Velo museums - Velo museums - STERBA-BIKE.cz

A summer exposition with many local high wheels.

Contact: http://www.muzeumkolin.cz

album: 245 - High Wheels - Kolin

Top Mountain Motorcycle Museum. Located in the heart of the Ötztal Alps, it houses 170 valuable exhibits in a purpose build exhibition space. And the best thing of all is that the museum stands just a few metres from the Timmelsjoch High Alpine Road, known among motorcycle enthusiasts as one of the best roads in the Alps.

Motoguzzi, BMQ, Sunbeam, Indian and Harly Davidson are just a few of the famous manufacturers to be found in the 2,600m² exhibition, which also features a number of classic cars. The museum, which is the highest motorbike museum in Europe, was opened in 2016.

Contact: https://www.crosspoint.tirol/en-home

album: 244/A - TOP Moutain Motorcycle Museum

There are six galleries at the Streetlife Museum -

The Bicycle Gallery -

explores the history and development of the bicycle and its links to Hull’s history. It has an excellent collection of early bicycles including an 1818 Hobby Horse.

The Carriage Gallery -

has one of the finest carriage collections in public ownership in Britain.  Make sure you enjoy the smells of the stable as you step from the Hull York Mail Coach ride.

The Motor Car Gallery -  

takes you to the 1900 Motor Show, with rare veteran motor cars dating from 1897 onwards.

The Streetscene Gallery -

is where you find yourself on a busy street of reconstructed shops.  There is a cycle shop, a Yorkshire chemist shop and a Hull Co-operative shop from the 1930s.

The Railway Gallery -

is a reconstructed 1930s goods shed containing several items of interest, including the Cottingham North signal box, transported brick by brick from its original location and reassembled here.

The Joseph Rank Gallery looks at the life, career and legacy of Joseph Rank, the industrial revolution in flour milling and Hull’s ideal location as the catalyst for this to happen. On display are replicas of Joseph Rank’s freedom of the city scroll and the silver commemorative windmill commissioned to house it. You’ll also find an interactive feature which shows how roller milling produces flour and a digital picture frame showing views of the River Hull which was dominated by Joseph Ranks’ massive Clarence Mills complex

Contact: http://humbermuseums.com/museum-hull/streetlife-museum/

album: 243 - Streetlife Museum

The summer exhibition METAMORFOSI MECCANICA organized at the beginning of June 2019 on the occasion of the famous Giro d'Italia visited also the legendary Vicenzo Nibali (in the photo) was a selection of the collection of historical bicycles "Collezione velocipedi e biciclette antiche A. & C. Azzini"

Photos: A. & C. Azzini

album: 242/A - Collezione A. & C. Azzini

A private museum present 10 main sector with circa 200 bicycle, they cover up the period between 1818 and 1955. There’re several typology of partition in order to have a clear image of the evolution of the bicycle. The Museum will be open only in the time table available in Facebook at the page Velocipedi e biciclette antiche collezione privata A & C Azzini and if you won’t find a date there you can have a reservation just for you in the weekend simply by keeping in touch in facebbok’s page.

Contact: www.velobiciantiche.it

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/velobiciantiche/

album: 242/B - Collezione A. & C. Azzini

A very nice and friendly small private museum not far from Paris. Nice atmosphere and smell there - typical for france museums and velo-moto collection. Many seasonal exhibitions and events are organized there every year.

Contact: http://www.musee-ateliers-des-pionniers.fr

album: 241/A - Musée Ateliers des Pionniers

A small privat museum in very nice area - Kuks village.

Contact: http://www.veteran-muzeum-kuks.cz

album: 240 - Museum Kuks 2019

A small local exposition near Prague with all bicycles and items from local factories and clubs.

Contact: http://www.omk.cz

album: 239/A - Kladno 2019

Powerhouse Museum is part of Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences  in Australia. A small colection of bicycles is there. The exposition 200th Anniversary of the Bicycle was organized there in 2017 and all highlights from their collection was showed.

Contact: https://maas.museum

album: 238 - Powerhouse Museum

New museum was opened in the Czech Republic during summer 2017.

Over 200 bicycles from all time period.

Contact:    http://www.barokniarealzirec.cz 

album: 220 - Museum Žirec 2019

A secret place in Geneva/Switzerland viseted by the Swiss highwheel specialists Jürg Zaugg and Anders Thorell early January 2019. These highwheels and boneshakers have been sitting there untouched since the late 1930s. Exciting discovery !
Many thanks to the curator of the "Musée d'Art et d'Histoire" of Geneva who was able to open the Museum's reserves. A new highly secured facility has just been constructed where all the Geneva public museums will centralise their reserves.The bikes are therefore now stored in a less romantic place than what you saw on the previous post but with a better climate control.The museum has a total of seven vintage bikes, none of which have ever been shown to the public since they were donated to the museum between 1934 and 1949. The museum's intention is to start showing one or two from next year on.

Photos were taken by Anders Thorell 2019

Contact: http://institutions.ville-geneve.ch/fr/mah/

album: 234 - Musée d'Art et d'Histoire Geneva