The experience

This museum is not only about cars, but it’s also about history. The visitor journey begins just after exiting futuristic elevators, for me reminding of those in science fiction movies, and the first thing you see is a single horse that looks young and energetic. It represents the single unit of power – the horsepower. A horsepower – where everything has started.

As the museum is designed, you’re walking in a spiral from top to the ground, visiting all those different epochs and looking at different models of Mercedes Benz. All the compositions and environment is enriched by the theme music of those years, as well as walls as you walk from one floor to another are full of historical facts.

My highlights

Despite a huge variety of sports, race, every-day cars, trucks and f1 formulas, a few highlights from the museum that comes to my mind at the moment are:

  • The classic Mercedes Benz 300 SL (1954) and SLR Coupe (1956)
  • Experimental diesel-powered Mercedes Benz C111-III, tested at an average speed of 316km/h for 12 hours in 1978!
  • The futuristic concept of Mercedes Benz IAA, able to transform its aerodynamic features, also with an impression of monolithic minimalistic bodywork.

There were plenty of other vehicles, and they were all fantastic. However, as a car enthusiast, I have noticed that significant changes in car designs happened not so many times. Now car manufacturers are highly regulated and all of the designs we see now – are massively restrained by safety requirements and other regulations. For me, personally one of the most exciting transformations was around 1955 when car looks were somewhere between today’s designs and the old times which reminds me more of carriages being transitioning to motorized vehicles. Despite it all, even back in the 1950s oh man, some cars were seriously fast!

I’ve put a gallery full of pictures of what I saw in Mercedes Benz museum, furthermore even some videos to join this post later as I have more time. All in all, I can just highly recommend this museum, which is even bigger than the Porsche museum that I’ve been to a couple of years ago in Stuttgart. If you happen to travel close by and you like cars I recommend to go through this experience in the Mercedes Benz museum.