Technik Museum Speyer, Technology museum in Speyer, Germany
Technik Museum Speyer opened in 1991 beside Speyer airfield, using the Liller Halle, a hall built in 1913 in Lesquin near Lille and moved to Speyer during the First World War. Indoors cover 25,000 square metres and the outdoor grounds 100,000. A yellow lattice tower carries an IMAX sign and a jet fixed nose-up; a Boeing 747-200 stands on a 20-metre frame, and the grey sawtooth-roofed hall with its curved glass front holds further aircraft.
The museum was built around historic industrial buildings, including an old factory hall from 1913 that originally stood in France and was brought to Speyer by German forces. This structure now forms an important part of the museum's infrastructure.
The Wilhelmsbau building houses a collection of mechanical music instruments that showcase the craftsmanship of the music machine industry. Visitors can experience how these instruments actually sound and operate.
The museum is very large, so it's wise to plan for several hours and wear sturdy shoes since you'll be walking a lot. The signage helps with navigation, but visiting on a quieter day provides a better experience without too many other visitors around.
The museum houses a Soviet Buran space shuttle, one of only a few surviving examples of this spacecraft, which arrived after a long journey by ship. This makes it an exceptional location to see Soviet space technology in Europe.
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