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The Museo Nazionale dell'Automobile (The National Automobile Museum), founded by Carlo Biscaretti di Ruffia, is an automobile museum in Turin, northern Italy. The museum has a collection of almost 200 cars[2] among eighty automobile brands representing eight countries (Italy, France, Great Britain, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, United States of America, Poland).[3] The museum is situated in a building dating from 1960, and it has three floors. After restructuring in 2011 the museum is open again, and its exhibition area has been expanded from 11,000 square metres (120,000 sq ft) to 19,000 square metres (200,000 sq ft).[4] The museum also has its own library, documentation centre, bookshop and auditorium.[5]

Museo dell'Automobile di Torino

Location within Turin
Established	3 November 1960; 61 years ago (1960-11-03)[1]
Location	Corso Unità d'Italia 40, Turin, Italy
Coordinates	45.0318545°N 7.6713941°E / 45.0318545; 7.6713941
Type	Automobile museum
Collections	Cars and automibiles
Director	Mariella Mengozzi
Website	www.museoauto.com

Collection

The museum's collection includes the first Italian cars, a Bernardi from 1896 and a Fiat from 1899, a Rolls Royce Silver Ghost from 1914, and racing cars by Ferrari and Alfa Romeo. Also included are for instance an 1893 Benz Victoria, an 1894 Peugeot, a 1904 Oldsmobile, the 1907 Itala from the Peking to Paris race, a 1913 De Dion-Bouton, a 1916 Ford T and the 1929 Isotta Fraschini Tipo 8A that starred in Sunset Boulevard.

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  Reproduction of Cugnot's vehicle
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  Fiat 12 HP
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  Cisitalia 202
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  Fiat Turbina

Documentation Centre

The Documentation Centre collects historical data sheets, photographs, documents, sales brochures, construction diagrams, and everything related to cars that they were able to collect over the years. The collection consists of photographs by tens of thousands of prints in black and white and it works in conjunction with the Ministry for Cultural Heritage.

• Museum building photographed by Paolo Monti, 1961
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  Interior
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  Exterior
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  Detail

Library

The museum's library holds about 7,000 texts, most of them out of print and hard to find. It is divided into seven sections (history of locomotion, history of brands, racing, technology, biographies, economy, and others). Most of the volumes date back to the first phases of the automotive industry, from the beginning until the 1950s.

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Museo Nazionale dell'Automobile di Torino.

• Official website

На других языках

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- [en] Museo Nazionale dell'Automobile

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[it] Museo dell'automobile di Torino

Il Museo Nazionale dell'Automobile di Torino (MAUTO), attualmente intitolato a Gianni Agnelli[1][2][3] (in precedenza al fondatore Carlo Biscaretti di Ruffia), ha sede a Torino ed è considerato tra i più importanti e antichi musei dell'automobile del mondo.[4] Il museo dell'auto è visibile anche su internet tramite un tour virtuale sul sito Google Maps con la funzione Street View.[5]

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[ru] Музей автомобиля (Турин)

Национальный музей автомобиля в Турине[4] (также Туринский автомобильный музей[5]; итал. Museo dell'automobile di Torino, MAUTO) — историко-технический музей в итальянском городе Турин (область Пьемонт), основанный в 1933 и открытый в ноябре 1960 года; в 1975 году музей был расширен за счёт библиотеки, центра документации и фотоколлекции; был повторно открыт после трёхлетней реконструкции в марте 2011 года; коллекция насчитывает около 200 автомобилей.

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