• Historic Remembrance: The Museum History of Mercedes-Benz
  
  
• 50 Years of the Automobile – the first Museum takes shape
  
  
• Postwar reconstruction – cautious new beginning for the collection
  
  
• Room for automotive history – the Daimler-Benz Museum of 1961
  
  
• Magnet for visitors in Untertürkheim
  
  
• 100 Years of the Automobile – a new concept for the Museum
  
  
• The countdown is on – preparations for moving outside the plant gates

In the years that followed more and more people visited the fascinating Daimler-Benz Museum:

• In 1963 the Museum guide service counted visitor number 750,000 since reopening in 1951, a guest from Switzerland.
  
  
• In 1965 101,776 automobile fans visited the Museum, and were informed about the collection by Museum employees in German and eight other languages.
  
  
• In 1966 law student Peter Bornemann from Tübingen was welcomed as the one millionth visitor since the Museum reopened after the war. The young man was honored by Dr. Hans Scherenberg, responsible for Research & Development on the Daimler-Benz Board of Management. Despite the high number there could be no doubt about the identity of the one millionth visitor, as the Museum guide service proudly declared, pointing to the handwritten visitor lists which it had been keeping without interruption since the Museum opened in 1951.
  
  
• In 1969 144,520 people toured the Museum. Not only the number of guests rose steadily, their countries of origin did too: 129 nations in 1969.
  
  
• In April 1970, the statistics showed visitor number 1,500,000: Birger Brokhaug, head of the Technical Inspection Association in Kongsberg (Korsberga), Sweden, and President of the North European technical inspection engineers.
  
  
• In 1971 the new Museum celebrated its tenth anniversary. Since 1961, in addition to the extensive permanent exhibition several special shows had been organized. Topics included the history of the ignition and the development of the transmission from 1886 to the modern-day automatic transmission. Mercedes-Benz continued buying exhibits all over the world in this period in order to supplement the collection. It was now 20 years since the Museum reopened after World War II; 1,643,000 visitors had passed through the Museum since then.
  
  
• In 1973 the Museum welcomed its two millionth visitor. On the same day a Benz Dos-à-Dos (built in 1899) was added to the Museum.
  
  

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