Cotswold Motoring Museum

The Cotswold Motoring Museum is a museum in the Cotswolds village of Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England. It features motoring history of the 20th century.

Cotswold Motoring Museum
Established1978, 42 years ago
LocationBourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England
TypeTransport Museum
Websitewww.cotswoldmotoringmuseum.co.uk

Collection

The museum's collection includes cars, motorcycles, bicycles, caravans, and motoring memorabilia of the 20th century.

The museum's toy collection includes pedal cars, bicycles, toy cars, buses, aeroplanes and other vehicles, model kits, meccano built into vehicles and structures, wooden and metal vehicles, and penny tin toys.

The collection also includes the children's television star Brum, when he is not in use. The museum also features in the show's opening title sequence as Brum leaves the museum, where he is on display, and heads into the Big Town. It also features in the closing sequence as well, when Brum drives back into the museum.

History
The museum building

The museum was founded in 1978 by car collector Mike Cavanagh, who also features in Brum.[1] In 1999 Cavanagh sold it to the Civil Service Motoring Association, a not-for-profit organisation, who continues to run it.

Awards

In 2003 the Museum won the Heart of England Tourist Board's Visitor Attraction of the Year, and in 2004 they won the Museums and Heritage Award for their interpretation project "Big Ideas for Small Children".[2]

References

"Never mind the 00S, remember this little lot?". Gloucestershire Echo. Gloucestershire Media. 31 March 2008.

Notes
  1. "Batteries not Included". Devon Life. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  2. "The Cotswold Motoring Museum". CSMA. Archived from the original on 18 January 2009. Retrieved 28 October 2008.


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