The Harley-Davidson Museum exhibits cover the more than 100-year history of Harley-Davidson motorcycles. The museum’s complex contains more than 450 motorcycles and hundreds of thousands of artifacts from the Harley-Davidson Motor Company’s history.
The museum opened in 2008, in a historically industrial area of Milwaukee. In 2006, the groundbreaking ceremony included a burnout celebration using a Harley-Davidson XL883R Sportster, instead of with the traditional golden shovel.
The museum’s galleries displays are based on historic Harley-Davidson items that tell the company’s story and history, using motorcycles, photographs, posters, advertisements, clothes, trophies, video footage of motorcycling, and interactive exhibits.
The Harley-Davidson Motor Company’s corporate archives are also housed on the museum’s grounds.
Harley-Davidson Museum Bike Parade
Highlights of the Harley-Davidson Museum
- The Motorcycle Gallery – a procession of Harley-Davidson motorcycles is displayed
- The Harley-Davidson Journey – exhibits the Harley-Davidson’s chronological history
- “Serial Number One” – the oldest known Harley-Davidson in existence
- The Engine Room – a Knucklehead engine, Panhead and Shovelhead motors and how they work
- Clubs and Competition – Harley-Davidson’s racing history with 1920s-era Harley-Davidson racing motorcycles
- Tank Gallery exhibit – displays 100 of Harley-Davidson’s memorable tank graphics, spanning 70 years, reproduced on “Fat Bob” tanks
- The Custom Culture gallery – covers Harley-Davidson’s impact on American and global culture
- “King Kong” – a 13-foot (4.0 m)-long, two-engine Harley-Davidson customized motorcycle
- Famous Replicas – the customized Harley-Davidson bikes ridden in the 1969 American movie, “Easy Rider”
Board Track exhibit – Clubs and Competition gallery – Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee
Harley-Davidson Museum
- Museum: Harley-Davidson Museum
- City: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- State: Wisconsin
- Country: United States
- Established: 2008
- Type: Transport Museum, Specialist Museum
- Location: 400 W Canal St, Milwaukee, WI, United States
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Harley-Davidson Museum -360 Virtual Views
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“Sometimes, you find yourself in the middle of nowhere; and sometimes in the middle of nowhere, you find yourself.”
– Harley Davidson Quotes
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