Yes, we had to have a sit down part way round.

I've been listening to this today :

I've tried getting into Evanescence a few times but sorry it doesn't work for me at all.

Something I listen to/watch quite frequently. Great track/vid.......

Wow! Fabulous museum
Mind you, I reckon I'd need a wheelchair to get round it all

Firstly, thanks to @joe cassidy for your suggested translations. They fit the work better than mine. I'm afraid I don't have any photos of the station.

The day after our exploration of the town centre we caught a No. 1 tram for the short ride to Arrêt Musée de l'Auto. Unsurprisingly, we had come to visit this:



Sorry about the finger.

It's a car museum housed in a former textile works. So far so unremarkable, but its size, focus and history make it unique.
 
Musée National de l'Automobile, Collection Schlumpf is an automobile museum 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.

Brothers Hans and Fritz Schlumpf were Swiss citizens born in Italy, but after their mother Jeanne was widowed, she moved the family to her home town of Mulhouse.

In 1935 the brothers founded a limited company which focused on producing spun woollen products. By 1940, at the time of the German invasion of France, 34-year-old Fritz was the chairman of a spinning mill in Malmerspach. After World War II, the two brothers devoted their time to growing their business, and became wealthy.

Fritz loved cars, driven by an abiding love for beautiful automotive engineering. Having wanted a Bugatti since childhood, he bought a Type 35B just before the German invasion of France.



I'm not sure if this is that actual car, but it is a Type 35 and the fact that it is displayed in isolation suggests it might be.

After the war Fritz began racing classic cars, but was requested by the textile union to "abstain from this competition which could endanger your life and deprive us of our esteemed director." Fritz had been generous to his workers, providing employee trips, installing an employee theatre and driving expectant mothers to the hospital in his own car. This was in great contrast to brother Hans, a former banker, who was extremely stingy towards his employees.
With the arrival of modern postwar designs in the 1950s, pre-war cars became affordably available. Fritz and Hans began collecting in earnest in the early 1950s, developing a reputation in the trade for only buying the most desirable models. Assisted by Mr Raffaelli, a Renault dealer from Marseille and the owner of several Bugattis, they built a Bugatti collection obsessively and quickly:
During the summer of 1960, they acquired ten Bugattis, as well three Rolls-Royces, two Hispano-Suizas and one Tatra. By the end of the summer, they had purchased 40 cars.
Gordini sold them ten old racing cars in one sale.
Ferrari sold a racing single seater.
Mercedes-Benz sold spare cars from its collection.
Racing driver Jo Siffert sold three Lotus racing cars.

Bugatti remained the brothers' focus. Fritz sent a form letter to all owners on the Bugatti club register, offering to buy all of their cars. In 1962 he bought nearly 50 Bugattis. In the spring of 1963, he acquired 18 of Ettore Bugatti's personal cars, including the Bugatti Royale Coupé Napoléon. In 1963 automobile collector John Shakespeare of Centralia, Illinois offered his 30 Bugattis, the largest collection in the United States. Fritz bought all of them, making headlines in the United States. By 1967 the brothers owned 105 examples of the marque.
Over the years nearly 400 items (vehicles, chassis and engines) were acquired, and from 1964 as the woollen industry declined, a wing of the former 200,000 sq ft Mulhouse spinning mill was chosen to quietly restore and house the collection.

A team of up to 40 craftsmen was assembled under a confidentiality agreement to carry out the restoration work. While many around the world knew of the collection, its scale still surprised the unfamiliar.

Fritz visited Mulhouse daily, choosing the colours and type of restoration each car would receive. The workers removed the mill's interior walls and laid a red tile walkway with gravel floors for the cars to rest upon. Seeking to avoid competing against themselves, the brothers remained very secretive about their collection, only rarely showing it to a favoured few.

In light of the unrelenting global shift of textile manufacturing to Asia, by 1976 the Schlumpf brothers began selling their factories. In October the Malmerspach plant laid off employees, and a strike broke out, with 400 police holding back the workers from ransacking the Mulhouse plant. After a stand-off, on March 7, 1977, textile union activists staged a sit-in strike at Schlumpf offices, and broke into the Mulhouse "factory" to find the astounding collection of cars. An unrestored Austin 7 was burned and the workers' union representative remarked "There are 600 more where this one came from."
The Schlumpfs fled to their native Switzerland, and spent the rest of their days as permanent residents of the Drei Koenige Hotel in Basel. But with wages and tax evasion accusations outstanding, the factory was occupied for the next two years by the textile union and renamed "Workers' Factory". To recoup some lost wages, the union opened the museum to the public, with some 800,000 people viewing the collection in two years.
As the scale of the brothers Schlumpf debt rose, various creditors, including the French government and unions, eyed the car collection toward recovering their losses. To save the collection from destruction, break-up or export, the contents were classified in 1978 as a French Historic Monument by Council of State. In 1979, a bankruptcy liquidator ordered the building closed.

In 1981 the collection, buildings and residual land were sold to the National Automobile Museum Association (NAMAoM), a state sanctioned public/private conglomerate that includes: the City of Mulhouse, the Regional Board of the Alsace Region, the organizers of the Paris Auto Show and the Automobile Club de France.
The NAMAoM placed daily management of the museum in the hands of an operating company, the National Automobile Museum of Mulhouse Management Association, which opened the museum to the public in 1982. However, lacking the enthusiasm of the Schlumpfs or the financial drive of the union, the collection gradually fell into decline.
In 1999 NAMAoM contracted Culturespaces to take over and modernise the museum and its operations. Culturespaces renovated the museum, including creating large scale public spaces for other cultural events, while conserving the well-known main hall. Widening the relevance of the museum to a younger audience by being given control of the French national automobile collection, the museum reopened in March 2000 as the largest automobile museum in the world.

In 1981, Fritz Schlumpf filed a lawsuit from Switzerland claiming he was entitled to a portion of the proceeds of the sale to NAMAoM. He died in 1992, but in 1999 a French court found in his favour, and directed that the French Government pay the balance of a 40 million franc indemnity to Schlumpf's widow Madame Arlette Schlumpf-Naas in Switzerland. The court also instructed return of the ownership of the 62 cars in the so-called "Malmerspach collection" (the reserve stock), including 17 Bugattis.
Having moved the cars to a shed in Wettolsheim on the outskirts of Colmar, Madame Schlumpf-Naas drew up a sales agreement with two businessmen, selling them ownership of the cars but retaining them in her storage shed until after her death. Upon her death in 2008, many of the cars were sold to the Mullin Automotive Museum in California.
 
The museum is now listed as a National Heritage site by the French Government and is still dedicated to the Schlumpf brothers' mother.

The collection includes over 520 vehicles, with 400 on display.
 On entering the first hall, one is confronted by this remarkable sight:



On the left are Bugattis as far as the eye can see. On the right are lesser cars, such as Rolls-Royce and Mercedes-Benz.



Of these I was particularly taken with this Merc.



On to the main hall, which is even larger but has mirrors to make it seem bigger still.



Very early cars are in the foreground, but there are cars of all eras in here.
One fairly humble car that caught my eye was this Renault 4 that has been cut down, presumably to make it more convenient around town. It put me in mind of @maridunian's shrunken Canadian trains. Alongside it is a Trabant.



You may have noticed the rather snazzy lamps which illuminate the halls and also provide the useful service of holding the roof up. These are replicas of those on the Alexander III bridge in Paris.
Other parts of the collection were a collection of childrens' cars, a hall full of racing cars and a temporary exhibition of cars from the TinTin stories.
I'm afraid I didn't take many pictures of the exhibits. There were so many it was almost bewildering.
 
Wikipedia provides a list of all the marques in the collection alongside the number of each. There are 123 Bugattis, but only three Fords and a single Volkswagen. Of the best known French makes, there are 18 examples of Renault and Citröen score just ten. There is, however, a Violet-Bogey: something few can lay claim to.
We made our way back into town by tram. Here's one that went the other way whilst we were waiting.



In the Place de la Réunion we found an outdoor bar where we ordered wheat beer and were served one of these each:



You will note that the lady is wearing the traditional dress of Alsace. I mean the headgear, I've no idea if the lack of nether garments is also traditional. The writing in red had me confused. I know the word 'culotte', meaning 'breeches' or 'knickers', but here it seems to have been turned into the past participle of a verb. Fortunately Apple Translate came to the rescue and it actually means "some very cheeky beers" which seems appropriate. The beer was very pleasant, but in due course it was 'bottoms up' and we went in search of dinner then returned to our hotel for a nightcap.

Tell me and we'll both know!

Yeehah!
I'm in for 2 brakes and 1 buffet as soon as we can pre order

Be that one of them thar Geodesic tents?

Going ahead...

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