MUSEUM / RETRO ARCHIVE

Museo de Historia de la Automoción de Salamanca

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A museum dedicated to the history of motoring. The evidence also identifies an associated archive, held by the Gómez Planche Foundation, and a documentation centre.

Selected excerpts from our archive offer more context on this subject. Each reading links to the original article and its sources.

A preserved car also needs a documentary history

The available evidence about the Museo de Historia de la Automoción de Salamanca (MHAS) supports this approach cautiously. Spain’s Censo-Guía de Archivos describes an archive linked to the museum and states that the institution holds archival material. The information provided here does not specify the complete contents of those holdings. It is therefore appropriate to discuss the archive’s role without attributing particular documents to it that the sources do not identify.

An automobile museum can also be read through its documents

The Museo de Historia de la Automoción de Salamanca (MHAS) offers a concrete starting point: the Censo-Guía de Archivos directory identifies an archive associated with the museum, while tourism information from Castile and León traces the origins of its holdings to the Gómez Planche collection. These references establish an institution and an archive; they do not allow us to describe specific records that they do not identify.

KEY FACTS
Type
Museum
Country or region
Spain
DOCUMENTARY SOURCES

References

  1. archivo de la fundación gómez planche (salamanca, españa)censoarchivos.cultura.gob.es
  2. Centro de documentaciónmuseoautomocion.com

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