BMW Museum
The BMW Museum is the company's own automobile museum of the automobile manufacturer BMW . It is located at Am Riesenfeld near the Olympic site on Munich's Petuelring at the corner of Lerchenauer Strasse and was opened shortly after the Summer Olympics in 1973 .
Architecture and concept
Exhibition "time horizon (s)"
The aim is to show the technical development of BMW from the past to the present and into the future. You can see engines and turbines, airplanes, motorcycles and vehicles in the most diverse conceivable variations. In addition to current and older, small and large exhibits, there are futuristic-looking, also extravagant studies from the last 20 years, current forecasts close. The “cabin scooter”, which has meanwhile been produced with relative success, was also found not so long ago as a vehicle study in the exhibition area.
The largely calm atmosphere of the exhibition is achieved through the use of headphones and the sophisticated, often indirect lighting and guidance. The focus is on technical development and the general enthusiasm for the new. The building harmonizes with the exhibition concept.
numbers
In 2011, around 480,000 people visited the BMW Museum on the six opening days (Tuesday - Sunday) during the week. In 2013 the number of visitors grew to 560,000. This makes the museum one of the most popular Munich museums alongside the Deutsches Museum , Nymphenburg Palace and the Pinakothek der Moderne .
architecture
The futuristic silver building, also known as a salad bowl or veal sausage kettle , was planned by the architect of the BMW high-rise , the Viennese professor Karl Schwanzer . The roughly circular base is only about 20 meters in diameter, the flat roof about 40 meters. The entrance is on the ground floor and consists of a cloakroom (in the basement) and reception. First of all, the visitor can view the exhibits on a spiral path upwards in the building, which are located inside and at the same time on the outwardly bulging shell. On a total of four “islands” on the apparently free-hanging footpath, there are opportunities to deepen the impressions with audio slideshows and individual smaller exhibits. After literally “walking through” the actual exhibition, the visitor reaches the upper floor; Here you will find individual exhibits, a smaller cinema and various interactive exhibits that explain the technology further. A central escalator running freely through the room below takes the visitor back to the ground floor.
The exhibition principle of a bottom-up spiral reverses the top-down "functional principle" of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum built by Frank Lloyd Wright . In addition to the more traditional New York picture hanging, the exhibition arrives at and on the inclined museum wall and in the room or on the islands. An oversized version of the BMW logo on the flat roof complements the special character of the building. The structurally interesting, listed building has meanwhile become one of Munich's landmarks, just like the nearby BMW administration tower or the Olympic Park.
Renovation and expansion
In connection with the construction of BMW Welt , which is directly opposite, the museum was closed in 2004 and fundamentally rebuilt and expanded. It has been open again since June 21, 2008. In order not to completely interrupt museum operations, there was a temporary exhibition in the nearby Olympic Park.
The exhibition area has increased fivefold to around 5,000 square meters. Temporary exhibitions are held in the previous round building. A new multi-storey building was built adjacent to the completely redesigned permanent exhibition. BMW also wants to take account of the company's now expanded catchment area and, according to the exhibitors' intention, to convey Bavarian corporate culture and the status of a global corporation at the same time . The design for the redesign comes from Atelier Brückner from Stuttgart , the media installations from ART + COM in Berlin.
Showrooms
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See also
literature
(in chronological order)
- BMW Museum (Ed.): Your companion through the BMW Museum. BMW Museum, Munich 1979, DNB 952202026 .
- Wolfgang Schmarbeck: Auto museums in Europe. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-87943-852-8 , pp. 68-69.
- Peter Stepan (ed.): The German museums. Westermann's colored guide through all important museums and collections. Westermann Sachbuch, Braunschweig 1983, ISBN 3-14-508854-8 , pp. 679-680.
- Hans Schilder: The fascination of oldtimers - car museums in Germany and neighboring countries. Hampp, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-936682-15-1 , pp. 68-71.
- Bernd Ostmann , Malte Jürgens : Auto Museums - The great guide of auto motor und sport and Motor Klassik . Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-613-02866-1 , pp. 32-37.
- BMW Museum (Ed.): BMW Museum. Prestel, Munich et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-7913-4079-1 .
- Andreas Braun (Ed.): BMW Group - 100 masterpieces. (= Catalog for the temporary exhibition 100 masterpieces. BMW Group - 100 years of innovation and entrepreneurial courage ). Hirmer, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-7774-2524-5 .
- State office for non-state museums in Bavaria (ed.): Museums in Bavaria - A guide through the Bavarian museum landscape. 6th, completely revised edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-422-07382-1 , p. 294.
Web links
- Official website of the BMW Museum
- BMW Museum . In: Muenchen.de
- BMW Museum . In: Museen-in-Bayern.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ BMW Welt - Explore the location - BMW Museum. Retrieved June 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Record year 2011 in the BMW Welt and the BMW Museum , press release of the BMW Group, January 24, 2012
- ↑ Thomas Kronewiter: BMW World more popular than Neuschwanstein Castle. In: Sueddeutsche.de. February 4, 2014, accessed February 13, 2020 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 35.4 ″ N , 11 ° 33 ′ 32.9 ″ E