From the impeller to the racing machine: The Two-Wheeler and NSU-Museum in Neckarsulm (Baden-Württemberg, Germany) is an adventure for the whole family. The museum is one of the top destinations and tourist attractions of the large district town of Neckarsulm. Housed in the historic Teutonic, the museum documents for decades, the two-wheeler history in all its forms.
1956, at Pentecost, the German Motorcycle Museum was arranged (the NSU-Museum was added 30 years later).
His first goal was a pedagogical one: The youth should be shown how important the motorcycle in the first half of the 20th Century had been. The museum-makers seriously feared that, without support, the museum's two-wheeled motorized forgotten.
Indeed, there was a trend mid-fifties to the car - a consequence of the "economic miracle" - and the sales of motorcycles plunged. Renowned manufacturers like NSU to forego the construction of two-wheelers, and we talked about the crisis on all sides of the motorcycle.
Therefore, reason enough to create a place of remembrance of a seemingly endangered vehicle technology. Future generations should keep at least a rough idea of how good you had once been on two wheels forward.
Today is not more instruction in the foreground, but information and entertainment as well as a future-oriented reflection on timeless achievements of previous generations.
Currently, the museum houses some 350 exhibits, including alone 300 classic motorcycles, to about 2,000 square meters of exhibition space. The ground floor is the fahrradgeschichtliche department with about 50 muscle-powered two-wheelers of the last 200 years. On floors 1-4 you reach to the entire motorcycle development in chronological form. Directly under the roof, finally, the exhibition provided an insight into the racing and special sports scene around the world. But that's not all: Because of the close relationship with the manufacturer Legend NSU Neckarsulm exhibits that is dedicated to fabricate a separate department in the basement.