{"id":28326,"date":"2024-10-26T00:01:29","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T07:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=28326"},"modified":"2024-10-29T08:21:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T15:21:46","slug":"the-harley-davidson-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/10\/26\/the-harley-davidson-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"The Harley-Davidson Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Joe Berk<\/h6>\n

I’ve been a motorcycle guy nearly all my life and I’ve owned several motorcycles.\u00a0 Only two of them were Harleys; the first was beautiful but terrible in many ways (a ’79 Electra Glide Classic).\u00a0 The second was beautiful and it was a great machine (a ’92 Heritage Softail).\u00a0 I think Harley’s styling on past models has been awesome.\u00a0 Bottom line? I’m not a Harley fanatic and I’m not a hater.\u00a0 It’s not likely I’d ever buy another Harley, unless I came across a cheap XR-1000 (and that’s probably not in the cards).\u00a0 All that said, I can tell you that the Harley-Davidson Museum is the best motorcycle museum (and maybe the best anything museum) I’ve ever visited (and I’ve visited a lot of them).<\/p>\n

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First, a bit of logistics about the Museum and our upcoming blogs.\u00a0 \u00a0We were in Milwaukee specifically to visit the Museum along with a few other Milwaukee highlights.\u00a0 The Harley Museum is too much to take in with just a single visit, and it is definitely too much to cover in a single blog.\u00a0 Our Milwaukee schedule allowed only one Harley Museum visit, but I’ll cover it in three or four blogs.\u00a0 This is the first.<\/p>\n

Sticking to the logistics for a moment, the Museum is easy to get to.\u00a0 Plug it into Waze and you’ll drive right up to their front door.\u00a0 There’s plenty of parking, and we snagged a handicap parking spot right at their front door (my handicap tag is the silver lining to a 2009 motorcycle accident).\u00a0 We visited the Museum on a weekday, so it was not too crowded.\u00a0 I’m guessing that’s not the case on the weekends.<\/p>\n

Admission is reasonable at $24 per person; for us it was a little less because we qualify for the geezer discount (that knocks it down to $20 per person).\u00a0 Knowing Harley’s customer base, I think a lot of folks get in for $20.<\/p>\n

The interior lighting was subdued.\u00a0 Flash photography is allowed, but it’s hard to get decent photos with flash.\u00a0 Nearly everything you see here is with ambient lighting.\u00a0 I had to crank up the Nikon’s ISO, so you may see some graininess in my photos.\u00a0 Mea culpa.<\/p>\n

The Museum has three floors, and the building is huge.\u00a0 There are several permanent exhibits and a few special exhibits (ones that change from time to time).\u00a0 \u00a0The exhibits (both permanent and special) include:<\/p>\n