Automuseum Engstingen, Automobile museum in Großengstingen, Germany.
Automuseum Engstingen houses over 120 vehicles including cars, motorcycles, mopeds, and historic bicycles spread across about 1200 square meters of exhibition space. The collection spans different eras and shows how personal transportation has evolved over time.
The museum grew from a private vehicle collection in the 1980s and opened to the public in 1987 in a former knitwear factory building. The location in a repurposed industrial structure shows how communities preserve old buildings as cultural spaces.
Since 2000 the museum grounds have hosted a Roller- und Kleinwagentreffen every 3 October, where almost 800 vehicles were counted in 2019. A US-car meeting was held there each June, and the museum rooms could be booked for civil wedding ceremonies.
The museum was open seasonally from Easter to the last weekend of October, and it closed permanently at the end of 2024 for cost reasons, so it can no longer be visited. Its two floors were reached through the converted knitting factory, with the motorcycles, mopeds and bicycles mostly on the upper level.
The rarest exhibit was a 1942 Fiat Sport that the museum described as the last surviving example of its model. In 1988 Fiat tried to buy it for its own museum, but the municipality refused. The oldest vehicle on show was an 1898 De Dion-Bouton motor tricycle.
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