{"id":362,"date":"2013-04-09T16:43:15","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T16:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colinchapmanmuseum.org.uk\/?page_id=362"},"modified":"2022-06-24T08:19:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T08:19:17","slug":"may","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/colinchapmanmuseum.co.uk\/?page_id=362","title":{"rendered":"May"},"content":{"rendered":"

Colin Chapman Museum and Education Centre Newsletter May 2011 <\/strong><\/p>\n

New<\/strong>sletter – Number 31<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Lotus around and about<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. Museums around the world you may not have heard of: <\/strong>Henry<\/strong> Ford Museum and Greenfield Site<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. Questions from our readers<\/strong><\/li>\n
  4. Aesthetic Analysis –<\/strong> Car designers<\/strong><\/li>\n
  5. Lotus books one for the library<\/strong><\/li>\n
  6. Lotus collectables<\/strong><\/li>\n
  7. Lotus interest on YouTube <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n

    All previous articles relating to these are held on the website.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    1. Lotus around and about <\/strong><\/p>\n

    \"Elite\"<\/a><\/h1>\n

    2. Museums around the world you may not have heard of: <\/strong>Henry<\/strong> Ford Museum and Greenfield Village<\/strong><\/p>\n

    The Henry Ford<\/strong>, a National Historic Landmark, (also known as the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village<\/strong>, and more formally as the Edison Institute<\/strong>), in the Metro Detroit suburb of Dearborn, Michigan, USA, is the nation’s “largest indoor-outdoor history museum” complex.<\/p>\n

    Named for its founder, the noted automobile industrialist Henry Ford, and based on his desire to preserve items of historical significance and portray the Industrial Revolution, the property houses a vast array of famous homes, machinery, exhibits, and Americana. The collection contains many rare exhibits including John F. Kennedy’s presidential limousine, Abraham Lincoln’s chair from Ford’s Theatre, Thomas Edison’s laboratory, the Wright Brothers’ bicycle shop, and the Rosa Parks bus.<\/p>\n

    Henry Ford said of his museum, \u201cI am collecting the history of our people as written into things their hands made and used…. When we are through, we shall have reproduced American life as lived, and that, I think, is the best way of preserving at least a part of our history and tradition…\u201d<\/p>\n

    Henry Ford Museum began as Henry Ford’s personal collection of historic objects, which he began collecting as far back as 1906. Today, the 12 acre (49,000 m\u00b2) site is primarily a collection of antique machinery, pop culture items, automobiles, locomotives, aircraft, and other items:<\/p>\n

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