The Museums

The State Gallery of Art houses paintings and sculptures of the times from the 14th century until present. Actually you can admire around 800 pieces of art, amongst others works of Rubens, Rembrandt, Caspar David Friedrich, but as well of Picasso and Joseph Beuys.

Opend in 1843 originally as Museum of Fine Arts and expended in the 80ies of the 20th century by James Stirling the State Gallery of Art is one of the museums in Germany with the highest numbers of visitors. The annexe by Stirling belongs to one of the most important buildings of German Postmodernism.

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The building in the heart of Stuttgart knows to impress especially at night, when the glass cover begins to beam and to show the core made out of stone. The Museum has an exhibition area of 5.000 square meters, consisting of the glass cubus - visible from a long distance - and the two exhibition floors integrated into an abandoned system of tunnels under the "Small Palace Place".

Besides three to four bigger special exhibitions per year the highlights of the municipal art collection are shown - more than 15.000 pieces of art of the Classical Modernity and contemporary art. Famous are the world's most important collection of Otto Dix' creations and the main pieces of art of Adolf Hölzel, Willi Baumeister, Fritz Winter or Dieter Roth.

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A beautiful frame for beautiful cars - the new Porsche-Museum in Stuttgart's quarter Zuffenhausen presents alternating 80 cars out of a collection of 450 automobiles. In June 2011 already it was able to welcome visitor no. 1.000.000.

A Volkswagen Beetle (1950 model) and a Porsche 911 2.0 Coupé (1964 model) belong to the most famous samples. The original 911, being unveiled at the 1963 Frankfurt Motor Show (IAA). Ferry Porsche has been happy to have a Porsche now finally big enough to carry a set of golf clubs. As Peugeot was using three digits model numbers with a zero in the middle, the 901 became the 911 - the legendary number, being the telephone number of Porsche in Stuttgart actually.

Get to know the fascination of sportscars in the Porsche Museum built by Delugan Meissl Associated Architects from Vienna. A special feature is the museum garage, where visitors can observe mechanics working at the Porsche classics through a glass wall in the foyer.

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Start your tour through the Mercedes-Benz Museum with a time travel to the year 1886 and experience the invention of the automobile, the birth of the brand Mercedes and it's development in the present in seven legend rooms. Admire the state vehicles of Konrad Adenauer and of the Japanes Emperor Hirohito or the Popemobile in five collection rooms.

In May 2006 todays Mercedes-Benz Museum with an exhibition area of 16.500 sqm and 160 vehicles has been reopened in a building in the unique design of the UNStudio van Berkel and Bos and belongs to one of the highlights of Stuttgarts Museums.

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Two museum buildings in the Rosenstein Park form the State Museum of Natural History - the Museum am Löwentor, specialised in paleontology and geology, and the Rosenstein Palace, focussed on biology. Both pursue studies actually.

The eldest pieces shown have their origins in the dukes' art collection of the 17th century. Ever since the collection has been expanded continously, even if it has been depredated and destroyed by flames partially over the centuries. 1950 it moved to the Rosenstein Palace, in December 1985 the Museum am Löwentor had its opening.

The two main themes of the Rosenstein Palace are evolution and natural habitats on earth, the compound of an African elephant and a 13 meters long modell of a skeletal whale belong to the most popular pieces. The Museum am Löwentor is home to fossil finds, mainly from southwestern Germany, amongst others the scull of the "Homo steinheimensis", a 250.000 to 300.000 year old fossil of an prehistoric man, presumed to be the ancestor of the Neanderthal man. Also the nearly four meter high skeletal Steinheim mammoth is very impressive.

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