Museo de la Moto de Bassella, Motorcycle museum in Bassella, Spain
Museo de la Moto de Bassella is a dedicated motorcycle museum in Bassella, Spain, housed in a simple building with wide hallways and accessible entrances. Inside, vintage and modern bikes stand on neat displays, with labels in several languages giving the year and maker of each machine.
Màrius Soler began restoring motorcycles in his Bassella workshop after the Spanish Civil War, and his sons Estanislau and Toni continued the collection. Estanislau and Cristina Soler opened the museum in February 2002, the first created in the Catalan Countries devoted exclusively to motorcycles. The building was constructed with materials recovered from the old houses of Bassella, submerged by the Rialb reservoir in 2000.
The museum grew from the collection of Màrius Soler, who began restoring motorcycles in his Bassella workshop after the Spanish Civil War; his sons Estanis and Toni continued the work, and Toni raced enduro in the 1970s. A room reproduces that original workshop piece by piece, with Soler's tools and photographs. The lower floor is renewed periodically with thematic shows, such as a 2011 exhibition on Bultaco, Montesa and OSSA.
The space is arranged for easy walking, with wide hallways, lifts, and accessible bathrooms for people with reduced mobility. Visitors usually spend about an hour and a half inside, and children can use a play area and join the Museum Game while adults browse.
A full-size reproduction of an old workshop was carefully moved from its previous site in Bassella and rebuilt inside the museum. Visitors can step inside and see the exact tools and objects used more than twenty years ago to restore many of the bikes on display.
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