Zeppelin Museum

In the listed building of the port railway station, the Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen combines the world's most important collection on airship travel with an art collection that includes the great masters from southern Germany from the Middle Ages to modern times. Around 1,500 exhibits on an area of more than 4,000 square meters comprise unique objects - not only for Zeppelin enthusiasts. Among the highlights are the walk-in passenger compartments of the LZ 129 Hindenburg in an authentic, 33-meter-long replica, a cabinet of curiosities on the iconic Zeppelin, and experiment stations that make the principle of "lighter than air" understandable for young and old alike and bring it to life with the help of a flight simulator. Fragments of airships such as skeletons, propellers, nacelles, high-altitude engines and gearboxes are on display alongside historical sound, film and image recordings, newspaper articles and airship equipment. They bring to life in multimedia form who the pioneers of airship travel were and recall their greatest successes and most terrible disasters. They also answer the question of how Count Zeppelin succeeded in building an airship almost four times the size of an Airbus, yet lighter than air, and how he thus left a lasting mark on the city of Friedrichshafen as an industrial location. A special focus of the exhibition is on works by artists who retreated to Lake Constance as "inner emigrants" during the National Socialist era, such as Otto Dix, Max Ackermann and Willi Baumeister. In meticulous research work, the Zeppelin Museum goes in search of traces and works up the stories of the artworks in its collection. In this way, it makes the fates of collectors visible, of looted or relocated works of art, or of the National Socialists' agitation against modern art. Through temporary exhibitions on socially current topics, the museum spans an arc to contemporary art and brings art and technology into dialogue again and again. Public tours of the exhibitions take place every Sunday, and on Thursdays visitors are invited to free lectures, readings and other events at OPEN HOUSE! For preparation and follow-up, the Zeppelin Museum offers numerous free digital contents and formats: The Digital Collection and the Media Library invite you to browse, in the podcast series ZM talks, staff members talk about current topics or hold discussions with experts, the ZeppApp offers comprehensive information and audio guides to the exhibitions, the museum's own discourse platform debatorial® invites you to exchange ideas, the museum blog invites you to read, and the profiles on the social networks invite you to interact and storytell.