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2024-04-22T09:58:31-04:00April 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. [...]
2023-01-10T17:22:16-05:00April 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. [...]
2021-04-22T15:57:18-04:00September 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. [...]
2024-03-26T10:48:30-04:00July 7th, 2020|Categories: Automobiles, Heritage Collection|Tags: Automobile, Cars, Current Exhibits, Heritage Collection, History, JK Lilly|
“Collecting, like most passions, has the capacity to let you live in another world for awhile.” – Kim A. Herzinger, Ph.D.: Collector, Pushcart Prize-winning critic and writer, and faculty member at the University of Houston-Victoria July 10, 2020 is Collector Car Appreciation Day! This annual event, now in its [...]
2024-01-25T10:37:42-05:00June 4th, 2017|Categories: Automobiles, News and Media, News and Press, News Video|
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