The Mustang Museum is back in the news. Are you interested?
The Mustang Museum has surfaced for the first time in years in the Vintage Mustang Forum. For those of you just tuning in, the Mustang Museum had its first meeting in January of 1995, hosted by the late Jim Osborn. Centered around a core of committed Mustang enthusiasts and business people, the Mustang Museum developed into The Mustang Experience with a big fund raising effort and a multi-city review on where to put the museum.
In 1999, museum efforts broke down when the board could not agree on where to put the museum. The museum then went dormant until a better plan could be put into action. Since 2000, the museum dream has been resting in the very capable hands of Kevin Marti of Marti Auto Works. Kevin has long felt the museum needed time to simmer until a more realistic plan could be put into place. The museum never died, it just went onto the back burner.
Time flies when you're not thinking about a Mustang Museum. When the Harley Davidson Museum opened recently in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, it sparked chatter in the VMF about the Mustang museum and getting some kind of plan into action again in hopes of a Mustang Museum by the Mustang's 50th Anniversary in April 2014.
Current discussion on location focuses on Dearborn, Michigan - the Mustang's birthplace and home of Ford Motor Company. Dearborn seems to be the most logical location for the museum.
The Mustang Museum effort is in the very early stages of discussion. The dream is to build it as a stand-alone attraction or tie it to a museum already in existence. Whether it happens or not depends on support in the hobby and around the industry. Always interested in your viewpoints.