image text: Volvo Museum, Arendal, Göteborg, Sweden

Volvo Museum

Special exhibition during July 2008
Leif Tufvesson’s Hot Rod "Volvo Jakob"

Volvo Museum Day
The first Volvo Museum Day was very successful and took place in Arendal, Göteborg, on May 31. Around 600 people visited the exhibition to listen to presentations by among others Volvo Trucks vetaran vehicle club and to admire the many beautiful and well kept Volvo veteran vehicles that was exhibited outside the museum. The YCC (Your Concept Car) was also transported to the museum for this event.
We will be back also next year with a Volvo Museum Day!

About Volvo Museum
Welcome to Volvo Museum where you can follow Volvo’s development from the very start in 1927 until today for Volvo's different lines of business: trucks, buses, construction equipment, marine, aero, cars - and other products.

The museum also has many exciting exhibits. Besides the first vehicles: ÖV4, the truck LV28 and the bus LV45, you will also find prototypes and much more.

Among the prototypes, there are experimental cars, e g the VESC which preceeded the 240-series, the first electric car, and the concept truck ECT as well as the concept bus ECB. Also Volvo Penta's development of engines, from the early outboards to current high-technology Aquamatic with Duoprop. Among the Volvo Aero exhibits is a radial engine and the first jet engine used inthe Royal Swedish Air Force.

You will also find the joint desk of Volvo's founders, Assar Gabrielsson and Gustaf Larson, from the pioneer years. One section of the exhibition shows Volvo's safety and environmental thinking.

And welcome to watch the film of Volvo's history that starts off your exploration of the Volvo museum - well worth your visit!

Volvo Merchandise Shop
You will also find Volvo Merchandise shop at the Volvo Museum in Arendal. The shop offers a limited numbers of products from the “Official Volvo Merchandise Collection” as well as some products from Volvo Car Corporations “Global Collection” in a new modern designed shop environment!
And most welcome to sit down in our café and have a look in our book shop!

Opening hours:           
Tuesday–Friday 10 am - 5 pm
Saturday–Sunday 11 am - 4 pm

Regular opening hours during summer

Entrance:
Adults: 30 SEK
Children up to 12 years: 10 SEK
Family: 60 SEK
Free parking

How to get to the Volvo Museum

By bus/tram
: Tram 5 or 10 to Eketrägatan. Change to bus 32 towards Sörred. Get off at Götaverken Arendal or Arendal Skans if possible. Follow the signs to Volvo Museum. Bus stop: Arendal Skans

By car: From the E6, E20, rv 40 or rv 45, drive towards Hisingen and then road 155 Öckerö/Torslanda. Follow the signs to Volvo Arendal and Volvo Museum.

GPS: Volvo Museum

Downloads:
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brochure

Contact us:
Phone +46 31 664814
E-mail to museum@volvo.com
website: http://www.volvomuseum.com/
Swedish website

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