Anyone who has visited the museum lately will have noticed that the AA roadside telephone box, number 59, has become much more visible. (All boxes had numbers so that a member calling for assistance could confirm their location to the call handler by reading the box number). Box 59, located

Our last post under “Museum News” on 1st March, mentioned the involvement of Monsieur Clément-Bayard in the context of a recent “new” item in the museum collection. Monsieur Clément-Bayard was a successful French industrialist who, in the early 20th century, made his fortune through the manufacture of bicycles and automobiles.

When talking about a museum, we should be careful when using the word “new”. Not a lot in most museums is “new”. Perhaps a better word to have used for this title would have been “changed” – but then “new” does make a better headline! However, enough of semantics! An

As regular visitors to the museum will know only too well, the displays and narratives are not just about motor transport. Quite apart from the gallery devoted to toys, the theme running through much of the museum concerns the social history of Bourton on the Water. There is the gallery

Did you know that the museum contains one of the largest collections of enamel signs in the country? When writing the Dunlop Tyres article for our “History of Motoring in 10 Objects”, well over 10 years ago now, the following montage showed some of the collection of tyre-related signs; and

Here we go again, we are all set for another season to welcome visitors to the museum. We re-open tomorrow – Saturday 10th February 2024. For the last week the museum staff and groups of our fantastic volunteers have been beavering away, dusting, polishing and vacuuming ready for our first visitors of

Hello everyone, Brum here again. My goodness it has been a chilly winter here in the museum but I’m starting to get excited. We open again in less than one week and I’m so looking forward to seeing all our visitors talking, smiling and admiring me – and the other

Anyone visiting the museum during the last 3 years will undoubtedly have met and heard the blacksmith and the wheelwright chatting about “… these new -fangled motor cars …. “. Well, if you have visited recently, you will know that they have been joined in the blacksmith’s shop by three

Yes, the museum re-opens for the 2022 season this coming Saturday and we are all looking forward to welcoming our first visitors of the year. What is new, what has changed? Well, on entering the first and largest of our seven galleries there is so much to see. Eighteen cars,