Rolls-Royce Museum

Rolls-Royce Museum
Rolls-Royce Museum
Location within Austria
Established 1999 (1999)
Location
  • Gütle 11a
  • 6850 Dornbirn
  • Austria
Coordinates 47°23′26″N 09°46′37″E / 47.39056°N 9.77694°E / 47.39056; 9.77694Coordinates: 47°23′26″N 09°46′37″E / 47.39056°N 9.77694°E / 47.39056; 9.77694
Type Automobile museum
Collection size over 1000
Director Johannes Vonier
Website Rolls-Royce Museum

The Rolls-Royce Museum is a privately owned automobile museum in Dornbirn, Vorarlberg, Austria. Established in 1982, and officially opened to the public in 1999, it has been said to have the world's largest collection of Rolls-Royce cars.[1]

The museum was originally housed in a former factory owned by F. M. Hämmerle.[2] In 2017, the museum's founder, Franz Vonier, died, and the local city and state decided to cease subsidising the museum's rent payments. The founder's successors, Bernhard and Johannes Vonier, therefore moved the museum to a smaller building nearby that they owned themselves.[3]

With less space available in the smaller building, the museum now focuses on its more special exhibits, and plans to present a new theme each year.[4] The museum's permanent collection is made up of over 1,000 objects,[5] including around 70 cars.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "FIA Heritage Museums: Historic Vehicles around the World". Fiaheritagemuseums.com. Retrieved July 19, 2016.
  2. ↑ Hagen, Josef (14 August 2013). "Rolls-Royce-Museum will bleiben" [Rolls-Royce Museum wants to stay]. Vorarlberger Nachrichten (in German). Retrieved 23 October 2013.
  3. ↑ "HA" (6 December 2017). "Rolls-Royce-Museum auf neuen Wegen" [Rolls-Royce Museum on a new path]. Vorarlberger Nachrichten (in German). Retrieved 23 July 2018.
  4. ↑ "HA" (22 May 2018). "Rolls-Royce-Museum auf neuen Wegen" [Rolls-Royce Museum on a new path]. Vorarlberger Nachrichten (in German). Retrieved 23 July 2018.
  5. ↑ "Vonier Rolls Royce Museum". FIA Heritage Museums. Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
  6. ↑ Arnold, Kathy (9 May 2013). "Bregenz, Austria: a cultural city guide". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 23 October 2013.

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