This is it, the last email from me sharing automotive 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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 Sean Mathis
 Creator of Automotive Museum Guide
Founder of Miles Through Time Automotive Museum

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