Mahymobiles, Automobile museum in Leuze-en-Hainaut, Belgium.
Mahymobiles is an automobile museum in Leuze-en-Hainaut displaying over 300 vehicles across six exhibition halls. The collection includes cars, trucks, motorcycles, bicycles, and carriages spanning from 1895 to modern times, with complete vehicles, engines, and mechanical parts on view.
Garage owner Ghislain Mahy bought a Ford Model T in 1944, the first car of a collection that grew to about a thousand vehicles and was housed for half a century in Ghent's former Winter Circus. In 1986, 230 cars went to Autoworld in Brussels. Leuze-en-Hainaut bought the old Ernaelsteen textile factory in 1997, and the museum opened there in 2000.
The collection began with a Ford Model T that garage owner Ghislain Mahy bought in 1944, and grew to about a thousand vehicles. A didactic room explains mechanical workings through engines and chassis, and a gallery traces the evolution of car bodies. A collection of historic toys and miniature cars is also on show, alongside a retrospective of bicycles and motorcycles.
Individual visitors are welcome only during a few parts of the day, from mid-March to the end of October; groups visit by appointment. The museum occupies the former Ernaelsteen textile factory, with 6,000 m² to cover, so allow time for the halls, the gallery on bodywork and the two-wheeler retrospective. A mini-track is set aside for children aged 2 to 7.
Many vehicles in the collection were purchased as scrap metal in the 1950s and painstakingly restored, showing how valuable these pieces have become. The founder rescued machines from the melting pot that now serve as witnesses to transportation history.
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