The Unimog Museum
in Gaggenau in the Black Forest, Germany
Experience a declaration of love for the Unimog!
Go on a journey through time and find out how world history has affected the Unimog. What connects the Unimog with Hollywood and why the Unimog is superior to an elephant. Even Elvis and Franz Beckenbauer are part of the show. With attractions for the whole family – with vehicles from seven decades.
Experience the fascination of the Unimog in the truest sense of the word on the outdoor course. During opening hours, you can take a ride in the Unimog over hill and dale. 100% gradient, 70% slope and 20 degrees incline – in other words, a museum experience of a special kind.
The Unimog was built in Gaggenau for over 50 years. That is why the Unimog Museum has a very special relationship with this town. In the Unimog Museum, the exciting industrial history of the Murg Valley is told in changing chapters in special exhibitions during the winter months.
Further information can be found here on the homepage of the Unimog Museum!
A visit to the new Unimog Museum is worthwhile: NOW DOUBLY AS GOOD AS BEFORE
Pictures & text: Markus Jordan, MBpassion.de
After almost two years of construction, the Unimog Museum in Gaggenau opened its doors on the last weekend of January, doubling its exhibition space thanks to an extension. The new building, which cost millions, is directly adjacent to the existing building and displays the exhibition “The best of the Unimog Museum”.
MORE EXHIBITION SPACE FOR UNIMOG HISTORY
The Unimog Museum in Gaggenau is a success story and has already welcomed over half a million visitors since it opened in 2006. There has always been more to see and marvel at than there was room for. An extension has now been added to the existing building with a second exhibition hall plus event room, for which around 4.3 million euros have been invested. The costs of the conversion have increased by around half a million euros more than originally planned. The construction of the museum was financed by donations and financial contributions from the town of Gaggenau and the district of Rastatt.
SPECIAL EXHIBITION SHOWS THE BEST OF THE UNIMOG MUSEUM
The new hall building is around ten meters high and expands the exhibition space to currently around 1,100 square meters. There is also additional space on a gallery. At the opening of the Unimog, almost all model series of the Unimog and the MB-trac tractor from various application areas are currently on display. The museum displays exhibits from donations and private permanent loans.
Highlights of the exhibition include the “U6” prototype built in 1948, an originally restored Boehringer Unimog with the number 70200/00221 from 1950 and a Unimog 416a with bus body.
In addition to the exhibits, the vehicles are now displayed on new digital exhibit steles provided to the museum by the Gaggenau Unimog Club. Visitors can click directly on the specific vehicle and model series, right through to photos and films with application examples. As two vehicles or units always share a stele, there are currently 30 of them in the museum. In addition, multimedia guides in several languages and a dedicated app are available to guide visitors through the exhibition.
Parallel to the opening of the new building, the existing exhibition area of the Unimog Museum was redesigned and equipped with new exhibits. Visitors can sit behind the wheel of the Unimog themselves in two cabs and get a feel for what it was and is like to use a Unimog as a working machine.
PERMANENT EXHIBITION ABOUT AUTOMOBILE CONSTRUCTION IN GAGGENAU
The presentation of the “MB-trac” models, where five instead of two of these extraordinary vehicles are now on show, is also of particular importance. The highlight is the MB-trac 1800 intercooler, the last “flagship” from Gaggenau production. The exhibition is complemented by a permanent exhibition of five classic vehicles relating to automobile construction in Gaggenau from 1894 to the present day.