Harley-Davidson Museum, Transport museum in Milwaukee, United States
The Harley-Davidson Museum is a transport museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, displaying motorcycles, engines, and related objects from over a century of manufacturing history. The campus along Canal Street includes several buildings with exhibition rooms, an archive, and workshops where restorations take place.
The museum opened its doors in the summer of 2008, bringing together a collection that had grown over decades into one central location. The company itself was founded in Milwaukee in 1903 and built its first motorcycles there in a small wooden shed.
Visitors today see how motorcycles have shaped the lives of many Americans for generations, from weekend rides to collector communities. The exhibits show that these machines mean more to many people than just transportation.
The complex is accessible by footpaths and ramps, and the exhibition rooms are either at ground level or reachable by elevator. Visitors should plan at least two hours to view the main collections at a comfortable pace.
In a glass-walled laboratory inside the building, technicians work on ongoing projects, allowing visitors to watch the development of prototypes and experimental machines directly. Some of the components developed here later make their way into series production.
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