I was only able to finded dated info on the BMW museum. Has anyone been there in the past couple of years, if so, I'd be interested in your thoughts. It looks like there are exhibits,one old post said they were outdated????There is also a tour of the welt and museum and one of the factory that must be booked in advance. Someone mentioned the audi museum as being better but I do not even know where that is located.

I'm puzzling over how a museum's exhibits can be "out-of-date". The history has changed? But even more puzzling is that BMW, famously efficient, has malfunctioning websites, at least in English, or lack of English. There are two related operations at the Munich headquarters, the museum itself and the newer Welt devoted to driver experience, which sounds like a permanent car-show sales hype (which intoxicates me anywhere.) Until BMW gets its internet salesmanship in shape, you may have to rely on information from other sources and try to judge just how up-to-date it is.

We were there 2 years ago. We did the Welt, the museum and the tour. We thought the whole experience was very good - but you really need to like BMWs - personally I was a little "BMW'ed" out by the end - but not my husband. The Welt is where people come to pick up there BMWs (on the top level) but there are also all kind of cool exhibits with the newer cars, some of the older cars, etc. It is not a museum really though. While we were there, they had a stunt motorcycle driver doing some stunts up and down the stairs.

The museum was very good - but it is big. We thought it was good and showed a lot of the history of both the car and company. I didn't feel like anything was outdated but we had never been before.

The manufacturing tour was very interesting and actually not terribly long. We own an M3 - those are built somewhere else in Germany, but it was still interesting to see the process. (I think they build "regular" 3 series cars here if memory serves me correctly). One of the more interesting parts of the tour was a video they showed us that acknowledged BMW's participation in the Nazi regime and things they have done to "atone" for that.

If I remember correctly, my husband has a contact in the corporate area of BMW and that person booked everything for us - we still paid for it, but we didn't have to go through the booking process.

make that "their" BMWs -

We did the tour of the factory just a couple of weeks ago and it was fascinating, one of the highlights of our trip for my husband. And this was on our first jet-lagged day in Munich. You need to book ahead; I believe my friend who got the tickets had to phone for them, but they had English speakers. The tour was a couple of hours long - we saw almost every step of the assembly and it was very interesting.