Harley-Davidson Museum – Virtual Tour

The Harley-Davidson Museum exhibits cover the more than 100-year history of Harley-Davidson motorcycles. The museum’s complex contains more than 450 motorcycles and hundreds of thousands of artifacts from the Harley-Davidson Motor Company’s history.

The museum opened in 2008, in a historically industrial area of Milwaukee. In 2006, the groundbreaking ceremony included a burnout celebration using a Harley-Davidson XL883R Sportster, instead of with the traditional golden shovel.

The museum’s galleries displays are based on historic Harley-Davidson items that tell the company’s story and history, using motorcycles, photographs, posters, advertisements, clothes, trophies, video footage of motorcycling, and interactive exhibits.

The Harley-Davidson Motor Company’s corporate archives are also housed on the museum’s grounds.

Harley-Davidson Museum Bike Parade

Highlights of the Harley-Davidson Museum

The Motorcycle Gallery – a procession of Harley-Davidson motorcycles is displayed
The Harley-Davidson Journey – exhibits the Harley-Davidson’s chronological history
“Serial Number One” – the oldest known Harley-Davidson in existence
The Engine Room – a Knucklehead engine, Panhead and Shovelhead motors and how they work
Clubs and Competition – Harley-Davidson’s racing history with 1920s-era Harley-Davidson racing motorcycles
Tank Gallery exhibit – displays 100 of Harley-Davidson’s memorable tank graphics, spanning 70 years, reproduced on “Fat Bob” tanks
The Custom Culture gallery – covers Harley-Davidson’s impact on American and global culture
“King Kong” – a 13-foot (4.0 m)-long, two-engine Harley-Davidson customized motorcycle
Famous Replicas – the customized Harley-Davidson bikes ridden in the 1969 American movie, “Easy Rider”