Home to the world's largest collection of historic British cars, visitors can uncover the story of the British motor industry with fun and interactive exhibitions. Great for all the family with children's quizzes and special school holiday activities plus a selection of outdoor activities including children's play area, picnic site and the Land Rover 4x4 Experience. Free guided tours twice a day, onsite café and gift shop.
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Museum Collections Centre
We now have a full team for the first project, data collection, but there will be other projects later in the year, so please keep checking the role profiles.
When you visit the Heritage Motor Centre you are able to see, on average, 180 British motor cars, of all types and all ages. The museum collection, however, is much larger than that – nearly 300 in total. Some of the Trust’s cars reside in other museums but many are stored away, awaiting their turn in the exhibition hall.
The long-term aim of the Trust is to make more of the collection easily accessible to all of our visitors and that’s where the idea of a Museum Collection Centre began. The reserve collection is housed in a number of stores in a number of locations, not available to the public. We’d like those cars in store to be on view as well as the cars in the museum. We’d also like to integrate our Workshops with the new store and site it conveniently close to the museum.
Our plan is to build a new store here at Gaydon in 2013, with space for the 100 cars we have in reserve, together with space for expansion in the future. Once complete, the building will be open every day for you to look inside and a new group of tour guides will be available to give you a closer look behind the scenes tour, by appointment or on special open days. You’ll also be able to see how the Trust’s Workshop looks after the collection when it’s not on display.
What will be in the new building?
If you’ve visited the museum you’ll know that the collection encompasses vehicles from all eras, from the everyday to the unusual, including racing and sports cars, as well as rare prototypes. All of these kinds of cars will be found in our reserve collection. Here are just a few examples.
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