Thursday, March 29, 2012

Any information about Musee de l’Automobiles, please...

Can anyone give me any information about the Musee de l’Automobiles? I%26#39;m struggling to find anything online.





-Is it any good?



-What are the highlights?



-Opening hours?



-Cost?



-Does it have its own website?





Thank you.




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The museum was located between Cannes and Antibes, but I%26#39;m (fairly) sure that it closed at the end of last year and the owner sold off most of his car collection.





Perhaps someone else will be able to confirm this.




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I can, sadly: we were at the museum (which was actually in Mougins) on its last, very rainy day. We were told that the museum closed because of not enough visitors--and I know exactly why that was: the museum was extremely hard to find. It was fairly well sign-posted from the autoroute, but from Mougins there was virtually nothing. We ended up calling the French friend whom we were to meet, then waited in a supermarket parking lot until she came for us and led us to the museum. Even SHE had a hard time finding it, and she lives only about 10 miles away.





But we saw some great cars and got lots of good pictures. There were two cars, including a superb Bentley, that could be rented...along with a chauffeur to drive them. My favorite of the collection was a gorgeous Lancia.




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You may know this already but Monaco has a car museum which is still open -





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