STUTTGART: You can't go out but you can still admire Mercedes-Benz vehicles and its rich history from afar at the Mercedes-Benz Museum which houses 160 vehicles and a total of 1,500 exhibits in a building thanks to digital formats.
A tour through the 16,500 square metres of the exhibition can stretch up to five kilometres. On the Museum’s website it only takes a few clicks to compile an experience to suit individual wishes.
The website provides information and 360-degree shots of all seven Legend and five Collection rooms with their vehicles here.
Every visit to the Museum is a unique experience. A web series focuses on this perspective and documents tours with various protagonists.
These include Jutta Benz, who has a special connection to the Museum since she is the great-granddaughter of the inventor of the automobile Carl Benz and his wife Bertha.
Or Bernd Mayländer, who has been driving the safety car in Formula 1 for twenty years.
The series continues with Dr Ulrike Groos, Director of the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (Stuttgart Art Museum), Gorden Wagener, Daimler AG’s Chief Design Officer, and Benedikt Weiler, curator of the Mercedes-Benz Museum.
The guides at the Mercedes-Benz Museum have countless stories to tell about the exhibits of the permanent exhibition and the architecture.
They share their enthusiasm and astonishing facts with visitors on tours onsite and on Instagram.
There are stories about the highlights of the permanent exhibition as well as about the current special exhibition “40 years Mercedes-Benz G-Class” with fascinating facts about the legendary cross-country vehicle.
Additional interactive tours on the Museum’s Instagram channel @mercedesbenzmuseum are planned.
On his discovery tour through the Museum, successful YouTuber Shmee150 presents five little-known facts about Mercedes-Benz and the predecessor brands in 180-degree virtual reality format. Viewers can also look around the museum themselves by means of the mouse pointer or by moving their smartphone.
For those wishing to spend more time, an entire tour is available which shows the Mercedes-Benz Museum by night. The film was made in the course of the event “Night at the Museum” with bloggers and influencers who were permitted to stay inside the Museum overnight.
