Tacoma has America’s Car Museum, and I’d bet one could make an adventure out of visiting car museums all over the world. They’re tucked away in odd places – like Malaga and Nashville. The following verbiage has been stolen (by me!) from several websites.
“The car museum, which opened in 2010, contains more than 100 cars. The owner is Portuguese collector Joao Magalhaes, and the fully restored models range from years 1898 to 2011 . Housed in the city’s historic tobacco factory building, they include Hispano Suiza, Rolls Royce, Mercedes Benz, Bentley, Jaguar, Aston Martin, Bugatti, Porsche, and Ferrari, and an extensive collection of antique and rare cars. The museum also features a unique display of engines converted to art. Finally, there are over 300 original hats by great designers such as Dior, Chanel and Balenciaga among others.”
In addition to this awesome hat collection (I’ll do a separate post for them), the museum displayed many cars with a dress or coat and hat of the same vintage. They made some beautiful pairings.
At the museum’s website, select the British flag in the top right hand to get a little English translation, and poke around the site to get some great images. The last selection under the “Museum” tab is a “Virtual Tour’, which will take you through the museum using the same technology as Google Earth – street view. This Virtual Tour does not include the fashion pairing I mentioned above.
The only bad thing about the abundance of windows in the building is that it resulted in backlighting – bad for photo taking. Below are some of my better shots with details when I remembered to take them. Enjoy! Laura
Two of the “art’ engines on display.
