One of the greatest and most spectacular building projects in the history of Dr. Ing. h.c. F.
Porsche AG was completed in December 2008: the new Porsche Museum in Stuttgart-Zuffen -
hausen. Located directly in the very heart of this unique sports car company so rich in tra -
dition, the Museum serves to present the fascinating thrill and diversity of the Porsche brand
to visitors from all over the world.
More than 80 cars are on display in the 5,600 square metre (60,250 square feet) Exhibition
Area styled and designed futuristically by the Viennese architects Delugan Meissl, ranging
from the legendary wheel hub motor of the Lohner-Porsche, the world’s first hybrid automobile
built as far back as in 1900, all the way to the latest generation of the Porsche 911.
No less than 170 architects from all over Europe applied for the project before the architects
of the Delugan Meissl office won the tender in February 2005. Construction work at Porsche -
platz in Zuffenhausen started just half a year later and in November 2007 the body of the
Exhibition Building was lowered on to three concrete cores, the first exhibits moving into the
Exhibition Area not even one year later. On 8 December 2008, finally, the Museum was han -
ded over to Porsche exactly on time.
Porsche expects more than 200,000 visitors to the Museum each year, so-called Theme
Islands and numerous small exhibits seeking to present the “Porsche Idea” in all its complexity.
Apart from the exhibition itself, the historical archives and the “transparent” workshop for
historical cars, the Museum offers a wide range of catering services complete with a coffee
bar, a bistro and an exclusive restaurant, as well as generous conference areas finished mainly
in white, the fundamental colour of the Museum.
The new Porsche Museum is also available as an event location for other purposes, for
example for conferences, film screenings or concerts, quite independently of the usual ex -
hibition activities.
The new building at Porscheplatz is located at a very important place in the history of Ger -
man automobile production, since this is where the Porsche Design Office moved to from
downtown Stuttgart to Plant 1 in Zuffenhausen back in 1938. In the same year the forerunners
of the VW Beetle saw the light of day precisely here at this location, followed by the Type 64
Porsche as the ancestor of all Porsche sports cars, the legendary Berlin-Rome car, in 1939.
Sports cars proudly bearing the now world-famous Porsche logo have been built here in
Zuffenhausen ever since 1950.