http://www.museum-stammheim.de/hauptseiten/museum.htmlThis museum, near Schweinfurt in Northern Bavaria, started as a private collection and is now owned by a bunch of guys sharing a fascination for this old times and machines.
Once a month, there is a tank drive and repair day with public participation. For little money you can drive with them trough testing fields.
There are re-enactments of various themes with big festivals. E.g. they´ve been the only officially invited German Delegation on the D-Day 60 year celebrations and such (feeding the masses with a original working German field bakery). They also reenacted the
Taskforce Baum to Hammelburg.
Also there is a big Oldtimer meeting once a year.
Some of the things you can see there: (click for fullsize pics)
Some guys drive on their Lawnmowers, but real men drive Tanks
German VW Schwimmwagen
US Willys MB Jeep
Amphicar - 60´s Schwimmwagen (Oldtimerdays 2010)
WW1 Trench System
WW1 Armoured Car
Bofors Canon
Cut open tank turret with still working Scopes
T 34 / 85 and ZIS-3 (or better know in Germany as "Ratsch-Bumm")
Priest
an older pic of the ZIS-3 (costal defense gun behind left, u boat deck gun right)
VW Kübelwagen
Four Times the fun :p
Lots of Dioramas for Uniforms
Huge collection of weapons
MG42 on Anti-Air Tripod
Range finders and other Artillery Equipment:
Diorama of the Flak Defense Positions near Schweinfurt. Number 10 is pretty much where I live.
Example for a Layout of an 88 Flak Emplacement (right side is a list of AA Gun Batteries around Schweinfurt in April 1945, earlier there were up to 31 Batteries with a total of 250 Barrels pointing in the Sky)
List of Air Raids against Schweinfurt
Well, all in all a really unique Museum were no one complains if you touch anything. Sadly they got no German WW2 tanks, but the 88, Sdkfz, Kübels and everything else makes up for this.
