California Automobile Museum – Virtual Tour

California Automobile Museum houses a collection of over 150 classic cars, racers, trucks, and early automobile models. The mission of the California Automobile Museum is to preserve and exhibit the history of the automobile.

The Museum was founded in 1983 as the Towe Ford Museum, displaying the most extensive collection of Fords in the world. In 1997, the Museum was renamed to the Towe Auto Museum, as it began showing vehicles of all makes and models.

In 2009, the name of the Museum was changed to the California Automobile Museum to reflect its expanded mission.

The cars on display represent a cross-section of vehicles driven in the USA over the last 120 years.

Many of the automobiles are on loan from private exhibitors and collectors, allowing for a continually changing presentation on the story of the automobile.

 

1904 Ford Model B Touring

Highlights of the California Automobile Museum

• 1880s Columbia “Penny Farthing” Bicycle
• 1900 Locomobile Steam Car
• 1904 Ford Model B Touring Car
• 1910 Peerless Model 27 Touring
• 1911 Pierce-Arrow Model 48 Touring
• 1912 Cadillac Model 30 Touring Car
• 1912 Metz Model 22 Roadster
• 1925 Franklin Sedan
• 1929 Hudson Super 6 Roadster
• 1935 Ford Pickup Truck
• 1947 MG TC Midget
• 1948 “Burgermeister” Midget Racer
• 1949 Volkswagen Type 1 “Beetle”
• 1955 Ford Thunderbird
• 1966 Shelby Cobra 427 (Tony Hogg)
• 1967 Morris Minor 1000 Saloon

1909 Model T Ford race winner

California Automobile Museum

• Museum:         California Automobile Museum
• Formerly:         Towe Ford Museum and Towe Auto Museum 
• City:                 Sacramento
• State:               California
• Country:          United States
• Opened:         1987
• Type:               Automobile Museum, Specialist Museum
• Location:         2200 Front St, Sacramento, CA 95818, United States

1921 Ford Model T Snowmobile

California Automobile Museum – Map

California Automobile Museum – 360 Virtual Tours

California Automobile Museum – 360 Virtual Tours

California Automobile Museum – 360 Virtual Tours

California Automobile Museum – 360 Virtual Tours

California Automobile Museum

A Virtual Tour of the Museums in California 

• Los Angeles Museums

  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
  • Getty Museum
  • California Science Center
  • Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
  • The Broad
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  • Petersen Automotive Museum
  • Griffith Observatory
  • Autry Museum of the American West
  • Japanese American National Museum
  • The GRAMMY Museum
  • The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
  • California African American Museum
  • Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

California Automobile Museum

• Museums in San Diego

  • USS Midway Museum
  • San Diego Natural History Museum
  • Museum of Us
  • The San Diego Museum of Art
  • San Diego Air & Space Museum
  • Museum of Photographic Arts
  • San Diego Model Railroad Museum

• Pasadena, California Museums

  • Norton Simon Museum
  • Gamble House
  • The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
  • Mission San Gabriel Arcángel

• San Francisco Museums

  • Asian Art Museum – San Francisco
  • De Young Museum
  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  • Legion of Honor Museum
  • Walt Disney Family Museum
  • Exploratorium

• Sacramento Museums

  • Crocker Art Museum
  • California Automobile Museum

 

California Automobile Museum

California Automobile Museum

Virtual Tour of Automotive Museums

• Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum
• Barber Vintage Motorsport Museum
• Automotive Hall of Fame
• Petersen Automotive Museum
• NASCAR Hall of Fame
• California Automobile Museum
• Hellenic Motor Museum
• Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology

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“The quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten.” 
– Sir Henry Royce

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