Europe 2019: Mercedes Museum

Europe 2019

Mercedes Benz Museum

Stuttgart, Germany

We're doing the 'Gullwing' thing.

After spending the morning at the Porsche Museum, we headed over to the Mercedes Museum - it's only about 15 minutes away. I'm not going to spend quite as much time on this one as I did on the Porsche Museum, but I want to make a few comments.

• The Mercedes Museum is considered to be the greatest car museum on the planet, and I get it. It's spectacular!
• The building itself is flat out amazing! You go up about 10 stories and then work your way down looking at exhibits the entire way. It's sort of a history of not just the automobile, but society as well.
• I love Mercedes Benz vehicles! If you made me choose just one make for my entire family to drive, it would be Mercedes.
• That said, the museum wasn't as enjoyable as the Porsche Museum. As impressive as it was, it wasn't fun.
• At Porsche, they had young people in golf shirts that would say things like "Hey, you wanna play with the wind tunnel? Come check this out!" At Mercedes, it was old people in blazers telling you what you couldn't do and making sure you didn't touch anything. 
• Porsche gave my daughter a headset to listen to info on the exhibits. Mercedes wouldn't give her one so we gave her one of ours and when we got to the first exhibit a lady came over and asked how old she was and told us we had to take it away from her.

It's definitely a can't miss, but it could be even better if they would just lighten up a bit.

The first car....EVER.

You sort of walk down a circular path but there are different halls you can check out on every floor. Confusing, but it works.

We told Sam this was Wonder Woman's Invisible Jet.

I'd like to think she's saying "I love you Daddy" in this picture, but it was probably something like "Can we go now?"

The only thing in the entire place that hinted at "fun" was this giant Foosball table...which seemed oddly out of place.