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Raisbeck Engineering Hall of Technology
Showcases the innovation, initiative and intellect of the Auburn Automobile Company. Highlights five technologies developed by the Auburn Automobile Company that are still in use in today’s production cars. Learn about engines and technology related to the Auburn, Cord and Duesenberg automobiles and study biographies of the company’s key engineering staff.
Dean V Kruse Gallery of Auburn Automobiles 1900 - 1924
Auburn automobiles from 1904 to 1924 are exhibited in a setting reminiscent of an Auburn sales showroom during this period of time. This gallery illustrates the prolificacy and skilled workmanship inherent in a regional - if sometimes struggling - midwestern auto firm. These predecessors to E.L. Cord’s arrival at the company show the astonishingly rapid development of automobiles.
Auburn Foundry Gallery of Auburn Built Automobiles
No
fewer than ten different brands of motorcars were manufactured
in the city of Auburn in the pre-WW I era. This enlightening
gallery proves that, even on the local scene, Auburn had formidable
competition at the time. Invariably these manufacturers had
earlier been well-established carriage builders, who embarked
on horseless carriage activities as progress beckoned. Auburn,
Indiana, was a center for vehicle development and manufacturing,
teeming with new ideas in construction, power, design and marketing,
as this exhibit vividly discloses. The ambience places you
in the early part of the century including window treatments that
duplicate scenes from the manufacturers and the city of Auburn.
Lincoln
Financial Group Foundation "The Cars of Indiana" Gallery
The
State of Indiana was one of America’s most productive regions
committed to automotive commerce, ranging from the inception of
hundreds of marques, to the widespread proliferation of manufacturers
of auto components. Indiana is judged to have had the potential,
prior to 1925, of attaining an automotive status similar to Michigan’s.
Displayed is an enviable collection of rare and unusual automobiles
built in the Hoosier state.
Timothy S. Durham Gallery of Classics
Alongside
Full Classics TM manufactured by Auburn Automobile Company, this
gallery contains many Auburn, Cord and Duesenberg automobiles
and its contemporaries. Presented are domestic and foreign
products that competed to be the most luxurious and prestigious
car during the Classic era.
Robert M. Pass Gallery of Special Topics
Specific areas of special interest are presented in-depth in the award-winning gallery.
Auburn Automobile Company Showroom Gallery
Auburn, Cord and Duesenberg motorcars of the classic era 1925 - 1937. This gallery is located in the original art deco sales showroom where dealers came from all over the world to select inventory to sell.
These magnificent automobiles, positioned in this momentous historical context, render the museum both distinctive and unique, charged with a significance that is absolute and irrefutable. The classic cars - rich in history, technological innovation, unduplicatable luxury and aesthetic beauty define the stature of the Auburn Automobile Company with clarity and excitement.
Gallery of Special Interest Automobiles
These domestic, foreign and prototype vehicles are milestones of automotive advancement. This gallery brings closure to the museum’s cohesive interpretation of the auto industry. It offers a sense of the ways in which each automobile company led to the next and how each idea inspired a heightened, more sophisticated turn of succeeding ideas.
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