National Motor Museum, Birdwood

Not to be confused with National Motor Museum, Beaulieu.
National Motor Museum,
Birdwood
Location within South Australia
Established 1964 (1964)
Location
  • Shannon Street
  • Birdwood SA 5234
  • Australia
Coordinates 34°49′11″S 138°57′16″E / 34.81972°S 138.95444°E / -34.81972; 138.95444Coordinates: 34°49′11″S 138°57′16″E / 34.81972°S 138.95444°E / -34.81972; 138.95444
Type Automobile museum
Director Marianne Norman
Website National Motor Museum

The National Motor Museum, Birdwood, is an automobile museum in Birdwood, South Australia.[1][2] Established in 1964 and opened to the public soon afterwards,[3] it is Australia's largest motor museum,[4] with over 300 vehicles on display.[2]

The museum was started by Jack Kaines and Len Vigar in 1964, and was purchased by the South Australian Government in 1976, holding a large and historically important collection of cars, motorcycles and commercial vehicles.

The museum is housed in a modern complex adjacent to its original home, the "Old Mill" in Shannon Street, Birdwood.[1][4]

It is the endpoint of the annual Bay to Birdwood run , in which vintage motor vehicles are driven by their owners from Glenelg past the city and through the hills to finish at the museum where a festival is held.

Exhibits

The following is a non-exhaustive list of motorvehicles on display:

The following is a non-exhaustive list of motorbikes display:

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Birdwood". The Sydney Morning Herald website. The Sydney Morning Herald. 1 January 2009. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
  2. 1 2 Williamson, Brett (16 November 2009). "Emotion in motion: The National Motor Museum". ABC website. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
  3. ↑ "State History Collection". National Motor Museum website. History SA. Retrieved 28 October 2013. External link in |work= (help)
  4. 1 2 "National Motor Museum Birdwood". Going Somewhere website. Going Somewhere Pty Ltd. Retrieved 28 October 2013.

External links

Media related to National Motor Museum, Birdwood at Wikimedia Commons

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Thursday, January 07, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.