This amazing outdoor space, which includes a number of large hangar like halls accommodating vintage cars and locomotives, has been on my visit list for quite some time. Our original plan was to include a visit to the Technik Museum Sinsheim which is 35 minutes away by car, but there was so much to see in Speyer that we decided to leave that for another time. The entry fee, once we found the entrance, was a steep €19. The main entrance eluded us because most people arrive by car and park in the lot in front of the museum. We belonged to those lucky people who arrived with a private plane, which involved walking out of the airfield, crossing a road and entering the large site of the Technik Museum.
If you're into vintage planes this place will drive you nuts
An Aeroflot branded helicopter and an Antonov just behind it, both of which you could climb up to visit
A Tschaika car inside one of the aircraft
There is enough in this huge exhibition to keep men and children occupied for hours and excited for days afterwards. The site consists of two cavernous hangars, the first of which contained a sprawling collection of vintage cars and racing models, as well as train locomotives and oddities such as devices that produce carnival music and an organ that plays itself. The other hangar had a number of cars and motorcycles too, but the highlight was the area dedicated to space exploration, including the Apollo missions. There was even a Russian space shuttle, Buran, that you could climb up into and visit.
Interior of the Antonov shown in one of the photos above
Bizarre cockpit in the Antonov aircraft; the Russians liked things sideways!
Back in one of the hangars is a piano that can play itself; that would be a dream at this moment right now
Outdoors, there was a Lufthansa Viscount Vickers 814 you could climb up and visit. But the highlight was a Lufthansa Boeing 747 which looked like it had been taken out of service around 2003, judging by the flight timetables lying around - there's just a chance that I had sat on this plane at some point in the past. There were plenty of older aircraft, including an Air Inter plane, a Russian helicopter with Aeroflot written on it, as well as a huge Antonov machine. There were also submarines and boots scattered around the grounds.
You can climb up and visit this Lufthansa Boeing 747
There was also a recovered Air Inter plane, a curious memory from the past
Thought I'd better throw in just one selfie for this whole trip report
Good view from the wing of the Lufthansa 747
Between the two hangars there was a self service restaurant, a bit like a school cantine, which was ok but at the lower end of quality. Drinks were expensive, as usual. There was also an IMAX cinema where you could watch documentaries on all the stuff in the museum, but that cost extra. Lastly, the ticket was also valid for the Museum Wilhelmsbau, showcasing smaller objects, weapons and uniforms. We didn't have time to visit it because we had to get back to the airfield and prepare for the flight back to Mönchengladbach, with the risk that MGL would be closed before we could get back.
https://speyer.technik-museum.de/de/ausstellung
In the last hangar was a Russian space shuttle!
There was even an absorbing space flight exhibition
Looking down from the space shuttle there was even an old Junkers plane
Lastly, just before leaving, a quick visit to the Lufthansa Viscount Vickers mentioned earlier