Excursions on Friday, October 7th, 2011
T2M Conference Berlin
Excursion 1: Autostadt Wolfsburg 
The Autostadt Wolfsburg of Volkswagen is the biggest theme park and exhibition on car mobility in the world. It is a museum of the history and future of car mobility and of all brands of Volkswagen. We go there by high-speed train (ICE).
(Excursion includes a return ICE-trip to Wolfsburg)
(14.31 departure, 19.25 return Berlin central station (Hbf))
55,- €/person (including entrance fee, guide and coffee break)
(subsidized by Autostadt)
Meeting at museum entrance: 2 pm
Guide:
Excursion 2: Deutsches Technikmuseum and Old Hamburg Railway Station
Excursion 2 visits the Deutsches Technikmuseum (Railway Department) and then the Old Hamburg Railway Station, the oldest railway station in Berlin (now Museum of Contemporary Art), which was a transport museum up to 1984.
20 €/Person (including museum entrance fee and coffee break)
Meeting at museum entrance 2.15 pm
Guide: Dr. Alfred Gottwaldt
Excursion 3: Deutsches Technikmuseum and “Memorial Gleis 17”.
Excursion 3 visits the Deutsches Technikmuseum (Railway Department) and then the “Memorial Gleis 17” at railway station Grunewald. From 1941-45, the Berlin Jews were deported to Concentration Camps from here.
25 €/person (including museum entrance fee and coffee break)
Meeting at entrance of Deutsches Technikmuseums, 2.15 pm
Guide: Dr. Susanne Kill
Excursion 4: Deutsches Technikmuseum and Airport Tempelhof
Excursion 4 visits the Deutsches Technikmuseum (Aviation Department) and then the Airport
Tempelhof, planned during Nazi times and once the biggest building in the world. The airport was closed for aviation in October 2008 and is a recreational space now.
20 €/Person (including guide and coffee break)
Meeting at Museum entrance 2.15 pm
Guide: Prof. Heiko Triesch, Dr. Gunter Heinickel
Excursion 5: Transport Museum, Bahnhof Friedrichstraße and Bahnhof Zoo
Excursion 5 visits the transport museum and then shows the history of the the Bahnhof Friedrichstraße as checkpoint between East- and West Berlin. More than 20 years after the wall came down, it is still possible to identify this former function of the station.
Then we visit an exhibition on the history of “Bahnhof Zoo”, the famous West-Berlin central railway station during the cold war. The exhibition focuses on the arrangements in place to organise rail transport in the divided city during the separation.
20 €/Person (including guide and coffee break)
Meeting at Museum entrance 2.15 pm
Responsible: Prof Joseph Hoppe, Dr. Martin Schiefelbusch