DB Museum
Deutsche Bahn Foundation operates the DB Museum at its sites in Nuremberg, Koblenz and Halle (Saale), which are supported by volunteer employees. The museum, which was founded in 1882, is the oldest railway museum in the world. Its purpose is to open up, gather, represent and convey the history of the railway system in Germany. For this purpose, it maintains one of the world’s largest vehicle collections with approximately 600 locomotives and cars, as well as the oldest and most extensive collections of archive materials, objects, and stocks of films and photographs relating to German railway history.
2023 was a very successful year for DB Museum. More than 220,000 guests visited the museum’s three sites, 190,000 of whom went to the main building in Nuremberg alone. This means that the pre-Covid-19 figures were achieved or exceeded in nearly all the buildings. These positive results are also the result of a catch-up effect after the pandemic. Furthermore, the 2023 exhibition and event program received an extraordinary response. With over 60,000 guests, the FUTURAILS exhibition has proved to be one of the most successful special displays in the history of the museum. Many events have also developed very well. At the Koblenz external location, capacity for the maintenance of historical vehicles was expanded successfully. The special journeys offered for the first time from Nuremberg with the museum’s own TransEuropExpress Rheingold were sold out within a few hours and will be repeated in the next few years.
