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The idea for Autostadt was started in 1994 when the concept of documenting the stages of production of Volkswagen vehicles and how the company's operations were showcased at Expo 2000 in Hanover, Germany. In 1998, Autostadt, which is German for "Automobile City", broke ground on the former site of a fuel company bordering Volkswagen's Wolfsburg ...
The Städtische Galerie (Municipal Gallery), located in the Schloss Wolfsburg, shows multifarious pieces of contemporary art. The AutoMuseum Volkswagen was opened in an old textile factory in Heßlingen in 1985. The Stadtmuseum Wolfsburg (City Museum) is a modern museum with an exhibition about the history of the castle, the region and the city ...
1967 Volkswagen Prototype for a Beetle successor (EA235) on display in the Volkswagen museum in Wolfsburg AutoMuseum Volkswagen is an automobile museum in Wolfsburg , Lower Saxony, Germany. Opened in April 1985, [ 1 ] it is one of two museums in Wolfsburg devoted to the history of the Volkswagen brand; the other is at nearby Autostadt .
The Wolfsburg Volkswagen Plant is the worldwide headquarters of the Volkswagen Group. [1] Situated in Wolfsburg, Germany, it is one of the largest manufacturing plants in the world, with an area of just under 6.5 million m 2 (70 million sq ft) and a building area of 1.6 million m 2 (17 million sq ft). [2] In 2015 the plant produced 815,000 cars.
Volkswagen’s management is expected to lay out its plans before about 18,000 workers at a town hall meeting in Wolfsburg on Wednesday morning, amid speculation that the carmaker could push to ...
The last time Fortune visited Volkswagen’s massive German auto plants, in early 2022, just that kind of “speedboat” had roared up: Tesla. Elon Musk’s spectacular growth in EV sales had ...
In 1998 City officials were developing a plot of vacant, public land immediately adjacent to Wolfsburg's railway station and just south of VW's huge, then-unfinished attraction Autostadt. An art museum was planned for the site, but Dr. Wolfgang Guthardt, then the City's Director for Culture, Sports and Education, knew that such an institution ...
An automotive museum is a museum that explores the history of automotive-related transportation. Bold – museums owned by automotive manufacturers Italics – no longer open to public access, excluding private or invitation-only collections that were never intended for public access