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Even before stepping inside, the Louwman Museum’s remarkable collection exudes an aura of excellence, signalling its status as a true museum. Nestled in the charming city of The Hague, Netherlands, the museum’s grand and refined architectural masterpiece is surrounded by a park meticulously designed by a landscape architect, a testament to Erbert Louwman’s appreciation for beauty. Each car and object showcased within this museum is transformed into a singular work of art, reflecting the owner’s devotion to refined perfection.

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The collection, now in its third generation of the Louwman family. Originating in the 1930s through the vision of Erbert’s father, a prominent car dealer and importer in the Netherlands, the collection and family business have passed seamlessly from father to son. Today, even Erbert’s daughter Quirina actively participates in the activities, competing in demanding historic races like Le Mans Classic behind the w

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This Is What’s Inside The World’s Oldest Private Car Collection

The Hague is a city that’s absent from my normal radar, but when I received the invitation to visit the oldest private collection of automotive history in the world, I dropped everything and found myself pulling up to the huge brick building a few days later.

“LOUWMAN MUSEUM” is written in prominent capital lettering along the tops of the U-shaped structure designed by American architect Michael Graves, and it’s a grand first impression. I would find out soon enough that it was a fitting one for what I was to find within.

The Museum is not only home to cars like the Jaguar D-Type that the Scottish Ecurie Escosse racing team won Le Mans with in 1957—the collection houses quite a lot of champions and front-runners from that race’s history—but its wide range captures things like the quaint Fiat 850 Shellette Spider (pictured below the blue XKSS). They had NASCAR to the nascency of

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About Louwman Group

Louwman Group is a family business established in 1923. We work based on our mission: the passion to move people. Customers, employees and society are central to all we do.

We want to offer them the best-fitting mobility. We live by five core values: customer driven, continuous improvement, feeling responsible, show courage and together we are Louwman. The Louwman Group activities are allocated across four divisions. There is also a group staff and the Louwman Museum.

At Louwman, 4,000 colleagues are active in four divisions across the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, and the Czech Republic.

With import companies for such automobile brands as Toyota, Lexus, Morgan and Suzuki, Louwman has been among the largest automobile distributors in Europe for decades. Motorcycles and outboard engines are also familiar sectors. The Louwman Dealer Group covers more than 50 retail locations.

But our passion to move people goes even further. As a provider of