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California Automobile Museum

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California Automobile Museum
California Automobile Museum
California Automobile Museum
California Automobile Museum
California Automobile Museum
California Automobile Museum
California Automobile Museum
California Automobile Museum
California Automobile Museum
California Automobile Museum
California Automobile Museum
California Automobile Museum
California Automobile Museum
California Automobile Museum
California Automobile Museum
California Automobile Museum
California Automobile Museum
California Automobile Museum
California Automobile Museum
California Automobile Museum
California Automobile Museum
California Automobile Museum
California Automobile Museum
California Automobile Museum
California Automobile Museum
Phone:
+1 916-442-6802

Hours:
Sunday10am - 5pm
Monday10am - 5pm
TuesdayClosed
Wednesday10am - 5pm
Thursday10am - 5pm
Friday10am - 5pm
Saturday10am - 5pm


California Automobile Museum is an automobile museum located in Sacramento, California. It has a collection of over 150 classic cars, race cars, muscle cars and early models displayed throughout 72,000 square feet of museum space. The mission of the California Automobile Museum is to preserve, exhibit, and teach the story of the automobile and its influence on our lives.The California Automobile Museum was the first automobile museum in the west to be established in perpetuity. Founded in 1983 as the California Vehicle Foundation, the museum opened to the public in 1987 as the Towe Ford Museum, displaying the largest collection of Fords in the world, courtesy of Edward Towe, a Montana banker. Delta Pick Mello is the executive director of the museum.The first auto to be donated to the California Automobile Museum was a restored 1938 Buick sedan, a gift from John Joyce, president of the Golden One Credit Union, which is still on display at the museum. In 1997, the museum was renamed the Towe Auto Museum, as they began displaying vehicles of all makes and models. In 2009, the Board of Directors officially changed the name of the museum to the California Automobile Museum, reflecting the expanded mission it has grown into over the last 25 years.
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