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May 4, 2010
About a year after its opening in January 2009, the Porsche Museum is still going strong. Exhibits distributed across 5,000 square meters focus on the history of the Porsche brand, which started with the production of the 356 in 1950. The museum is located in Stuttgart, Germany.
But the highlight among Germany's car museums is the Mercedes-Benz Museum, which opened in 2006. The 17,000 square meter, multi-story building presents the history of the automobile from its invention to the present, from Gottfried Daimler's motorized coach through Carl Benz's first car to the Silver Arrows of Formula 1 fame. Like the Porsche Museum, the Mercedes Museum has its seat in Stuttgart.
At Volkswagen in Wolfsburg, cars are part of the huge Autostadt adenture park. Attracting 2 million visitors a year, it's one of Germany's most popular travel destinations. A quarter of the park's visitors are customers picking up new cars.
Author: DW-TV
Editor: Jennifer Abramsohn