Museum mobile, Automobile museum in Ingolstadt, Germany.
The Audi museum mobile is a circular glass-and-steel building over 22 metres high, designed by Gunter Henn as part of the Audi Forum Ingolstadt. Its glazed facade shows white floors and a red wall inside, with a dark entrance canopy and three flagpoles in front. About 6,000 m² hold roughly 100 cars, motorcycles and bicycles of Audi, DKW, Horch, Wanderer and NSU.
The museum was created in 2000 as part of the Audi Forum and brings together the brand histories of DKW, Horch, Wanderer, and NSU. These manufacturers shaped the German vehicle industry of the 20th century.
The four rings on the cars trace back to the 1932 merger of Audi, Horch, DKW and Wanderer into Auto Union AG, explained in the exhibition. The museum also covers NSU, and the DKW two-stroke story is told from the Meisterklasse to the F 102. The lift's digital year counter runs backwards to 1899, when August Horch founded Horch & Cie.
Visitors enter on level 0 through the Piazza of the Audi Forum Ingolstadt. A lift whose display counts the years backwards takes them to level 3, where the tour begins in 1899; level 2 covers post-war models and level 1 hosts changing special exhibitions. The paternoster is visible from outside the building.
A paternoster lift continuously moves 14 vehicles in vertical rotation through the building. As you move through the exhibition, you repeatedly see different cars passing by in this moving display system.
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