EXTRA ACTIVITIES

PORSCHE MUSEUM

SPECIAL EXHIBITION
From December 8th, 2009 to February 28th, 2010

“Panamera Moment” at Porsche Museum

For the first time the Porsch Museum shows the new fourth model series Panamera. Beside the presentation of the latest Panamera we also explain the design as well as the technology of the new four-door Gran Turismo. The special “Panamera Moment” exhibition presents the innovations of the four-door Gran Turismo i.e. via a sophisticated cutaway model. We would like to invite you to experience particular moments: We present spectacular pictures of the well-known automobile photographer Frank M. Orel. The Stuttgart photographic artist has shown the Panamera in both unusual and unexpected situations. The scope of the images ranges from world premiere in Shanghai to Elmau, Bavaria, or from an aircraft hangar to a dry dock.

www.porsche.com/international/aboutporsche/porschemuseum/theexhibition/

MERCEDES-BENZ MUSEUM

More than 120 years of innovative automobile history is displayed here on the three floors. You can see the first automobiles in the world by Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler, of course the first Mercedes ans a further 80 milestones which make up the myth of Mercedes. Detailed information is offered to you at the entrance with an audio guide system which you can receive free of charge in 5 languages.
Among other things, you can see important racing car like the “Blitzen Benz” with which Bob Burman set a sensational world record with 228km/h in 1911 at Daytona Beach. You will find limousines and sports cars from the twenties and thirties. Prestige and performance, luxury and comfort characterize the vehicles from this period. Examples are the emperor’s car and the compressor sports car with the 500 K special roadster as a highlight. Also observe the 260 D, the first serial diesel car in the world and the 170 V, the most sold Mercedes Benz before the war.

www.stuttgart-tourist.de/ENG/leisure/mercedesbenzmuseum.htm

STATE GALLERY ( STAATSGALERIE)

Old State Galerie

The State Gallery of Stuttgart, built in the years 1838 – 1843 under King Wilhelm I of Wuerttemberg, has been one of the most visited German museums, especially since the opening of the world famous expansion from the British star architect James Stirling in the year 1984. The classicist building from the 19th century, the Old State Gallery, is home to the works from the 14th to the 19th century as well as the graphic collection with its extensive inventory of drawings, water paintings, collages, printed graphics, illustrated books, posters and photographs. Originating from the collection of the Wuerttemberg ducal house, excellent paintings, for example by Jerg Ratgeb, Canaletto, Memling and Rembrandt, today are the center pieces in the individual departments of the old masters. The department of the 19th century contains in addition to the special collection field “Swabian Classicism” exemplary works of the most important artistic movements of the time from the pre-Pre-Raphaelites up to Symbolism, from Romanticism to Impressionism.

New State Gallery
Connected to the old museum on the gallery level, the expansion by James Stirling, The New State Gallery,  is dedicated to the art of the 20th century. Since the end of the Second World War the emphasis of the collection of the State Gallery is in the classical modernism and the contemporary painting and sculpture. The concentration on important groups of works of the differing stylistic movements (”Fauves”, “Brücke”, “blauer Reiter”, “Cubism”) as well as the excellent works complexes of individual artists (Picasso, Beckmann, Schlemmer, Beuys, Kiefer) establish the international reputation of the house.

Archives
The Oskar Schlemmer Archive, Archive Will Grohmann, Adolf Hölzel – The art theoretical inheritance and the Archive Sohm, the world’s largest documentation of among other things Happening und Fluxus, make it possible to study special areas of art of the 20th century (registration: +49 (711) 4 70 40 – 254)

www.stuttgart-tourist.de/ENG/leisure/staatsgalerie.htm

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