Car Collection of Rainier III, Prince of Monaco

The Exhibition of HSH The Prince of Monaco's Car Collection is an automobile museum in the La Condamine district of Monaco.^[1] The museum exhibits the personal car collection of Prince Rainier III of Monaco, which he assembled of a period of thirty years.

Entrance to the automobile museum in Monaco

The collection

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]

The museum also displays cars that have been donated or lent. One such car is a Ferrari SF90 that was driven by Charles Leclerc in the 2019 Formula One World Championship.^[6]

History

Prince Rainier III opened his collection up to the public in 1993, after his collection became too large to keep at the palace garage.^[7] The collection was originally kept at the Terrasses de Fontvielle, but was moved to a new building at Port Hercules, in the middle of the Grand Prix Circut, in 2022.^[6][7]

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See also

• List of museums in Monaco