An ardent collector, Fritz Schlumpf started with a passion for tin soldier armies, then postage stamps. In the years preceeding the second world war, Fritz Schlumpf, who had always felt attracted by cars, bought a Bugatti 35 B.
As he participated in hill climbs in the Vosges mountains and liked the beautiful motorcars, he had the brilliant idea of gathering in a single place the old cars which marked the century of the automobile industry. He really began his collection in 1960. Methodically, he collected old cars, bought wrecks, set up a restoration workshop. This museum was to be the flagship of the Schlumpf group.
Both brothers dedicated it to their mother, Jeanne who had died in 1957 and who had had a great impact on their lives of ceaseless work. The museum covers a surface of 20.000 sqm accessible to the public with 17.000 sqm only for the showroom. |
