Day 16: Engines and sausages

Continuing with the automotive theme of this portion of our trip in Germany, we headed over to the BMW Museum.  To get there, we walked from our hotel through Olympic Park.  This park was the site of a large portion of the 1972 Summer Olympics.  It's a beautiful space and it's clear that Munich dedicates resources to maintain the park.

The architecture of the BMW Museum is extremely impressive as is the design of all the exhibits.  Similarly impressive is the selection of vehicles that are on display; they certainly show off BMW's rich automotive history.  We spent several hours at the museum and while we came away impressed, we also came away thinking that the whole experience was very cold and clinical.  We didn't really get the sense of emotion and passion that we got at the Audi museum.

After our stay at the BMW museum, we hopped on the subway and made our way to Munich's old town district.  We spent another several hours exploring the district, mostly wandering the streets and occasionally popping into a historic building.  We finished up our time there with dinner at the Bratswurstherlz restaurant.  The restaurant is known for its grilled Nuremberg Bratswurst sausages.  I had the Nuremberg Bratswurst with a potato salad while Cess had a lightly cured pork tongue with a wine sauerkraut.  The meal was phenomenal, just what we imagined a simple and tasty Bavarian meal would be.

This pretty much wraps up our time in Munich.  Tomorrow morning we are heading back north to Ingolstadt for our Audi factory tour and then heading southwest to Fussen.

BMW museum interior:

BMW's over the years:

Multimedia projection touch exhibit.  This exhibit provided as much information as you wished on most of the vehicles ever produced by BMW.  You interacted with the display by touching the projected images and text.  Very, very innovative and cool:

Cess' dinner of lightly cured pork tongue at Bratswurstherzl.  I of course had Bratwurst sausages from Nuremberg: