A baggage rack includes a compartment having a lower outer face, an upper face, an open face allowing access to the compartment, as well as a back. The rack is mounted pivoting around an axis of pivoting between an open position in which the open face of the compartment is accessible and in which a rear portion of the lower outer face is concealed, and a closed position in which the open face of the compartment is retracted and in which the rear portion of the lower outer face is visible. The rear portion has a cylindrical form including generatrices substantially parallel to the axis of pivoting of the rack, and the distance from the axis of pivoting to the generatrices is increasing from the back of the compartment toward the open face of the latter.