Autovision Museum
The Museum Autovision - Tradition & Forum is the private museum of the electronics entrepreneur Horst Schultz in Altlußheim , which deals with the history and future of modern individual mobility, especially alternative drives . The museum is aimed primarily at young people interested in technology and lovers of rare automobiles that represent milestones in mobility. The museum offers space for numerous special exhibitions.
history
The museum was founded in 2002 by the entrepreneur Horst Schultz, who had sold his company ELBA Electric GmbH to Computer Products Inc. in Boca Raton for 52 million DM . He invested millions in a building erected in Altlußheim in 2001 and in the rare vehicles from all over the world exhibited there, and then founded the non-profit Museum Autovision Horst and Brigitte Schultz Foundation with his wife . On November 25, 2010, the Museum Foundation was officially recognized by the Karlsruhe Regional Council. Since 2012, the museum has been the first museum in Europe to show technologies for an automotive future without petroleum-based propulsion. In 2016 the museum was expanded to include a modern concept building (X-Cube).
exhibition
History of individual mobility, largest NSU collection
The story of the development of individual mobility over the past 125 years is told using a number of true-to-original replicas such as the first balance bike of Freiherr von Drais or the record electric car La Jamais Contente by Camille Jenatzy from 1899 and exemplarily using the largest private collection of bicycles , motorbikes , Vintage and post-war small cars from NSU . The exhibits also include original equipment from an NSU workshop from the 1920s.
Rotary engine
The museum houses the world's largest exhibition of Wankel engines , Wankel cars - production vehicles and prototypes - as well as three Wankel motorcycles. Among other things, the NSU cutaway model of the Ro 80 can be seen with which NSU presented the vehicle at the IAA .
Models and experiments
On display are metal models with which car components such as the engine , differential and automatic transmission can be reproduced, as well as metal models on the subject of power transmission . Finally, there are boxes with prepared experiments on scientific topics.
Vehicles with alternative drives
In addition to the large Wankel exhibition, the museum presents other alternative drives, i.e. electric cars , a fuel cell vehicle, a liquid gas vehicle , a hydrogen car and hybrid vehicles as well as the necessary infrastructure. The one- liter car from VW is also on display. In addition, various battery systems and a large number of alternative engine concepts and fuels are presented on display boards. A solar filling station is available for owners of electric cars .
Alternative engine concepts
The museum offers explanations on display boards, mostly with drawings, in individual cases with metal models, on alternative engine concepts. Among the featured rotary motors include Sabet engine , Hüttlin - spherical motor , Schneeberger engine , pressure cell motor, Wolfhart spherical motor, pulse motor , Star rotor motor , Quasiturbine and Ballpiston engine (pure study). The reciprocating piston engines in the exhibition are Gollemotor (an opposed piston engine ), Strahm engine and a collection board with 5-stroke engine ( Miller engine ), Stelzer engine , Erickson engine and compressed air engine (gas expansion engine ).
Replica of the electric tricycle by WE Ayrton and J. Perry
The museum's collection includes exhibits from original electric vehicles dating back to 1899. The Ayrton & Perry Electric Tricycle , built in 1882, was not originally available; therefore Horst Schultz and his team reconstructed it in a true-to-original form. Research and construction took a year. An estimated 1000 man hours were invested in the replica of the Ayrton & Perry Electric Tricycle. The vehicle was presented in December 2011 as “Oldtimer of the Week” in the “Motor” section of the newspaper Die Welt .
gallery
Cutaway model of the
NSU Ro 80
Hercules Wankel 2000
Hydrogen filler neck of a BMW
Drive the Jamais Contente
See also
- in neighboring Speyer: Technik-Museum Speyer
- on the subject of NSU: German Two-Wheeler and NSU Museum
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Stefan Kern: Altlußheim: Eight dream Bugattis are now in the "X-Cube". Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung , June 9, 2015.
- ^ Hermann Motsch-Klein: Economic hiking . Rare cars - rarely a beautiful view of the Palatinate. The Rhine Palatinate , July 15, 2014.
- ^ Manfred Neuhöfer (author); Andreas Henn (photo): History on wheels. The long way to one of the most important Bugatti collections in the world. Commerzbank , November 26, 2015, p. 2.
- ↑ Sariana Kunze: Electromobility: First electric car from 1881 goes again. Electrical engineering , November 28, 2011.
- ↑ Electric car from yesteryear. ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Deutsches Handwerksblatt , January 2012.
- ↑ Sebastian Viehmann: The forgotten first car - an electric vehicle. Time online , November 21, 2011.
- ↑ Björn Engel: Oldtimer of the week. Die Welt, December 3, 2011.
Coordinates: 49 ° 17 ′ 53 " N , 8 ° 30 ′ 22.5" E