Cars History Museums

    Paul Schilperoord / 5 years ago
    The Louwman Museum in The Hague, the Netherlands, has opened a permanent exhibition that highlights the development of the Volkswagen Beetle – strongly recognizing the contribution of Josef Ganz. The…
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    Cars Crowdfunding Restoration

    Paul Schilperoord / 5 years ago
    We are very excited to report that Firma Mebero s.r.l., Dr. A. Bilciurescu in Cluj – Rumania is making good progress with the restoration of our 1933 Standard Superior. A…
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    Cars Crowdfunding

    Paul Schilperoord / 6 years ago
    Specialty model car manufacturer AutoCult from Germany has released a special collectors’ set entitled “The Road to the People’s Car”, including four 1:43 scale models of pre-VW cars and prototypes and…
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    Buildings Documentary History

    Paul Schilperoord / 6 years ago
    26 July 2017 will be the 50th anniversary of Josef Ganz’s death. He passed away in his hometown of St Kilda. Later this year, Port Phillip council will honour him…
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    Crowdfunding

    Paul Schilperoord / 6 years ago
    Specialty model car manufacturer AutoCult from Germany has just released a 1:43 scale model of the 1946 Rapid “Swiss Volkswagen”, which will be made in a limited edition of 333 pieces. This car…
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    Crowdfunding

    Lorenz Schmid / 6 years ago
    Crowdfunding project aims to rebuild the original «Volkswagen» of Jewish engineer Josef Ganz https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/restoring-josef-ganz-s-1933-vw-beetle-forerunner/x/15995917#/ The Hague, the Netherlands / Bern, Switzerland – Unique crowdfunding project aims to restore the original…
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    Crowdfunding

    Lorenz Schmid / 6 years ago
    In 1933, at the Berlin motor show, Jewish engineer Josef Ganz presented a revolutionary “Volkswagen” before Hitler. Fast forward five years: Hitler introduces the KdF Volkswagen to the German people while…
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    Museums

    Paul Schilperoord / 7 years ago
    The new exhibition “Wolfsburg Unlimited. A City as World Laboratory” at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg attempts to rethink Wolfsburg from an artistic perspective: as a testing ground for our present and…
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    Buildings History

    Paul Schilperoord / 8 years ago
    In 1961, Josef Ganz moved into a small apartment in Edgewater Towers, Melbourne’s first large scale modernist apartment block, right next to the beach in the suburb of St. Kilda. On…
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    Documentary

    Paul Schilperoord / 8 years ago
    We are very happy to report that the Dutch film funding agency (Het Filmfonds) has agreed to support the production of the documentary How I Invented The Volkswagen with the substantial…
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