Nebraska

Discover Nebraska Automotive Museums, Events, and History.

Museum of American Speed

The Speedway Motors Museum of American Speed is dedicated to preserving, interpreting & displaying physical items in racing & automotive history.

Central Nebraska

Plainsman Museum

Plainsman Museum is a museum that focuses on the time period between 1860-1950. The museum features many items from this era.

Central Nebraska

Hastings Museum

Founded in 1927, Hastings Museum has horse-drawn buggies to horseless carriages, and antique vehicles on display for all to enjoy.

Central Nebraska

The Pioneer Village complex comprises 28 buildings on 20 acres housing over 50,000 irreplaceable items of historical value, restored to operating order, arranged in groups and also in the chronological order of their development.

Central Nebraska

The American Automobile Experience

The American Automobile Experience is a gathering of 100 automobiles that is diverse and all-encompassing and illustrates the evolution and art of the automobile and its role in our lives.

Central Nebraska Tractor

Larsen Tractor Museum

The Lester F. Larsen Tractor Test and Power Museum is a historical facility located on the East Campus of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in Lincoln, Nebraska

Central Nebraska

Corvair Museum of America

The Corvair Museum of America is a small museum, currently sharing space in Shade’s Classic Corvairs but are underway with a capital campaign to construct a new 18,000sf facility next door.

Discover Nebraska Automotive Museums, Events, and History.

NEBRASKA

Nebraska is a midwestern U.S. state encompassing the prairies of the Great Plains, the towering dunes of the Sandhills and the panhandle’s dramatic rock formations. Lincoln, the capital and a vibrant university town, is distinguished by its soaring state capitol. The city of Omaha is home to the Durham Museum, which honors the state’s pioneering past in a converted railroad depot.

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AUTOMOTIVE HISTORY

In 1862, when Henry Ford was only a year old, Maj. Joseph R. Brown drove his Prairie Motor off a steamboat at Nebraska City. His massive steam-driven vehicle, a kind of railroad locomotive that did not run on rails, had six-foot-high front wheels and ten-foot back wheels and was the first self-propelled road vehicle west of the Mississippi River. The first automobile in Nebraska may have been in Nebraska City when Col. W.F. Hayward bought a 1901 Locomobile steamer and a year later Lincoln had it’s first automobile.