Automuseum Busch, Automobile museum in Wolfegg, Germany

Automuseum Busch houses a large collection of more than 200 vintage cars, motorcycles, tractors, and caravans from different production periods. The exhibition space covers 3000 square meters and displays the evolution of vehicle technology across several decades.

Fritz B. Busch restored a 500-year-old service building of Wolfegg Castle in 1972, which Prince Max Willibald von Waldburg-Wolfegg provided for a museum. It opened at Easter 1973 with 32 cars. By the 1980s the collection had grown to about 200 vehicles, and exhibition space was expanded to 2,500 square metres on two floors, plus 700 square metres in a second building in 1998. The museum closed in October 2016; a new Automuseum Wolfegg opened on the site in April 2017.

Fritz B. Busch staged everyday life around the vehicles: cut-out posters shaped like clouds stuck to windscreens told of a Goggomobil in which farmers drove to church on Sundays, with a goat riding up front once the passenger seat was removed. An old fuel pump, a hinted campsite with caravan, VW Beetle and NSU Prinz, and a barn holding a Scheunenfund awaiting restoration recreated past eras. Prominent limousines were also shown, among them Hans Albers' 1951 Cadillac Series 62 and Helmut Zacharias' 1988 Cadillac, the musician's violin still lying on the rear seat.

The museum occupied a converted 500-year-old service building of Wolfegg Castle, with exhibition space on two floors plus a second building added in 1998. It closed at the end of October 2016; many vehicles went to the Auto & Traktor Museum in Uhldingen-Mühlhofen. Since April 2017 a new automobile museum has run on the same site, focused on vehicles of the 1960s to 1980s.

Fritz B. Busch did not only line up cars: he staged memories. Cut-out posters shaped like clouds stuck to some windscreens told of a Goggomobil in which farming folk drove to church on Sundays, with a goat riding up front beside the driver once the passenger seat was removed. An old fuel pump, a hinted campsite with caravan, VW Beetle and NSU Prinz, and a barn holding a Scheunenfund waiting for restoration recreated past everyday life.