Mercedes-Benz Museum 2022 – the year in review: looking back to the future

• 626,773 visitors from 150 countries
• Art exhibition “Moving in Stereo” until 11 June 2023 with new works
• Three more championship cars in the banked curve
• Museum open-air season from April
• Interactive special exhibition “Mobile Man” from September onwards

The #MercedesBenzmuseum takes stock of the successful year 2022: A total of 626,773 visitors from 150 countries came to the museum last year. Among them was also a school class from the region. On 28 April 2022, they bought the 11,111,111th admission ticket since the museum opened in 2006 as a group ticket. The varied 2022 programme in the outdoor area again included the all-make classic car meeting “Classics & Coffee”, the summer concerts, including a family day, the open-air cinema and the “City Culture at the #MercedesBenz Museum”. A highlight was the special exhibition “Moving in Stereo” of the #MercedesBenz Art Collection, which runs until 11 June 2023.

Comparing 2022 with the pandemic year 2021 shows how important the normalisation of cultural life is for museum guests:
• From 2021 to 2022, visitor numbers increased more than 2.5-fold.
• Guests from abroad again accounted for more than half in 2022. Most of them came from France, Switzerland, Ukraine and the United States of America.

New at the #MercedesBenz Museum
The art exhibition “Moving in Stereo”, with highlights from the #MercedesBenz Art Collection, is a special offering until 11 June 2023. In January, nine additional works of art were added to the exhibition, which now features 150 works by 90 artists from 20 countries. The museum will continue to cultivate the successful dialogue between the history of mobility and art in the future.

“Our building is a wonderful place to make the treasures of the #MercedesBenz Art Collection accessible to a large audience. That is why, even after the special exhibition ‘Moving in Stereo’, individual works from the #MercedesBenz Art Collection will have a permanent home with us.” #bettinahaussmann, Director #MercedesBenz Museum

Since January, Legend Room 7 has been showing: “Silver Arrows – Races and Records”, a selection of the Art Collection’s recent acquisitions:

• Cody Choi: When You Say No, You Know Something. When You Know Something Communication is Impossible, 2010–2011
• Marius Glauer: Untitled II, 2015
• Zanele Muholi: Gamalakhe I, 2018
• Farah Al Quasimi: Curtain Shop, 2019
• Zanele Muholi: Sine II, Sheraton Hotel, Brooklyn, 2019
• Dawn Williams Boyd: The Trump Era: Trump’s America, 2020
• Zanele Muholi: Zibandlela VI, III and II, The Sails, Durban, 2020
• Natalie Czech: A Window View by Robert Creeley (Skyline), 2021
• Richard Mosse: Flooded Municipality, Amazon, 2021

Guided tours of the art exhibition “Moving in Stereo” can be booked online at #MercedesBenzmuseum, by email to classic@mercedes-benz.com or by telephone on +49 (0) 711 17-30 000.

Also in Legend Room 7: “Silver Arrows – Races and Records”, three new championship vehicles and a #racing engine have supplemented the permanent exhibition since December 2022:
• Mercedes-AMG F1 W11 EQ Performance: Lewis Hamilton’s Formula One World Championship car, 2020
• Mercedes-AMG GT3: Maximilian Götz’s DTM championship car, 2021
• Silver Arrow 02: Nyck de Vries’ Formula E World Championship car, 2020/2021
• Mercedes-AMG M09 EQ Power+: Formula One engine of the 2018 season

2023 dates (subject to change)
• Interactive special exhibition “Mobile Man” from mid-September 2023: an exhibition and action platform around modern urban mobility
• Creative activities for children at the CAMPUS every Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. as well as hands-on activities during the Baden-Württemberg Easter, Whitsun, summer and autumn holidays
• All-make classic car meeting “Classics & Coffee” from mid-April to early October 2023 every Sunday: themes include “Baby Benz”, “Pagoda”, AMG, Coupé and Cabriolet as well as outdoor and commercial vehicles
• #MercedesBenz Concert Summer from 6 to 9 July 2023.
• Children’s and family day with a colourful programme in the outdoor area and in the museum with partners from the region on 9 July 2023
• “Urban Culture at the #MercedesBenz Museum” from 13 July to 13 August 2023: For the third year, the museum enables creative artists from the region to perform on the open-air stage
• Open Air Cinema from 18 August to 3 September 2023: 15 films under the stars