Top 10 Museums in Andorra, Andorra

The National Automobile Museum shows the entire evolution of vehicles: from Pinette's steam engine (1885) - the museum's oldest exhibit to the second half of the 20th century. The collection is considered one of the most important in southern Europe, comprising eighty cars, some sixty motorbikes and a hundred bicycles. The collection is complemented by a set of objects related to the automotive world: miniatures, posters, advertising, accessories, etc.The tour allows visitors to discover how these mechanical artefactshave been used to transport people and merchandise around theworld, making them one of the most important achievements of the20th century.

Casa Rull was one of the most important houses in La Massana. Themale and female heirs to property and to wealth, labourers and maids,all lived under its roof.The main body of the building is from the 17th century, with later alterations to meet the changing needs of the family. In the 19th century,a fire damaged the attic. At present, it has a ground floor, two upper floors and an attic.The tour shows visitors the Andorra of the 19th and early 20th centuries, showing the Perich family's way of life, when harvesting theland and raising cattle comprised the economic basis of rural life inAndorra.

The Museum is an emblematic building from the beginning of the 20th century, which housed the old Reig tobacco factory in Sant Julià de Lòria, that ran from 1909 until 1957, period where the tobacco crop and manufacture were fundamental to people and villages of Andorra. With a multimedia system, the visitor is guided trough the factory where the different work techniques with tobacco, the products manufacture and commercialization are explained. The museum contains tools, devices, machines, furniture and aromas, which were used in the factories in the first half of the 20th century. The Tobacco Museum is an initiative of the Fundació Julià Reig.

The Rossell Forge was built between 1842 and 1846 and, except fora short period of inactivity, remained open until 1876. This makes it one of the last active forges in Andorra and a living example of the country's pre-industrial heritage.The Rossell Forge has now become an Interpretation Centre aboutiron. Using audiovisuals and a drop hammer demonstration, it explains the process of transforming iron ore into ingots and their subsequent sale to Catalan markets. The tools used to work with this material arealso on show: bellows, furnace, etc.