10. Petersen Automotive Museum

WILSHIRE.   Located on Wilshire at Fairfax, this museum offers fun, interactive exhibits that present the history of the automobile, along with full-scale reproductions of scenes and buildings that mark important milestones in the development of the motor car in Los Angeles. Five galleries house changing exhibitions of various types of vehicles while other galleries display automotive memorabilia.   (© 10Best)

Okay all you hybrid owners: Kudos on your gas mileage, but you're not as much in the vanguard as you might think. That's one lesson from the exhibit Alternative Power: Lessons from the Past, Inspiration for the Future at the Petersen Automotive Museum. With an eccentric lineup dating back to 1897 (an electric vehicle built in Los Angeles), the exhibit shows how designers have been looking at alternative energy for vehicles for more than 100 years. There's even the 1957 Studebaker-Packard Astral, built as a prototype for a possible atomic-powered vehicle. With its retro-futurist design and unique power source, it looks like something the Jetsons might have driven on a vacation to Chernobyl. (from Sunset)

Hours:

Tue-Sun 10am-6pm

Admission:

Adult $10; Senior (62+) $5; Student $5; Military $5; Child (5-12) $3; Child (4 and under) Free; Parking $6

Payment Methods:

Website: Visit the Petersen Automotive Museum website »

Type: History Museums, Museums

	"10Best Guest" more than a month ago
To tell you the truth, I wasn't expecting much. I couldn't imagine a car museum being very interesting. I was so wrong. Unlike a most history of the automobile exhibits, they have some gorgeous, weird, combo cars that some motorheads have frankensteined, if you can imagine the Frankenstein Monster looking like Marilyn Monroe in auto form. And if you're not a auto fanatic, there's the collection upstairs of motored vehicles from various movies/tv shows. There was a Hot Wheels room which I have to go look at again because apparently, there are really only a finite number of bodies used to make all those different looking toy cars. I forget the amount, but it wasn't very many at all. The special exhibit was the beginning of camping vehicles which were SO CUTE with adorable wall paper and little lamps and wood veneer. You could wear gloves and a hat in there and I'm talking Chanel and not Northface. They have the Green Machine that has broken the world record for speed a number of times and seems to be losing rivets at a surprising rate. Very, very fun.
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