Hello and welcome to the first “non-Brum” blog post of 2023. What Brum was trying to say is the following: Our exhibition, “100 Years of CSMA”, opens on 11 February 2023 when the entire museum will be celebrating the achievements of CSMA/Boundless. The exhibition consists of eight towers located throughout

Anyone browsing the museum website could easily overlook the DOWNLOADS tab on the home page. This could be a mistake! Bear with me, please let me explain why. In 2008 the museum started to publish brief documentation on the website that supported on-going museum displays. One of the very first documents, in

Continuing our series of posts based on a museum exhibition from a few years ago entitled “The History of Motoring in 10 Objects”, this post gives a brief summary of the contributions made by John Boyd Dunlop, Charles Goodyear and the Michelin brothers. Yes, it’s tyres and the global demand

Tucked in a corner of the Cotswold Motoring Museum is a petrol pump which, despite being bright red and 190cm high, is not particularly imposing and could be passed over quite easily. But missing it would be a pity because this pump has earned its place as the first of ten objects

Back in 2012, the Cotswold Motoring Museum & Toy Collection held an exhibition entitled “The History of Motoring in Ten Objects”. It was inspired by the 2010 British Museum Exhibition and Radio Four programme describing the history of the world in 100 objects. We sifted through the many thousands of