Petersen Automotive Museum, Los Angeles
This
week (May 1st, 2007) was Dave's birthday. Dave is our neighbor and friend. So
we decided that "museum day" could be at his favorite museum... The Petersen Automotive
Museum on Wilshire in Los Angeles.
The Petersen Automotive Museum, recognized internationally for its innovative
design, is dedicated to the interpretive study of the automobile and its influence
on our culture and lives. Encompassing more than 300,000 square feet, its exhibits
and lifelike dioramas feature more than 150 rare and classic cars, trucks and
motorcycles.
Covering four floors, the facility features permanent exhibits on the first floor
that trace the history of the automobile. Visitors are invited to walk through,
not by, exhibits and dioramas and experience settings of early Los Angeles where
the world's first shopping district was designed.
The second floor is composed of five large changing exhibition galleries with
state-of-the-art displays of race cars, classic cars, vintage motorcycles, concept
cars, celebrity and movie cars, and automotive design and technology.
