Museum Harley Davidson

Museum Harley Davidson in USA

Harley Davidson Museum is a North American museum located in downtown, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and is celebrating more than 100 years of Harley Davidson motorcycles history. It is a 130,000-square foot three building complex on 20 acres of land along Menomonee River bank that comprises thousands of artifacts from Harley Davidson Company and its motorcycles. The total number of visitors attracted by this museum is 300,000. It was opened to the public in the year 2008 in Menomonee Valley and was created on historical industrial area of Milwaukee. It was initially used by Morton Salt, Milwaukee department of Public Works and Lakeshore Sand Company. The designs for museum were revealed in the year 2006 which was created by James Biber, partner at Pentagram Architects. In June 2006, the construction work of this museum started with groundbreaking ceremony. The site comprises of 500 spaces for cars and 1000 for motorcycles along with 17-foot tall steel Harley Davidson sign.

The complex of Harley Davidson Museum also includes restaurant, special event spaces, café and retail shops. On the display there some historic items that tell Harley Davidson’s history and story such as interactive exhibits including 10 bikes, photographs, video footage of contemporary motorcycling and vintage, posters, trophies, advertisements and clothes. On the upper level of museum, there some motorcycles displayed at the center of hall with galleries on other side. The second floor of the museum starts with engine room. There is a knucklehead engine displayed into various pieces and the room comprises of interactive touch screen elements that show Shovelhead and Panhead motors work and Harley motors. The competition and clubs gallery consists of information and display about the racing history of Harley Davidson. There is a tank gallery as well that comprises of 100 most memorable tank graphics of Harley Davidson.

The custom culture gallery of Harley Davidson Museum covers the impact of company on global and American culture. The centerpiece of custom culture gallery is King Kong, 13-foot long dual-engine Harley Davidson motorcycle designed by Felix Predko. The corporate archives of Harley Davidson Motor Company are housed as well on museum’s ground.