Museum of license plates, traffic and registration history
The International Museum for License Plates, Traffic and Registration History , or License Plate Museum for short , is located in Großolbersdorf in the Ore Mountains .
Objects and documents on the history of vehicle license plates , traffic signs , automobile registration and the development of driving schools and driver training are exhibited .
Concept and framework
The museum is located about 20 kilometers south of Chemnitz in an old factory building. The construction of the museum began in June 2000, and the opening took place on April 7, 2001.
The employment office supports the project with generous funding. The museum is operated by a registered association that has been classified as non-profit by the tax office. The museum and association are financed through membership fees, entrance fees and donations, whereby primarily no self-economic purposes are pursued. The association and museum work closely with the community of Großolbersdorf as well as regional and national associations and museums.
Contents of the museum
- Historical overview of the development of the approval
- Number plates for horse cabs , early traffic history
- Velovignettes (bike number plates)
- License plate in the German Reich until 1945, all federal states
- Customs and other special signs in the German Reich from 1906
- Special case 1937 - the color of the license plates changes for a few months
- License plate after the end of the war, 1945–1946
- Registration number during the occupation 1946–1948
- License plate during the occupation 1948–1952 SBZ ( Soviet occupied zone / Eastern sector )
- License plates in the GDR - 1952–1989
- Registration number during the occupation 1948–1956 in the three western sectors
- Old number plates with lights from the pre-war period
- Issuance of seals and approval badges on license plates
- License plate manufacturing yesterday and today
- Materials (metals, plastic, leather, wood, etc.) for license plates
- License plates from almost every country in the world
- USA: Run 50 states including Washington, DC
- USA: South Dakota Run 1912 to date
- USA: Early US signs (1905 to circa 1920)
- USA: special signs from different countries
- USA: personalized signs ( custom number plates )
- Collection of old driving licenses and driving licenses from the imperial era until today
- Old registration papers
- Old traffic signs, information signs and entrance signs from the imperial era
- Old "parking tickets" from the German Reich, the GDR, current German as well as from various countries
- German signs with "combinations of meaning" z. B. "HU-ND 22"
- Topic driving schools and driver training - the historic driving school
- Estate of the racing driver Nieders
- Special exhibitions: wooden toys from the toy factory Theodor Heymann (Dresden toy factory) from Großolbersdorf