Tampa Bay Automobile Museum, Florida, United States
5.0 (143 reviews) Friday: 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM Spent 2-3 hours Ranking #1 in Pinellas Park Art Galleries • Speciality Museums • History Museums
Awesome visit.
Located in the Tampa, Clearwater, St. Petersburg area of west central Florida, the Tampa Bay Automobile Museum, features a unique collection of vintage cars and vehicles that demonstrate special creativity and imagination in their history and engineering. They include pioneering front wheel drive and rear engine cars from the 1920’s and 1930’s, and each vehicle was chosen based on the engineering achievements that made it an important part of the evolution of the automobile. Visitors enjoy an engaging blend of art and science in 19,000 square feet of gallery space.
Address
3301 Gateway Centre Blvd, Pinellas Park, FL 33782-6106
Mobile
Website
http://tbauto.org/
Working hours
Monday : 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Tuesday :
Wednesday : 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Thursday : 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Friday : 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Saturday : 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Sunday : 12:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Current local date and time now
Friday, May 10, 2024, 3:56
User Ratings
5.0 based on (143 reviews)
Reviews
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5Tod A 5:00 PM Feb 28, 2023
Not your standard auto museum and is one worth your time to visit.
Spent a couple hours looking around this very clean, well lit and interesting car museum. One of the things that differentiates them is every single vehicle on display is currently registered to be driven on the road and is in working shape so that if they want to they could drive any of them on the road today. Staff was helpful and knowledgeable. Small gift shop on premises, no restaurant or snack shop. Additionally while you should not be touching the vehicles there is no rope to prevent you from getting up close which makes this also a little different than other car museums we have visited. The level of restoration of these vehicles is unbelievable. Many have won awards have prestigious car shows around the country. Some of them are the last remaining or the only example of the vehicle that was ever made. Heavy on French and Czechoslovakian vehicles. This is not to say there aren't some English, American, and German vehicles. Well worth your time if looking at superbly restored automobiles from the past is of interest to you
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5pasherry 5:00 PM Feb 29, 2020
Wonderful museum, Gary is awesome!
We always love visiting car museums, this was a great find! Admission is $8pp with discounts for seniors. This is a private collection owned by the Cerf family and really is a tribute to great engineers who designed innovative cars. The vintage Darl Mat, Talbot, Tatra cars are wonderful to see. But what made this experience awesome was Gary, one of the curators who is an artist, innovator, lover of the history of cars who told us wonderful stories of some of the cars in this museum. His enthusiasm was genuine. We spent about 2hrs here and loved it!
