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New Porsche Museum Opens in Stuttgart, Germany
Saturday, 31 January, marked the opening of the new Porsche Museum
in Stuttgart, in southwest Germany. Highly anticipated, the new
museum is located on Porscheplatz square, next to the car company’s
headquarters and factory where, in 1938, a series of prototypes
were built that later became the VW Beetle. A year later, in 1939,
the same factory produced the forefather of all Porsche sports cars,
the Type 64 "Berlin-Rome Car".
Designed by the Vienna-based architecture firm Delugan Meissl, the
museum’s exhibition hall is a sleek avant-garde eye catcher, which,
weighing in at a respectable 35,000 tons, seems to float on concrete
pillars. The space inside is intended to connect the company’s past,
present and future, displaying some 80 Porsche sports cars that
range from historic to present-day models—all in working order.
In addition to such icons as the Porsche 356, 550, 911 and 917,
some exhibits pay tribute to Professor Ferdinand Porsche’s outstanding
technical achievements from the early 20th century.
With the addition of the new Porsche Museum, the city of Stuttgart
asserts its reputation as a centre of German automotive innovation
and technology. Together with the recently opened Mercedes-Benz
Museum, the Porsche Museum gives visitors to Stuttgart a unique
opportunity to see the history of the automobile and get a glimpse
of its future.
Admission is € 8 (approx. $13). For detailed information on the
new Porsche Museum, please visit
www.porsche.com.
Porsche Test Drive and Tour Package
Car enthusiasts can test the power of a Porsche hands-on, with package
tours and test drives. A Porsche-Hockenheim weekend package, for
example, includes a test drive in a Porsche on the Hockenheimring
Formula One racing track, along with a more leisurely journey through
the idyllic countryside and vineyards of the Rhineland Plain and
eastern Palatinate. The package price covers a Porsche for two days,
a driver safety-training course, one overnight complete with breakfast,
lunch on two days, dinner, travel documents and a Porsche Travel
Club tour guide in German and English. Rates start at U.S. $1,390
per person, double occupancy. For more details, go to the Events
and Racing/Travel Club menu at
www.porsche.com.
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