That's the "BMW World" where currently manufactured cars are on display and newly sold Beamers are handed ritually over to their new owners. This ist the BMW museum. The building in itself has changed little since the renovation, but underground a whole new complex has been built in recent years. The round-trip in the museum starts with three important historical exhibits. This is the first product which was built by BMW. Or rather by a precursor company, the name BMW stemmed from the product name of this aircraft engine. This is the first motorcycle built by BMW. Most important for the current company: That's the first car built by BMW, even though it wasn't designed by BMW itself. One inside wall is covered in two big floors worth of motorcycles. This is a famous side car model. BMW police motorcycles are always a common sight in munich. This is a model one saw a lot in the 70s. Even before BMW entered Formula One by itself they built a lot of engines for it. Here is a formula one racing car powered by BMW. An exhibition of BMW racing engines. Besides showing cars, the open architecture can be seen nicely in this picture. A history of BMW limousines. An interesting way to show when which models where started. The model plates are hanging from the ceiling while on the wall in the back a time line goes up over two floors. Seen from the front the model plates hang in front of the year of first inception. One room has a history of advertisement. Very interesting and the exhibits are cycled around automatically every few minutes, so there is a lot more material in there than one would think. Also shown in the museum are a lot of design studies which resulted in unique cars being built. Also a design study from more recent years, this Z9 was never intended for mass production. In front of the cleverly interactive hall of history there are some original documents, ranging from contracts to construction schedules. Again a picture highlightning the architecture. This is another 3/15PS model which was the first car built by BMW. Next to it there a 1970 model of a "Rudi" ;-). My name is Bond. Rudi Bond. This car was used in some recent James Bond movie. Well probably not the original as the original was probably wrecked during some stunt-scenes. Probably one of the most well remembered cars for every german born before 1950. The small BMW Isetta was originally an italian car adopted by BMW to serve the financially less well off masses. A huge success and surrounding the car are exhibitions telling personal stories of the BMW Isetta and the people of the time. This is one of the stories around the Isetta, telling about a woman who made a roundtrip around Italy in her BMW Isetta, which was quite an adventure at the time. My favorite BMW when I was a small boy. The BMW M1. Though I like it vastly more in the white-blue-red BMW M-colors. The later M-models looked less like racing cars, but were also targetted at the real market. A BMW touring car in the BMW-M colors. I think those colors really look fashionable on cars. A hydrogen powered experimental car. The end result of an artists, some spray paint and a car. The former BMW museum, the famous cup-shaped building with the BMW logo on the top, now houses mostly design studies from the past and future. Will that be the look of cars in twenty years? Purely a design study, this was not made out of metal, but of cloth over a wire frame. A motorcycle looking like it came out of a sci-fi movie. Sitting on a motorcycle really brings out the biker gang member in me. Yeah, I was member of a bicycle gang in second grade ;-). This hard-working guy is trying to accelerate a motor enough so the energy won through braking fully reloads the battery. I like hands-on exhibitions :-). I got 100 percent by the way :-). This is from a exhibition not in the museum but in the BMW world. The short explanation why one is exerting oneself by turning a handle. The inside of the roof of a BMW World side tower.