, for free. I’ve been to a lot of places that charge for headsets, so that was a sweet deal.
As I entered, ahead of me was a huge concrete column with nine floors of cars mixed in with history lessons and mixed in with lots of walking, so bring your step counter…you will walk a lot but so worth it.
You take an elevator to start the tour at the top floor. A cool feature is that as the elevator pod takes you to the top, a video is projected on the museum wall outside the pod, with historic video clips. Very creative use of space, just one aspect that makes this a neat museum to visit.
When you disembark from the transport pod, you immediately start getting company history and global history lessons, which I thought was really nice way to juxtapose company inventions alongside what was happening in the world at that time.
Walking and reading and photographing, I probably saw a thousand displays, so quite an extensive collection.
One of my favorite cars, don’t ask me why, is the ‘Blue Wonder’ Schnelltransporter, a long blue truck’ish thing that was used to transport Mercedes race cars around the mid-1950’s. It was cartoonish but yet retro cool. Top speed was about 100 miles an hour, which for those days was quite a feat of engineering. I’d love to have one of these to bring my 1M to the track. In VO of course!
As I ended my tour I realized that I had thoroughly enjoyed my day and could have spent much more time. I also could have taken a thousand photos that day but really tried to limit myself to some of my favorite cars, trucks and buses.
Enjoy the photos and if you have any questions, just post here.
In closing, for many of you heading to Germany, or even those of us who live in Germany, as BMW fans our bucket list items might include the BMW Welt, BMW Classics or even the main ///M location up in Garching.
For true car enthusiasts, I highly recommend visiting this museum to truly understand what philosophy Mercedes has taken through the past 130 years or so to become a world-class car company.
https://www.mercedes-benz.com/en/mer...r-information/