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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 .
In 1998, Autostadt broke ground on the former site of a fuel company bordering Volkswagen's Wolfsburg production plant. Like the adjacent car plant, the site of Autostadt is on the north bank of the Mittelland Canal. The resulting complex is the work of more than 400 architects, created as a new urban center, close to downtown Wolfsburg.
The striking Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles pavilion is in the south-east of the park. The Autostadt also includes a planetarium, a Ritz-Carlton hotel, the Phaeno Science Center, the largest hands-on science museum in Germany, a water skiing resort, and a private art museum (Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg) specialising in modern and contemporary art.
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
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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