With Enrique Senior, automotive and art aficionados Steve and Jan Patterson select Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum to receive over thirty remarkable pieces from their private collection. The museum is known for its assemblage of distinctive sports cars, and the donation will enhance the displays through an extensive set of paintings and sculptures.
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One of the oldest questions in the sport of auto racing is if it is either a team or an individual sport? The correct answer is yes, to both. We know that there is no “I” in team, but the best drivers compete to be #1, which is what makes them the best drivers.
This is your chance to show off your automotive skills and knowledge in our first-ever “Car Detective” photo quiz series. The rules are easy. The first person to successfully answer this series of questions get bragging rights to be called our official “Car Detective of the Week” and earns themselves four free tickets to the museum! Our weekly winner and a new Photo Quiz will be announced each Wednesday at 12:30 on our website and social media channels.
Michael Furman has had the unique pleasure of photographing the World’s most significant cars. From the earliest “conveyances” to cars that foretell the future, Michael has created portraits that insightfully express his subject’s historical and aesthetic importance. During this lecture, Michael explained and demonstrated his unique photographic process that he uses to capture the most beautiful cars in the World in Photography.
The Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum is committed to road and traffic safety and believe that increased educational opportunities for young drivers promote a better outcome for us all.
This is your chance to show off your automotive skills and knowledge in our first-ever “Car Detective” photo quiz series. The rules are easy. The first person to successfully answer this series of questions get bragging rights to be called our official “Car Detective of the Week” and earns themselves four free tickets to the museum! Our weekly winner and a new Photo Quiz will be announced each Wednesday at 12:30 on our website and social media channels.
We want to thank our friend Brad Jacobson for filling in for our normal photographer Andrew Taylor for this Demo Day event. Photos shown are from PA Squared.
Our new photography initiative Hot Shot consists of images submitted by professional and amateur photographers and were taken at Simeone Museum events. We want to thank everyone that sent their favorite "hot shots" our way.
In the April issue of Hemmings Motor News, we visited the cars on the National Historic Vehicle Register. As you may recall, #1 on that list is the 1964 Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe at the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The museum opened in 2008 in a former engine remanufacturing facility near the airport. But the Daytona Coupe isn’t all that’s special there.
For a short period during the 1920s, the most prestigious German automotive manufacturers created advertisements similar in style to that of Warhol, decades before the artist would hit the scene.
The Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum is committed to road and traffic safety and believe that increased educational opportunities for young drivers promote a better outcome for us all.
This is your chance to show off your automotive skills and knowledge in our first-ever “Car Detective” photo quiz series. The rules are easy. The first person to successfully answer this series of questions get bragging rights to be called our official “Car Detective of the Week” and earns themselves four free tickets to the museum! Our weekly winner and a new Photo Quiz will be announced each Wednesday at 12:30 on our website and social media channels.