BMW museum is appropriate for 1972 in the proximity of the olympia area in Munich and, before the olympic one summer games was briefly opened. It treats the history of the company BMW. At present the museum is reconditioned.

Architecture and concept

The exhibition "“time horizon (e)"”

To be represented the technical development of the company BMW of the past is over the presence into the future. To see are engines and turbines, airplanes, motorcycles and vehicles in the most diverse conceivable variations. Beside current and older, small like large exhibits are futuristically working, also extravagante studies from the last 20 years, current prognosis lock. Also meanwhile with relative success "“cab scooter"” produced was before not all too-long time as vehicle study in the exhibition area.

To a large extent calm atmosphere of the exhibition is reached by the use of headphones and the refined, often indirect lighting and guidance. The emphasis is on the technical development and the general enthusiasm for the new. The building harmoniert thereby with the exhibition concept.

Numbers

The numbers of visitors are in Munich the highest after the German museum and the Pinakothek. Approximately 250,000 people annually visit on the seven opening days in the week compared with its resident of Munich "“competition"” relatively small museum. In former times free entrance and the absence of aggressive advertisement, relative in the comparison, may have contributed to it.

Architecture

Also as "„salad dish "“well-known, silver-futuristic buildings became by the architect of the BMW multistoried building, for which Viennese builds professor Karl Schwanzer. Into circular surface area only about 20m diameter has, the flat roof about 40 M. one enters the building in the ground floor and finds first few more than clothes (in the cellar) and receipt. First one can admire the exhibits, which are at the same time inside and on the bowl curving outward on spiral upward a way current in the building. On altogether four "“islands"” on the apparently freely hanging footpath are opportunities to deepen the impressions with toned dia. looking and individual smaller exhibits. After literal "„going through "“of the actual exhibition one achieves the upper floor; here are individual exhibits, a smaller cinema hall and different interactive exhibits, at which one can make oneself familiar with the technology. Over a central, freely escalator running by the underlying area one arrives finally again in the ground floor.

The exhibition principle of a from bottom to top running spiral turns around from top to bottom running "„operational principle "“from franc Lloyd WRIGHT built museum OF decaying kind. To the rather traditional New Yorker picture hanging come here the exhibition at and on the bent museum external wall and in the area and/or on the islands. An oversize version of the BMW Logos on the flat roof supplements the special character of the building. The also constructionally interesting, monument-protected building became meanwhile one of the landmarks of Munich, just like for instance the nearby BMW administrative multistoried building or the Olympic park.

Change work and temporary exhibition in the Olympic park

In the year 2004 the museum closed its gates, which becomes BMW multistoried building and the museum reconditioned, it is 2007 to be again-opened. In order not to completely interrupt the museum enterprise, is a temporary exhibition in the nearby Olympic park.

The exhibition surface will quadruple itself according to announcement on approximately 4,000 square meters, one wants also for the firm introduction circle calculation extended meanwhile to carry and thus after intention of the exhibitors at the same time Bavarian firm culture and the status as global Player to arrange. The unconfirmed title of the new exhibition in the low rise building and/or the exhibition in the Olympic park house is to read "“BMW world"”.

Related links

• http://www.7-forum.com/modelle/bmw_museum.php web page to the museum of BMW, for the paging and renovation
• http://www.7-forum.com/modelle/bmw_museum.php excerpt from museum brochure
• http://www.autokiste.de/psg/0403/3003.htm an early message for renovation
• http://www.muenchen.de/Rathaus/lhm_alt/mtour/deutsch/stadtinformationen/museen/46141/bmw_museum.html resident of Munich city information to the museum

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