The Musée National de l'Automobile, Collection Schlumpf, is in Mulhouse, Alsace, France. It displays the largest collection of automobiles in the world and holds the largest Bugatti collection. The Swiss-born brothers Hans and Fritz Schlumpf built the collection with wealth from their woollen spinning business. By 1967 they owned 105 Bugattis.
From 1964 a wing of their Mulhouse spinning mill, about 19,000 square meters, was restored to house the cars. The collection was classified as a French historic monument in 1978 and was sold in 1981 to the National Automobile Museum Association. Culturespaces modernized the museum in 1999, and it reopened in March 2000.
The collection includes over 520 vehicles, about 400 of which are displayed. The museum houses three Bugatti Royales, two originals and one replica. It welcomes roughly 200,000 visitors a year.
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