Transport Museum Dresden

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Transport Museum Dresden in the Johanneum at Neumarkt

The Transport Museum Dresden shows exhibits on the history of the individual modes of transport rail, road, air and shipping on an exhibition area of ​​5,000 square meters.

The Transport Museum was opened in 1956. It is located in the Johanneum , an extension of the residential palace on Dresden's Neumarkt .

Around 200,000 visitors visit the museum every year, half of them tourists. The lease with the Free State of Saxony runs until 2025.

history

The history of the Dresden Transport Museum began on May 1, 1952, in the negotiation between the University of Transport and the Ministry of Transport for the establishment of a transport museum in the GDR . As a matter of priority, the exhibits of the Saxon Railway Museum that were relocated during the Second World War should be housed here.

After Dresden was set as the location, the first vehicles were housed in a locomotive shed in the Neustadt . Six employees began to set up the museum and in 1953 two small exhibitions were presented.

The actual opening in some rooms of the Johanneum took place on June 3, 1956. The first director was Elfriede Rehbein . The museum was supervised by the Chair of Economic and Transport History at the HfV.

On April 1, 1958, it was subordinated to the Ministry of Transport. On November 24, 1958, the museum became the property of the Ministry of Transport. The interior renovations were completed in 1966 and the facade in 1968. Based on aircraft construction, the roof is not covered with copper sheeting , but with duralumin .

With the establishment of the Free State of Saxony in 1990, the Transport Museum was given the status of a state museum. In 2006 the Transport Museum became a gGmbH and is now sponsored by the City of Dresden. Ticket income accounts for around 40 percent of the expenses.

Because of the limited space in the Johanneum, a relocation of the museum has been discussed several times since the early 1990s. For financial reasons and the great unpopularity of this idea, this was postponed to at least 2025.

From 2007 to 2015 the shipping exhibition was located in the adjacent "long corridor" of the stable yard . This is z. Z. rebuilt and is to resume the electoral rifle collection.

Exhibition areas and exhibits

Logo of the Dresden Transport Museum
Blériot XI - aircraft made by French aviation pioneer Louis Blériot

The following areas are shown as permanent exhibitions in the Transport Museum in the Johanneum :

  • rail
  • Road traffic
  • aviation
  • shipping

There are also special exhibitions, a bobby car traffic garden, experiment and children's areas as well as a 0-gauge model railroad with an area of ​​325 square meters.

Due to the tight conditions in the Johanneum, the museum does not show all of the exhibits; some exhibits were loaned to other museums, e. For example, there are numerous locomotives in the former Dresden-Altstadt depot of the Deutsche Reichsbahn and are looked after by the Dresden-Altstadt Railway Museum.

Rail vehicles

The Dresden Transport Museum currently owns 105 different rail vehicles, only eight of which are on display in the Johanneum, including what is believed to be Germany's oldest fully preserved steam locomotive MULDENTHAL from 1861, a replica of the first working German steam locomotive Saxonia and the court saloon car 447 for Princess Mathilde of Saxony from 1885 Most of the vehicles are in depots or are looked after by clubs on loan. Examples are 17 1055 , 19 017 , 58 261 , 24 004 , 99 162 , V 15 1001 , V 240 001 , 120 338 and 130 002 as well as a catenary inspection railcar . Narrow-gauge rail vehicles are looked after by the Radebeul Narrow-Gauge Railway Museum in Radebeul Ost station .

aviation

Jet engine Pirna 014 in the Dresden Transport Museum

Planes

Engines

Road traffic

Cycles

Biria unplugged
  • Hochrad Dresden, around 1888
  • Brennabor military folding bicycle, 1941
  • Ladies touring bike Möve model 15 from 1956
  • Mountain bike Biria unplugged from 1998

motorcycles

Passenger cars

Trucks

photos

  • LDE - Saxonia in the railway department

  • Baker Electric 1910 in the permanent exhibition Road Transport

  • Models in the permanent aviation exhibition

  • Steering wheel in the permanent exhibition shipping

Web links

Commons : Verkehrsmuseum Dresden  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Melanie Schröder: Should the Transport Museum move? In: Saxon newspaper . 22nd August 2019.
  2. ↑ a b Dieter Preuss, Gerhard Rehbein: CHRONICLE of the University of Transport "Friedrich List" Dresden 1952-1961 . (University of Transport "Friedrich List" (ed.): Scientific journal , special issue 5), ISSN  0043-6844 , pp. 42, 66.
  3. ↑ verkehrsmuseum-dresden.de/.../geschichte , accessed on December 8, 2013.
  4. ↑ www.dnn-online.de/...Verkehrsmuseum-bis-2025-gesichert , accessed on December 8, 2013.
  5. ↑ Depot stocks of rail vehicles. Verkehrsmuseum Dresden gGmbH, accessed on August 11, 2010 .
  6. ↑ Pilot 6/30, built in 1926 - a rare Saxon automobile. Verkehrsmuseum Dresden gGmbH, accessed on August 11, 2010 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 7.4 "  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 22.2"  E