Rolls-Royce Museum

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|name = Rolls-Royce Museum

|image = Rolls-Royce Museum Dornbirn 058.jpg

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|alt = Rolls-Royce Museum

|map_type = Austria

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|coordinates = {{coord|47|23|26|N|09|46|37|E|type:landmark_region:AT-8|display=inline,title}}

|established = {{start date and age|1999}}

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|location = {{unbulleted list|Gütle 11a|6850 Dornbirn|Austria}}

|type = Automobile museum

|collection_size = 70 cars, over 1000 items

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|director = Johannes Vonier

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|website = [http://www.rolls-royce-automobilmuseum.at Rolls-Royce Museum]

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The Rolls-Royce Museum is a privately owned automobile museum in Dornbirn, Vorarlberg, Austria. Established in 1982, and officially opened to the public in 1999, it has been said to have the world's largest collection of Rolls-Royce cars.{{cite web |url=http://www.fiaheritagemuseums.com/121-vonier-rolls-royce-museum.html |title=FIA Heritage Museums: Historic Vehicles around the World |newspaper=Fiaheritagemuseums.com |accessdate=July 19, 2016}}

The museum was originally housed in a former textile factory owned by {{Interlanguage link multi|F. M. Hämmerle|de}}.{{cite news |last=Hagen |first=Josef |title=Rolls-Royce-Museum will bleiben|trans-title=Rolls-Royce Museum wants to stay | language=de |url=http://www.vorarlbergernachrichten.at/lokal/vorarlberg/2013/08/13/rolls-royce-museum-will-bleiben.vn |accessdate=23 October 2013 |newspaper=Vorarlberger Nachrichten |date=14 August 2013}} In 2017, the museum's founder, Franz Vonier, died, and the local city and state decided to cease subsidising the museum's rent payments. The founder's successors, Bernhard and Johannes Vonier, therefore moved the museum to a smaller building nearby that they owned themselves.{{cite news |author1="HA" |title=Rolls-Royce-Museum auf neuen Wegen |trans-title=Rolls-Royce Museum on a new path |url=https://www.vn.at/lokal/vorarlberg/2017/12/05/rolls-royce-museum-auf-neuen-wegen.vn |accessdate=23 July 2018 |work=Vorarlberger Nachrichten | language=de |date=6 December 2017}}

With less space available in the smaller building, the museum now focuses on its more special exhibits, and plans to present a new theme each year.{{cite news |author1="HA" |title=Rolls-Royce-Museum auf neuen Wegen |trans-title=Rolls-Royce Museum on a new path |url=https://www.vn.at/lokal/chronik/2018/05/21/rolls-royce-museum-auf-neuen-wegen-2.vn |accessdate=23 July 2018 |work=Vorarlberger Nachrichten | language=de |date=22 May 2018}} The museum's permanent collection is made up of over 1,000 objects,{{cite web |title=Vonier Rolls Royce Museum |url=http://www.fiaheritagemuseums.com/121-vonier-rolls-royce-museum.html |work=FIA Heritage Museums |publisher=Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile |accessdate=23 October 2013}} including around 70 cars.{{cite news |last=Arnold |first=Kathy |title=Bregenz, Austria: a cultural city guide |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/spain/10046671/Bregenz-Austria-a-cultural-city-guide.html |accessdate=23 October 2013 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=9 May 2013}}

Highlights from the permanent exhibition include:{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/austria/articles/Rolls-Royce-Museum-Austria-Tales-of-the-Unexpected/|title=Rolls-Royce Museum, Austria: Tales of the Unexpected|last=Wade|first=Paul|date=2016-02-05|work=The Telegraph|access-date=2019-08-20|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}}

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