Cruising Through HistoryThe Museum of Automobile History
When you walk through the new museum, you'll see the amazing world that the automobile left in its wake. An estimated ten thousand items show the car just exactly as people have seen and loved it over the years. The museum covers information on at least one thousand different makes of cars as well as trucks and motorcycles. You're bound to find a bit of your own history here.
"The automobile is the single most important invention of our time, maybe of all time," says Walter Miller, the founder of the museum, "I'd like people to have a lot of fun being here, but I'd also like them to emerge with an idea or an understanding of what a really big thing the auto has been for all of us." There are no actual cars at the museum but tit presents the entire world around the car; its humor, its tragedies, its greatest successes and its obscure failures. If it has anything to do with the automobile, you'll find it at The Museum of Automobile History. Edited by Dave Shultz -Updated 7-7-99-
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The long awaited Museum of Automobile History is now open. Reflecting over 200 years of the world's love affair with the automobile, the museum is located in Syracuse, New York. It's opening created the largest museum anywhere dedicated to memorabilia and art relating to the history of the automobile. 
Since this is the largest private collection of automobilia in the world, there are lots of one-of-a-kind displays including fine art oil paintings and drawings by American and European artists, folk-art models, rare advertising, original photographs, Detroit styling models, autographs and letters, racing memorabilia, dealership and roadside signs, toys, movie posters, accessories and gadgets, and even Presidential car license plates. The entire collection won't fit inside the building so the outside of the building is used to display 20 original billboards.