The BMW Museum in Munich, Germany soon will introduce a new exhibition. The unordinary exhibit will showcase a 3D puzzle created by famous puzzle writer CUS and one of the greatest BMW racing cars presented on the BMW, LMR V12 or the so-called ‘Mystery Car’.

Photo: the BMW Mystery Car

The car can be viewed from 13 March to 30 April 2012 without an admission ticket. The surface of the car will challenge visitors with a puzzle that contains only symbols, mysterious numbers and letters, as well as images, pointers and abbreviations. To solve the puzzle created by CUS, the author of ‘Germany’s most difficult puzzle’, people will have to correctly interpret all of its 16 parts.

Answers should be submitted online by 30 April 2012 to mysterycar@bmw.de. The correct solutions will be entered into a draw for four prizes. The main winner will spend a day on the Nürburgring in the BMW M3 as part of the ‘BMW M Experience. BMW M Power Insider’ program.

Additionally, the BMW Museum will pay tribute to the world-renowned fashion and advertising illustrator René Gruau, who passed in 2004. From 24 March to 30 June 2012, around 80 of the artist’s original works will be exhibited in the museum, covering the period from 1946 to 2000.

The exhibition is a collaboration of BMW and the gallery owner Joëlle Chariau, who has been involved with Gruau’s work since 1982.

“With these drawings by René Gruau, we are bringing something very special to the BMW Museum and adding another facet to our involvement in the fashion world,” says Dr Ralf Rodepeter, Director of the BMW Museum and Communications Visitor Experience Munich. “Through his inimitably evocative and elegant strokes, Gruau continues to influence the world of fashion illustration and advertising to this day.”

Other BMW’s current cultural projects include the BMW Tate Live: Performance Room and BMW LSO Open Air Classics.

Photo: the work by René Gruau