The Rolling Museum, which has been organized since 2008, took place for the 15th time on 19.10.2024 in Munich.
In this Rolling Museum, which takes place every year during the Long Night of Museums, interested museum visitors are driven from the Deutsches Museum to the Deutsches Museum Transport Center on Theresienhöhe.
The aim of the Rolling Museum is to give museum visitors an understanding of the classic car hobby by giving them a free ride in a historic vehicle and answering all their questions. The queues of waiting visitors were therefore long.
This year, 90 historic vehicles drove over 4,000 enthusiastic museum visitors back and forth between the two locations from 6 p.m. to midnight. The conversations that develop in the vehicles are always priceless and demonstrate the enthusiasm that emanates from the passengers on every ride. Whether young or old, man or woman - everyone showed a keen interest as soon as they got into a vehicle.
From the 1929 Ford Model A and Mercedes /8 to various fire department utility vehicles and the luxurious and rare Iso Rivolta, everything was there. Even the film vehicle KITT from the Knight Rider series with David Haselhoff did the honors and was probably the most photographed vehicle at the event.
ADAC-Klassik, represented by Karlheinz Jungbeck, Jochen Thoma, Johann König and Prisca Reininer, took part this year with three vehicles: a VW Beetle, a VW T1 bus and a Golf 1 Diesel. All in the historic design of the ADAC road patrol. The special feature of the Golf Diesel was that it ran on synthetic fuel. Shortly before the journey, it was refueled with HVO100 and proved once again that old technology can be operated with synthetic fuels without any problems.
The Initiative Kulturgut Mobilität e.V., which has supported the event since the first edition, was also represented again. Its chairman Mario De Rosa once again drove the popular VW Beetle in the Francis Gill design and opened the Rolling Museum 2024 with the first ride. Like the ADAC vehicles, it was a real eye-catcher and crowd favorite.
After the last vehicle was parked at around midnight, the head of the Deutsches Museum's Transport Centre, Dr. Gundler, invited all participants to a glass of sparkling wine and everyone is already looking forward to the next edition in October 2025.
Text and Pictures by Mario De Rosa
