Americas Packard Museum

America's Packard Museum is an antique automobile museum located in Dayton, Ohio. The building is a restored Packard dealership transformed into a museum that displays twentieth-century classic Packards and historic Packard memorabilia.Originally, the Citizens Motorcar Company sold Packards in Dayton, Ohio beginning in 1917. Robert Signom II, the museum's founder and curator, acquired the building and painstakingly rehabilitated it to original Art Deco grandeur. The original neon Packard sign, removed from the building in the early 1950s, returned to its former position at the corner of Ludlow and Franklin Streets in 1992. Since that time, the museum has grown in size and stature, winning the Bradley Award of the Society of Automotive Historians in 2004. Car and Collector Magazine also named the museum one of its "Top Ten" automotive museums. More than 50 cars are on display, from 1900s Brass Era cars to the streamlined Classic cars of the 1930s and 40s, as well as war machines, parts, accessories, and original sales and service literature, are displayed in the museum. A notable highlight of America's Packard Museum is the original Articles of Incorporation of the Ohio Automobile Company, which later became Packard. The museum is open seven days a week and is only closed on Easter, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.

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* [http://www.americaspackardmuseum.org/ Americas Packard Museum]