Classic Car Wife

We visited these museums in August 2025 as part of a broader road trip of Northern Italy https://www.classiccarwife.com/post/cars-opera-culture-moneypenny-goes-to-northern-italy. We were staying in Modena for two nights and purchased a combination ticket for both Ferrari museums at a cost of around 40 euros. You really need a car (or be part of a tour group) to travel between the two museums. Our first stop was the Museo Ferrari in Maranello. This museum focusses a lot on the

We visited this museum in August 2025 as part of our road trip of Northern Italy in MoneyPenny. https://www.paninimotormuseum.it It is a private collection of Maseratis that were owned by a local farmer in the 1990s who then rescued the Maserati Collection of 14 key cars when the company changed hands. The collection has recently been relocated to a new building in a new location so you need to check that you have the correct address before heading there. It's open every day

This is a museum dedicated to the early years of the famous Mille Miglia or 'Red Arrow' race between 1927 and 1957 https://www.museomillemiglia.it/en/index.php The museum has been set up in a beautiful old building complex and opened in 1996. Before the tragic accident that killed 11 people in 1957, this was a speed race that was like no other in the world. Drivers started in Brescia and drove to Rome and back in crazy average times of over 130- 150km/h over several days. The

We arrived in beautiful Girona after the long drive from Saint Tropez. We had visited Girona in 2019 BCCW (Before Classic Car Wife) and really loved it. This is a stunning city with magnificent buildings, art, museums and culture. I had booked us into the Hotel Historic in the old town - a beautiful conversion of on old building and our room was stunning! It's a family owned and run hotel and very friendly. Being an old town there was no parking but we lucked it with a free s

We are about to start an amazing road trip around Spain over the next few weeks. We've already been on the road for a few weeks. I've been to a conference in Lausanne and we've had some time in the south of France relaxing and working remotely. While I was at the conference, Mr F stopped off at Mulhouse to view the Schlumpf Collection. https://www.musee-automobile.fr/en/ . What a shame that I missed out on that (not!). He says the best thing was seeing over 130 Bugattis in th

This museum has an amazing collection of (mainly French) cars. It's well worth a visit. I thought I'd post separately on this one to...

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Barcelona is another of our favourite cities and this tiny little car museum in the back streets of Barcelona is intriguing. I don't know...

On our 2019 France-Spain road trip we went to THREE car museums! They are everywhere! This one in Provence has a rather lovely little...

We love LA. It's a great city and we are tragic Disney-philes. Mr F particularly loves the Peterson Museum so I negotiate time at the...

It was amazing to visit Gracelands to learn so much about Elvis but as a side issue there is also a great display of his cars at the...

We did a great road trip on the Blues Highway from Nashville to New Orleans in 2019 and managed to find two car museums along the way!...

You would not believe how many car museums there are in this world! They are everywhere! Mr F has a knack for sniffing them out wherever...