Elliott Museum, Automobile museum in Stuart, Florida.
The Elliott Museum stands at 825 N.E. Ocean Blvd. on Hutchinson Island in Stuart, Florida, in a 48,000-square-foot building that opened in March 2013, replacing the 1961 original. Its galleries cover art, maritime and local history, and baseball, alongside bicycles, classic wooden boats, motorcycles, an airplane and over 90 cars and trucks. More than 50 vehicles sit in a robotic racking system that brings them to a turntable on demand.
Harmon Elliott built the original Elliott Museum in 1961 as a tribute to his father, inventor Sterling Elliott, and gave it on 18 November 1961 to the non-profit Historical Society of Martin County, which still runs it alongside Gilbert's Bar House of Refuge. Part of the collection came from Sterling; much of the rest Harmon bought from an Americana Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. The original building was demolished in June 2011 and a 48,000-square-foot replacement opened in March 2013, soon merging with the Classic Boat and Maritime Museum.
The museum is named after Sterling Elliott, an inventor from whose collection part of the holdings came; Harmon Elliott bought much of the rest from an Americana Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. Since 1996 it has held the Classics at the Beach car show each spring, drawing vintage car enthusiasts. In 2025 it added a holographic AI installation in which an avatar of archaeologist Howard Carter discusses the 1922 discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, based on Carter's writings and field notes.
The museum stands at 825 N.E. Ocean Blvd. on Hutchinson Island, across the Indian River from downtown Stuart. The 48,000-square-foot building opened in 2013, replacing the 1961 structure torn down in June 2011. Over 50 vehicles sit in a robotic racking system that retrieves them on demand for a turntable, so what you see rotates through the collection.
More than 50 vehicles sit in a robotic racking system that fetches them on demand and places them on a turntable for viewing. The museum also holds one of the world's largest collections of historic Ford Model A and Model AA commercial vehicles, assembled by Elliott R. Donnelley and donated at the 2013 opening.
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