The Weekly 3

It’s amazing how much time can just become a blur. I started Miles Through Time Automotive Museum eight years ago. I created the Automotive Museum Guide six years ago, and today marks the 200th email I sent sharing automotive museums.

This means I have shared over 600 automotive museums in just under four years. Some people have been following along from the very beginning, while over 100 new people join every single month. 

Someone new to the Automotive Museum Guide may not realize the guide exists because it started as my research to figure out how to create my own car museum.

Once someone realizes I founded a museum myself called Miles Through Time Automotive Museum. The assumptions about me can run wild. Some of them I wish were true, but usually they are way off base.

I am an open book. It is the only way I found I could create a web of automotive museums and get people to be a part of my museum. If you’re on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn or X, you can follow me directly.

I’m not independently or generationally wealthy. I’m just a car guy who inherited his grandpa’s 1959 Cadillac and felt so honored to have it, that I wanted to share it with as many other people as I could and provide a platform for others like me to do the same.

Luckily, my vision of what an automotive museum could be has morphed over the years and has had success. It is amazing when I get emails out of the blue that someone wants to donate a vehicle. Or I check the mail or get an email notification that someone has sent a check or donated online.

There are a lot of passionate automotive enthusiasts in the world, and the fact that you get this email means you’re one of them. The museum I started is just one of many automotive museums you can visit, and I hope you are able to visit as many as possible.

The more I am immersed in the automotive museum world and automotive culture, the stronger my feelings get about how important it is for us to not only preserve and share automotive history, but to learn from it as well.

Automotive museums are just like snowflakes. No two are alike, but they are all beautiful in their own way. You may visit an automotive museum and find it isn’t your favorite for one reason or another, but at least you did your part by visiting, and hopefully you saw something interesting and learned something new.

There is one museum I regret not being able to stop at, especially since I literally drove past the entrance when I was driving a donated car back from California. I was still on east coast time and eager to drive back, so when I drove past Woodland Auto Display it was 4 am.

I will be back at some point though, because I want to see the museum Dick Woodland founded and explore Estrella Warbird Museum at the same time.

Another museum you can visit that blurs the line between auto and air is the Old Rhinebeck Aerodome. I’m a fan of seeing vintage planes and cars together, which is exactly what you will see at this museum.

The last museum I want to share with you this week is an example of a basic automotive museum.  The Roy Peter Bach Museum is operated by the Santa Fe Trail Auto Club. There is very little information available about this museum, but it is open to the public on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Sometimes you just have to start somewhere.

There are so many automotive museums to discover, the best resource to use when traveling the country is the MAP. If you’re a world traveler, there is even more to discover HERE.

If you know anyone who would enjoy learning about automotive museums to visit, forward this email over to them and encourage them to sign up.

Have a great week!

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

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