Welcome to the Bugatti Trust
Celebrating Bugatti History
A Charitable Trust whose objectives are to preserve and make available for study the works of Ettore Bugatti.
By joining the Bugatti Trust you help:
- Preserve the heritage of the original Bugatti marque and the technical and historic archives of the factory.
- Provide an accessible working archive to the Bugatti community and enthusiasts around the world.
- Preserve the heritage of the artists in the Bugatti family including Rembrandt, Carlo and Lydia.
- Support an active educational STEM outreach programme working with schools, colleges and universities throughout the UK and inspire the next generation of engineers and designers. Initiatives supported include FS Formula Student, F1 in Schools, Formula SAE, VEX Robotics, DofE and bespoke collaborative projects.
Founded over 35 years ago, the Bugatti Trust is a UK registered charity, home to 27,000 technical drawings, over 10,000 historic photographs and thousands of historic documents.
The Bugatti Trust recently welcomed a group of textile students from an important local secondary school. Their brief ? Design handbags inspired by the Bugatti Story! Their final designs and creations will be on public display soon. Another example of inspiring the next generation and we look forward to you
discovering the display.
The Bugatti Trust continues its sponsorship of the Cotswold School’s VEX Robotics’ club and was thrilled to see a number of its teams progress through to the national finals. The Trust also actively supports the school’s competition events by being part of the judging team for primary and secondary schools.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION PRIOR TO VISITING
The Bugatti Trust
Prescott Hill
Gotherington
Cheltenham
Gloucestershire GL52 9RD
The Bugatti Trust is normally open Monday to Thursday between 10 am and 4 pm except on Tuesday when we open at 10.30 due to staff training.
Please telephone 01242 677 201 before visiting.
The last admission to the museum is at 3.30pm.
The Bugatti Trust will be closed on the following dates due to private visits, essential site maintenance & public holidays:
Monday 26th May (Bank Holiday)
Thursday 29th May
Thursday 26th June
Wednesday 2nd July
Brand new exhibition opening in May 2025 taking visitors to the mountains of Sicily with Bugatti at the Targa Florio road race.
Details to be posted here soon!
Current Exhibition
Celebrating 100 years of the Grand Prix Bugatti Lyon, August 3rd, 1924
A special exhibition at The Bugatti Trust Museum and Study Centre
Part of the Grands Prix de l’A.C.F., the Grand Prix d’Europe, Lyon. 3 August 1924. Car line up: No. 7: Jean Chassagne, No. 13: Ernest Friderich, No. 18: Pierre de Vizcaya, No. 21: Leonica Garnier, No. 22: Meo Costantini.
Exhibition finishing at the end of April 2025
The Bugatti Trust Museum and Study Centre’s current exhibition is dedicated to the celebration of the centenary of the birth of the Grand Prix Bugatti.
The exhibition focuses on the Bugatti Type 35 as first presented by Ettore Bugatti to the international motoring community in August 1924 for the Grands Prix de l’Automobile Club de France weekend held in Lyon, France.
From The Bugatti Trust archive, the exhibition includes the earliest original sketch as drawn by Ettore Bugatti himself when he wrote to racing drivers Vincenc “Čeněk” Junek and his wife Elizabeth Junek presenting his concept of the Type 35 racing Bugatti. Gifted by Elizabeth Junek to The Bugatti Trust founder Hugh G. Conway in 1968, it is the most important document of the ‘origin story’ of this famous model.
The archive also includes what is believed to be the first blueprint for the Bugatti Type 35 carrosserie and some original film footage from the actual Lyon race which will be screened at the Trust.
Car No. 18 Pierre de Vizcaya
Car No. 13 : Ernest Friderich
All images from The Bugatti Trust Archive
