Museums in France

Gaston Garino, a former employee of the DeDion-Bouton company opened this small exhibition dedicated to one of the earliers French brands in 2013. Photo: puteaux.fr

This museum displays around 120 cars from 1912 to 1981. Additionally there about 150 enamel plates, petrol pumps and other automobilia. 

A gathering of enthusiast vehicles, the museum presents a semi-permanent collection of around 80 vintage sports cars and motorcycles. Among these, several unique models in France to discover.

The Vendée Automobile Museum was founded in 1939 by Gaston Giron. Over 160 vehicles are displayed in a vast 3300 m2 hall - cars, bicycles, motorcycles, carriages etc. The hall is decorated with a remarkable collection of posters and advertisements from the past. The museum also features a reconstruction of the first garage of Gaston Giron, dating from 1929.
 

Deriving from the collection of Guignard brothers, the Musée de l'Automobile Valençay traces nearly 80 years of the French automotive industry. There's also an exhibition about The Rallye with archives documents, Remy Duroir's photos, film and some vehicles. In exclusivity you can see the vehicle which participated at the 1996 Paris-Dakar with Pierre Lartigue like driver.

A private collection of over 1400 pieces, including cars, motorcycles and memoribilia

The former Carthusian monastery, a sublime renovated building, hides the history of the monks, the city museum and a small foundation dedicated to the Bugatti family

A very different kind of museum ... housing old cars, toys, tractors, military equipment, gramophones, dolls, and ornaments. Nostalgic memorabilia including old advertisements, one of the very first Michaux bicycles, a Thai rickshaw, a 1947 Plymouth car, a 1924 fire-engine, a Merlin steam machine, a Sikorsky helicopter, a percolator, a Ford Model T, and a whole lot more. It all started approximately 50 years ago.

The 1000m2 building is purpose-built, and holds in all around 50 cars. The museum contains post-war Citroens, exclusively in exceptional, "show room" condition, with very low mileage. The museum is the result of 25 years of passion and dedication to the search for these cars all over France. The whole range is represented from the 2CV to the SM, in an almost "new from the factory" condition. Furthermore, some are exceptionally rare, such as the famous DS no. 32, sold in 1955, and the oldest example of this model known to be in existence today.

There are 130 vehicles on display in this rural museum, including horse-drawn carriages, cars, motorcycles, light trucks and tractors as well