2025-09-18T11:40:25-04:00September 18th, 2025|Categories: Automobiles, Current Exhibits, Exhibits|
The 1925 Rickenbacker 8 Coupe: Celebrating 100 Years Lyric Lott, Assistant Curator The Rickenbacker Motor Company The story of this classic car begins with its equally-iconic namesake, Edward “Eddie” Rickenbacker. Born in 1890 in Columbus, Ohio, Rickenbacker gained fame as one of the first professional racecar drivers in [...]
2024-07-23T11:54:13-04:00July 23rd, 2024|Categories: Automobiles, Current Exhibits, Exhibits|
1925 Franklin wins First Senior Ring Jennifer Madden, Director of Collections and Exhibitions On June 29, the 1925 Franklin won its First Senior Ring from the Classic Car Club of America at the Metro Region Grand Classic in Oxford, New Jersey. The Classic Car Club of America is [...]
2024-05-09T11:32:16-04:00April 19th, 2024|Categories: Automobiles, Current Exhibits, Exhibits|
CHARGING AHEAD Jennifer Madden, Director of Collections and Exhibitions With the recent emphasis on the importance of electric cars, you may think that they are a recent invention. In fact, the first electric car was made in Scotland almost two hundred years ago! Of course, that vehicle was [...]
2024-04-20T08:18:24-04:00April 19th, 2024|Categories: Automobiles, Current Exhibits, Exhibits|
CHARGING AHEAD: THE MERCURY ARC RECTIFIER Jennifer Madden, Director of Collections and Exhibitions Although commonly considered a thoroughly modern invention, electric cars have been around for a long time. In fact, the first electric car was made in Scotland almost two hundred years ago! Of course, that vehicle [...]
2024-03-26T10:41:28-04:00May 10th, 2022|Categories: About Heritage, Automobiles, Current Exhibits, Exhibits, Heritage Collection, Now at Heritage|
Old Colony History Museum Virtual Visit: Heritage Museums & Gardens Heritage Museums & Gardens was delighted to be featured on Old Colony History Museum's Virtual Visits program on Friday, May 6! This live Zoom program featured a 30-minute video tour of Heritage, focusing on the Creating Cape Cod exhibit, [...]
2023-01-10T16:21:14-05:00July 6th, 2021|Categories: Automobiles, Current Exhibits, Exhibits, Heritage Collection|
1925 FRANKLIN SPORT RUNABOUT AND 1910 SEARS SURREY AUTO REACTIVATION One of the unique challenges that comes with curating a collection of antique automobiles is the question of driving the cars. Do you or don’t you? Heritage believes that occasional and light operation of our cars does not [...]
2024-01-25T14:39:52-05:00April 22nd, 2021|Categories: Automobiles, Exhibits, Heritage Collection, News and Media, News and Press, News Video|
Hidden away in Cape Cod’s Heritage Museums and Gardens, a collection of cars traces the history of American automotive innovation, design, and aesthetics. We got a tour when Tom Gregory visited the museum as the host of Driven. You can view the collection along with Tom in the video. [...]
2025-06-18T12:48:30-04:00April 22nd, 2021|Categories: Automobiles, Exhibits, Heritage Collection, Heritage Collection, News and Media, News and Press|
Every year the Heritage Museums & Gardens holds an auto show, where they bring out their collection of American Cars into the light for the public to admire & reminisce with vehicles like Gary Cooper's 1930 Model J Duesenberg, and their newest addition, the 1965 Ford Country Squire station wagon. [...]
2024-05-15T09:51:06-04:00September 11th, 2020|Categories: Automobiles, News and Media, News and Press|
Annual Auto Show Highlights The Classic Corvair September 11, 2020 Face masks, six-foot distancing, Zoom and elbow bumps: In some ways, Cape Cod’s summer season at cultural destinations has been topsy-turvy, with many events re-thought or restructured due to the unpredictability of the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite changes, programs and [...]
2024-03-25T15:01:58-04:00August 24th, 2020|Categories: Automobiles, Heritage Collection|Tags: Automobile, Cars, Covair|
On Saturday, September 12th, Heritage will host a Celebration of American Automobiles. This event will highlight some of the amazing, American-made automobiles from our collection, and also pay special tribute to the 60th anniversary of the Chevrolet Corvair, one of the most forward-looking vehicles of the early 1960s. [...]
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