Museo Nazionale dell'Automobile

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The museum building, work of architect Amedeo Albertini.

The Museo Nazionale dell'Automobile “Carlo Biscaretti di Ruffia” (The National Automobile Museum), named after Carlo Biscaretti di Ruffia is based in Turin, Italy. The museum is considered to be among the most important automobile museums in Europe. The collection has around eighty automobile brands representing eight countries (Italy, France, Great Britain, Germany, Holland, Spain, United States of America, Poland). Total amount of cars is around 170.^[1] The museum is situated in a building dating from 1960, it has three floors, a total over 13,300 sq metres and a volume of 72,000 m³. The museum also has own library, documentation centre, bookshop and auditorium.^[2]

The collection includes the first Italian cars, Bernardi 1896 and 1899 Fiat, the Rolls Royce Silver Ghost 1914, and racing cars by Ferrari and Alfa Romeo.

Also other older cars is included like 1893 Benz Victoria, 1894 Peugeot, 1904 Oldsmobile, 1907 Itala (Peking - Paris), 1913 De Dion-Bouton, 1916 Ford T and 1928 Isotta Fraschini Tipo 8A.

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1 Documentation Centre
2 Library
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Documentation Centre

Fiat 12 HP in museum.

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

[edit] Library

The Library has about 7000 texts, most of them out of business and hard to find. It is divided into seven sections (history of locomotion, history brands, race, technology, biographies, economy and others). Most volumes dating back to the first phase of the automotive industry, from birth until the fifties.

This article incorporates text translated from the corresponding Italian Wikipedia article as of 2008-04-02.