No trip to Munich would exist complete without a visit to BMW'southward Museum. Located in what appears to be a basin, just adjacent to the 4 cylinder edifice, the Museum houses artifacts and data on the history of BMW. This isn't a chronological display only rather a grouping of displays broken up by theme.

The items are well placed and as attainable to visitors as possible (and items are often inside touching altitude, with minimal barriers between the object and the visitor, but please don't bear on).

Yous can spend several hours moving through the various displays and some of the highlights are the selection of engines, the pre-war cars, the fabled Mille Miglia cars, record braking motorcycles and, when I visited, the art cars.

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The art cars are pretty special and worth the endeavor to see when they're all in one place. Of the agglomeration, the Jeff Koons car impressed me the most. It captured the essence of speed. Nice that it was raced at Le Mans.

Knowing some BMW history beforehand is helpful when viewing the displays (though they all are accompanied by placards with information in German and English). Having an historical understanding of BMW helps tie everything together. And, the gift shop, for some reason, happens to have a good pick of books on BMW.