Automobilmuseum Dresden, Automobile museum in the Innere Neustadt, Dresden, Germany
The Automobilmuseum Dresden is a collection of over 120 vehicles in the city, including motorcycles, cars, and transportation items from East German production between 1950 and 1990. The display shows the development of vehicle manufacturing during these decades with various models and types.
The exhibition rooms opened on 23 May 2003 on the upper floor of the Neustädter Markthalle in the Innere Neustadt, covering 1,100 square metres. The lease was terminated in 2005, and the museum had to leave the hall in September 2005 after just over two years. In 2006 it reopened as part of the DDR-Museum Zeitreise in Radebeul; after that museum closed, the vehicles moved in January 2017 to the new exhibition in the Dresden Hochhaus am Albertplatz or into storage.
The museum documents East German vehicle production through IFA models and displays rare examples like the IFA F9 Cabriolet from the Dresden Karosseriewerk. Visitors can see how these cars shaped everyday life in East Germany and what designs were created during that era.
The museum occupied the upper floor of the Neustädter Markthalle on Hauptstraße in the Innere Neustadt, covering 1,100 square metres. It closed in September 2005 after its lease was terminated, so the exhibition can no longer be visited there. The vehicles later went to the DDR-Museum Zeitreise in Radebeul and, from January 2017, to the Hochhaus am Albertplatz in Dresden.
Among the more than 120 exhibits were four one-off pieces, including a GDR Deutsche Post Trabant and an IFA F 9 convertible bodied by Karosseriewerk Dresden, formerly Gläser. The show also held about 50 two-wheelers from the Vogel series and from AWO and MZ, plus a Klappfix, caravans, trailers, IFA prams and bicycles.
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