Museums in France

François Pigny's private collection of automobiles, mostly made in France. Rarities include a 1908 Brouhot.

This 82 ha wildlife park is a perfect outing for a family: it also includes a reconstituted 1900 village, a guided tour on a tourist train, a lot of old tractors, several classic cars, hundreds of scale models, a few bicycles and motorbikes.

From the beginnings until the "roaring twenties", hundreds of manufacturers such as Buchet, De Dion-Bouton, Clément, Peugeot, Gillet d'Herstal... were born. The 1930s and early 1950s saw the consecration of Jonghi, Bianchi, Gnome & Rhône, Ajs... You can see all these prestigious exhibits.

Today Peugeot has an assembly facility in Poissy, which originally belonged to Ford Fance in the 1930s. This important collection traces the history of the site, with a display of French Ford, Simca, Chrysler and Peugeot cars

As its name suggets Michel Bernard's private collection comprises of old fuel pumps, and a lot of those are on display.

Philippe Charbonneaux, a respected automotive designer set up this collection in the enclosure of a former metallic workshop factory, with a surface of more than 4000 square metre in the 1980s. Following the death of Mr Charbonneaux, the S.C.A.R. association took over the museum, which now houses over 200 cars.

Robert Keyaerts, a late Belgian industrialist amassed the biggest collection of Cadillac cars outside North America. There are also Bentley and Rolls-Royce cars housed in an old castle. The Planchoury estate was, between 1989 and 2006, the first European museum of the American automobile brand Cadillac, bringing together more than seventy exceptional vehicles, now a private collection.

Safran aerospace museum shows the history of Safran propulsion for planes and rockets from 1905 to the present. It features a collection of over 400 engines and also a complete collection of Gnome & Rhone motorcycles.

There are a few motoring museums in this nice castle, including a motorcycle collection of 250 bikes from 1902-1960 and an important selection of Abarth cars.

Standard 216 – Histo Bus Grenoblois is an association of around sixty members whose aim is to preserve and present the history of public transport in the Grenoble region in a museological space. Since its creation in 1989, it has saved around thirty buses, trolleybuses and coaches, and has amassed a rich archive fund.