Mullin Automotive Museum to Close Its Doors Forever Feb. 10

• The world-renowned Mullin Automotive Museum in Oxnard, California, has announced it will close its doors for good on February 10.

• The museum opened in 2010 and housed the greatest collection of French cars of the 1930s ever assembled, rivaled only by the Schlumpf Collection in Molsheim, France. Peter Mullin passed away last year at age 82.

• While four cars will go to the Petersen Automotive Museum, there is no word yet on what will happen to the rest of the automobiles and to all of the art.

It was great while it lasted.

The Mullin Automotive Museum, a bastion of great French cars of the 1930s, as well as art, furniture, and even fashion of the Art Deco movement, will close its doors for good on Feb. 10.

The museum in Oxnard, California, was founded by Peter Mullin and his wife Merle as a place to gather their unsurpassed collection of Bugattis, Delages, Delahayes, Voisins, and other sculptured French cars, as well as furniture and objets d’art from a time that many consider the epitome of car design and artistic expression.

“Peter and Merle Mullin founded the Oxnard-based museum in 2010 to educate guests about 20th-century French automotive styling and design by showcasing the finest vehicles, sculptures, and artifacts from the most-esteemed French master coachbuilders,” read a statement from the museum released today.