As an automotive city of distinction, Stuttgart is also home to two of the most spectacular car museums – the Porsche Museum and the Mercedes-Benz Museum.
Given that a visit to both museums is a highly attractive proposition, Porsche and Mercedes-Benz has teamed up to launch a new offer whereby presenting an entrance ticket to one of the museums, visitors will get 25% off the regular entry price at the other museum, from now until 30 December 2016.
That means, visitors to the Mercedes-Benz Museum who present their entrance ticket to the Porsche Museum will receive a 25% discount on the regular ticket price of €8 (making €6) or on the concessionary price of €4 (making €3). The same principle applies at the Porsche Museum.
On top of that, the Porsche Museum and the Mercedes-Benz Museum will be swapping two of their classics this month: a Mercedes-Benz W 111 230 S from 1966 will be on display in front of the Porsche Museum in Zuffenhausen, while the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Bad Cannstatt will host a Porsche 911 Carrera 2.7 from 1975.
The Porsche Museum receives three million people visitors since it was opened seven years ago. Displaying around 90 vehicles, the exhibits at the museum are changed regularly, which helps give the exhibition a dynamic feel: almost all of the vehicles are drivable and are used as a “mobile museum” at historic racing events and presentations worldwide. Visitors can therefore also experience live how the Porsche Museum workshop restores classic cars and prepares them for use. Furthermore, the museum introduced a twelve-metre-long touchwall in early 2016, inviting visitors to take a virtual trip in time through the company’s history. Plus, at the end of the tour, the “Porsche in the Mix” sound installation offers visitors a dynamic, audio-visual experience by enabling them to compose their own piece of music based on seven Porsche models.
The Mercedes-Benz Museum on the other hand, brings the Mercedes-Benz legend to life – and with it the history of individual mobility. The museum has been home to some 160 vehicles and more than 1500 other exhibits for the past ten years. The architecture and the exhibition concept complement each other right down to the last detail: on 9 levels, paths wind in the shape of a double helix along a time axis stretching from the invention of the motor car by Carl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler in 1886 to the present day. The Mercedes-Benz Museum is celebrating its 10th anniversary throughout this year by staging a number of events as well as a special E-Class “Masterpieces” exhibition.
