Really a stunning building. It just opened in May of this year.
Upon entry, you take these elevators to the top of the building. After seeing a stuffed horse and the world's first automobile, you slowly descend around the perimeter of the building seeing the history of the company and its place in German and world history.
Along the way, you have a handset which tells stories, highlights inventions, and provides historical information. I am not really a big car nut, but I spent 5 hours there.
And then, as all modern museums do, the end of the tour dumps you out into the gift shop.
But this gift shop was nuts.
In addition to the Mercedes-Benz polo shirts and blingish keychains, there were four floors of Mercedes cars that one can sit in, look over, and begin leasing. Cars were available to drive off the lot.
crazy. Maybe we should build a Avanti Museum.
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