The Museum of Automobiles presents historic automobiles, related memorabilia, historic arcade machines, an antique gas pump, a player piano, and antique firearms. The museum permanent collection consists of 30 vehicles—with others on loan from locations throughout the U.S. Vehicles on display date from 1904 through 1969.
The museum offers exhibits. Advance notice is required for groups.
The Motorsports Museum and Hall of Fame presents more than 40 racing vehicles. These include racing cars, powerboats, drag racers, motorcycles, racing snowmobiles, and air vehicles. Topics addressed include the people, companies, and equipment behind the racing industries. The Hall of Fame celebrates important members of the racing industry, past and present.
The museum offers exhibits, racing simulators, games, films, group tours, and school field trips. Reservations are required for group tours and field trips.
The Studebaker National Museum presents the history of the Studebaker Corporation, an automobile manufacturer; and, in doing so, displays U.S. transportation history. The Studebaker brothers' blacksmith shop, founded in 1852, would eventually be reconfigured as the world's largest wagon manufacturer and the producer of both military and civilian vehicles. Collection highlights include a 19th-century Conestoga wagon; military vehicles from six wars; and the presidential carriages of Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin Harrison, Abraham Lincoln, and William McKinley. Lincoln's carriage is the vehicle he used to travel to Ford's Theater the night of his assassination. The Studebaker Archives house more than 50,000 images, engineering drawings, and 500 motion picture titles comprising the corporate archives of the Studebaker Corporation, the Packard Motor Car Company, and local South Bend industries. The museum structure itself incorporates design elements of Studebaker dealerships of the 1920s and 1930s.
The museum offers exhibits, tours, archival access, and research assistance. Both archival access and research assistance require payment.
The Isham-Terry House is a time capsule of genteel life in turn-of-the century Hartford. Dr. Oliver Isham bought the 1854 Italianate Villa in 1896. Here he had his physician's office and lived with his sisters Julia and Charlotte. Julia and Charlotte occupied the house until the 1970s, defying the urban renewal juggernaut that demolished so many historic homes. The sisters made so few changes and modernizations to the house that crossing its threshold today is like stepping back in time. Room after room is filled with objects of historical and family significance: ornate gaslight fixtures; stained-glass windows; rare books and paintings; Connecticut-made clocks; and memorabilia from Hartford High School, the Ishams' alma mater. Even Dr. Isham's office, with surgical instruments and medicines, was left undisturbed. Dr. Isham also possessed a rare collection of early Connecticut automobile memorabilia.
The house offers exhibits and tours.
The Northwest Vintage Car and Motorcycle Museum presents the history of automobiles and motorcycles. The museum defines vintage automobiles as being at least 25 years of age.
The museum offers exhibits.
The Connecticut Valley Historical Museum presents the history and traditions of Springfield, Connecticut and the Connecticut Valley through locally made objects. These objects include furniture, silver goods, motorcycles, antique automobiles, industrial artifacts, and historical firearms. The museum also celebrates famous people from the region, with Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel perhaps being most widely known. The library includes a collection of French Canadian church records.
The museum offers exhibits and a genealogy and local history library.
The North Carolina Auto Racing Hall of Fame presents the heritage of motorsports and the cultural contributions thereof. The museum, dedicated to all types of racing, features over 35 cars on display.
The Hall of Fame offers exhibits and a film.
From rare vehicles like REO, Star, Durant, and Viking to classic Oldsmobiles, buggies, bicycles, trucks, and engines, the Museum covers the range of transportation history. Lansing, MI, is a city with over a century of building cars and automobile innovation.
The museum offers exhibits and tours.
The Museum presents displays recreating four authentic street scenes, representing each quarter of the 20th century, with autos, artifacts, and sounds from each era. Street scenes also display building facades and a timeline of events chronicling the history of the automobile. The Museum also presents changing exhibits.
The museum offers exhibits, tours, film screenings, symposiums, workshops, and educational and recreational events.
The Museum houses automobiles and artifacts related to Ypsilanti's automobile production industry history, including original Hudson Dealer memorabilia. It is also home to the world's last Hudson Dealer, with records dating to 1927.
The museum offers exhibits and occasional vehicle shows.