This post contains affiliate links - using affiliate links from Homeschool Coffee Break helps fuel this blog and our homeschool - thank you!
Did you know there are attractions in Hershey that are not chocolate-related? We finally got around to visiting one of those attractions on Saturday - the AACA Museum. If I hadn't been there, I wouldn't recognize the acronym, but it's an antique automobile museum, and it's an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution. This place has been on my husband's to-visit list for a number of years, so we checked an item off his list, and Kennady and I enjoyed it more than we might have expected.
The current exhibits feature Mustangs and Thunderbirds, so I did expect to enjoy seeing those. A couple of the Thunderbirds on display are in the first room. A 1963 Principality of Monaco Thunderbird, and a 1957 Battlebird.
From there we moved through the museum, viewing all kinds of antique and vintage cars, from the very early motorized vehicles to an early Coca-Cola delivery truck, DeSotos, Studebakers, Cadillacs, and many more.
Most of the cars in the exhibit Mustangs: Six Generations of America's Favorite Pony Car are near this replica gas station on the main floor.
 |
| 1964-1/2 Mustang - my favorite |
Route 66 is also featured in the exhibits.
Along the way, you'll see this DeLorean!
There's a permanent exhibit featuring Tucker Automobiles, which I'd never heard of before, but it was pretty interesting. That exhibit included a vintage car dealership office.
 |
| Can I put you on hold? |
There's a small interactive station where guests can try their hand at an assembly line in miniature. Kennady took the challenge.
There are more cars on display in the basement of the building, as well as a diner, and a whole exhibit of buses. Who collects buses??? Apparently someone did, and the collection is housed at AACA. I didn't get many pictures of those. And there always seems to be a train garden at museums like this.
 |
| My dad was a Calgary Transit bus driver. |
This is the "Ferrari" used in the Ferris Bueller's Day Off movie, which wasn't really a Ferrari, since that would have been too expensive to use on the set.
Even though there was no chocolate, I'm glad we visited this auto museum! I'd recommend stopping by if you have car-crazy family members, or for a history field trip.
This post is linked at the Homeschool Linky Party on the Homeschool Review Crew blog. And it will be linked at Sometimes Wordless Wednesday, hosted by Tots and Me . . . Growing Up Together!
©2006-2018 Homeschool Coffee Break. All rights reserved. All text, photographs, artwork, and other content may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form without the written consent of the author. http://kympossibleblog.blogspot.com/
We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.
Posts
2 comments:
Wasn't it a neat museum? My younger boys and I didn't really want to go either but we enjoyed it. We even stopped to listen to some music in the old diner on their jukeboxes.
Okay...I need to figure out how long it would take for us to get to this museum. And a Delorean! How cool - Back to the Future is one of my all time favorites.
Post a Comment
I love comments! It's like visiting over a virtual cup of coffee.