Car Collection of Rainier III, Prince of Monaco

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The Exhibition of HSH The Prince of Monaco's Car Collection is an automobile museum in the La Condamine district of Monaco. [1]

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The cars were the personal collection of Prince Rainier III of Monaco (1923–2005), and assembled over a thirty-year period. [1] [2] The collection contains almost one hundred classic cars made in Europe and the United States. [1] Notable cars in the collection include the Bugatti Type 35 driven by William Grover-Williams that won the inaugural Monaco Grand Prix in 1929, [3] and Sébastien Loeb's Citroën DS3 WRC, which he drove to victory in the 2013 Monte Carlo Rally. [4] 38 cars from the collection were put up for auction in 2012 due to Prince Albert II's desire to re-organise and expand the collection. [5]

The cars are displayed over five levels in a specially constructed space in the Terrasses de Fontvieille, [2] and the museum is open daily from 10am to 6pm, excluding Christmas Day and New Year's Day. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Museums". Visit Monaco - Museums. Visit Monaco. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
  2. 1 2 "Monaco Top Cars Collection". FIA Heritage Museums. FIA. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
  3. ↑ David C. King (2008). Monaco . Marshall Cavendish. pp.  111–. ISBN   978-0-7614-2567-0.
  4. ↑ "Prince Given Loeb's DS3 for Monaco Collection". Rally Australia - News. Rally Australia. 22 April 2014. Archived from the original on 27 March 2019. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
  5. ↑ https://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2012/07/prince-albert-of-monaco-to-auction-38-cars-from-private-collection.html [ bare URL ]

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