Mercedes-Benz Museum Entry Ticket with Audio Guide Stuttgart

The Mercedes-Benz Museum in Untertürkheim

The Mercedes-Benz Museum stands in the Untertürkheim district of Stuttgart, beside the company's main plant and the football stadium. Its silver, double-helix building opened in 2006 and is a sight in itself: curved concrete ramps wind around a bright central atrium. Most visitors take the lift to the top and work their way down, which is how the exhibition is meant to be seen.

A Mercedes-Benz Museum tour with this ticket is entirely self-guided. Allow about three hours for a relaxed visit, and longer if you love engines. If you are wondering whether the Mercedes-Benz Museum is worth visiting, the answer is yes even for people who are not car experts, because the exhibition tells the story of travel, technology and everyday life.

The Legend rooms: from the first automobile to modern icons

The Legend route follows a timeline that starts in 1886, when Carl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler independently built the first vehicles powered by an internal-combustion engine. You pass early motor carriages, elegant touring cars from the 1920s and 1930s, the famous gull-wing sports car and the large saloons that carried heads of state.

Along the way, racing cars in silver show how engineering was tested on the track. Each room places the vehicles in their period, with newsreels, fashion and everyday objects that explain why a car looked the way it did. The audio guide gives you the story behind the key exhibits at every stage.

The Collection rooms: trucks, buses and special vehicles

Alongside the timeline, the Collection rooms look at themes instead of dates. Here you find commercial vehicles such as trucks and buses, cars built for public figures, and displays on safety technology and design. It is a different way to look at the same history, and it surprises many visitors who expected only passenger cars.

The two routes cross and overlap, so you can switch from one to the other whenever something catches your eye. With more than 160 vehicles on show over twelve rooms, it helps to pick the themes you like best and take your time over them.

Planning your visit: opening hours, tickets and the audio guide

Mercedes-Benz Museum opening hours are normally Tuesday to Sunday during the day, and the museum is closed on Mondays. The last admission is an hour before closing, so aim to arrive by mid-afternoon at the latest. Weekday mornings are usually calmer than weekends and holidays, which makes them the best time to visit.

Your Mercedes-Benz Museum tickets are valid for one day. Pick up the audio guide at the entrance and choose your language from the eight offered. To get there from the city centre, take the suburban rail line (S-Bahn) towards Untertürkheim and follow the signs for the museum, a short walk from the station.