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Ivars bilmuseum

Private vintage car museum in Hoting with over 100 vehicles from 1906 to 1986, one of Europe's foremost private collections.

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About the museum

Bil-Ivar Ericsson (1938–2007) grew up in Svedje outside Hoting and, together with his brother Åke, started a car workshop and car sales business in a converted cowshed in the early 1960s. The company later moved to Hoting and during the 1960s became the agent for, among others, Mercedes-Benz. Already in the 1960s Ivar began to collect various vehicles, and when the cars stood in barns and storerooms around the Tåsjö area, the idea of a museum was born.

Ivars bilmuseum was inaugurated on Saturday 15 June 1984. Since 2009 the collection has been housed in new premises of 1,600 square metres in Hoting, where visitors encounter motoring history from the early 20th century to the 1970s.

The collection comprises over 100 vehicles from 1906 to 1986, including a Mercedes-Benz 300 “Måsvingen” (gull-wing) from 1957, a Rolls-Royce Phantom II from 1932, an Orient Buckboard from 1906 and a Ford De Luxe from 1940. Each year the museum swaps out some vehicles to keep the exhibition alive.

Highlights

Over 100 veteran vehicles from 1906 to 1986
Mercedes-Benz 300 “Måsvingen” from 1957
Rolls-Royce Phantom II from 1932
Princess Vanden Plas that belonged to King Gustaf VI Adolf and Queen Louise
Orient Buckboard from 1906 – one of two surviving in Sweden
Mercedes 600 Pullman with six doors

Permanent exhibition

Bilar och motorcyklar – Collection of classic vehicles from the first decades of motoring up to the 1980s, including the Mercedes-Benz 300, Rolls-Royce Phantom II and Orient Buckboard.

Founded: 1984
Operated by: Ivars bilmuseum