I’m back now that it is 2025. Quite a few people thought I was done completely when I said last week’s email was the last one for 2024. I’m very glad to hear people actually find value and enjoy these emails on top of helping me keep the guide up to date.

I have made a major change or addition this year that will hopefully help people gain access to these museums, even if this email doesn’t make it into their email box. 

It is going to take me some time to add all the backdates, but going forward this email will be available on the website under the Newsletter tab, which is found under extras.

Hopefully, this way, if you ever miss an email or want to reference back to it, it’ll be easy to find on the website.

I’m never a fan of having to share museums that are closing. Luckily, recently quite a few museums have been growing. I’ve got one more museum to share with you that is moving into a new 100,000-square-foot facility. 

The DFW Elite Toy Museum was started by Ron Sturgeon and has a very impressive collection of cars on display and soon the car museum will be much larger. I’m excited to see this museum in their new space. 

A lot can change very quickly in the automotive museum world. It feels like just yesterday I started Miles Through Time Automotive Museum in 2017, and yet at the same time, it feels like forever ago. 😉

Maine Classic Car Museum was created in 2019, so they’re actually pretty young, but they have 50 of some of the most beautiful vehicles on display.

A lot of automotive museums start as a private collection. Sometimes they turn into lasting museums, but more often than not they disappear once the founder passes on. 

Howard’s Toys For Big Boys showcases Howard Alger’s classic car collection. Howard is still alive and gives tours of his collection, even though he is currently in his 90s.  The local chamber helps Howard keep his collection open, which is free to visit.

If you have the opportunity to visit any automotive museum, I highly recommend you do it. You never know if that museum will be around in another 10 years, or better yet, you’d have the opportunity to see the museum before it gets better.

Have you visited your closest automotive museum?

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Plan your next trip, discover your new favorite, or find the nearest museum

 Sean Mathis
 Creator of Automotive Museum Guide
Founder of Miles Through Time Automotive Museum

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Today is Veterans Day, and although today is the day, we specifically recognize veterans for their patriotism, love of the country, willingness to serve and sacrifice. I am thankful every day to those who have served and grateful to meet the ones who’ve made it home and especially the ones who have made it to old age.

I have a nephew who is still a fresh Navy recruit. His dad, my brother, is now retired from the Navy. Both of my grandpas were in WWII. My wife served in the Army and I served 11 years as a crew chief on the a10s and c130s. I understand how difficult it can be to not only serve in the military but also have loved ones who served. 

So, although today is officially Veterans Day, just know myself and most other people are grateful for our veterans every day.

I’m on the road this week. I’m heading north for a meeting that will take me to the Auburn Cord Duesenber Museum for the first time. Hopefully, I’ll also be able to visit the National Automotive and truck Museum of the United States and the Early Ford V8 Foundation Museum nearby.

The Klairmont Kollections is also a super cool museum that has been on my list of museums to visit for some time, and it looks like I may be able to make it happen on Wednesday morning since they aren’t open on Tuesday. That is one of the biggest challenges of traveling and trying to fit museum visits in. The schedule doesn’t always make it possible, even though the museum is so close.

These are all bonus museums so far. You can click the bold name to learn more about each of them. This week, I want to share some military museums with you.

First up is the Marine Corps Mechanized Museum. This museum shares Marine vehicles used from WWI to the present day. The majority of the vehicles in the collection are in running condition, thanks to the work of retired Marine Master Gunnery Sergeant Jim King and his hearty band of volunteers, aptly named “the Dirty Docents.”

On the opposite side of the country, you can visit the U.S. Army Transportation Museum. This museum has over 7,000 artifacts and 135 military vehicles on display. I have personally been to this museum, and it’s fascinating to see all the different vehicles on display.

If you want to go more towards the center of the country, you can visit the National Museum of Military Vehicles. This museum is 160,000 square feet with over 500 military vehicles on display. This museum is called the National Museum for a reason.

If you served in the military, thank you! If you had to deal with your loved one going off to serve, thank you for sticking around, it means a lot.

Have a great week! 

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Plan your next trip, discover your new favorite, or find the nearest museum

 Sean Mathis
 Creator of Automotive Museum Guide
Founder of Miles Through Time Automotive Museum

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P.S. Make sure you follow AMG on Facebook and join the FB Group to see what’s going on at all the museums.

This is it for 2024. I’ve been sending an email like this every week for almost three and a half years. This guide started as my research to figure out how to create Miles Through Time Automotive Museum in 2017.

Rather than waste my research, I decided to create the Automotive Museum Guide so it would be easier to find all the different automotive museums all over the country. I slowly added more museums as I discovered them, but I didn’t do much with the website until 2020.

In 2020, I found myself recreating Miles Through Time almost from scratch in a new location. I personally had to move to a new house, and the world was in chaos. I also noticed most of the museums I had already added to the guide were changing in some way.

Most museums’ hours changed, admission changed and, unfortunately, a few museums did make it at all. This meant the Automotive Museum Guide was slowly becoming just as obsolete as a printed guide.

My solution to maintain the guide and hopefully increase awareness was to send this email, weekly.  You can skip this top part of the email if you want and just see the three automotive museums listed below, but I’m pretty sure this would become a boring email that will eventually just go to your junk mail.

I try to share something interesting within the automotive museum world from my perspective as a museum founder and a museum visitor. I’m not who you’d expect to be behind the creation of an automotive museum in northeast Georgia with over 130 full-size vehicles on display.

I had no way to create an automotive museum in 2017 when all I had was a 59 Cadillac I inherited from my grandpa. I had no idea if the museum would prosper when it was moved in 2019/2020.

It would have been hard to fathom how over 30 vehicles have been donated to the museum just in the last 4 years, and yet I’m optimistic about the next chapter of the museum.

I still have a lot to learn, but within 7 years, I went from being just a regular car enthusiast taking my Pop’s 59 Cadillac to car shows. To the founder of a 501c3 nonprofit automotive museum with over 130 full-size vehicles and thousands of artifacts.

I’m on the board of the National Association of Automobiles and the World Forum For Motor Museums. I went from visiting 2 automotive museums in my life to close to 100 within the last 7 years. Plus, I’ve helped other automotive museums get created and grow.

The Automotive Museum Guide has grown to encompass automotive museums all over the world, each one individually added by me, almost 600 of them. My perspective is unique in the automotive museum world.

I’m not a guy who has had a lifetime of success and decided to create an automotive museum with my own collection. What I have is a vision and a passion to create a museum that can preserve and share automotive history with visitors from all over the world for generations.

But I need help to do it all, and I’ll share the journey and everything I learn with you.

Miles Through Time Automotive Museum is not the only museum looking to grow and build a forever home. Last week, all the museums I shared with you were either getting new buildings or just got one.

I have since learned there’s another automotive museum on the path of growth. The Kansas City Automotive Museum is actively working on raising funds to go from their 10,000-square-foot facility to a brand-new 40,000-square-foot facility near the Underground location. This campaign is called Legacy in Motion if you want to learn more.

It doesn’t matter where you live. You can choose to support your local museum or one on the other side of the country, just because you like what they are doing. You never know when a new museum may pop up.

The Brumos Collection is not new. There is an entire story behind the Brumos Collection, best told by the museum. Just make sure you don’t visit claiming to know Mr. Brumos.

Apparently, it often happens, and I believe it based on what I hear at Miles Through Time. Just know there is no Mr. Brumos. 😉 However, the facility was first opened in 2020, which makes the museum you can visit today relatively young, but you’d never know it. It’s a beautiful building and collection.

The last museum I’ll share with you for 2024 is The Cobra Experience. You can only visit this museum on the 3rd Sunday of the month, so it will take some additional planning to ensure a visit lines up with your schedule, but it will be worth it.

That’s it for 2024. If you need any last-minute donation write-offs, Miles Through Time would be happy to oblige since we need to purchase land and build a building. You can donate HERE or any museum in the guide would benefit from your charitable actions.

​​​​​​​Happy New Year!

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Plan your next trip, discover your new favorite, or find the nearest museum

 Sean Mathis
 Creator of Automotive Museum Guide
Founder of Miles Through Time Automotive Museum

 Follow me @   

P.S. Make sure you follow AMG on Facebook and join the FB Group to see what’s going on at all the museums.