Car museums in various European countries
Comments, questions:
Andorra
- Museu Nacional de l'Automobil
- Av. Co-Princep Episcopal 64, Encamp, Andorra
- Phone Number (and Fax): +376-832266
- Encamp is located in the center of Andorra. As you know, Andorra is a
small country between France and Spain and is located about three hours
from the airports in Barcelona, Spain or Toulouse, France.
- The opening times of the museum are: all days from 9.30h to 13.30h and 15h
to 18h, closed on Mondays. The price is 400 PTA.
- There are more than 90 cars and 100 motorcycles and cycles and also
some models, from the beginning of the automobile through some rare
models to modern.
Croatia
Technical Museum
Savska cesta 18, Zagreb
Ph:
E-mail: tehnicki-muzej@_zg.tel.hr
WWW: www.mdc.hr/tehnicki
Open: Sat, Sun 9-13h; closed on holidays
Displaying: cars, m-cycles, bicycles, trains or trams, firefighting engines, ships or boats, aircraft.
Hungary
There's only one state-financed museum devoted to cars in Hungary and there
are small private collections. But collectors usually don't want to meet
anyone.
- Hungarian Museum of Transport
- H-1146 Budapest, Városligeti krt. 11
- Tel: +36-1-273-3840
- Fax: +36-1-363-7822
- Opens: Mon-Sun: 10-17 h
- A few Hungarian made cars and motorbikes, plus Oldsmobile Curved Dash,
Peugeot, Opel-Darracq and lots of trains, horse-drawn carriages etc.
- WWW: www.km.iif.hu
- E-mail: km@ella.hu
- Veterán Autók és Motorkerékpárok Múzeuma (Museum of Old Cars and Motorcycles
- Páty, Rákóczi u. 13
- Tel: +36-23-343-502
- Private collection of Sándor Tabányi. Appointment only.
- Pintér Mûvek Military Museum and Military Technology Park
- Rákoczy F. Street, Kecel, H-6237 Hungary
- Ph.:+36 (78) 420-444
- WWW: www.pintermuvek.hu/hadeng.htm
- Breathtaking private collection of hundreds of military vehicles, arms models. You can see T34 tanks, airplanes, helicopters and naturally lots of trucks.
Ireland
- The National Transport Museum of Ireland
- Heritage Depot, Howth Demense, Howth
- WWW: www.nationaltransportmuseum.org
- Public transportation vehicles from 1883-1984 including many tramways, buses and other commercial vehicles.
- Museum of Irish Transport
- Scotts Gardens,Killarney, County Kerry
- Ph: 064 32638
- Opening times: 10-18h (March-October), 11-16pm (Nov-Feb)
- Twenty-five cars, among them a unique 1907 Silver Stream, a 1938
Mereedes 540K and a 1955 300SL Gull Wing, displayed alongside bicycles,
fire engines and motorcycles.
Latvia
- Latvia Rigas Motormuseum
- S. Eizensteina 6, Riga, LV-1079
- Opens: Tues-Sun 10.00-18.00
- Tel: +371-7097170
- Fax: +371-7515694
- WWW: www.ltg.lv/english/motormuzejs
- E-mail: rnm@apollo.lv
Luxembourg
- Conservatoire National de Véhicules Historiques
- 20-22 rue de Stavelot, L-9200 Diekirch
- Ph: (352) 268 00 468
- WWW: www.cnvh.lu
- New collection opened in 2004 in the building of "the historic automobile assembly factory of Jean Wagner".
- National Museum of Military History
- 10, Bamertal, 9209 Diekirch
- Phone: +352 808 908
- E-mail: mnhmdiek@pt.lu
- WWW: www.nat-military-museum.lu
- Military vehicles form 1944 - '45
- Musée de Tramways et de Bus de la Ville de Luxembourg
- 63, rue de Bouillon L-1248 Luxembourg
- Phone: +352 47 96 23 85;
- Open: Thu, Sat, Sun 13.30 - 17.30
- WWW: www.rail.lu/tramsmusee.html
- Displaying: trams and buses
Malta
- Malta Classic Car Collection
- Tourists Street, Qawra
- Tel / Fax: (+356) 21 578885
- WWW: www.classiccarsmalta.com
- Opened at the end of 2005, it is the first such museum in the country.
Monaco
- Collection des voitures du SM Prince Rainier de Monaco
- Les Terrases de Fontevieille, Monaco 98000
- Ph: +377 92 05 28 56
- Open: daily 10 - 18h
- Displaying: over 100 cars.
- WWW: www.mtcc.mc
Romania
- Muzeul Tehnic 'Prof. Ing. Dimitrie Leonida'
- Str. Candiano Popescu nr. 2 (Parcul Carol I), Bucuresti
- Ph: +40 33 6 9390
- WWW: www.cimec.ro/muzee/mteh/mteh.htm - last updated in 1999.
- Oldsmobile Curved Dash, Duesenberg Straight Eight, Romanian made Persu, etc.
- Muzeul Militar National
- Str. Mircea Vulcanescu nr. 125-127, Bucuresti
- Open: 9-17h
- Ph: +40 1 637 38 39
- WWW: muzeu.mapn.ro
Slovenia
- Technical Museum of Slovenia
- Bistra near Vrhnika, 1353 Borovnica
- Ph: +386 1 436 16 06,
- WWW: www.tms.si
- About 55 cars, 50 motorcycles and 15 bicycles.
Turkey
- Mehmet Arsay Klasik Otomobil Müzesi
- Atatürk Mahallesi, I.kitelli cad. 178, Halkali - ISTANBUL
- Ph: (212) 548 40 00
- Rahmi M Koç Museum
- Hasköy Cad. No: 27, Hasköy 34445 - Istanbul
- Ph: +90 (0)212 297 6639-40
- Fax: +90 (0)212 297 6637
- www.rmk-museum.org.tr/
- A major collection in Turkey, including Anadol, the home-breed brand from the 1960s, 1970s.
- Sabri Artam Vakfi Klasik Otomobil Müzesi
- Bosna Bulvari 104, Çengelköy, Üsküdar, Istanbul
- Ph: +90 (216) 316 68 63
- Ural Ataman Klasik Otomobil Müzesi
- Nuripasa Caddesi No:81, Ferahevler, Tarabya, 80880, Istanbul
- Ph: +90 (212) 299 4539
- WWW: www.atamanmuseum.com
Ex-Yugoslavia
- Automobile Museum
- 30 Majke Jevrosime st., 11000 Belgrade, Yugoslavia
- Fax.: +381 11 426 269
- WWW: www.belgrade.00page.com/AUTO/3.html
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