Expo of Petr Šimpach – Bílovec Museum, Czech Republic
Exhibition "BICYCLE from birth to the second half of the 20th century"
Petr Šimpach, a student from Bílovec, has been collecting vintage bikes since he was thirteen. He perceives this passion of his as an activity that saves a piece of history for future generations and can thus, at least in a small way, contribute to ensuring that it is not forgotten. You can view the complete collection of Repeko Cycles (@repeco_cycles) supplemented by exhibits loaned by the Moravan and Elegant associations in Ostrava in Bílovec Museum.
The whole exhibition is a very nice achievement of a passionate young collector. Congratulations and fingers crossed! You can visit the exhibition from Tuesday 24 January to Tuesday 28 February 2023 during the opening hours of the Bílovec Museum.
Address: Zámecká 691/5, 743 01 Bílovec, Czech Republic
Contact: https://muzeum.kcbilovec.cz
album: 296/A - Bílovec Museum 2023
EXHIBITION GRAND OPENING: Monday 23 January 2023
album: 296/B - Bílovec Museum 2023
Museo del Ciclismo Gino Bartali, Florencie - Italy 
The “Gino Bartali” Cycling Museum is located in Florence in via Chiantigiana, near Ponte a Ema, and was opened in April 2006. The museum is dedicated to cycling lovers and to the fans of Gino Bartali, born right here in 1914.
The first room is in fact a tribute to the great champion, nicknamed “Ginettaccio,” cyclist and serviceman who won three Giri d’Italia, two Tour de France and other trophies in the 1930s and 40s. The second room is about other renowned cyclists, with their biographies and various jerseys. The third room is home to period bicycles from the 1800s to the mid-1900s, including those used by champions such as Fausto Coppi and Giuseppe Olmo. Most of the objects on display were donated by cycling enthusiasts and associations.
Address: Via Chiantigiana, 177, 50126 Firenze FI, Itálie
Contact: https://www.ciclomuseo-bartali.it
Science Museum Oklahoma – OK, USA
Science Museum Oklahoma has over 200 bicycles in its collections.
Address: 2020 Remington Pl, Oklahoma City, OK 73111, USA
Contact: https://www.sciencemuseumok.org
Château de Nyon, Nyon, Switzerland
It is a beautiful castle building from the middle of the 12th century. The building now houses courts, the municipal council, a prison and, since 1888, a museum. The collections mainly document local history. In the exposition we can also find several very valuable and interesting historical bicycles.
Address: Château de Nyon, Place du Château, CH - 1260 Nyon
Contact: https://www.chateaudenyon.ch/en/
album: 293 - Château de Nyon
AcdB Museo - CITTÀ DELLE BICICLETTE, Alessandria, Italy
Allesandrie in the north of Italy is an important place for the history of cycling. The place that was and is the headquarters of many bicycle manufacturers, the place where racing cycling on the track and the road was born and the place where literally entire generations of cyclists were born, grew up and lived.
Address: Via S. Lorenzo, 21/23, 15121 Alessandria AL, Italy
Contact: https://www.acdbmuseo.it/en/
Indiana State Museum, Indianopolis, IN – USA
Exposition: Major Taylor – Fastest cyclist in the world!
The museum's website invited the exhibition in 2022 with these words:
„Discover the life and career of champion bicycle racer and Indianapolis native Marshall “Major” Taylor. In this interactive experience, venture into the training room to learn how Taylor developed his speed and agility through a strict regimen of exercise and diet. Discover the pervasive racism that Taylor battled – from his competitors and in his hometown – and hear from great contemporary cyclists about how Taylor’s story has inspired a new generation of Black riders. See Taylor’s bicycle and many artifacts from the museum collection donated by his daughter Rita Sydney Taylor Brown, plus learn about bicycle safety and design, tinker with bikes and bike parts, test your skills and times on stationary bikes and more.“
Address: 650W.Washington St., Indianopolis, IN 46204
Contact: https://www.indianamuseum.org
Museo Nazionale dell'Automobile, Turin - Italy
The Museo Nazionale dell'Automobile (The National Automobile Museum), founded by Carlo Biscaretti di Ruffia is an automobile museum in Turin, northern Italy. The museum has a collection of almost 200 cars among eighty automobile brands representing eight countries (Italy, France, Great Britain, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, United States of America, Poland). The museum is situated in a building dating from 1960, and it has three floors. After restructuring in 2011 the museum is open again, and its exhibition area has been expanded from 11,000 square metres (120,000 sq ft) to 19,000 square metres (200,000 sq ft).
Address: Corso Unità d'Italia, 40, 10126 Torino TO, Itálie
Contakt: https://www.museoauto.com
album: 290/A - Museo Nazionale dell'Automobile
The development of the tire is precisely the reason why we included the Museo Nazionale dell'Automobile among the cycling museums. Blending with the development of the bicycle is very close.
The second and most important reason was the ongoing MOTUS exhibition.
Expo Motus: The Prehistory of the Automobile - Museo Galileo – Italy
The dream of autonomous movement, independent of human and animal energy, is as old as the history of mankind. Its first expressions are lost in antiquity and are reflected in art, poetry and literature.
In thirteen stages, they take the visitor on an ideal journey that begins in Mesopotamia in the third millennium BC and ends with Karl Benz’s automobile in 1886. In between, there are extraordinary projects, which, from time to time, spring from intuitions destined to become a turning point in the field of automobility.
Exhibition Dates 08.04.2022 – 25.09.2022
Contact: https://mostre.museogalileo.it/motus/en
Address: Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile di Torino, Corso Unità d'Italia, 40, 10126 Torino (TO), Italy
Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia "Leonardo da Vinci", Milan - Italy
An unobtrusive entrance to the kingdom of technology. However, we were not pleased during our last visit in 2022. The complete part of the transport section with bicycles and cars was canceled and moved to the depository.
album: 99/A -Museo "Leonardo da Vinci", Milan
The museum is the largest science and technology museum in Italy, and is dedicated to Italian painter and scientist Leonardo Da Vinci. It was opened on February 1953.This museum, in the ancient monastery of San Vittore al Corpo of Milan, is divided in seven main departments. Transport part had a lot of very interesting bicycles including „Triciclo a leve manuali - Cavallo Meccanico“.
Address: Via San Vittore, 21, 20123 Milano MI, Itálie
Contact: http://www.museoscienza.org/
Exhibition "Thunder to the pedal", Vysoké Mýto Czech Republic
The director of the Regional Museum in Vysoké Mýto, Jiří Junek, has prepared for the 2022 season an exhibition about the beginnings of cycling called Thunder to the Pedal!
A very well-built exposition, interesting with eye-catching labels even for laymen. Experts, on the other hand, marveled at the number of interesting machines that were borrowed from regional depositories or private collections.
Address: A. V. Šembery 125, 566 01 Vysoké Mýto, Czech Republic
Contactt: https://www.muzeum-myto.cz/cs
