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 contains the largest and most comprehensive collection of Bugatti motor vehicles in the world.
It is not easy to render the passion animating these two brothers who - at a time when old cars were scrapped- came to the idea of buying, repairing and refurbishing 437 cars representing the epic of the European luxury car. All these jewels are now arranged in groups on washed gravel, crossed by tiled terracota coloured paths in a 17 000 sqm room, lit by 845 lampposts identical to those of the Alexandre III bridge in Paris, and voiced by a mechanical Mortier organ contemporary to the cars. It is the fulfillment of a dream. The work of the Schlumpf-brothers, testimony for the future generations will remain in Mulhouse for ever.
After three days, at the French authorities instigation, the SCHLUMPF brothers are brought to the Swiss border, in Basel where they officially took up residence. The H.K.C. factory is then occupied and the whole world discovers and admires a prestigious collection which is quickly envied. Some people claim that the collection could be collected only to the detriment of the industrial activity of the Schlumpf companies, which is inaccurate. Others, especially the authorities, see at once the immense benefits it could generate for Mulhouse and the Alsace region.
Schlumpf affair In 1978, the government ordered most of the Schumpf collection put on the historical register.
Cars are then sold in 1982 by the property managers appointed during the sales of all the possessions of the SCHLUMPF brothers for an absurdly low price of 44.000.000,00 Francs to the association owner of the National Museum of the Motorcar- the aforementioned association being essentially constituted by state, regional and local authorities such as the city of Mulhouse, the Alsace Region , the Haut-Rhin département , the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, etc-.
The SCHLUMPF brothers are thus deprived of all their possessions.
Another association, responsible for the management, has to run the Museum on a daily basis.
On July 10, 1982, the Museum opens its doors officially. In ten years it will receive over four million visitors and will be consecrated as "The first car collection in the world ". Countless procedures marked the judicial column of what has been called " the tremendous legal battle of the SCHLUMPF case ".
After the interventions of the presidents of the Bar Wachsmann and Schreckenberg and of Mr. Martin Meyer attorney in Strasbourg, the Court of Appeal of Paris, presided by the man who became the highest Magistrate in France some months later, officially reintroduced the SCHLUMPF patronymic in the naming of the Museum in May 1988.
After having visited the museum, the magistrates wanted to do the founders of the Museum justice. They determined : " That the action of gathering and collecting and the passion that inspired their authors constituted and continues to constitute a message and a testimony the creative initiative of which deserves protection as being the expression of a right of the personality close to the moral right ". They underlined Fritz and Hans SCHLUMPF's personal initiative, considering that it deserved a judicial protection and that it was " the work of a man testifying of a specific time and of a creative genius ".
Bentley Cabriolet 4.25 1937
Bentley Cabriolet 4.25 1937
Bugatti 35B-8 Type 43 1931
Bugatti 68B-4 1942
Bugatti 68B-4 1942
Bugatti Atalante Type 57SC 1936
Bugatti Atalante Type 57SC 1936
Bugatti Atalante Type 57SC 1936
Bugatti Atalante Type 57SC 1936
Bugatti Atalante Type 57SC 1936
Bugatti Atalante Type 57SC 1936
Bugatti Atalante Type 57SC 1936
Bugatti Atalante Type 57SC 1936
Bugatti Atalante Type 57SC 1936
Bugatti Berline Type 57 1939
Bugatti Berline Type 57 1939
Bugatti Biplace Course Type 13 1921
Bugatti Biplace Course Type 13 1921
Bugatti Biplace Course Type 13 1921
Bugatti Biplace Course Type 13 1921
Bugatti Biplace Course Type 32 1923 Tank
Bugatti Biplace Course Type 32 1923 Tank
Bugatti Biplace Course Type 32 1923 Tank
Bugatti Biplace Course Type 32 1923 Tank
Bugatti Biplace Course Type 35 1925
Bugatti Biplace Course Type 35 1925
Bugatti Biplace Course Type 35 1929
Bugatti Biplace Course Type 35 1929
Bugatti Biplace Course Type 35 1929
Bugatti Biplace Course Type 35A 1926
Bugatti Biplace Course Type 35A 1926
Bugatti Biplace Course Type 35C 1929
Bugatti Biplace Course Type 35C 1929
Bugatti Biplace Course Type 37A 1929
Bugatti Biplace Course Type 37A 1929
Bugatti Biplace Course Type 51 1931
Bugatti Biplace Course Type 51 1931
Bugatti Biplace Sport Type 16 1912
Bugatti Biplace Sport Type 16 1912
Bugatti Biplace Sport Type 16 1912
Bugatti Biplace Sport Type 16 1912
Bugatti Biplace Sport Type 51A 1933
Bugatti Biplace Sport Type 51A 1933
Bugatti Biplace Sport Type 51A 1933
Bugatti Cabriolet Type 57 1936
Bugatti Cabriolet Type 57 1936
Bugatti Cabriolet Type 57SC 1938
Bugatti Cabriolet Type 57SC 1938
Bugatti Coach Type 57 1935
Bugatti Coach Type 57 1935
Bugatti Coach Type 57 1936
Bugatti Coach Type 57 1936
Bugatti Coach Type 57 1937
Bugatti Coach Type 57 1937
Bugatti Coupe Type 57C 1936
Bugatti Coupe Type 57C 1936
Bugatti GP Type 251 1955
Bugatti GP Type 251 1955
Bugatti Limousine Type 41 Royale sn-41131 1933
Bugatti Limousine Type 41 Royale sn-41131 1933
Bugatti Limousine Type 41 Royale sn-41131 1933
Bugatti Limousine Type 41 Royale sn-41131 1933
Bugatti Monoplace Decalee CO 1926
Bugatti Monoplace Decalee CO 1926
Bugatti Type 40 1921
Bugatti Type 40 1921
Bugatti Type 40 1921
Bugatti Type 41 Royale
Bugatti Type 41 Royale SN 41100
Bugatti Type 41 Royale SN 41100
Bugatti Type 41 Royale SN 41100
Bugatti Type 49 1933
Bugatti Type 49 1933
Bugatti Type 55 1932
Bugatti Type 55 1932
Bugatti Voiture D'enfant Type 52 1927
Bugatti Voiture D'enfant Type 52 1927
Bugatti Voiture D'enfant Type 52 1928
Bugatti Voiture D'enfant Type 52 1928
Bugatti Voiture D'enfant Type 52 1928
Bugatti Voiture D'enfant Type 52 1928
Bugatti-4
Bugatti-4
Cisitalia D46 1948
Cisitalia D46 1948
Clement-Bayard Torpedo 4M 1913
Clement-Bayard Torpedo 4M 1913
Clement-Bayard Torpedo 4M 1913
Clement-Bayard Torpedo 4M 1913
Dufaux Biplace Course 100-120PS 1904
Dufaux Biplace Course 100-120PS 1904
Ferrari F1 156B 1963
Ferrari F1 156B 1963
Ferrari F2 500-625 1852
Ferrari F2 500-625 1952
Gordini GP Type 16 1952
Gordini GP Type 16 1952
Gordini GP Type 32 1955
Gordini GP Type 32 1955
Le Zebre Torpedo Type A 1913
Le Zebre Torpedo Type A 1913
Lotus Type 18 F1 1961
Lotus Type 18 F1 1961
Maserati Biplace Sport 2000 1930
Maserati Biplace Sport 2000 1930
Maserati Biplace Sport 2000 1930
Maserati GP 1936
Maserati GP 1936
Maserati GP 250F 1958
Maserati GP 250F 1958
Maserati GP 250F 1958
Matra MS 120 1970
Matra MS 120 1970
Matra MS 670C 1973
Matra MS 670C 1973
Maybach Cabriolet DS8 1934
Maybach Cabriolet DS8 1934
Maybach Limousine SW 38 1937
Maybach Limousine SW 38 1937
OSCA TN Simpson Spedial Record car 1955
OSCA TN Simpson Spedial Record car 1955
OSCA TN Simpson Spedial Record car 1955
OSCA TN Simpson Spedial Record car 1955
OSCA TN Simpson Spedial Record car 1955
OSCA TN Simpson Spedial Record car 1955
OSCA TN Simpson Spedial Record car 1955
Porsche 908 LH 1968
Porsche 908 LH 1968
Porsche RS Spyder 2006
Porsche RS Spyder 2006 Audi R8R 1999
Audi R8R 1999
Porsche SC Safari Rally 1978
Porsche SC Safari Rally 1978
Porsche Type 2708 F1 1988
Renault Torpedo Type AX 1911
Renault Torpedo Type AX 1911
Rolls-Royce Biplace Silver Goast 1912
Rolls-Royce Biplace Silver Goast 1912
Rolls-Royce Biplace Silver Goast 1912
Rolls-Royce Landaulet Silver Ghost 1924
Rolls-Royce Landaulet Silver Ghost 1924
Simca-Gordini 15S 1950
Simca-Gordini 15S 1950
Soncin Quadricycle 1901
Soncin Quadricycle 1901
Talbot GP 26C 1949
Talbot GP 26C 1949
Tatra Limousine Type 87 1937
Tatra Limousine Type 87 1937
1935-1939
1935-1939