Mercedes-Benz Museum

Current exhibitions

About the museum

The museum's beginnings go back to the 1920s, when the company began systematically collecting historic vehicles. A first company museum opened at the Untertürkheim plant in 1936. It was redesigned in a new location within the plant in 1961 and extensively modernized in 1986.

With the current building at Stuttgart's NeckarPark in Bad Cannstatt, the museum gained a new home in 2006. The Dutch firm UNStudio, led by Ben van Berkel, designed a building around 47 meters tall whose floor plan follows a rounded triangle and inside which two tour routes wind around a central atrium like a double helix.

On nine levels and around 16,500 square meters, the permanent exhibition shows about 160 vehicles and 1,500 other exhibits. Visitors take elevators to the top and then follow either the seven chronological “Legend” rooms, which link company history with world history, or the themed “Collection” rooms with buses, trucks, emergency vehicles and celebrities' cars. Since 2024, the company's art collection has also been represented in the building with changing presentations.

The museum is one of Stuttgart's most visited cultural institutions and set a new record in 2025 with almost 946,000 visitors; more than half of the visitors come from abroad.

Highlights

• Replica of the 1886 Benz Patent Motor Car and Daimler's grandfather clock engine
• Silver Arrows on the banked curve of “Rennen und Rekorde” (Races and Records)
• Popemobile and vehicles of famous owners in the Collection
• Double-helix architecture by UNStudio, with an elevator ride to the start
• Art presentation “Now on View” from the Mercedes-Benz Art Collection
• Driving simulators with historic racing cars

Permanent exhibitions

• Legenden-Räume – Seven chronological rooms lead from the invention of the automobile in 1886 to the present day, linking vehicles with contemporary history – all the way to the banked curve with the Silver Arrows.
• Collection-Räume – Themed galleries show the diversity of the brand, such as buses, trucks, emergency vehicles and the cars of famous personalities.

Founded

1936

Operated by

Mercedes-Benz Heritage GmbH (Unternehmen der Mercedes-Benz Group)

Director

Marcus Breitschwerdt (Vorsitzender der Geschäftsführung der Mercedes-Benz Heritage GmbH)

Visitors per year

approx. 945,716

Admission & discounts

Free admission: Free admission on your birthday.

Evening ticket 16:30–18:00: €8 (concession €4). Audio guide included in admission. Annual pass €64. Public museum tour €8 plus admission (Tue–Sun 14:30 in German, 11:00 in English, approx. 75 min.). Free admission with, among others, the StuttCard, Landesfamilienpass (state family pass), Museums-PASS-Musées, ICOM and Museumsbund cards, and for Mercedes-Benz ClubCard holders; discount with an admission ticket from the Porsche Museum (€12 or €6). Partner card tickets only at the museum ticket desk.

Accessibility

• Wheelchair accessible
• Elevator
• Accessible restroom
• Accessible parking
• Service dogs welcome
• Tactile models & exhibits
• Sign language tours: no information
• Easy-to-read materials: no information
• Audio description: no information

Ramps around the building, DIN-compliant ramps with intermediate landings in the Legend rooms and satellite elevators to all levels; non-slip floors. Accessible restrooms on level 0, level 1 and in the Myth/Legend rooms (except room 1). Loan wheelchairs for a €50 deposit, rollators on request. Four accessible parking spaces in the museum parking garage (not in the P4 parking garage – no elevator there). Special tours for wheelchair users (up to 20 people, max. 5 wheelchairs) and tours for blind visitors in which the vehicles may be touched. Free EnChroma glasses for color-blind visitors. Priority at the ticket desk.

Kids & families

Great for kids & families

• Family tours & workshops
• Activity booklet, scavenger hunt or kids’ audio guide
• Hands-on stations
• Stroller-friendly
• Baby changing facilities
• Playground / play area
• Kids’ birthday parties

Programs for children aged 3 to 12: CAMPUS children's area (ages 3 and up, coloring pages, weekend activities, holiday program), free explorer booklet, children's profile in the audio guide (ages 6 and up), children's rally app with two missions (ages 6 and up and 10 and up, approx. 90 min.), mascot Carlotta on Sundays 14:00–16:00, toddler tour with the teddy bear “Bärli” for groups. Children's birthday parties for ages 6 to 12 (2 hours). Visitors may climb aboard the World Cup team bus and the garbage truck. Strollers for a €50 deposit, high chairs in the restaurant. Children under 14 only when accompanied by an adult.

Getting there & parking

GPS: Mercedesstraße 100; follow signs for “NeckarPark”. Park & Ride at S-Bahn stations around Stuttgart (€1–2 per day). Restricted access during VfB home games and major events – S-Bahn recommended then. The Neckar Valley Cycle Path (Neckartalradweg) runs past the museum.

Amenities & dining

• Café
• Restaurant
• Museum shop
• Coat check
• Lockers
• Wi-Fi

Bertha’s Restaurant (Tue–Sun 11:30–16:00, plus a food truck in summer), bistro on level 1 and deli in the basement (each Tue–Sun 10:00–17:30). Museum shop Tue–Sun 10:00–18:00. Bags and backpacks are not allowed in the exhibition – free cloakroom and lockers on level E1. Free Wi-Fi (MBMuseum_FreeWifi). Dogs up to 10 kg allowed in a dog carrier bag.

Events & venue rental

• Spaces for rent
• Corporate events

Up to 1,200 guests.

Rentable spaces: Lounge, roof terrace, Großer Saal (Great Hall; up to 500 people for a party, 250 in theater seating), Atrium (up to 1,000 people for a party, 550 in rows), Faszination Technik, Passage (up to 1,200 people for a party), Open Air Stage (approx. 1,150 seats in rows) and Casino; the Großer Saal and Atrium can be combined. Use also outside opening hours, integration of the exhibition (e.g. dinner on the racing banked curve), in-house catering, webcast service. Inquiries via contact form.

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