Car museums in various European countries

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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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