Porsche Museum opens 100 million

Office of Italian architecture, Delugan Meissl, designed site that will house 80 vehicles and event areas
Rafael Frank

Porsche, German car maker, will open the doors of his museum of 100 million euros on January 31. The angular shapes of the project are the responsibility of the Italian office of architecture Delugan Meissl.

Porsche decided to build a new museum in 2004 in the German city of Stuttgart (Germany). The project Delugan Meissl was chosen from among 170 proposals from all over Europe, and construction began in 2005. The Museum will display 80 vehicles of the brand and about 200 items of historical company.The site also has a café, restaurant, shopping and events that should be used to present the news from GM. A Porshe estimates that the site will attract 200 thousand visitors per year.

Classic cars will be exposed as the 356 Spyder, the protagonist in the accident Faltal with actor James Dean in 1955, and the latest generation of Porsche 911 Carrera. There will also be models Type 64 (1939), 911 Original and Coupé 2.0 (1968).

Other automakers have performed their own museums such as the BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) in 2007, when he inaugurated a building? 250 million designed by Coop Himmelblau (l) au. The site is also a center for delivery of vehicles for customers and a visitor center to the factory. The architectural firm UN Studio has built a museum in the shape of clover for the brand Mercedes-Benz, Daimler AG, opened the museum, designed by UN Studio office in 2006.