Museo de Automoción Eduardo Barreiros

About the museum

The Eduardo Barreiros Museum opened in 1998 on the Valmayor estate in Valdemorillo, and was the first museum in Spain devoted to a single figure in the motor world. It commemorates Eduardo Barreiros (1919–1992), who built one of the country’s largest private industrial companies in the 1950s and 1960s.

The building is an extension of existing sheds next to a small bullring and was designed by Jacobo Pérez-Enciso, with Manuel González Burdiel and Juan José Carral. The exhibition hall covers some 800 m² across two floors.

The permanent collection comes from donations, purchases and family objects, and is complemented by an important documentary archive. Highlights include a ZIS-5 truck, the Barreiros C-24 engine, a sectioned EB-6 diesel engine used for demonstrations, a Simca 1000, a Dodge Dart 270 and a model of the Barreiros Diésel factories. The museum is interactive: many of the exhibits can be touched, and since a 2003 agreement with the ONCE the route has been adapted for visitors with visual impairments.

Highlights

• First Spanish museum devoted to a single figure in the motor industry
• ZIS-5 truck and Barreiros C-24 engine
• Sectioned EB-6 diesel engine used for demonstrations
• Pieces that can be touched, with a route adapted for visitors with visual impairments
• Family and company documentary archive

Permanent exhibition

• Colección permanente Eduardo Barreiros – Vehicles, engines, models and a documentary archive tracing the career of the engineer and of his company.

Founded

1998

Operated by

Fundación Eduardo Barreiros

Admission & discounts

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Accessibility

• Wheelchair accessible: no information
• Elevator: no information
• Accessible restroom: no information
• Accessible parking: no information
• Service dogs welcome: no information
• Tactile models & exhibits
• Sign language tours: no information
• Easy-to-read materials: no information
• Audio description: no information

Interactive museum: many exhibits (cars, trucks, tractors) can be touched. Since a 2003 agreement with the ONCE, the layout of the rooms has been adapted for visitors with visual impairments. The website gives no information on wheelchair access.

Kids & families

• Hands-on stations

Getting there & parking

The museum is on the Valmayor estate, on the Camino de las Huertas, next to the M-600 road (km 16,600), about 50 km from Madrid.

Amenities & dining

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Events & venue rental

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