Stuttgart Porsche Museum
A lot of Porsche customer, and especially those from Western Europe and the Middle East including members of royal families and other dignitaries, prefer to pick up their new Porsche directly from the factory in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen or in Leipzig. So, if you will be traveling to Germany this month or if you are close to Stuttgart during this time, then you definitely need to pay a visit to the new Porsche Museum.
If you ask yourself “Why?”, well, you should know that last week, on Wednesday January 28 to be more precise, at the headquarters of Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen the new Porsche Museum was officially declared open.
Designed entirely in white and conceived as a monolithic structure, the bold architecture of the building from the famous suburb of Stuttgart, that has since 1950 been the home of Porsche, is really impressive. Built at a cost of 100 million euros, the 5,600 sq meter gallery can accommodate over 80 of Porsche’s collection of 300 significant cars, a ‘Porsche Archive’ library to walk you through 77 years of Porsche history, a shop, a vintage car workshop, conference areas available for events and a rooftop terrace. There is also an exclusive restaurant “Christophorus” that offers Stuttgart’s haute cuisine.
“In the last few weeks, we have comprehensively restored all the vehicles and polished them up for their use in the museum,” explains Klaus Bischof, head of the ‘Rolling Museum’. During construction of the new Porsche Museum, the vehicles have been stored in an off-premises warehouse in Zwingenberg am Neckar until required.
The first exhibits that will go on display in the museum include, among others, a 356 Cabriolet, an original ‘11’ model and the first prototype of the 924. As virtually all museum vehicles are also used on the road, it is intended that other exhibits will continuously replace them. As a result, the Porsche Museum will constantly change its appearance, and this will enable visitors in future to discover different Porsche rarities in the new museum on a regular basis.
Aside from the exhibition area, Porsche’s new Parthenon also comprises a workshop where Porsche owners can bring their own prized Porsches for restorative work. However, Museum director Achim Stejskal told CAR Magazine that interest in the workshop has already exceeded expectations and there is a ‘long waiting list.’
The restaurant on the second floor – which has both a view through the glass facade onto the Porscheplatz below as well as through a glass partition into the exhibition itself – has its own separate entrance and is also open at hours different from those of the museum itself. The new museum and its range of catering facilities offer additional capacity for conferences, company and private events in exceptional surroundings.
You could visit the new Porsche Museum from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., every day except on Mondays. Adults pay 8 euros admission (reduced price: 4 euros) and children up to the age of 14 get free admission when accompanied by an adult.