1st German Antique Police Car Museum, Police vehicle museum in Marburg, Germany
The Deutsches Polizeioldtimer-Museum is a vehicle museum in Marburg that displays over 100 historical police vehicles, including motorcycles, patrol cars, armored vehicles, and water cannons from different time periods. The collection spans several decades of German police history and shows how vehicle technology and equipment developed.
The Polizei-Motorsport-Club Marburg, founded in 1990, bought its first historic police vehicle in 1991, a 1950s Opel Rekord P1. The museum opened on 24 June 2000 during the club's tenth-anniversary celebrations, with Hessian interior minister Volker Bouffier as patron. After conversion work the building was inaugurated on 12 July 2003.
The collection reflects how police work and technology evolved across different decades in Germany. Walking through the rows of vehicles shows how each era approached law enforcement and what tools were necessary at the time.
The museum is in the Wehrshausen district of Marburg, in the Neuhöfe locality. It opens regularly from April to October, usually on Sundays. The collection is run by volunteers of the Polizei-Motorsport-Club Marburg 1990 e. V.
The museum lends its historical vehicles to film productions and contributed five vehicles to the movie Der Baader Meinhof Komplex. This practical role connects the collection to cinema history and brings the vehicles to life on screen.
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