Museo de Historia de la Automoción de Salamanca, Automotive museum in Salamanca, Spain.
The Museo de Historia de la Automoción de Salamanca is a car museum in the center of Salamanca, Spain, housed in a converted industrial building. It displays around 100 vehicles from different periods, along with photographs, technical documents, and machinery that show how cars were made and used over time.
The building originally served as an electricity generating plant that supplied power to the city. It was converted and opened as a museum in September 2002, giving a new purpose to one of the city's old industrial sites.
The building facing the Casa Lis was Salamanca's first electricity generating plant, not a car factory. The museum opened in late September 2002, inaugurated by King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofía, and was the first public museum in Spain devoted to the motor vehicle. Its core is the collection assembled over more than 40 years by Demetrio Gómez Planche, a former technical architect, later joined by vehicles from the Dirección General de Tráfico and the Centro Histórico Iveco-Pegaso.
The museum is in the center of Salamanca and easy to reach on foot from most of the old city. If you are driving, parking close by can be tricky, so leaving the car in a central parking garage and walking is a practical option.
The 1930 Hispano-Suiza is kept in its original condition and has never needed restoration. The museum also holds a Cadillac Fleetwood 75 that belonged to Francisco Franco and a 1922 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost. Only about 90 of the roughly 240 vehicles are on display at a time, rotating through the collection.
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