Museum bus

Museum bus of the Hamburg-Holstein transport company, type Magirus-Deutz Saturn II, built in 1962

A museum bus, like a museum train, is a decommissioned bus that is used for city ​​tours .

vehicles

Vehicles of the MAN SL 200 , MAN SL 202 and Mercedes O 305 series are often used . The museum bus tradition is pronounced in Oldenburg (Oldb.) In Lower Saxony , where historical omnibuses can be viewed in the Theodor Pekol Museum. A variant of the museum bus is the so-called traditional bus . In Berlin, for example, there is the possibility of driving on a special nostalgic line with decommissioned double-decker buses, but also with Mercedes O 305 buses.

Different meaning

The “museumbus koeln” in front of the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum , Cologne

Since January 2015, a museum bus (proper name “museumsbus koeln”) has been taking school classes from Cologne and the neighboring districts to the city's museums and the Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum in Cologne . There the school classes in the museums are taught by museum educators. From 2008 to 2013 the predecessor “Wallraf the Museum Bus” brought Cologne school classes to the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum .

A museum bus is also used to refer to buses that go to educational institutions in order to bring the content of a specific museum closer to workshops and courses. Pedagogically trained employees prepare didactic teaching units depending on the clientele and use the exhibits and materials contained in the bus.

Web links

• An Oldenburg MAN SL 200 as a new addition to the Theodor Pekol Museum
• Interesting facts about Oldenburg museum buses
• In Berlin you can still travel in historic buses today

Individual evidence

1. ↑ museum bus. Museum Service Cologne , accessed on February 2, 2015 . 
2. ↑ http://www.donaukurier.de/extras/kommuniken/art71515,2251517