Reims Automobile Museum

Reims, France

Musée Automobile Reims-Champagne is a motor museum located in Reims. It was founded in 1985 to house the collection of Philippe Charbonneaux.

The museum was founded in 1985 to house the collection of Philippe Charbonneaux. The premises at 84 Avenue Georges Clémenceau, 51100 Reims, house the fifth largest vehicle collection in France, with 230 cars and motor bikes dating from 1908.

The collection includes: Amilcar, Berliet, Chenard-Walcker, CIME, Citroën, DB, De Dion-Bouton, Delage, Delahaye, Panhard, Peugeot, Renault, Salmson, Simca and Talbot. The motorcycle collection includes: BSA, Condor, Gillet, Monet-Goyon, Motobécane, Norton, NSU, Soyer, Terrot, and Triumph.

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Founded: 1985
Category: Museums in France

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Paul Briggs (8 days ago)
Really good visit, greeted by a lovely lady at reception. A fare price and a large collect of model and full size cars.
Richard Pepper (13 days ago)
Interesting collection of mainly French vehicles, ranging from pre-war to early 90s. It was a hot day and being in what is essentially a warehouse building, was quite warm inside (too much for my better half). Would be good if there were English translations for the descriptions, but overall interesting and quirky, worth €10 entry if you're a car fan.
Benjamin Cowell (2 months ago)
What a delightful motor museum. Traditional in layout with a strong history on prewar French cars. Visit here and you'll find out about marques you'll have forgotten about.
Carl Z (4 months ago)
Must visit for all car enthusiasts. They have French cars which does not exist outside of France, and there are more Ford model Ts here than the Ford museum in Dearborn.
James (8 months ago)
This is a smallish auto museum with a respectable collection. We went in February and I think it was colder inside than outside. Despite that, we spent about one hour browsing their collection, which included motorcycles/scooters/bikes, cars of course, a few fire engines, a collection of kids push toy vehicles, and a quite large collection of small model vehicles similar to Matchbox. They had decent bathrooms. Admission a bit steep at 10 euros/person but still worth a visit if you like this sort of thing.
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