At a very special event on Wednesday in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen, Germany, Porsche officially declared the opening of its new Museum and while it doesn’t officially open to the public until January 31, the people at Porsche expect to see upwards of at least 200,000 visitors to the Museum each year.

The modern building occupies nearly 5,600 square meters of exhibition space, providing room for approximately 80 historic vehicles and more than 200 exhibits from the company’s history. Conference areas will also be available for events, including access to what looks to be a quite impressive roof terrace. For those with a discriminating taste for their food as well as their automobiles, exclusive restaurant Christophorus is also on site.  The museum will also host the entire historical spectrum of the sports car manufacturer in one location with its Historical Archive. Also on display will be expert technicians who will be working in a transparent museum workshop, ensuring that the exhibition vehicles, and the historic vehicles of customers, are kept in impeccable condition.

On hand to usher in the new museum were quite an impressive list of dignitaries and special guests, including Dr. Wendelin Wiedeking, Chairman of the Board of Porsche AG, State Parliament President Peter Straub, the Prime Minister of Baden-Wurttemberg Gunther Oettinger, Interior Minister Heribert Rech, the Lord Mayor of Stuttgart Dr. Wolfgang Schuster, and members of the Porsche and Piech families as well as an additional 200 invited guests.

During his remarks at the ceremony, Dr. Wolfgang Porsche, who Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Porsche AG, emphasized the task of the sports car manufacturer to always remember the founding personalities of the company and to keep the spirit of their work alive:

“My grandfather and my father were passionate automobile pioneers, engineers, and entrepreneurs. Their life’s work and everything that their successors successfully made of this and further developed from it, is documented here.”

Because I’m curious – and because I wanted to see how big the headquarters actually is - I used Google Earth to have a look and darn – there’s really nothing to see, but here’s the link if you’d like to check it out yourself, you know, in case you might be planning a trip to see the museum this summer. By the way, if you go, remember to send me a postcard.

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