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AUTO OBSESSION
Event Date: 17/08/2014, 10:00 am
Treasures from the Museum’s car collection out from the vaults
The Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences will for the first time showcase its extraordinary car collection in a new display at the Powerhouse Museum.
AUTO OBSESSION is part of a new Re-Collection project to ensure greater public access to the Museum’s rich collection.
Featuring over 25 restored and original historic cars, AUTO OBSESSION comprises a curious, eclectic and fascinating collection from luxury tourers and family sedans to racing and sports cars.
Also on display will be the Museum’s extensive collection of Matchbox cars, arguably the largest such collection in Australia. It has been claimed that in the halcyon days of Matchbox in the 1960s, Australians
purchased more of the little die-cast toy cars per capita than any other country.
“Auto Obsession highlights our love affair and lifelong obsession with cars. It is fitting that a car show is the first in our new Re-Collection series where we will bring the Museum’s extraordinary collection out of the vaults and on public display,” said Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences Director, Rose Hiscock.
Many of the cars in AUTO OBSESSION are time capsules of automotive history, having had little work done on them other than to preserve them in carefully monitored storage conditions. They can be compared to the much sort-after "barn find" cars in the current collector market.
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Powerhouse Museum, 500 Harris Street,
Ultimo New South Wales,2007
Powerhouse Museum, 500 Harris Street,
Ultimo New South Wales,2007
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Website URL: www.powerhousemuseum.com
