The Museo Nazionale dell'Automobile di Torino (National Automobile Museum), known as MAUTO, is an automobile museum in Turin, Italy, founded by Carlo Biscaretti di Ruffia.
The museum has a collection of almost 200 cars[2] among eighty automobile brands representing eight countries (Italy, France, Great Britain, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, United States of America, Poland).
Also included are for instance an 1893 Benz Victoria, an 1894 Peugeot, a 1904 Oldsmobile, the 1907 Itala from the Peking to Paris race, a 1913 De Dion-Bouton, a 1916 Ford T and the 1929 Isotta Fraschini Tipo 8A that starred in Sunset Boulevard.
The collection consists of photographs by tens of thousands of prints in black and white and it works in conjunction with the Ministry for Cultural Heritage.
The museum's library holds about 7,000 texts, most of them out of print and hard to find.