Musée de l'automobile, Valençay – France +++++

A private museum with a great many machines from local manufacturers. Mix of cars, motorcycles and bikes.

Contact: http://www.musee-auto-valencay.fr/#Accueil.A

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Musée Automobile de Provence, ORGON - France +++++

Very interesting auto, motorcycle and bicycle museum includid big shop with parts for historic cars and other antique machines. In the museum space is open stylish bar. Many and many examples there are in junction with brand Bugatti. Mr Delliere, who owns this museum has got enormous amounts off Bugatti parts in his live, and even directly from the stock of factory before time than factory was closed. We know some copies of famous Bugatti tube bicycle frame (but just one only or some sources claim 4 or 5 were built by Bugatti), but we don´t know if the machine which is at home here is original or the frame was made by using Bugatti´s drawings and the new computer redrawing. Nevertheless it is nice and very interestig part of bicycle history.

Kontakt:  http://www.musee-auto-provence.com/fr/contact/contact.cfm

98 - Musée Automobile de Provence

Musée Automobile - Reims (Champagne), France +++++

The museum in Reims is one of the 5th most important French automobile museums share its collections is now managed by an association of collectors. There are ower 230 cars, many motorcycles, bicycles and small mechanical cars.

Contact: http://www.musee-automobile-reims-champagne.com/fr

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Monpelier MUSEE DE L’AUTO " LE TACOT", Aigues-Mortes - France +++++

The Aigues-Mortes Automobile Museum, also known as the Tacot Museum, exhibits the collection of Albert, a longtime car and vintage enthusiast. The cars are restored and maintained by the owner, a professional coachbuilder and saddler, and his mechanic brother. The owner is a former very successful athlete - bodybuilder. Traces of his career can be found almost everywhere.

Address: 332 Av. Pont de Provence, 30220 Aigues-Mortes, France

Contact: https://automobile-museums.com/musee-de-lauto-aigues-mortes/

363 - MUSEE DE L’AUTO " LE TACOT"

EXHIBITION “THE CYCLE IN SAINT-ETIENNE, A CENTURY OF KNOW-HOW”, France +++++

The exhibition „LE CYCLE À SAINT-ETIENNE, UN SIÈCLE DE SAVOIR-FAIRE" in 2014 and 2015 offered a unique insight into the history of bicycle production in Saint-Etienne to all lovers of two wheels.

From the end of the 19th century, Saint-Étienne became a leader among designers and manufacturers of spare parts for this new bicycle industry. The 1920s are considered the golden age of cycling in Saint-Étienne and saw the development of big brands that became iconic: Ravat, Automoto, Hirondelle, Cyclo and then Mercier and many others. Companies have built their reputation thanks to technical innovations or active involvement in key areas of cycling practice, which are sports, races and cycling tourism.

Address: 2 Pl. Louis Comte, 42000 Saint-Étienne, France

Contact:  https://mai.saint-etienne.fr

345 - The exhibition „LE CYCLE À SAINT-ETIENNE"

Universal museum - MUSÉE 1900 – France +++++

The Castle of the Dukes, Bar-le-Duc – France +++++

Town museum in Bar-le-Duc is located in very nice part of famous town where Ernest Michaux was born. It is not bicycle museum, but very rare example of velocipede made by company Michaux Pére & Cie is there.

Contact: http://museebarrois.eklablog.fr/accueil-c520768

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Musée du Velo - Saint Usuge, France +++++

An extremly small museum where you will feel giant admiration for riders "Tour de France and their heroic performances.

Contakt: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/23424368        

 http://www.bresse-bourguignonne.com/musee-du-velo-1-121.htm 

48 - Saint Usuge, France

Musée Clément Ader – Muret, France +++++

Ader was an innovator in a number of electrical and mechanical engineering fields. His name very often sounds with early velocipedes, motorcycles, cars and aeroplanes.

Contakt: http://www.mairie-muret.fr/le-nouveau-musee-clement-ader-les-grands-hommes

69 - Clément Ader, France

Musée Carnavalet, Paris – France +++++

The mechanical drive of vehicles is a fascinating story provoking endless debates as to whether it is the forerunner of the bicycle, i.e. the motorcycle or the automobile.

Wheelchairs are a major advance in enabling independence for people with walking difficulties. The first self-propelled wheelchair has been attributed to John Joseph Merlin, the ‘ingenious mechanick’, in the early 19th century and his ‘gouty chair’ is exhibited at Kenwood House. Research would suggest that comparable chairs existed in France as early as 1751 and the French Revolutionary, Georges Couthon, used one to get around Paris. A later design, also attributed to Merlin, the invalid wheelchair, features large wheels with outer hoops for the occupant to grasp and this is the true ancestor of the modern wheelchair.

Contact: https://www.carnavalet.paris.fr

Address: 23 Rue de Sévigné, 75003 Paris, Francie

283/A. Musée Carnavalet, Paris