The Castle of the Dukes, Bar-le-Duc – France 
Town museum in Bar-le-Duc is located in very nice part of famous town where Ernest Michaux was born. It is not bicycle museum, but very rare example of velocipede made by company Michaux Pére & Cie is there.
Musée du Velo - Saint Usuge, France
An extremly small museum where you will feel giant admiration for riders "Tour de France and their heroic performances.
Contakt: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/23424368
Musée Clément Ader – Muret, France
Ader was an innovator in a number of electrical and mechanical engineering fields. His name very often sounds with early velocipedes, motorcycles, cars and aeroplanes.
Contakt: http://www.mairie-muret.fr/le-nouveau-musee-clement-ader-les-grands-hommes
Musée Carnavalet, Paris – France
The mechanical drive of vehicles is a fascinating story provoking endless debates as to whether it is the forerunner of the bicycle, i.e. the motorcycle or the automobile.
Wheelchairs are a major advance in enabling independence for people with walking difficulties. The first self-propelled wheelchair has been attributed to John Joseph Merlin, the ‘ingenious mechanick’, in the early 19th century and his ‘gouty chair’ is exhibited at Kenwood House. Research would suggest that comparable chairs existed in France as early as 1751 and the French Revolutionary, Georges Couthon, used one to get around Paris. A later design, also attributed to Merlin, the invalid wheelchair, features large wheels with outer hoops for the occupant to grasp and this is the true ancestor of the modern wheelchair.
Contact: https://www.carnavalet.paris.fr
Address: 23 Rue de Sévigné, 75003 Paris, Francie
283/A. Musée Carnavalet, Paris
Château de Montfleury, Avressieux - France
Château de Montfleury is a charming place and a magnificent castle. We must say about the part of the museum with historical bicycles: QUALITY, NOT QUANTITY, IS IMPORTANT. Many fakes, remakes, copies, failed imitations .... certainly not the right place for experts.
Address: Château de Montfleury, 73240 Avressieux, France
Contact:https://www.chateau-montfleury.fr
The Collection Schlumpf – Mulhouse, France
Cité de l’Automobile, Musée national de l’automobile, Collection Schlumpf is an automobile museum located in Mulhouse, France, and built around the Schlumpf Collection of classic automobiles. It has the largest displayed collection of automobiles and contains the largest and most comprehensive collection of Bugatti motor vehicles in the world.
There are hundreds and hundreds of cars on the display but there are no bicycle. One velocipede is in the deposit. Only one, but very and very important for history. Michaux serpentine velocipede from time period March 1868 – May 1868 when Ernest Michaux takes additional premises at19 Rue Jean Goujon still as a sole trader. We know only two examples of surviving velocipede from this time and this Michaux address.
Michaux, 19 R. JEAN GOUJON. AV. MONTAIGNE 29. MICHAUX, BTE S.G.D.G., A PARIS
Collection Schlumpf Cité de l´automobile national museum – Mulhouse
Address: 17 rue de la Mertzau, 8 100 Mulhouse, France
Contact: https://www.musee-automobile.fr/en/
Musée A Bicyclette 40, lit et Mixe, France
Musée A Bicyclette 40, located in Lit-et-Mixe in the Landes region, exhibits a unique collection of vintage bicycles and cycling-related objects collected by Pierrick Vincent. This small museum traces the development of the bicycle between 1868 and 1950 and is housed in a bicycle shop.
Address: 69, Avenue du Marensin, 40170 Lit et Mixe, Francie
Contact: http://www.abicyclette40.fr
Exposition „Les cycles BLAIN ont 50 ans“, Luzinay, France
Cycles Christian Blain, now known as Cycles Blain, was founded in 1975 by Christian Blain and is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion, Gruppetto Rhône-Alpes has organized a weekend celebration dedicated to the brand and its founder, Christian Blain.
Fantastic exhibition, many authentic bikes and artifacts. It is a great pity that the exhibition could not be open to the public for a longer period. Hopefully there will be another opportunity to see these gems and share the joy with local cycling enthusiasts.
Photos: with thanks Le Gruppetto Rhône-Alpes, Georges Sylvestre, Paul Baruzzo…
Address: Rhône-Alpes , France
Contact: https://www.legruppetto.net
Exposition Rétro Vélos - Chapelle Sainte-Anne, La Baule, France
“From Thursday, October 30 to Sunday, November 30, 2025. From the célérifère to the penny-farthing, including the draisine and the velocipede, come and discover the incredible evolution of the bicycle over the centuries!” is how the official website for the exhibition invites you.
Photos: with thanks Christian Leleu
Address: Place du Maréchal Leclerc, Espace Cultural Chapelle Sainte-Anne, 44500 La baule, Francie
Contact: https://www.labaule-guerande.com/exposition-retro-velos-la-baule.html
443 - Exposition Rétro Vélos 2025 - La Baule
The bicycles on display come from the Domaine de Sceaux depository – on the outskirts of Paris. The bicycle collection stored in the depository of a beautiful castle in the Paris area makes up 90 percent of the collection of a famous French collector. His name, Robert Grandseigne (Le Havre 1885 – Paris 1961), is not very well known in the field of bicycles, but you can find it in aviation literature. He was at the beginning of aviation, helped Blériot cross the English Channel, became famous for his night flight over Paris in 1911, and worked in the aviation industry all his life. He was a lover of technology and one of the first bicycle collectors. He built a mobile museum called “The Crazy Ride” and toured various places with it, often including the destination cities of the Tour de France. After his death, his wife donated the entire collection to the state castle of Sceaux in Paris. It was in 1964. Since then, the collection has been presented to the public from time to time at occasional exhibitions.
Address: Domanie départemental de Seaux, 8 Avenue Claude Perrault, 92330 Seaux, France
Contakt Domanie de Seaux: https://domaine-de-sceaux.hauts-de-seine.fr
Sceaux deposit
Original catalogue Grandseigne collection´s from 1936
Expo Cycles Bédoin Ventoux - France
Expo Cycles Bédoin Ventoux - The private collection of memorabilia and racing bikes of Lino Lazzerini, a man whose boyhood dream of being a professional cyclist turned into a 50-year passion for collecting. The collection is housed in a former fire station in the village of Bédoin, which presents a fabulous amount of space.
We have not been able to establish contact with the owner and we do not know if the museum is currently open.
Address: 119 rue du marché aux raisins, Bédoin, France
Contact: https://www.facebook.com/expocyclesbedoinventoux/
Photo: thank you Lucy Alice Holmess and internet
