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The Museum Workshop and the Porsche Archives
Despite their excellent condition, the historical cars featured in Porsche’s “museum on wheels”
obviously require regular care and maintenance in order to enter all kinds of competitions
and events at any time. Precisely this is why specialists in the Museum Workshop prepare all
historical racing and sports cars for their worldwide activities, conducting regular maintenance
and carrying out repairs where required.
The same specialists are also at the disposal of private customers for the restoration of
their classic Porsches, These include all road cars whose series production ended at least
ten years ago, that is the 356, 914, 959 and 911 including the 964 model series, as well
as water-cooled four- and eight-cylinder models.
These highly skilled specialists and mechanics do their wonderful job in public, instead of
hiding behind closed doors: This is the world’s only Museum Workshop where the visitor is
able to directly observe the work in progress, a glass partition in the lobby of the Museum
offering a clear view of the Workshop.
Pooled skills: the Museum Workshop Team
The Workshop Team is made up of one master mechanic, three mechanics, an upholsterer
and a customer advisor. Naturally they all have lots of experience with Porsche cars of all
model years both in series production and motorsport. After all, it is also their job to correctly
tune and set up the sensitive high-performance power units in classic racing cars such as
the twelve-cylinder turbocharged engine of a Porsche 917.
To do this job with utmost perfection, the specialists benefit from the most advanced tooling
and equipment with two car hoists, lathes and milling machines enabling them to carry out
virtually all service, repair and restoration processes. And if necessary they are able to rebuild
even simple mechanical components.
Minor body repairs are also handled here, while the Workshop Team has full access to Porsche’s
entire infrastructure for all ongoing work and requirements.
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Porsche’s memory: the Historical Archives
The new Porsche Museum also houses a Central Department offering all the historical and
contemporary knowledge about Porsche. Indeed, it was only logical for the Historical Archives
of Porsche AG to move into the Museum, directly above the Museum Workshop.
Acting as the “memory” of the Porsche Group, the Porsche Archives collect all important
information relating in commercial, technical, social or cultural terms to Porsche AG and its
subsidiaries. The Archives maintain all knowledge, facts and figures of significance through -
out the unique story of Porsche’s success, ranging from the early days of Ferdinand Porsche
as an automotive engineer through the Construction Office established in 1931 all the way
to Porsche AG as the Company exists today.
The Porsche Archives now extend along a total distance of approximately 2,000 metres or
almost 6,600 feet, spread out on shelves, displays, steel cabinets and even vaults.

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