In the last 200 years, ground-breaking inventions in road transport have enabled increasing numbers of people to travel the world. This exhibition presents the pioneers of this field, trailblazing bicycles, motorbikes and automobiles, and looks at how changes in road transport have had an impact on our everyday lives.
Hoofs, wheels and tyres – permanent exhibition on road transport

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Until the invention of the “dandy horse” by Karl Drais some 200 years ago, people could only get as far as their own feet or horses would carry them. And when Carl Benz and his patented motor vehicle clattered through Mannheim around 70 years later, the scene was set for individual mobility.

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As you wander through the exhibition, admiring our superb examples of two- and four-wheel vehicles (made predominantly in eastern Germany), you will realise just how far road transport has come since then. Trace the past, present and future of road transport by hopping on the penny farthing, immersing yourself in the future lab or sampling the sounds of transport at the audio stations.
Source: DresdenEins
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