About this event
PORSCHE CLUB OF AMERICA - GRAND PRIX REGION
PETERSEN AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM TOUR
Sunday June 10, 2012
On June 11, 1994, Margie and Robert E. Petersen fulfilled a longtime dream when they became founding benefactors to start the Petersen Automotive Museum, donating $5 million to the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum. In April 2000, the Petersens contributed an additional $24.8 million dollars to the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum to retire the bond debt and establish the Petersen Automotive Museum Foundation as an independent nonprofit organization. Overall, their gifts to the Petersen Automotive Museum total over $30 million. Today, the Petersen Automotive Museum stands as the nation’s premiere automotive museum, serving thousands of visitors each year.
The Petersen Automotive Museum is dedicated to the exploration and presentation of the automobile and its impact on American life and culture using Los Angeles as the prime example. Encompassing more than 300,000 square feet, its exhibits and lifelike dioramas feature more than 150 rare and classic cars, trucks and motorcycles.
Covering four floors, the facility features permanent exhibits on the first floor that trace the history of the automobile. Visitors are invited to walk through, not by, exhibits and dioramas and experience settings of early Los Angeles where the world’s first shopping district was designed.
The second floor presents five rotating galleries with state-of-the-art displays of racecars, classic cars, vintage motorcycles, concept cars, celebrity and movie cars, and auto design and technology.
The May Family Discovery Center is located on the third floor. Designed to spark interest in science by way of the automobile, the 6,500 square-foot, interactive “hands-on” learning center teaches children basic scientific principles by explaining the fundamental functions of a car.
The Petersen Automotive Museum Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, governed by a Board of Directors. The Museum is located at 6060 Wilshire Boulevard (at Fairfax) in Los Angeles.
Cost - $10.00 per person includes $6.00 for the tour and the balance will go to GPX fundraising 2012
Be parked and ready to enter museum as a group at 9:45 am
2 hour tour (1st hour docent guided and 2nd hour self guided)
Maximum 50 people
Free parking for all Porsches, $8.00 for non-Porsches
Parking is in the Museum parking structure, 3rd floor – GET A PARKING TICKET BEFORE ENTERING (We will be near the entrance with tickets at 9:00 am)
Donations go to our 2012 Fundraising Campaign
Trouble Registering contact
Suesan Way, Registrar
SuesanWay@pobox.com or (619) 992-4287
Event requirements
Sunday, June 10, 10:00 am (be parked and ready to enter museum as a group at 9:45 am)
2 hour tour (1-hour docent guided, 2nd hour self guided)
Maximum 50 people
Registration fee - $10.00 - $6.00 per person entry into the Museum the balance to the GPX fundraising campaign for 2012
Contact Marty Goldsmith for questions about the tour captmarty@verizon.net or call 562.494.6350
Every dollar collected goes towards our 2012 Fundraising Efforts benefiting Children's Dental Health Clinic in Long Beach our local charity and ASUDEC Africa's Sustainable Development Council (a Heifer International Project)
