The region of Stuttgart is one of the key car manufacturing areas of Germany. Thus, it has been not too surprising that I visited some places related to these vehicles, when I visited the city in January 2022. The first car museum on my list has in fact been the Porsche Museum. Here is the experience of my visit.
Porsche Museum – Location & Admission
The Porsche Museum is located right at the Porsche Factory Grounds in the Stuttgart borough of Zuffenhausen. As a tourist, the most convenient way to get to the museum is the S-Bahn commuter train, which is stopping right next of the museum. The station is called Neuwirtshaus (Porscheplatz), which is served by the S6 and S60 line. The museum also has a parking garage if you bring your Porsche to its home grounds. The area is rather a commercial area, so that there are not too many other places relevant for tourists around.
The museum is closed on Monday. On all other days, you can visit the museum between 9:00 and 18:00 hrs. I would at least plan for a two hour visit. If you are a car buff, better add an hour in your planning for a relaxed visit. Adult admission is 10 Euro. There are a couple of discounts, e.g. if you have a day ticket for local transport or (surprisingly) if you have visited the Mercedes-Benz Museum before.
Porsche Museum – The Visit
For my visit, I did not opt for the audio / multimedia guide. It is for free and really seems to add value – I just have seen too many bad one in other museums. There is information about all cars and items in display in German and English, most interactive parts of your visit are bilingual as well. Your visit is majorly chronological and start with the very first Porsche models. In addition, there are special displays about Porsche ideas. The first one you visit, for example, is about Lightness, later you run into other (out of nine) attributes like Strength, Passionate or Consistency, which represent the brand.
The first section of your visit is about Porsche before 1949. Interesting to see that Porsche at its very beginning developed electric cars (diesel-electric, of course). There are some really interesting models and I spend quite a lot of time in this first section. One of my favorites has been a virtual reality station, which allowed you to understand how cars have been built during that era. The section also topics Porsche’s role especially in WW2, where the company also was part of the German tank development, for example.
Porsche Over The Decades
Starting with the 1950’s, the sections of the major parts of the museum is structured in decades. However, very often cars are also arranged by certain topics. For example, there is a large section of Porsche racing cars. I especially loved exotic Porsche cars like tractors or Rallye cars. People who are into technology might be impressed by the 1,100 hp engine in display.
Of course, Porsche’s motor sports history is a big topic. Not too surprisingly, there are also Porsche Formula One cars. Numerous other racing series are represented as well. A display of several cups and medals won by Porsche is one of the most impressive exhibits of the visit. If you like but also numerous other. A really model of Sally Carrera of the Pixar Cars movie, which represents a Porsche 911 Carrera. I also loved to see the Porsche police car, which has been given to Baden-Württemberg state by the company for motorway services.
An Interactive Finish
The last part of your visit is very interactive. For example, you can compare the sound of different Porsche engines at ignition or create a music soundtrack out of different car sounds (inkl. blinker sounds and similar stuff). There is also a racing simulator, where you can explore the Porsche power on a racetrack without risking to have a bad time with your insurance company. I also loved that you are allowed to sit in a Porsche convertible and take photos at the very end of your visit – you easily pay 15 to 20 Euro for that one only if you visit other places like the Enzo Ferrari House Museum Modena.
50 Years of Porsche Design Exhibition
In addition to the permanent exhibition, there was also a temporary one illustrating 50 years of Porsche Design. Interesting to see that the company did not only to the rather well-known apparel and watches, but also rather exotic stuff like pipes and toasters.
Porsche Museum – Services
There is a cafe bar and a self-service restaurant in the lobby of the museum. The cafe bar was closed due to Covid-19 restrictions and a rather low visiting level. If you want to grab some souvenirs, there is of course a souvenir store in the same area as well.
Right across the road, located in a Porsche dealer and maintenance shop, there is also the opportunity to purchase Porsche Collection items in a dedicated shop. Porsche is also driving a car rental for Porsche cars, which I felt to be comparably fair-priced (at least keeping the ridiculous prices for driving a Ferrari in Maranello in mind).
Porsche Museum – My View
The Porsche Museum has been a great visit. The value for money is amazing (I finally paid 6 Euro as I had a day ticket for local transport), the staff was super-friendly and always willing to help. I also liked the presentation including some exotic models of the Porsche brand history. If you like cars in any way, this is a great place to visit in South-West Germany, for sure.
German Technical Museums
Here are all Technical Museum postings about places related to Germany:

German Rail Museum (DB Museum) Nuremberg

Phänomenta Lüdenscheid

BMW Museum Munich

German Röntgen Museum Remscheid

Rickmer Rickmers Museum Ship Hamburg

LWL Open Air Museum Hagen

Berlin Computer Games Museum

Deutsches Museum Traffic Center (Verkehrszentrum)

Automobile & Toy Museum North Sea (Norden, Germany)

Erwin Hymer Museum

Lokwelt Freilassing

German Spy Museum Berlin

Auto & Traktor Museum Bodensee (Lake Constance)

German Oil Museum Wietze

Automuseum Wolfegg (Wolfegg Car Museum)

ESO Supernova Munich – Garching

German Movie Museum Frankfurt

Cap San Diego Museum Ship Hamburg

A Walk Through Zeche Zollverein (Pictured Story – Essen, Germany)

Zeppelin Museum Zeppelinheim

Siku & Audi-Museum Höing (Stadtlohn, Germany)

Georg Breusing Rescue Cruiser Emden

Museum Prototyp Hamburg

German Architecture Museum (Frankfurt)

Deutsches Museum Bonn

Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen

Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg

Dornier Museum Friedrichshafen

Zeppelin Museum Meersburg

Arithmeum Bonn – A Museum about Calculations

Flugausstellung Peter Junior (Hermeskeil)

Alte Dombach Paper Mill

Speyer Technology Museum

Ratingen-Cromford Textile Factory

Deutsches Museum – Flugwerft Schleissheim

A Day at Sinsheim Technology Museum
Hard Rock & Metal Album Reviews on Flyctory.com
Here are all Media Reviews of the Hard Rock and Metal genres:

Bjorko – Heartrot

Pridian – Cybergnosis EP

Paradogmata – Endetid

Maelfoy – Failures, Fears and Forgiveness

Palehorse – Hunting Grounds

Cabrakaän – Aztlan

Dogma – Dogma

Wayfarer – American Gothic

Doro – Conqueress – Forever Strong and Proud

Angelus Apatrida – Aftermath

Beartooth – The Surface

Atena – Subway Anthem

Rising Wings – Reach

Manntra – War of the Heathens

Danko Jones – Electric Sounds

Marduk – Memento Mori

Alice Cooper – Road

Sleazy – Back on Track

Atreyu – The Moment You Find Your Flame EP

Uncaved – Dogmatorraistes

Mammoth WVH – Mammoth II

Somnuri – Desiderium

Later Sons – Rise Up

1476 – In Exile

Mental Cruelty – Zwielicht

Green Labyrinth – Sequences

Ayron Jones – Chronicles Of The Kid

Saturnus – The Storm Within

Extreme – Six

Ray Alder – II

Omnium Gatherum – Slasher EP

Oryad – Sacred & Profane

Marathonmann – Maniac

Moor – Heavy Heart

Enforced – War Remains

Storm Seeker – Nautic Force

As Everything Unfolds – Ultraviolet

Texas Hippie Coalition – The Name Lives On

Grand Design – Rawk

Vass / Katsionis – Cynical Silence

Tribulation – Hamartia EP

Lordi – Screem Writers Guild

Black Hawk – Soulkeeper

Night Demon – Outsider

Bad Bones – Hasta El Final!

John Diva & The Rockets of Love – The Big Easy

Suicide Silence – Remember… You Must Die

Endlevel – Weekend War

Steel Panther – On The Prowl

Tanzwut – Silberne Hochzeit

Those Damn Crows – Inhale/Exhale

Dark Sarah – Attack of Orym

Pristine – The Lines We Cross

Black Star Riders – Wrong Side of Paradise

Shaam Larein – Stick En Kniv I Världen

Sündflut – Basta! EP

Amberian Dawn – Take a Chance (A Metal Tribute To ABBA)

Induction – Born from Fire

Hostage – Memento Mori

Avantasia – A Paranormal Evening With The Moonflower Society

Alter Bridge – Pawns And Kings

Orianthi – Rock Candy

Sleeping Romance – We All Are Shadows

Magical Heart – Heartsonic

Monster Truck – Warriors

Slipknot – The End, So Far

Silent Knight – Full Force

I Am – Eternal Steel

Blind Guardian – The God Machine

Fire Horse – Out of the Ashes

Megadeth – The Sick, The Dying… and The Dead!

Lugnet – Tales From The Great Beyond

Bad Baron – Ace of Hearts

Thundermother – Black And Gold

Versus Goliath – Liebe & Chaos

Manntra – Kreatura

Amon Amarth – The Great Heathen Army

H.E.A.T. – Force Majeure

Heischneida – Heischneida II

Traitor – Exiled To The Surface

Breathe Your Last – Apocalypse

RXPTRS – Living Without Death’s Permission

April Art – P.O.K.E.R.F.A.C.E.

Motionless In White – Scoring The End Of The World

Def Leppard – Diamond Star Halos

Wucan – Heretic Tongues

Shameless – So Good, You Should….

Famyne – II: The Ground Below

J.B.O. – Planet Pink

Silver Dust – Lullabies

Axel Rudi Pell – Lost XXIII

DeVicious – Black Heart

Askara – Lights Of Night

Papa Roach – Ego Trip

Joe Satriani – The Elephants of Mars

Disconnected – We Are Disconnected

Circle of Friends – The Garden

Paleface – Fear & Dagger

Der To – Hand aufs Herz

Sunrunner – Sacred Arts of Navigation

Messa – Close

Crowbar – Zero and Below

Gutrectomy – Manifestation Of Human Suffering

Thunderor – Fire It Up

Corey Taylor – CMFB… Sides EP

Matt Pike – Pike vs the Automaton

Ard – Take Up My Bones

Goodbye June – See Where The Night Goes

Once Human – Scar Weaver

Slash feat. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators – 4

Rolo Tomassi – Where Myth Becomes Memory

Saxon – Carpe Diem

Validor – Full Triumphed

The Sleeper – Radiant

Herman Rarebell & The Hurricane Orchestra – Scorpion’s Songs Symphonic

Claus Trophobia – Space Rock Voodoo

Great American Ghost – Torture World EP

Magnum – The Monster Roars

Skillet – Dominion

Tristan Harders’ Twilight Theatre – Drifting Into Insanity

Fuer den Faehrmann – Blutmond EP

Volbeat – Servant Of The Mind

Hämatom – Die Liebe ist Tot

Lordi – Lordiversity (Full Box Review)

Lordi – Spooky Sextravaganza Spectacular (from: Lordiversity)

Lordi – Abracadaver (from: Lordiversity)

Lordi – Humanimals (from: Lordiversity)

Lordi – Abusement Park (from: Lordiversity)

Lordi – The Masterbeast From The Moon (from: Lordiversity)

Lordi – SuperFlyTrap (from: Lordiversity)

Lordi – Skelectric Dinosaur (from: Lordiversity)

Navian – Cosmos

Running Wild – Blood on Blood

Hulkoff – Ragnarök

Bodyguerra – Fire & Soul

Alcatrazz – V

Creeping Death – The Edge of Existence EP

Naraka – In Tenebris

Rage – Resurrection Day

Iron Maiden – Senjutsu

Danko Jones – Power Trio

Freakstorm – Storm Inside My Heart

All Good Things – A Hope In Hell

Mentalist – A Journey Into The Unknown

CueStack – Diagnosis:Human

Existent – Kartenhaus EP

Buckcherry – Hellbound

Helloween – Helloween

Cleopatrick – Bummer

Anchors & Hearts – Guns Against Liberty

SILVER LAKE by Esa Holopainen – SILVER LAKE by Esa Holopainen

Mental Cruelty – A Hill To Die Upon

Pop Evil – Versatile

Manntra – Monster Mind Consuming

Evanescence – The Bitter Truth

As Everything Unfolds – Within Each Lies The Other

Burn Down Eden – Burn Down Eden

The L.A. Maybe – Dirty Damn Tricks

Silent Winter – Empire of Sins

Thunder – All The Right Noises

Heart Healer – The Metal Opera by Magnus Karlsson

Orden Ogan – Final Days

A Day To Remember – You’re Welcome

Definition of Insanity – Into The Abyss

Dreamshade – A Pale Blue Dot

Erik Cohen – Northern Soul

Flaming Wrekage – Cathedral of Bones

Damon Johnson & The Get Ready – Battle Lessons

Mentally Blind – Stage: Zero

Korpiklaani – Jylhä

Accept – Too Mean To Die

Michael Schenker Group – Immortal

Tragedian – Seven Dimensions

Wig Wam – Never Say Die

Bashdown – Pushing the Envelope

John Diva & The Rockets Of Love – American Amadeus

Majestica – A Christmas Carol

Sodom – Genesis XIX

AC/DC – Power Up

Orianthi – O

Averlanche – Life’s Phenomenon

Solstafir – Endless Twilight of Codependent Love

Paradise in Flames – Devil’s Collection

The Struts – Strange Days

Benediction – Scriptures

Artificial Eden – Artificial Eden

Ace Frehley – Origins Vol. 2

Thundermother – Heat Wave

U.D.O. & The German Armed Forces Concert Band – We Are One

Beyond the Black – Horizons

Asking Alexandria – Like a House on Fire

Paradise Lost – Obsidian

Axel Rudi Pell – Sign of The Times

Nightwish – Human :||: Nature

Joe Satriani – Shapeshifting

Gotthard – #13 (Album Review)

Böhse Onkelz – Böhse Onkelz (2020 Album)

Ozzy Osbourne – Ordinary Man

Seven Spires – Emerald Seas

Sepultura – Quadra

Richie Kotzen – 50 for 50

Lordi – Killection

Kirk Windstein – Dream In Motion

Marko Hietala – Pyre Of The Black Heart

Skull Koraptor – Chaos Station

Shadowmass – Shadowmass (Album Review)

Project Renegade – Order of The Minus

Lacuna Coil – Black Anima

Steel Panther – Heavy Metal Rules

Black Star Riders – Another State of Grace

Tarja – In the Raw

Hammerfall – Dominion

Avantasia – Moonglow (Album Review)
