Porsche museum Stuttgart, any tips for my visit?
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Planning on spending 2 days (1 night) flying into Stuttgart for late morning on day 1 and flying back in the evening on day 2, using train from airport to Stuttgart.
Plan will be to combine with M.B museum, however the Porsche museum will be the main event.
In the evening I intend to enjoy a few steins and trad German supper, planning to stay relatively close to railway station/city centre.
Anyone done something similar and any advice to make most of short break?
I briefly considered driving the 996 over but quickly decided it was more convenient to fly!
Cheers Jack
Plan will be to combine with M.B museum, however the Porsche museum will be the main event.
In the evening I intend to enjoy a few steins and trad German supper, planning to stay relatively close to railway station/city centre.
Anyone done something similar and any advice to make most of short break?
I briefly considered driving the 996 over but quickly decided it was more convenient to fly!
Cheers Jack
MB museum slightly wider spread of vehicles so maybe more interesting for some but Porsche Museum full of fabulous stuff. I think the factory tours are booked quite a way in advance so best to ask before you go.
Great day out though, I've been twice to both museums, combining Porsche factory tour 2 years ago and then a previous factory tour some 30 years ago, a few changes were noticed....
Enjoy your visit!
Great day out though, I've been twice to both museums, combining Porsche factory tour 2 years ago and then a previous factory tour some 30 years ago, a few changes were noticed....
Enjoy your visit!
S-Bahn is very easy to use and cheap. The Porsche museum and factory is right on the station.
Get on the factory tour - must be pre-booked.
The musuem and factory tour is closed on Monday's
The Porsche showroom across the road is really good with lots of cars new and old to see.
The museum shop is expensive.
Get on the factory tour - must be pre-booked.
The musuem and factory tour is closed on Monday's
The Porsche showroom across the road is really good with lots of cars new and old to see.
The museum shop is expensive.
Spent a fortnight in Baden-Wurttemberg over Christmas and New year this year, and spent a few days in Stuttgart. Did both Mercedes-Benz and Porsche museums in 2 days. Didn't rate the Porsche half as much as Mercedes sadly. Porsche was one and dusted in 2 hours or there abouts. Mercedes we were there for 7 hours including lunch and had to almost rush through it. Mercedes have put an untold amount into the museum and it shows. Having said that I also loved Audi in Ingolstadt when I went in 2017 and Volkswagen in Wolfsburg in 2015. 2 Days is not time at all. I now only ever go to Germany for a minimum of 10 days as there is so much to see and do.
Local resident here. Been to both museums numerous times with visiting guests.
The cars on display at the Porsche museum are stunning, however the actual museum is relatively small. Even if you read everything there is to read and look at each car for several minutes I think you struggle to spend more than one to two hours in there.
The Mercedes museum is a totally different scale. You could probably rush through in a couple of hours but if you take it all in by looking, reading and listening to everything that you can I suspect you’d easily take four hours. It is really well presented and cleverly combines their cars and world history.
Both museums are closed on Mondays.
I’ve nothing against Stuttgart but I don’t think that it is the amazing city that some on here have said. It is actually relatively small for a major city and due to the war it is mostly made up of post-war ugly concrete buildings.
The cars on display at the Porsche museum are stunning, however the actual museum is relatively small. Even if you read everything there is to read and look at each car for several minutes I think you struggle to spend more than one to two hours in there.
The Mercedes museum is a totally different scale. You could probably rush through in a couple of hours but if you take it all in by looking, reading and listening to everything that you can I suspect you’d easily take four hours. It is really well presented and cleverly combines their cars and world history.
Both museums are closed on Mondays.
I’ve nothing against Stuttgart but I don’t think that it is the amazing city that some on here have said. It is actually relatively small for a major city and due to the war it is mostly made up of post-war ugly concrete buildings.
I've been considering doing this during the first week of August. I'm looking at driving my 996 over not least to put some miles on it as frankly I was embarrassed to see I'd only done 1,000 since last September!
What's Stuttgart like for a non-German speaker? My two years of learning German a couple of hours a week in 1996 and 2002 haven't served me well.
What's Stuttgart like for a non-German speaker? My two years of learning German a couple of hours a week in 1996 and 2002 haven't served me well.
Be mindful that if your drive into a German city centre you may well need a sticker showing the car's emission class. See https://urbanaccessregulations.eu/countries-mainme... Easy and cheap to get if you apply 1 to 2 weeks in advance. If you don't have a sticker and get spotted you will be fined.
Engelberger said:
You should drive the 996. I did. Stuttgart is a great city. Delay the visit until late November and not only do you have two great car museums to visit but also have one of Germanys best xmas markets.
This ^^^ I took the long way down but on the way back I drove it (via a 45 minute quick look at the Ring) back to Worcestershire in the day ...... indicated 160mph in the 993 on the autobahn and still accelerating until I lost my nerve and dropped to a leisurely cruise at 120 
Took around 12 - 13 hours if memory serves and that included the ferry, oh and 2x security searches either side of the channel
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