PS-Speicher, Automotive museum in Einbeck, Germany
PS Speicher occupies the brick granary built in Einbeck in 1898, restored from 2012 to 2014, with its main exhibition on roughly 4,000 square metres over six floors. More than 300 exhibits, drawn largely from the world's largest collection of German motorcycles, are arranged chronologically from the 19th-century bicycle and motorcycle to a modern cargo bike, with about 90 multimedia stations and full-size dioramas such as a 1920s street scene and a 1950s milk bar.
The building was originally built as a grain warehouse to store grain and served this purpose for many years. It was later transformed and opened as a transportation museum in 2014.
The name comes from its past as a grain storage facility, which remains visible in how the building is used today. This conversion shows how an old industrial structure was repurposed to tell the story of automotive development.
The main exhibition occupies six floors of the 1898 granary, with the chronological route starting at the top and ending with a cargo bike below. A separate exhibition in the same building explains the granary's architecture and its surviving storage and filling machinery. The wider site covers over 25,000 m², and the truck and bus collection is housed elsewhere in Einbeck's Otto-Hahn-Park.
The small-car collection of around 250 two-, three- and four-wheelers comes largely from the Künnecke couple's private museum in Störy, which showed them until 2004; the foundation took it over in 2012. Among the vehicles are a Messerschmitt Kabinenroller, a Zündapp Janus and BMW 600, plus electric vehicles and derelict "Moorleichen" pulled from boggy ground.
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