Gilmore Car Museum

The Gilmore Car Museum is an automobile museum located in Hickory Corners, Michigan. The museum houses one of Michigan's largest collections of classic and vintage automobiles. Over 300 vintage and collector vehicles and motorcycles from all eras are on display in over a dozen vintage buildings located on a historic, 90-acre campus.[1] The museum is part of the MotorCities National Heritage Area.

Gilmore Car Museum
EstablishedJuly 31, 1966 (July 31, 1966)
Location6865 W. Hickory Road,
Hickory Corners, Michigan 49060
Coordinates42.4405°N 85.4216°W / 42.4405; -85.4216
TypeAutomobile museum
Collection size350+ antique cars, motorcycles, & more
Visitors97,000 (annually)
DirectorChristopher Shires
Websitegilmorecarmuseum.org

Exhibits range from the early cars of the 1890s, to the Duesenbergs, Auburn Automobile, and classics of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, as well as automobiles built in the "Other Motor City - Kalamazoo." Also on display is a vintage Franklin dealership and the largest gallery ever dedicated to the Model A Ford. Featured are the Dust Bowl and Great Migration vehicles of the 1920s and 1930s, a Tucker 48, vintage pedal cars, Motorcycles, Hood Ornaments, Bicycles, Checker Taxi, including the actual Sunshine Cab Co. Taxi 804 from the television series Taxi and more.

The campus includes a 1941 Blue Moon Diner and a replica a 1930s Shell fuel station.

The Model A Ford Museum

On display is the movie set and car as seen in the 1967 Walt Disney movie, The Gnome-Mobile. Museum founder Donald Gilmore and Walt Disney were good friends and after production of the film ended, Donald purchased the 1930 Rolls-Royce Sedanca Deville used in the movie from Disney Studios. After visiting the Gilmore Car Museum in person before its public opening, Disney gave the original movie set, a four-times-larger-than-life recreation of the back seat of the Rolls-Royce, to Donald as a gift. Both pieces are on display at the Gilmore Car Museum.

Partner museums

Six smaller, independent museums are located on the Gilmore Car Museum grounds.[2] Admission to all six is included with a Gilmore Car Museum ticket.

  • Classic Car Club of America Museum
  • Model A Ford Museum
  • Lincoln Motor Car Heritage Museum
  • Cadillac & LaSalle Club Museum & Research Center
  • Pierce-Arrow Museum
  • Franklin Automobile Collection

The Midwest Miniatures Museum was also based on the Gilmore campus, before relocating to Grand Haven in 2020.[3]

References
  1. "Gilmore Car Museum". Retrieved April 22, 2014.
  2. "Partner Museums". Gilmore Car Museum. Gilmore Car Museum. Archived from the original on August 3, 2017. Retrieved October 28, 2017.
  3. "Visit". Midwest Minatures Museum. December 3, 2019. Archived from the original on December 24, 2014. Retrieved November 20, 2021.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)



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