Petersen Automotive Museum, California, United States

5Peter L 5:00 PM Sep 27, 2022

A great collection of rare and unique automobiles!
My son and I enjoyed our visit. The museum is well laid out and the displays have informative story boards. If you are an automotive enthusiast, I would definitely recommend spending the extra money to tour the basement storage area known as "The Vault". The cars in the vault are parked in rows rather than in museum displays but our guide was very knowledgable and he enjoyed sharing stories about many of the cars.

5VirginiaCW 5:00 PM Jan 21, 2022

Best automotive museum in the world
A great experience on a drizzly day in LA... anytime really...in an old department store, there are 3 full floors of cars from Mercedes Benz first electric touring car to the newest concept cars out of Detroit and the OC. There is a gift store on the first floor, as well as discovery and sim areas on the second floor, for kids and adults respectively, that are temporarily closed due to CoVid. The day we went, the first floor had an exhibit that was the history of Pinnin Farina design and manufacturing at one end, and every vehicle that had ever been in every James Bond movie throughout the rest of the floor. Wonderful for movie lovers. Pay extra and take a guided Vault tour - of the hundreds of cars locked away in the former parking garage - that takes 90 minutes and covers 125 years of more unique automotive examples from the US and other parts of the world, and most every movie too. Photos are not allowed in the vault, but may be taken in the main areas. Even for those of us who get tired in museums, we were fascinatingly amused for almost 4 full hours. Beware though, this is one of the only museums anywhere that has no food area - even if it were on the edges away from the cars.