French Motorcycles

Motorcycle Museums of France

French Motorcycle Museums and Cultural Collections

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Museums of France:


Jean-Luc Gaignard Collection
Montflours, Mayenne
An important collection of over 200 motorcycles assembled over the course of 40 years, it includes an example of the infamous Landru.
Gaignard-Jean-Luc

Musées de Châtellerault
La Manu 3, Rue Clément Krebs, Châtellerault
Museum of automobiles, bicycles and motorcycles - and much more...
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Baster Museum
Musée Baster at Riom, just north of Clermont-Ferrand, has a good array of Italian, French and British machines, some well-known and some quite exotic.
The museum hosts a motorcycle marketplace on the second sunday of each month, and has done for some thirty years.
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Musée Chapy
Boujan-Sur-Libron
An interesting private collection of motorcycles and scooters including several exceedingly rare specimens.
Musée Chapy

Musée De La Moto Et Du Cyclo
25 Rue des Encloux, 16130 Gensac-la-Pallue. (near Cognac)
Private collection, inspection by appointment.
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Musée Ateliers des Pionniers
Place de la gare, (Pont-sous) Gallardon
28230 Bailleau-Armenonville
Large collection of interesting machines.
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Musée Peugeot
Sochaux, Franche-Comté
Displays some 130 of the 300 motorcycles and bicycles in the collection, along with a similar number of automobiles.
Musée Peugeot

Musée Werther
Private museum, Rue Barla, Nice
Werther Pasquetti's collection contains a number of quite exquisite machines from Terrot, Monet et Goyon, Thomann, FN and the like. It is discussed here:
Society of Automotive Historians

Musee de Montjean sur Loire
The museum closed in September 2006. More...

Musée D'Automobiles du Forez
Sury Le Comtal. Closed in 1981. More...