Walter P. Chrysler Museum offers a modern, focused experience of the marque. '55 Chrysler 300 shown.
Walter P. Chrysler Museum in Auburn Hills, Michigan offers a focused look at the automaker's history. A modern three-story showroom tells the Chrysler story with informative captions. Displays include 65 cars with Chrysler products alongside brands it merged with over the years like Hudson and Jeep.
Located in a suburban setting thirty miles north of downtown Detroit, the Walter P. Chrysler Museum tells the story of this engineering-driven company. Chrysler established itself as an innovator that introduced advances such as "floating power," aerodynamic design, uni-body construction, torsion bar suspensions, alternators, and the only turbine-engined car ever put in daily use.
A centrally-located tower floats some of the company's noteworthy cars upwards to a bright skylight. The spacious, open plan and natural light, along with the careful selection of cars and informative signage makes the Walter P. Chrysler Museum a not-to-be-missed attraction for car buffs. The museum has recently been granted non-profit status as a separate entity, so its future survival seems assured. Unfortunately, Chrysler Corporation's former owner Cerberus showed little interest in preserving the company's history. It closed scholar's access to the general archives and gave away its engineering archives to whoever stopped by to pick them up.
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