Motorcycle Monday: Top Mountain Crosspoint Motorcycle Museum Burns

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Over 230 vintage motorcycles were inside.

Once hailed as the highest-altitude museum in Europe, Top Mountain Crosspoint museum was tragically damaged in a fire early on January 18. Located in Austria at the base of Timmelsjoch mountain pass road, it previously contained the most extensive and valuable vintage motorcycle collection on the continent at over 230 examples, many of which are feared to have been destroyed.

The motorcycles contained in the museum were from over 100 different manufacturers like Sunbeam, Matchelss, and Zundapp, chronicling a large swath of the continent’s rich motorcycle heritage. Many of those bikes have a strong historical significance since they were used to win big races in their time.

A special exhibit of about 50 Indian motorcycles was on display at the museum. Included in that display was a 1926 Indian Scout 600 Solo and the Indian Munro Special, a 1920 Scout modified by Burt Munro to break numerous speed records, an effort immortalized in the film The World’s Fastest Indian back in 2005.

Nobody had been able to visit the museum since it closed its doors on November 3 of last year in compliance with the Austrian government’s COVID-19 restrictions. However, a reopening with precautions we’re all familiar with these days was scheduled for January 24.