VW Factory Museum

  AutoMuseum Wolfsburg
  Dieselstrasse 35
  3180 Wolfsburg 1
  Tel. 053 61/5 20 71

Find the main street in front of the train station and walk along it away from the factory. A few blocks past the overpass is the museum.

Entry into the museum is DM 3.00 (currently about $0.70/DM). There is a small gift shop with a slightly larger and slightly more expensive collection that the factory shop. Credit cards are not accepted. Hours are from 10:00 to 17:00 daily, although it is closed from 24Dec to 1Jan.

Inside the museum are a 1934 Bug prototype, a 1936 Bug, the 1,000,000th Wolfsburg Bug, the 20,000,000th Wolfsburg Bug, the last Wolfsburg Bug, some bugs from Ireland, South Africa, and Mexico, Herbie the Love Bug, a Schwimmwagen, a few Type IIs, a gorgeous type 34 (type 3 Karmann Ghia), some nice type 3 prototypes, and much more. Some of my favorites can be seen below. Click on each picture for a bigger image.

Items for sale included:

• Almost everything at the factory at slightly higher prices
• Gummy Bugs: 3.0DM
• VW Umbrellas: 15 - 25 DM
• Replica Vintage Postcards: 0.75DM
• Lots of Bugs, Type II, and water-pumper cars: ~15DM and up
• A noticeable lack of Karmann Ghias and Type III cars.
• I think I saw a catalog for 10DM, but I didn't see any other books.

• The First Bug Room (from a postcard purchased at the museum)

• A 1934 Prototype

• Another View Plus a 1936 Bug

• Rear View of the Prototype and 1936 Bug

• An Early Covertible

• Some War Vehicles (including a Schwimmwagen)

• Front View of Schwimmwagen

• Inside the Schwimmwagen

• A 1949 Hebmueller (from the Wolfsburg museum, but seen in a Berlin dealership)

• The 1,000,000th Bug from Wolfsburg

• Herbie!

• A Choice Type 34 (Type III Ghia!)

• Rear View of the Type 34 (Type III Ghia!)

• Some Type III Prototypes

• A Closeup of one of the Type III Protoypes

• A Nice Notchback

• Me and my Next Transporter (A 23-Window Deluxe)

• Karmann Ghia City

• A 1970 Production Water Pumper: the K70

• The 20,000,000th Bug - Mexico, 1985.

• OK, so this isn't a museum piece, but it could be! My '56 oval sunroof.
  (That mirror and antenna on the left are part of my '66 Ghia.)

• Mike has some great pics from his Summer '97 Trip to Wolfsburg.

• I found some other Museum Pictures here.

• And more cool WV pix here.

• Heikki Syrjamaki has some Cool Museum Pix at his site, too.

• Check out Lee Taylor's Pictorial History of the VW Beetle.

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Last updated 29Jun99

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