Bicycle History: Museums & Exhibits


		Bicycle History: Museums & Exhibits
WE WOULD LOVE YOUR SUPPORT! Our content is provided free as a public service! Follow us on Twitter		Historical / Classic / Antique Bicycle Museums / Exhibits / Organizations / Online Resources * To discourage email address harvesting by spammers, a space has been added to all of the email addresses on this page. You need to remove the space to make the address correct. In Africa East Africa Railway Museum, Nairobi, Kenya. Photo archive includes images of early use of bicycles. National Museum, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. One very interesting handmade wood, wire and cord bicycle in the collection. National Archives, Harare, Zimbabwe. Photo archive includes images of early use of bicycles. In America (Central & South) Asociacion de Bicicletas Clasicas (Classic Bicycle Association). Email: oldbicycle53 @yahoo.com.ar * Museu da Bicicleta de Joinville, Brazil. Email: museudabicicleta @terra.com.br * Transportation History Museum, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Email: museoyacanto @yahoo.com * In America (USA & Canada) Alamo Classic Car Showcase & Museum 6401 S Interstate 35, New Braunfels, TX 78132. Tel: 210-606-4311..Fax: 210-620-4387. Includes a few bicycles. Bicycle Museum of America 7 West Monroe Street, New Bremen, Ohio 45869. Tel: 419-629-9249. Fax: 419-629-3256 Bicycle Pavilion 95 South Part Road, Conway MA 01341. Contact: Vicki Elson. Tel: 413-369-4900. Email: bicyclepavilion @yahoo.com * Brown Cycles Bicycle Museum 549 Main Street, Colorado Junction CO 81501. Tel: 970-245-7939. Email: Browncycles @qwest.net * California Bicycle Museum PO Box 73385, Davis CA 95617. Email: info @californiabicyclemuseum.org * Carillon Historical Park 2001 S Patterson Blvd., Dayton, OH. Tel:513-293-2841. Reproduction of the Wright Cycle Shop. Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum 10825 East Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 44106. Tel: 216- 721-5722. Fax: 216-721-0645. The Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum, showcases nearly 200 antique, vintage, and classic automobiles, motorcycles and bicycles. Deke Slayton Memorial Space and Bike Museum 200 West Main Street, Sparta, Wisconsin 54656. Tel: 888-200-5302. info @dekeslayton.com * Has video clip of riding a vintage high wheeler Penny Farthing. Elliott Museum 825 NE Ocean Blvd., Hutchinson Is., Stuart, FL, 34996-1696. Tel: 407-225-1961. Include bicycle exhibit. First Flight Bicycles Museum and Bicycle History 216 S. Center St Statesville, NC 28677. Tel: 704.878.9683. jeff @firstflightbikes.com * Forney Transportation Museum 1416 Platte Street, Denver, CO 80202. Includes a few bicycles. Franklin Institute Science Museum 20^th and Ben Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA 19103. Tel:215-448-1200. Golden Oldy Cyclery Golden CO 80401. Email: oldbike2 @comcast.net. * Pre 1900 bikes and accessories, and Victorian bike literature and bicycle poetry of the 1800s. Hartung's Automotive Museum 3623 W Lake St., Glenview, IL 60025. Tel: 847-724-4354. Includes 75 bicycles. Henry Ford Museum 20900 Oakwood Boulevard, P.O. Box 1970, Dearborn, MI 48121-1970. Tel: 1-800 TELL-A-FRIEND or 313-271-1620. TTY: 313-271-2455. Email: info @hfmgv.org * Little Congress Bicycle Museum LLewellyn St, PO Box 52, Cumberland Gap TN 37724. Tel: 423-869-9993. Email: bicyclemuseum @gmail.com . Opened on weekends. Metz Bicycle Museum 54 West Main Street ( Rear Building), Freehold, New Jersey 07728. Tel: 732-462-7363. Fax 732-845-4611. Mountain Bike Hall of Fame & Museum PO Box 1961, Crested Butte, CO 81224. Tel: 303-349-7280. Small and interesting. Museum of Science and Industry 57^th St. and Lakeshore Dr., Chicago, IL 60637. Tel: 312-684-1414. New England Muscle Bicycle Museum New York Museum of Transportation PO Box 136, West Henrietta, NY 14586. Tel: 716-533-1113. Owl Head Transportation Museum Route 73, Owls Head, ME 04854. Tel: 207-594-4418. Fax: 207-594-4410. 14 bicycles from ca. 1868 to 1935. Pedaling History (Burgwardt) Bicycle Museum 3943 North Buffalo Road, Orchard Park, NY 14127-1841. Near Niagara Falls and Buffalo. Tel. 716-662-3853. Email: info @pedalinghistory.com Pierce Miller Bicycle Collection University of California in Davis, Davis, CA Poll's Museum of Transportation 1715 104th Ave., Zeeland, MI 49464-1403. Tel: 616-399-1955. Includes an exhibit of bicycles. Canada National Museum of Science & Technology (English) Musee national des sciences et de la technologie du Canada (francais) Lancaster Road, Ottawa, Ontario Canada. Tel: 613-991-3044. TTY: 613-991-9207. Email: scitech @istar.ca * Pryor Dodge Collection and Pryor Dodge Collection Photo Gallery Traveling collection, see website for schedule. Pryor also has assembled a beautiful book, The Bicycle, documenting his collection and the history of the bicycle. Smithsonian National Museum of America History (First Floor), Smithsonian Institution, Constitution Ave., Washington, DC 20004. Email: webmaster @si.edu . Bicycles on exhibit dating from 1819 to 1989. Wheelsmith 225 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301. Tel: 415-324-0510. A store and exhibit. In Asia and the Pacific Canberra Bicycle Museum Canberra Tradesmen's Union Club, 2 Badham St., PO Box 498, Dickson ACT 2602 Australia. Tel: (06) 2471363. Fax:(06) 2305298. E-mail: email @canberrabicyclemuseum.com.au * Rickshaw Museum Graduates Welfare Association Fazilka (GWAF), Punjab, India. Bicycle Museum Cycle Center 165-6 Daisennaka-machi, Sakai-ku, Sakai City, Japan. Tel: 072-243-3196. Listed at http://www.city.sakai.osaka.jp/foreigner_en/spot/spot5.html (scroll down) Japanese Bicycle Culture Centers Jitenshakaikan No. 3, 1-9-3 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107, Japan Japanese Bicycle History Research Club Sang-ju Bicycle Museum 5km west on Road 25, Sang-ju, South Korea In England, Scotland & Ireland Alex Brown Museum of Scottish Cycling Drumlanrig Castle, Drumlanrig, N. Thornhill, Dumfries and Galloway Coventry Transport Museum Millennium Place, Hales St, Coventry, CV1 1PN. Tel: 24 7683 2425. Fax: 24 7683 2465. Email: museum @transport-museum.com * Museum of British Road Transport St. Agnes Ln, Hale St., Coventry, West Midlands CV1 1PN. Tel: +44 1203 832 425. Fax: +44 1203 832 465. Email: motor @discover.co.uk . 200 cycles. Museum of Historic Cycling The Old Station, Camelford, Cornwall PL32 9TZ. Tel: 44 1840 212 811 Museum of Irish Transport Scotts Hotel Gardens, Killarney, Co. Kerry, Ireland. Tel: 064-32638 Museum of Transport Kelvin Hall, 1 Bunhouse Rd, Glasgow G3 8DP. Tel:44 141 331-1854. Fax: 44 141 3577 5849 National Cycle Museum The Automobile Palace, Temple Street, Llandrindod Wells, Powys, LD1 5DL, Mid Wales. Tel / Fax: +44(0)1597-825531. Email: cycle.museum @care4free.net Includes an online library, http://www.cyclemuseum.org.uk/library/, with several thousand scanned historic cycling documents available to download. National Cycling Archive Modern Record Centre, Univ. Library, Univ. of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL National Museum of Scotland Chambers St., Edinburgh EH1 1JF. Tel: 44 131 2257534. Fax: 44 131 226-5949 Pinkerton Cycle Collection Manchester Velodrome, Manchester and Victorian Village, Ironbridge, Telford, Staffordshire. Tel: 44 121 350-0685 Science Museum Exhibition Rd, South Kensington, London SW7 2DD. Tel: 44 171 938-8000. Fax: 44 -938-8118 Ulster Folk & Transport Museum, 153 Bangor Road, Cultra, Holywood, Co Down, Northern Ireland BT18 0EU. Tel: +44 (0)28 9042 8428. Fax: +44 (0)28 9042 8728. Email: uftm @talk21.com * In Mainland Europe Zweirad Museum Altm�nster am Traunsee (Two-wheeler museum) (Austria) Maria Theresia STR. 3, A-4813 old cathedral /Traunsee, Tel. 0712-87525, Tel./fax. 06133-607299, tourism office: 07612-87181. Open: May, June, September, and October: Saturday/Sunday/Holidays, 1400-1700. July, August, daily, 1000-1200 and 1400-1800. Appointments for visiting outside of these times is possible! The wheel museum is the first Austrian museum of this kind. Bicycles and motorcycles are shown. One of the guiding sayings of the museum is "touch me". Also shown is bicycle history from the running machine to flashy chrome wheeled bicycle and tricycles. Autoworld Parc du Cinquantenaire 11, Brussels B1040, Belgium. Tel: 32-2-736-41-65. Fax: 32-2-736-51-36. Some pedal powered items. Cykel Museum Borgergade 10, DK-9620, Aalestrup, Denmark. Tel: 45-9864-1960. Cykelhistoriska F�reningen (Club) Box 3481, 10369 Stockholm, Sweden Dansk Cykel & Knallert Museum DCM's Venner, Godth�bsvej 247, 2720 Vanl�se. Tel: 31 87 14 23. Fax: 31 87 14 23. Heimat Museum, Themar, Germany Mus�e du V�lo Avenue du Mar�chal de Lattre de Tassigny - RN6 - Le Pas-Fleury - 71700 TOURNUS, France. Tel. +33 (0)3 85 20 01 28. Museum of Sport and Bicycling 118 Ave. President Kennedy, 75775 Paris, CEDEX 16, France. Deutschlands gro�es Fahrrad- und Kleinmotorrad-Museum Sch�nhofen bei Regensburg Deutsches Zweirad Museum Urbanstrasse 11, 7107, Neckarsulm, Germany. Tel: 07132 35271. Bicycle and motorcycle museum. Fahrradsammler Festung Ehrenbreitstein (Fortress Ehrenbreitstein) opposite Koblenz, Germany, houses another bicycle museum Deutsches Fahrradmuseum im bayrischen Staatsbad Bad Br�ckenau (German bicycle museum in Bath Brueckenau). 97769 bath Brueckenau, Heinrich-von-Bibra-Str.24, 97769 bath Brueckenau. Tel.:09741/938253. Fax:09741/938254. Email: museum @deutsches-fahrradmuseum.de . The museum is privately maintained of Mona Bookman and Ivan Sojc. It is the largest, accessible, German bicycle collection. From an original run machine to newer wheels it covers almost every development; it has all kinds of high wheels, the earliest Safety bikes or also association things. One of the highlights is the furnished historical bicycle shop. Zweiradmuseum Havel-Auen-Werder (Two-wheeler Museum Havel Auen Werder), Mielestr. 2, 14542 Werder (Havel), Tel. 03327-409 74, fax. 03327-409 79. Open: April-October, Wednesday-Sunday 1000-1700, November-March: Saturday and Sunday 1000-1600. The Zweiradmuseum Havel-Auen-Werder was created 1990. About 50 bicycles from 1860 - 1940 are displayed. Die Fahrradscheune (The bicycle barn), Scharz. A beautiful barn with a collection of historic bicycles. Radmuseum Altm�nster am Traunsee Altm�nster am Traunsee in Ober�sterreich Velorama National Fiets Museum Waalkade 107, 6511 XR Nijmegen (Gelderland), Netherlands, Tel: +31 (0)24-3225851. Fax: +31 (0)24-3607177. Email: :info @velorama.nl . A favorite of cyclists. Zweiradmuseum Havel-Auen-Werder Werder, Havel-Auen, bei Berlin Online Antilope's Geschiedenis illustrations relating to the history of bicycle producer Antilope, NL. Bakfiets en Meer Dutch bike video's, jazz band on a bakfiets (box bicycle) Batavus History Tour (click "Historie" on drop down menu) A history of the Batavus bike company. (in Dutch) Bik Museum - WWW Bicycle Guide, Taiwan BikeIcons - BMX Museum Lists the many types of bikes, made for BMX throughout the years. Campagnolo History History of the prestigious bicycle manufacturing company Cycle Publishing - Cycling History Dutch Bicycle Industry Development Dutch Bicycle Poster and More Dutch Bicycle Posters Franklin Institute Online (Philadelphia) Search for "bicycle" International Cycling History Conference L'histoire du v�lo (in French) Myths and Milestones in Bicycle Evolution by William Hudson National Museum of Science & Techology Ottawa, ON Canada Sidecar Museum (Italy) The history of sidecars, including early sidecars for bicycles Taiwan Bicycle Industry History Walter Ruett A site dedicated to the turn of the century (1900s) champion. Related Sites Chronology of the Growth of Bicycling in the USA National Bicycle History Archive of America Rideable Bicycle Replicas Makes replicas of historic bikes for sale. 2329 Eagle Ave, Alameda, CA 94501. Tel: 510-769-0980. Fax: 510-521-7145. Email: hiwheel @barrongroup.com * The Wheelmen - "Dedicated To The Enjoyment And Preservation Of Our Bicycling Heritage." History of Bicycles and Bicycling Books on the History of Bicycles and Bicycling
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