The Nethercutt Collection, California, United States

5Epic2022 5:00 PM Feb 29, 2020

Exquisite Collection of Functionally Fine Antique Automobiles
An absolute hidden gem in southern Los Angeles! Be sure to take your family (sons/daughters, grandkids), and friends (in town or out of town) visit this museum! We did it yesterday and enjoyed both self-guided and guided tours tremendously. You should allow 4 hours for fun! It has a huge parking lot next to the museum. All cars are exquisitely restored to their original form and functionally drivable automobiles. Every year each car will be taken out of the museum for a joy ride in town, onto the highway, and drive through! 1) Go online to reserve your tickets for the free 2-hour guided tour on Thursday, Friday, or Saturday at 10 am or 1:30 pm. 2) Be sure to spend an extra two hours before or after and visit the other building (free to roam around) and the train. 3) In the last part of the guided tour, go to the 4th floor - music room, grab a sofa, just sit back and enjoy the music while relaxing your legs and toes. It was just heavenly enjoyable! The organ music was just amazing! 4) Bonus: it is FREE! 5) You can also check out other events on the website for silent movies and organ music! 6) The gentleman who is the curator of the museum is an absolutely awesome and very knowledgeable tour guide. He gave a very informative history of every car and every piece of musical instrument in the museum! He is the one who makes every piece of musical instrument functionally working in the museum! This place just has an awesome and incredible collection of treasures!

5edinsb2018 5:00 PM Jan 11, 2020

Can I mark this as a 10 out of 5?
Wow, I had never heard of them until I did a search for car museums in Los Angeles and it came up. Their webpage just doesn’t how great this FREE museum is. There are two buildings - one is the main museums with 133 cars and a train. Everything works so the cars have gas and keys in them. They drive them all at least twice a year. The gem however is the Collection across the street in a 4 story building where they have fantastic cars, many who have won major awards like best of show at the Pebble Beach concurs de elegance. One car is the 20k Dusesenberg. While you are there on the tour, you listening to a grand piano player playing Rhapsode in Blue which was recorded by Gershwin himself. Then there is a floor with hundreds of car emblems and other player devices. The top floor has a number of orchestrations, huge bellow feed orchestras with as many of 21 instruments. Then there is the pipe organ from an old silent film theater. With 5,200 pipes with largest going from the basement to the 4th floor to deliver bass sounds that shake the building. Did I say free? They only do the collection tours on Thursday , Friday and Saturday with on 1 tour on Thursday and Friday and 2 on Saturday. You need reservations. Only open Wednesday thru Saturday. DON’T MISS THIS.