I’m a big fan of motorsports, all sorts of cars fascinate me from the wacky early racers at the turn of the 20th century to the highly engineered modern single seaters, prototypes and GT cars.
It probably comes as no surprise that I love a good car museum! Some are better than others but you can always find something interesting to spend time gazing over its beauty or sometimes odd engineering from cars of yesteryear.
Over the years I have spent a lot of time visiting car museums and collections, sometimes travelling hundreds of miles and creating weekends away around a visit to a must see museum.
One of those trips was over to Stuttgart last year for the Porsche and Mercedes Museums, we arrived at the Porsche Museum as it opened for the day to be greeted by what I deem the best display of cars in any museum I have visited.
The whole building was a work of art and the displays were closer to that of an art museum than a traditional car museum, I couldn’t believe the access that the public has here with no barriers around the cars.
The staff were also really friendly and often asked what I was capturing when they saw me waiting with the camera on the floor or edge of a balcony to get the shot I wanted.
The Mercedes Museum was good by the usual standards with a wide range of their vehicles on display but it was a tough one as it followed the visit to the Porsche Museum.
The cars were well displayed but often the cars I wanted to capture were hidden behind others that I wasn’t as interested in, its great to see them on display though.
The Le Mans Museum is one I have visited a few times as they regularly change the exhibits, the most recent visit had a few surprises!
A journey through the history of the 24hr race and the iconic cars awaits any visitors, everything from a selection of Ford GTs, a Shelby Daytona Cobra, Porsche 917s in a few variations of bodywork…
there is also one of the three Mazda 787Bs!
The recent trip featured an Alpine exhibit but also a few cars were still there from the 100 year celebration including the Toyota GT-One.
This year I have also been able to visit the National Auto Museum in Germany, located in Dietzhölztal, about an hour and a half north east of the Nurburgring. It may be out of the way for most tourists but it is well worth the detour with around a billions pounds worth of cars.
The main collection took us about 2.5 hours to look around it all, starting out with historic cars and working our way through to modern supercars and a variety of legendary racing cars. There was also a temporary Opel exhibition for 125 years of the brand and a collection of Ferrari cars beautifully presented, both of these exhibitions will change over time and I look forward to seeing what replaces them.
I’m already planning my next trip to a set of car museums, if you know any that are worth the visit drop me a message!
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