The MVG Museum of the

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is a public

transportation museum A transport museum is a museum that holds collections of transport items, which are often limited to land transport (road and rail)—including old cars, motorcycles, trucks, trains, trams/streetcars, buses, trolleybuses and coaches—but can als ...

for the presentation of historical and modern public transportation in

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. In an area of over are around 25 historical

trams A tram (called a streetcar or trolley in North America) is a rail vehicle that travels on tramway tracks on public urban streets; some include segments on segregated right-of-way. The tramlines or networks operated as public transport are ...

bus A bus (contracted from omnibus, with variants multibus, motorbus, autobus, etc.) is a road vehicle that carries significantly more passengers than an average car or van. It is most commonly used in public transport, but is also in use for cha ...

es and work vehicles on exhibit. The streetcars are arranged on two tracks leading through the entire hall. The "CVs" are also displayed for each vehicle. In addition, the museum present more than 150 billboards and other exhibits, such as a subway

simulator A simulation is the imitation of the operation of a real-world process or system over time. Simulations require the use of models; the model represents the key characteristics or behaviors of the selected system or process, whereas the s ...

in an original car from the 1980s, several tramway driving switches, historical paintings, a small cinema and a

model railroad Railway modelling (UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland) or model railroading (US and Canada) is a hobby in which rail transport systems are modelled at a reduced scale. The scale models include locomotives, rolling stock, streetcars, t ...

exhibition. The MVG-Museum is located in a part of the historically protected Ausbesserungswerk at

Ständlerstraße The Ständlerstraße is a 3.5 km long street in the south of Munich. It is a part of the exterior ring planned in earlier years. It runs from the Stadelheimer Straße, the corner of Schwanseestraße in Giesing, crosses the A8, is crossed by the c ...

20 in

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. It was opened on 28 October 2007. The museum is open to the public two Sundays each month.

Events

The Main building and the large hall of the museum also serve as an event location. In addition to all the well-known events held in the MVG Museum in Munich, Braukunst Live! has been held there since 2012.

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Homepage MVG Museum

Homepage Omnibus-Club München e.V.
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