WPC Museum Permanently Closing

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Walter P. Chrysler Museum Permanently Closing:

http://www.autoblog.com/2016/11/10/walter-p-chrysler-museum-closing-permanently-official/

[Bo Markham]

Walter P. Chrysler Museum Permanently Closing:

http://www.autoblog.com/2016/11/10/w...ntly-official/

Well, that's progress for you. Hail the new, throw out, throw away, forget the old. To bad, really. Yet, another assault on the ole car hobby.

[Lothar]

I think that it would be appropriate for Fiat-Chrysler to transfer the collection of the Walter P. Chrysler museum to the Walter P. Chrysler Boyhood Home Museum in Ellis, Kansas .

http://www.chryslerboyhoodhome.com/museumcollection.asp

The curators of the Chrysler Museum in Kansas would probably need to rent a few quonsets and farm buildings around the county to store the entire collection, but they will figure something out. It would get a lot of traffic since the boyhood home museum is near I-70, right in the center of the nation.

[Lothar]

The more I think about this idea, the more sense it makes. McPherson College, home of one of the nation's premier auto restoration technician training programs, could help maintain the collection.

http://www.mcpherson.edu/autorestoration/

McPherson is about 140-150 miles from Ellis. I'm sure that Fort Hayes State College, which is just 15-20 miles from Ellis, no doubt has design and engineering programs that Fiat-Chrysler could partner with as well. Wouldn't that be a nice outcome?

[52-fan]

What is happening to the auto industry and hobby makes me think about livery stables, people with large collections of fine carriages and the like. I am sure they were all sad and upset to see it all change.

[Bob Bryant]

As I was going to be in Michigan I checked a few months ago about visiting WPC Museum and it appeared that it was only open on specific occasions as determined by Fiat-Chrysler. I hope that somehow the collection becomes available to the public in the future.