Toyota Collection, Automobile museum in Marsdorf, Germany
The Toyota Collection is an exhibition of Toyota vehicles in a converted sports hall on Toyota Deutschland's premises in Cologne-Marsdorf. Depending on the count, around 70, 75 or 108 cars are shown, including a Corolla, Land Cruiser, Celica, Crown, RAV4, 2000 GT, Tercel, Model F, Starlet, Supra, 1000, Century and Prius, plus some Lexus models, racing and rally cars, prototypes and cutaway models.
A collector named Peter Pichert began building this collection starting in 1994 near Passau and assembled more than 100 Toyota vehicles. Following his death in 2016, Toyota Deutschland GmbH acquired the collection and relocated it to its present location.
The exhibition displays Japanese engineering through different generations of models like Corolla, Crown, and Celica. Visitors can observe how design philosophy and technical innovation evolved across the decades.
The exhibition hall on Toyota's Cologne site opens one Saturday per month; check the current date before travelling. The collection is displayed in a converted sports hall, so the vehicles stand close together and the route is indoors. Allow time to look at the racing cars, rally vehicles and cutaway models as well as the production models.
The exhibition hall is a converted sports hall on Toyota Deutschland's company grounds in Cologne, opened on 23 November 2017. The collection grew out of the private 1st German Toyota Museum in Hartkirchen, founded in 1994; after its operator died, Toyota Deutschland took over the vehicles in 2017. Around 120 cars formed the original stock, and duplicates were passed on.
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