Tickets for Harley's motorcycle museum available May 20th
The Staff of Clutch and Chrome
May 6th 2008
American
motorcycle history starts a new chapter with an honored look
back when Harley-Davidson opens it's museum in July.
 Nearly 105
years in the making, the Harley-Davidson Museum, located
near downtown Milwaukee, will open its doors to the public
on Saturday, July 12. Grand Opening festivities will kick
off with a Harley-Davidson-style ceremony at 10 a.m. and
will continue throughout the weekend.
The 130,000-square-foot Museum will add a whole new
dimension to the Harley-Davidson experience. Visitors will
get a feel for the freedom, camaraderie and pride that
Harley-Davidson riders experience every time they fire up
their motorcycles.
Museum visitors will:
- Walk
through a variety of exhibits that tell the stories of
the extraordinary people, products, history and culture
of Harley-Davidson. In addition to the fantastic
motorcycle collection, stories are told through a
variety of media - including photographs, videos,
apparel, rare documents and other fascinating artifacts.
- Peek
into a portion of the Archives, never before open to the
public, and home base to more than 450 motorcycles, and
hundreds of thousands of artifacts that the Archives
team can pull from for Museum exhibits
- Read
the various personalized messages created by individuals
worldwide on the Living the Legend rivets, found on the
Living the Legend walls and plazas
- Grab a
bold American meal or snack from the on-site Restaurant
and Cafe
- Stroll
around the 20 acre Museum site, enjoy the riverwalk or
just sit back along the waterfront taking in the
Milwaukee skyline
- Check
out the unique Museum-inspired items at the Retail Store
- Examine
the industrial architecture and attention to detail
found both inside and outside of the Museum’s three
buildings
The
Harley-Davidson Museum, located at the intersection of Sixth
and Canal Streets in Milwaukee’s Menomonee Valley, will be
open 364 days a year.
General admission tickets to tour the Museum are $16 for
adults, $12 for students and seniors, $10 for children (ages
5-17 years), and children under 5 years of age will be
admitted free with an accompanying adult. Visit
Harley-Davidson's museum
website for additional updates on group sales and
tour information. Access to the Harley-Davidson Museum
grounds will be available to the public, free of charge, 24
hours a day.
Museum tickets for Grand Opening weekend and other dates
will go on sale
online on
Tuesday, May 20. The majority of tickets for Grand Opening
weekend will be sold in advance online and the balance will
be available for on-site sales during Grand Opening weekend.
Visitors to the Museum site during Grand Opening weekend
will be able to enjoy watching a bike-build and a tattoo
artist at work and listen to live music on the 20-acre
park-like grounds.
Museum tickets are no longer available during the
Harley-Davidson 105th Anniversary Celebration August 28-31,
2008. To ensure an excellent Museum experience during the
105th Anniversary Celebration, tickets to the Museum have
been distributed via a lottery system to those who purchased
their 105th Anniversary Celebration ticket packages before
November 30, 2007. Those who are planning to come to
Milwaukee during the 105th Anniversary who don’t have a
Museum ticket will be able to enjoy the Museum grounds. In
addition, those who would like to visit the Museum exhibits
and didn’t receive a ticket through the lottery can secure
opportunities to visit the Museum before and after the Labor
Day weekend. |
