Irbit State Motorcycle Museum
{{Short description|Museum in Irbit, Sverdlovsk, Russia}}
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| location = Irbit, Sverdlovsk, Russia
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The Irbit State Motorcycle Museum ({{langx|ru|Ирбитский государственный музей мотоциклов}}) is a museum in Irbit, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. The museum was created as a State Museum of the Russian Federation to protect the former IMZ Factory Museum from sale and dispersal.{{Cite book |last1=Katsoni |first1=Vicky |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IhOGDwAAQBAJ |title=Smart Tourism as a Driver for Culture and Sustainability: Fifth International Conference IACuDiT, Athens 2018 |last2=Segarra-Oña |first2=Marival |date=31 January 2019|publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-030-03910-3 |pages=229–231 |language=en}}
History
The museum was officially opened on 25 June 2004 as the Irbit Motorcycle Museum.{{Cite news |last=Garrett |first=Jerry |date=17 September 2006|title=From Siberia With Sidecar: Riding a Red Army Time Machine |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/17/automobiles/collectibles/17URAL.html |access-date=25 January 2024|work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}} It received the status of a State Museum of the Russian Federation on 1 January 2006. Its current director is Alexandr Ilyitch Bulanov, a notable historian in the town of Irbit as well as a Guinness Book of Records-holder for Ural motorcycles.
Architecture
It is temporarily housed in a building at 100a Ulitsa Soviestskaya, in Irbit, while a permanent home is built in Ulitsa Lenina.
Exhibitions
The keystone of the museum was the collection of the Design Department of the IMZ factory acquired by local authorities in 2002. The museum contains an extensive collection of production, racing and prototype bikes from the IMZ-Ural Factory as well as many foreign models from a wide range of manufacturers. The collection is unique in its display of the development of the Russian heavy motorcycle.