Dornier Museum

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Dornier Museum
Dornier Museum Friedrichshafen.svg
Dornier Museum
Data
place Claude-Dornier-Platz 1,
88046 Friedrichshafen Coordinates: 47 ° 40 ′ 13.6 ″  N , 9 ° 31 ′ 0.4 ″  EWorld icon
Art
architect Allmann Sattler Wappner
opening July 24, 2009
Number of visitors (annually) 110,296 (2016)
operator
Dornier Foundation for Aerospace
management
David Dornier
Website
ISIL DE-MUS-093012

The Dornier Museum (spelling: Dornier Museum) in Friedrichshafen is a technology museum that documents the pioneering work of the aircraft designer Claude Dornier (1884–1969) and the Friedrichshafen company Dornier-Werke , which has since been incorporated into the Airbus Group . The initiator is the third son of Claude Dornier, Silvius Dornier , and the sponsor is the Dornier Foundation for Aerospace , in which, in addition to Silvius Dornier, Daimler AG is also significantly involved.

Since 2005, the museum has collected numerous Dornier aircraft, models and other exhibits, which have been presented since the opening on July 24, 2009 in a modern museum building with 5,590 m² building area and a 25,000 m² landscaped park directly at Friedrichshafen Airport . Company history, production facilities and aircraft models are covered, including the giant Dornier Do X aircraft . An archive and a library related to Dornier will be attached.

architecture

Museum hangar by day
Dornier Museum at night

The floor plan of the museum hangar represents a runway junction at Friedrichshafen Airport.

The design comes from the architecture office Allmann Sattler Wappner ; the light installations were designed by the space-light artist James Turrell , who is also privately involved in aviation and Dornier.

Management of the museum

The first museum director, Christina Becker , handed over the management of the house to Berthold Porath on April 1, 2010 , who u. a. was responsible for the event "Klassikwelt Bodensee". Porath was honored for his efforts as director in 2014 with the ambassador price of MINT creating the future . In May 2017, David Dornier took over the management from the family.

Exhibits

Exhibition hall
Models

Several aircraft can be viewed outside between the museum building and the airport runway. Inside the building there are other large aircraft, drones and satellites in the hangar.

Planes

Engines

Satellites

  • GEOS - first geostationary research satellite
  • ISEE-B - European Research Satellite
  • Ulysses - first interplanetary probe to the poles of the sun
  • ERS - European Remote Sensing Satellite

Technologies

Barrack Seemoos

Barrack Seemoos 2016

Another interesting exhibit is the Seemoos barracks in front of the museum on the parking lot, which is considered to be the nucleus of the Dornier company. It was renovated in 2014.

See also

literature

  • Rolf Dieterich: Dornier Museum Friedrichshafen , in: Damals , issue 01/2014, p. 70f.

Web links

Commons : Dornier Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.dorniermuseum.de/de/museum/presse/Dornier-Museum-startet-in-das-jahr-2017.php
  2. ^ Cord Schellenberg: Dornier Museum Friedrichshafen - Berthold Porath takes over museum management. (No longer available online.) In: Press release. Dornier Museum Friedrichshafen, January 29, 2010, formerly in the original ; accessed on February 19, 2010 : "The previous museum director, Christina Becker, is relinquishing the management of the house"
  3. ^ Südkurier Medienhaus: Friedrichshafen: Dornier Museum: Director Berthold Porath has to take his hat | SÜDKURIER Online . In: SÜDKURIER Online . ( suedkurier.de [accessed on May 10, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Classics of Aviation , edition 5/09. P. 76
  5. ↑ Reinhard Scholzen : Reconnaissance Artillery. In: Truppendienst 2, 2014, pp. 146–150.