Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen Germany

The Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen, Germany is one of the major attractions here. It is one of the best museums in Germany. The Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen is located at the Lake Constance. The museum accounts the history of the Zeppelin airships in the city where they were born.

The Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen, Germany with 43,000 sq. ft. of exhibition area exhibits the world's greatest collection of objects on the history of airship flight and technology ranging from its very inception to the new Zeppelin NT. The former Harbour Railway Station is home to the Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen. The huge art collection displayed at the upper floor demonstrates works of art of the Lake Constance region from the Middle Ages to the present day. The reconstruction of a 33-m section of the LZ 129 Hindenburg, created by Zeppelin GmbH is the major focus of the Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen. The lower level after the reconstruction includes restrooms and the smoking parlor which is not meant for the visitors. The upper level includes the lounge, writing room, promenade, and some passenger rooms. The airship artifacts that are displayed include an engine gondola of the LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin and the front most portion of the bow of the LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin. You will get to see exhibits of the articles that were salvaged from the fire at Lakehurst. Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen has dedicated a room to the use of Zeppelins in the Great War. Here you will get to see the uniforms worn by the crews, the engines that powered them, and numerous other pieces of memorabilia. A small Zeppelin-shaped token that had been fashioned out of the frame of a Zeppelin that had crashed in Essex is one of the major attractions here because this was sold to raise money for the British war effort. You will get photographs, videos and CD-ROMs to grasp the story.

Opening hours

  -   May to October: Tuesday to Sunday from 9 am to 5 pm
  -   November to April: Tuesday to Sunday from 10 am to 5 pm
  -   July to September: Open on Mondays from 9 am to 5 pm
  -   Closed on 24th and 25th December and 31 December.

The Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen, Germany is a must go for the tourists. You will really miss something if you don't pay a visit here.