BMW Museum

The BMW Museum is located near the Olympic Park in Munich, which was opened in 1973, shortly after the Summer Olympics. It covers the history of the company of the automobile manufacturer BMW. In connection with the construction of the BMW world, which is located directly opposite the museum was closed in 2004 and completely rebuilt and expanded. Since 21 June 2008, it has reopened.

Architecture and design

The exhibition " time horizon (s)"

Should be shown the technical development of BMW company from the past to the present and into the future. On display are engines and turbines, airplanes, motorcycles and vehicles in a variety of conceivable variations. In addition to current and older, both small and large exhibition pieces, there are futuristic, even extravagant studies from the past 20 years, current forecasts conclude. Even the now produced with relative success " bubble car " found himself time not too long ago as a concept vehicle in the exhibition area.

The largely peaceful atmosphere of the exhibition is achieved by the use of headphones, and the refined, often indirect illumination and guidance. The focus is on the technical development and the general enthusiasm for the new. The building harmonizes with the exhibition concept.

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The number of visitors in Munich after the Deutsches Museum, the Nymphenburg Castle and the Pinakothek der Moderne, the highest. Around 480,000 people attended in 2011 at the six open days ( Tuesday - Sunday) in the week, compared to other museums in Munich relatively small museum.

Architecture

Also known as the salad bowl or white sausage boiler, silver and futuristic building was designed by the architect of the BMW high-rise building, the Viennese professor Karl Schwanzer planned. The circular base has roughly only about 20 meters in diameter, the flat roof about 40 meters. The entrance is on the ground floor and comprises dressing room ( in the basement) and reception. First, the visitor can visit on a spiral in the building up ongoing way the exhibits, which are located inside and at the same time on the bulging outward shell. On a total of four "islands " on the seemingly free-hanging walkway, there are opportunities to deepen the impressions set to music with slide shows and individual smaller exhibits. After literal " passing through " the actual exhibition, the visitor reaches the upper floor; here you can find individual exhibits, a small cinema hall and several interactive exhibits that explain the technology further. From a single, freely passes through the underlying space escalator, the visitor arrives finally back to the ground floor.

The exhibition principle of a downwardly extending upward spiral reverses the order from top to bottom running " functional principle " of the building built by Frank Lloyd Wright Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. For more traditional New York image hanging here, the exhibition will arrive and on the sloping outer wall and Museum in the room or on the islands. An oversized version of the BMW logo on the flat roof adds to the special character of the building. This also structurally interesting Grade II listed building has become one of the landmarks of Munich, as well as about the nearby BMW Administration Building or the Olympic Park.

Renovation and expansion

In 2004, the museum closed its doors for a major renovation. The re-opening was on 21 June 2008. In order not to interrupt the operation entirely Museum, a temporary exhibition was at the nearby Olympic Park.

The exhibition area has increased five-fold to approximately 5,000 square feet. In the previous round buildings, temporary exhibitions. For the completely redesigned permanent exhibition, a new multi-storey building was built next. BMW will also carry the now extended catchment circle of the enterprise and at the same time convey Bavarian corporate culture and its status as a global corporation intended by the exhibitor. The design for the redesign comes from the atelier, the media installations by ART COM, Berlin.