Exploring Vroom: The new automotive-themed floor in the Museum of Solutions

The Museum of Solutions (MuSo) in Worli, Mumbai, unveiled its new automotive-themed Vroom floor in October 2025. Notably, the Vroom floor is the only space in the museum that allows adult visitors without children, setting it apart from the rest of MuSo’s child-entry-only areas. So when MuSo invited me to its Children’s Day event, which included a walkthrough of the newly opened floor, it became the perfect opportunity to explore the space firsthand. Here were my key observations:

The Vroom floor

Walking into a timeline of the automobile

Vroom spans an entire level and feels more like a working garage than a museum zone. The lighting is industrial, the layout is open, and the installations immediately catch your eye. Before you even reach the hands-on areas, the floor draws you in with a three-wall timeline of the automobile. It is not the dull textbook kind of history at all. Instead, small models, clear descriptions, and neatly arranged milestones take you from early wheels to the first cars and then into the journey of Mercedes-Benz. And once you have absorbed the timeline, the rest of Vroom opens up for you to step in, interact and learn through experience.

A hands-on experience with automotive models and cutouts

Once you move past the timeline, the floor opens up into a full hands-on zone. This is where Vroom suddenly feels like a real workshop. The working cutouts of engines, gearboxes and drivetrains are surprisingly engaging because you can turn or slide components yourself to see how the mechanisms move. 

There are 2-stroke and 4-stroke models that explain the basics instantly, and a manual transmission cutout that makes gear movement feel far more intuitive than anything you learn on paper. There are also stands with real tools and a simple EV model that shows how electric power actually reaches the wheels. And it does not stop there. You can even slide under a car to see its components from below. It feels a bit claustrophobic at first, but it teaches you things you will remember long after you get out of the museum.

Fun games and interactive simulators

The floor also has a lighter side that balances out all the learning, including RC car races, bike and car simulators and a set of VR games. I found myself switching between understanding how things work and then immediately trying to apply it in the games. It keeps you involved without ever feeling like a classroom.

Highlight displays on the Vroom floor

An exploded Mercedes-Benz E-Class

One of the most impressive installations on the floor is the exploded Mercedes-Benz E-Class. It is suspended in a way that pulls every major component apart just enough for you to see how the car comes together. The engine, turbocharger, suspension arms, transmission tunnel, driveshaft, rear differential, fuel tank and wheels are all separated and spaced out, yet aligned exactly as they would be in the actual car. 

You can walk around it, get close to individual parts and finally see how everything in a modern rear-wheel-drive sedan connects. It is one of the most engaging ways to study the layout of a contemporary car.

A Motorwagen prototype and the AMG SL55

A little further into the floor, the contrast becomes even more striking. On one side sits a replica of the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, the very first car, and under the same roof stands the modern-day open-top Mercedes-AMG SL55. This creates a contrast that makes the leap in automotive engineering feel real, as if you are standing at both ends of automotive history at the same time.

Why the new Vroom floor at the MuSo matters

It offers a rare space where cars can be understood beyond the surface

The Vroom floor stands out because it finally gives both young visitors and young adults a place to understand cars beyond their appearance. In a city like Mumbai, where hands-on automotive learning is almost impossible to come by, this space makes the fundamentals of mobility easy to grasp through models, cutouts and real mechanical systems. It is not just an entertainment zone, but a space that can help visitors understand how cars work and eventually drive better, which is especially meaningful in a country like India.

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