Last week I drove 2200 miles in 60 hours to pick up a car. I went to Massachusetts, again, now for the third time in just a few months. The further I go from home, the more difficult it is to try to fit in visiting any of the local car museums.

If I was retired or could just dedicate more time to travel, there would be no shortage of cool places to visit. I’ve been to a lot of automotive museums, but there are still a lot of people that have been to way more than me. 

One of the cool things about the Automotive Museum Guide is that you can use it as a resource at your pace. Most people do not travel the country specifically to visit automotive museums. Usually, a visit to a museum is made possible in conjunction with doing something else.

At Miles Through Time Automotive Museum, it is very common to have annual visitors. They visit the museum every year, but they don’t come specifically for the museum, they are already coming to the area to visit family or something else and being able to go to the museum is a bonus.

My wife and son took a long weekend trip to go hiking and explore caves in Kentucky this weekend. I would have loved to go, but it wasn’t possible for me this time. However, that didn’t stop them from visiting the National Corvette Museum for the first time and seeing the newest addition. 

Plus, they went to one of my all-time favorite museums, Lane Motor Museum. My son has been to Lane with me before, but it was a first for my wife. Pretty cool, that even without me, my own family was able to use the guide to find cool automotive museums to visit.

A museum I will get to visit next spring during the annual NAAM conference will be the Pierce-Arrow Museum. This museum displays about two dozen significant Pierce-Arrow vehicles, including bicycles, motorcycles, and travel trailers covering the full range of production years from 1903 to 1938. 

The Pierce-Arrow Museum is one of the museums associated with the Gilmore Car Museum, so visiting the Pierce-Arrow Museum is only one slice of the pie.

The Northeast Texas Rural Heritage Museum is made up of two museums, The Depot Museum and The Farmstead Museum. If you are a fan of history museums, you’ll enjoy this one. 

Marathon Village is a bit different than museums. This is where they built the Marathon Automobile and 5 of the original 7 Marathon Motors are currently on display. The museum does not have many cars on display; instead, the entire property is the museum.

I’ve been to this museum, and it is a cool historic area with shops and all kinds of other things to see. The museum itself is free, so you really can’t beat that.

If you want to see more, visit the Weekly 3.

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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