AutoMuseum Volkswagen

The Auto Museum Volkswagen is a car museum Volkswagen AG in Wolfsburg ( Lower Saxony). It shows 130 different vehicles of the Volkswagen brand from all years in an area of ​​5,000 m². The museum was opened on 26 April 1985.

Presentation

The vehicle exhibition shows the development of the Volkswagen in the form of the VW Beetle from the 1930s through to production after the Second World War. But are also shown prototypes, design studies and the unique car brand, including:

• The oldest Beetle from 1938, official car of Prof. Ferdinand Porsche
• The Hebmüller - Cabriolet from 1949
• The prototype and one - millionth Volkswagen Transporter
• The one - millionth Volkswagen ( gold metallic ) from 1955
• Of beetles in the film Herbie 1970s

Likewise, vehicles are shown, which were for special purposes, as in the German Federal Post Office, the police or the fire department for use. There are also exhibited historic vehicles of the Volkswagen Group company owned by Audi. 2001, the museum was renovated and restructured, in 2007 there was another Neugestaltungs and renovations. The museum has the following five themed islands:

• Buddy beetle
• Generation Golf
• Family Volkswagen
• Volkswagen Transporter, useful to luxury
• Futurum Volkswagen

The museum is located in the building in 1967 built former textile factory Herrenkleiderfabrik works Odermark in FreibergEast in Heßlingen, near Wolfsburg city. Carrier is since 1992 the " Foundation Auto Museum Volkswagen ".

Until 2001 it belonged to the tradition of auto museum to organize in spring and autumn " old-time jazz concerts " in a special atmosphere. There are special exhibitions regularly since then, most recently "50 Years VW Karmann Ghia ".