Porsche Museum

[ettore]

In Stuttgart this week on business and have an afternoon to kill. Anyone know how far the new Porsche Museum is from the airport?

[blueSL]

Stuttgart airport is to the south of the city; the Porsche Museum is in Zuffenhausen which is an industrial area to the north. That said, Stuttgart is not a huge city, there's a good ring road; if you are hiring a car, take a Tom Tom with you, or else you can easily get a taxi or there's a train station right by the museum.

The museum is great, well worth going to visit; if you have time, the Mercedes museum just outside their plant in Untertuerkheim, another industrial area, is equally good.

[SFO]

Porsche Museum is also on the Stuttgart's tube equivalent.

Fantastic place. Much better designed and laid out that the Merc museum.

If you do go, please can you buy something from the Porsche Museum for me ..

See this thread:
http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/xforums/topic.asp?h=0...

[williamp]

Both very good, but I'd say Mercedes museum of the two. But the Porsche one is opposite the railway station- and you'll be surrounded by the factory when you go

[Ray Singh]

Dont make the mistake i did.
I had a course in Ulm and flew into Stuttgart. Had a half day spare before picking up the hire car for the blast down to Ulm.

Got into a cab and asked him to take me to the Porsche museum (old one then). Little did i know it was on the otherside of the city.

Cab fare one way was 80 Euros. Gulp....

[ettore]

Ray Singh said:

Dont make the mistake i did.
I had a course in Ulm and flew into Stuttgart. Had a half day spare before picking up the hire car for the blast down to Ulm.

Got into a cab and asked him to take me to the Porsche museum (old one then). Little did i know it was on the otherside of the city.

Cab fare one way was 80 Euros. Gulp....

Will be cabbing it - so, to be clear, its an 80 Euro cab ride from the airport?

[blueSL]

Sounds about right.

Depends on where you're staying but a cheaper alternative from the airport is to take the train to the Hauptbahnhof (main station) directly from the airport and then the S6 line to Neuwirtshaus which is right next to the museum.

[blueSL]

Ray Singh said:

Got into a cab and asked him to take me to the Porsche museum (old one then). Little did i know it was on the otherside of the city.

Cab fare one way was 80 Euros. Gulp....

I can imagine you felt short-changed. The old museum was little more than a shed stuffed with cars. The new museum is in a completely different league.

As for Mercedes vs Porsche, the Mercedes museum presents Mercedes cars against a hsitorical timeline all the way through the 20th century; different from the Porsche museum which displays the cars more in isolation. Both fantastic museums.

[ettore]

blueSL said:

Sounds about right.

Depends on where you're staying but a cheaper alternative from the airport is to take the train to the Hauptbahnhof (main station) directly from the airport and then the S6 line to Neuwirtshaus which is right next to the museum.

Thanks, need to go and catch a flight directly afterwards though so the distance may put an end to it!