This is a little gem of a museum, an eclectic collection over three floors, from the last years of the ninetteenth century to prototypes of the early 21st. The start, with a motley collection of old motorcycles, belies the gems to follow, including a totally original and unrestored Hispano-Suiza from 1910. There's also the only Muntz (an American marque) in Spain. Well worth an hour of anyone's time, good value for small boys too (though there is nothing you can climb on). As is often the case in Spain, watch out for the long lunch closure: opening hours are 10 til 2 and 5 til 8, closed on Mondays. Well worth a visit.
The best auto museum we have ever been to, a great collection of vehicles and a very interesting display of Spanish police vehicles and history.
I have been in hollydays in spain and traveled by car from viseu to salamanca then bilbao and then santiago de compostela. Tried to visit as many car museums as possible. but only find this one (there was another near bilbao but only opens on sundays). This one only closes on mondays so it's perfect. 3.5€ it's cheap for the amount of cars they have and the quality of the cars. There is cars from all eras and all in great shape very original. it charges 1€ to take pictures and i think it's a good politic. it was 2 hours well spent looking at amilcars, pegaso, hispano suiza, rolls royce and so on. they have a small description of the history of the car and when not available theres a description of the history of the brand/model. I liked it very much. Congratulations.
Check the opening times, as we were too early the first time. We were surprised at just how many exhibits there are from G.B., France, Italy, U.S.A as well as Spain and how well displayed.
An eclectic collection of cars, ancient and modern, in a nice exhibition space - the old ones are both more interesting, and beautiful, of course. The chronology is odd, you'd have thought that they'd start with the old, and progress to the new, and, generally speaking they do, but with some very odd glitches. It's annoying that all descriptions are exclusively in Spanish, it wouldn't be difficult to get some English/French/Italian/German translations too. So, worth a visit, and it's cheap to get in, but it's not a patch on the brilliant auto museum in Turin.
Anyone with an interest in cars and motoring should visit this museum. It has a fabulous collection of cars from the 1880s to today - all beautifully restored, showing the history of motoring in Spain, and by extension, the general progress of the motor car over 130 years or so. It is interesting to compare the early models with the Renault F1 car from 2009 (which, incidentally, is placed near one of the most iconic cars ever - the VW Beetle), but there are competition cars from all eras alongside 'everyday' cars and 1920s Grand tourers. The only drawback is that the descriptions of the cars and their histories are in Spanish only, so those who don't speak or read Spanish will have difficulty in reading the stories of the cars - which are often very interesting. In spite of this, it is definitely worth a visit.
I was pleasantly surprised to find this type of quality auto museum in Salamanca; it was a excellent way to spend a few hours seeing art the rolls !
The car museum is a very welcome change after all the old churches etc that have probably taken up most of your time in Salamanca. A breath of fresh air. Also it's interesting in itself, even to someone who normally isn't interested in cars. I was particularly impressed by the huge 1910 Hispano-Suiza and 1922 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost. Those were the days!
Well, as a museum, I expected to see plenty of old cars, pieces and other things related to car. There are plenty of plans about cars, which for people interested in this, I think it's great, but for me, means nothing. For me, some pictures with old cars or real old cars would mean something.I think that the BMW museum from Munich is better.
Very interesting collection of cars from the end of the 19th century to the present day. Even some models of pre-car vehicles from the 17th century. We were alone for most of our time there. The vehicles are attractively displayed in mirrored lined rooms giving the impression of loads of space.