The Weekly 3

Well, this is it for 2025. This email is the 233rd I’ve sent, which is about four and a half years of trying to maintain automotivemuseumguide.com so it doesn’t become so inaccurate that it doesn’t serve its purpose.

Featuring at least three automotive museums each week keeps me organized to keep the Automotive Museum Guide constantly updated. Sharing the updated museums with you made sense, and adding a little bit from my personal perspective in the automotive museum world seemed like it might be interesting for some. I’m aware that some do not want to hear from me. 😉

Ultimately, if I can keep automotivemuseumguide.com as current as possible and draw traffic back to the website, then it makes sense for me to keep doing this. I do apologize for how annoying the Google Ads can sometimes be, but the revenue generated from those does cover the expense of the domain, hosting, and maintenance of the website.

Ideally, at some point, there will be very specific advertisers listed in the Automotive Museum Guide, so I can remove the Google Ads, but I’m not there yet. If you ever need any advice on how to create a ton of free work for yourself, I’m your guy.

To be fair, I do believe automotivemuseumguide.com will only continue to grow, and help more visitors find automotive museums to visit. I also believe in the potential of Miles Through Time Automotive Museum to become one of the long-lasting great museums. 

Yes, getting paid anything would be nice, helpful even, but that’s not why I do all of this. I’m coming up on a decade of trying to turn a one-car museum into something worthy of having a 100,000 square foot forever home. I believe we’re close.

St. Charles Motorcycle Museum has just started their journey. Andy Koczwara is the man behind this museum, art gallery, event space and bar. This is a unique adaptation of what a museum can be, and I hope I can see it in person soon.  

Idle Ridge Car Museum is another story. This museum was slated to open over the summer, but so far it has yet to open. It was the late James Feneis’ wish to transform his collection into a museum, but as I’ve seen way too many times now, it’s not always that easy.

The Kansas City Automotive Museum opened in 2014, three years before Miles Through Time Automotive Museum. The museum was created by a group of car enthusiasts in the Kansas City area and had success opening a 10,000 sqft museum.

Eleven years later, they are ready to build a brand-new facility 4 times the size of the current one. The renderings look amazing, and I really hope we get to see them in their new home in the near future.

I hope you’ve had a great 2025. I’m excited to see what 2026 brings. Visit as many of these museums as you can.

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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