BMW Museum pulls down the barriers between visitors and exhibits

For one night only, the BMW Museum lets the visitors loose on the exhibits. You can even go for a ride – but you have to dress for the occasion
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Michael Jackson, your ride's here. It's Night of the White Gloves time at the BMW Museum in Munich. From 7.00 till midnight on one night only – tonight (Fri 26/11) – the annual thriller event turns expands an experience normally restricted to the visual into a multisensory one. With the donning of protective white gloves provided for the occasion, visitors are allowed to look with their fingers as well as their eyes.

The museum will open up the doors, bonnets and bootlids of 120 exhibits covering 90 years of BMW history, allowing visitors an intimate look through each. If the weather's okay, they'll even be able to take a chauffeured ride through the streets of north Munich in 1960s "New Class" models (the classification of sedans and two-doors from which the 2002 emerged – and no, not the beautiful 507 roadster, which even The Gloved One would have struggled to afford at the peak of his career...)

The program extends to what the museum calls "living workshops" giving visitors a detailed look into the myriad skills and attention to detail it takes to restore a car to museum standards of original authenticity.

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