#technik museum

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An Adventure in Sinsheim! A Technical Museum Full of Wonders — Even for Artificers!

You’ll see beautiful car models, military tech, amazing barrel organs, and so much more. Visiting this museum is definitely worth it!

PS: English isn’t my native language, but I see it as an adventure – just like DnD! I’ll get better over time, so you’re basically watching me ‘level up’ in real time.

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European highlight of 2025: Technik Museum Speyer

The week-long journey along the Rhine in April on the whole was a worthy high point, but I have already talked about the Romantic Rhine with Bacharach, Kaub and Oberwesel, so here's my first stop: Speyer, a city with a lovely historical centre, a rare Romanesque cathedral, and funny traffic light men.

Oh, and a museum with the most eclectic collection of vehicles I believe I have ever seen!

Looking through the photos, it's all coming back to me, and it's impossible to summarise what they've got. In the above picture alone, at the back there's a Diesel locomotive, a swing-wing fighter jet pointing up and a rare Dassault Mercure airliner. Come forward a bit, and there's a yellow airport tractor hiding behind a blue hydrofoil boat. Opposite that, we have a dumpster truck and, at the front, a red double-decker bus.

And that big thing right in front of us? That's the engine nacelle of a Boeing 747. Oh yeah, by the way, we're standing on the wing of a 747.

Technik Museum Speyer's star attraction is this retired Lufthansa Boeing 747 perched 22 metres up in a dynamic flying pose. It's been refurbished to allow people to walk through, and the left wing is open for a unique experience. Unlike in other air museums, the way the vehicles are arranged and the very broad access you get allow you to truly appreciate their size. I had never realised how massive a 747 was until this visit (hadn't really seen one up close either to be fair).

And the same goes for other large vehicles they have. You'd take a search & rescue boat for granted, but Technik Museum Speyer have one, the John T. Essenberger, that can be explored almost in full: the infirmaries, the navigation and rescue equipment, the engine room... It's remarkable to have so many vehicles not just to see, but also to explore, from airliners to cargo planes, from river barges to rescue boats. They seem to have every kind of vehicle except exceedingly large ships and the space shuttle.

Well, not the American space shuttle...

Technically, this was a Soviet prototype shuttle for testing on or close to the ground (taxiing, low-level flight), so it never went to space. Still remarkable, there aren't many places you'll see a space shuttle up close... and get a look inside!

The main indoor hall also houses some rare items, like the Colani "aerodynamic lorry" concept visible on the right below, and the plane hanging in the middle of the picture, which is a home-built prototype. And all around you've got more planes, dragsters, cars, buses... and is that a fricking merry-go-round?!

Maybe that's one criticism I can make of the museum: it's all over the place, there's not much theming beyond "these are all vehicles", and everything isn't in tip-top shape. But the sheer diversity on show, and how close you can get to the exhibits - the access, again, is incredible! - makes Technik Museum Speyer a must-see for transport enthusiasts.

And you know what? There's a sister museum in Sinsheim, not far from Karlsruhe, where they've got a Concorde and a former land speed record holder...

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Stationary Trains

When travelling along the Landwehrkanal, we passed the Technikmuseum and its figurehead DC-47B Rosinenbomber. Once off the boat, we explored the whole museum. I say the whole museum, like many technology museums, it is packed to the rafters with interesting things, and we did leave some of them for the next visit. It is located on the grounds of the former Anhalter Freight Terminal. At the…

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Dragsters. Technik Museum, Speyer, Rhineland-Palatinate. July 2022

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Technik Museum, Speyer, Rhineland-Palatinate. July 2022

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Boeing 747 Lufthansa, Technik Museum Speyer (photo Adam Kubicek)