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The Walter P. Chrysler Museum was a car museum in Auburn Hills, Michigan, featuring historically significant vehicles designed and manufactured by Chrysler, Dodge, Plymouth, Jeep, AMC, Nash, Hudson, and Rambler . It was in operation from October 1999 through December 2012, with a brief re-opening in 2016 before closing permanently in December 2016.
- 2016
- Car museum
- 1999
Or by appointment 757–666-6205. MUSEUM SHOP Open during Museum hours or shop online at shop.chrysler.org. ZINNIA CAFÉ Grab-and-Go: Museum hours Full Service Lunch: Tuesday–Saturday, 11 a.m.–2 p.m. and Sunday, Noon to 2 p.m. Visit zinniava.com for full menu. PROTECT THE ARTLook as long as you like, but please do not touch the art, lean on ...
Though the Museum was founded in 1933, things really changed when Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. brought his collection of more than 10,000 works of art to Norfolk in 1971. Learn more 100+ Years of the Norfolk Society of Arts
- 1915 Dodge Brothers 30-35 Touring Car. A decade before the Chrysler Corporation existed, John and Horace Dodge switched their big Hamtramck, Michigan, factory from supplying major components to Ford Motor Company to manufacturing their first car, the Dodge Brothers 30-35 Touring Car, in late 1914.
- 1934 Chrysler Airflow. With today’s focus groups and clinics, it’s rare for a car company to get a new design concept completely wrong. Yet during the depths of the Great Depression, Chrysler did exactly that when it launched the streamlined Airflow sedan.
- 1941 Chrysler Newport. Chrysler liked this show car so much it built six of them. By the early 1940s the public was more favorably disposed to streamlining than they were when the 1934 Airflows were introduced, so Chrysler revisited the theme with the 1941 Newport.
- 1943 Willys-Overland Jeep MB. The mother of all SUVs was created to replace the horse in the U.S. Cavalry. First developed by American Bantam Motors on the eve of World War II, what we now know as the original Jeep was mass-produced during the war by Willys Overland and Ford Motor Company.
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1. Walter through the years. Chrysler collected art for more than seven decades and was active in the development of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, contributing collection highlights such as Matisse’s Dance and Picasso’s The Charnel House. When he was just fourteen years old, he made his first purchase—a small watercolor of a ...
The Chrysler Museum of Art is an art museum on the border between downtown and the Ghent district of Norfolk, Virginia. The museum was founded in 1933 as the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences. In 1971, automotive heir, Walter P. Chrysler Jr. (whose wife, Jean Outland Chrysler, was a native of Norfolk), donated most of his extensive collection ...
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