BMW Welt
Bavaria's single most-visited attraction is a car delivery hall where brand-new BMWs rise on circular elevator platforms while their owners watch from a glass-walled hall.
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A US$200 million exhibition and delivery venue by Vienna firm COOP HIMMELB(L)AU, where the full BMW, Mini, and Rolls-Royce lineup occupies a single showroom floor. The spectacle is the delivery theatre: special-ordered cars ascend from lower levels on round elevator platforms to waiting buyers. Nearly 3 million people visited in 2013, making it Bavaria's top tourist draw.
What to look for
- Round elevator platforms that lift newly ordered cars up through the floor to owners waiting in the glass-walled delivery hall
- The 800 kW solar array covering the main building's roof
- Rolls-Royce models on the showroom floor alongside BMW and Mini — all three BMW Group brands under one roof
Located in Am Riesenfeld next to the Olympic Park; the BMW Museum and BMW Headquarters are immediately adjacent, making all three walkable in one visit.
BMW Welt is one of 37 sights worth the detour in Munich, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Munich pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Munich
- Allianz ArenaThe world's first stadium with a full color-changing exterior — 75,000 seats wrapped in inflated ETFE plastic panels that can change color across the entire facade.
- Deutsches Museum125,000 objects across 50 fields of science and technology — all on a former coal island in the Isar.
- Nymphenburg PalaceAt 632 metres across, this Baroque summer palace is wider than Versailles — and it started as a birth announcement.
- Alte PinakothekThe gallery that taught Europe how to build a museum — then filled it with five centuries of Old Masters.
- FrauenkircheThe twin towers top out at just over 98 meters — Munich caps the entire city at 99 m, so nothing can overtake them on the skyline.
- Englischer GartenA Massachusetts-born American Loyalist, fleeing Britain after the Revolution, drew up plans for what became one of the world's largest urban parks.