Antique Auto Museum Of Mass At Larz Anderson Park Inc

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Causes: Arts & Culture, Museums

Mission: Education, display and upkeep of major automotive collection.

Community Stories

4 Stories from Volunteers, Donors & Supporters

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M. Moore of Boston General Member of the Public

Rating: 1

09/11/2011

9/11/2011

The Auto Museum chose to have their annual noise and air pollution fesitival called "European Motorcycle Day" on the tenth anniversay of 9-11.
It is bad enough that they stage this stupid event on a Sunday morning, but on September 11th? We knew this "musuem" didn't care about its neighbors, but now it seems it doesn't car about the Country.

The dirty little secret here is that there are very few visitors to the "museum". This supposed non-profit makes its money from noisy and polluting vehicle "lawn events" and renting space in a public park to weddings.

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General Member of the Public

Rating: 1

09/15/2009

The Auto Museum recently sponsored European motorcycle day (9-13-2009). The event was over-promoted and closed off at about noon. Throughout Sunday morning hundreds of motorcycles flooded the residential neighborhoods surrounding the Auto Museum creating noise and air pollution. After listening to complaints, a museum spokesperson refused to make any changes that would mitigate the impact of hundred of noisy motorcycles on their neighbors next year.

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rblethen Volunteer

Rating: 4

09/19/2009

What a beautiful day for a European Motorcycle show. This was a very well attended event with some fine examples of Antique and current Motorcyles. I was one of the volunteers at the gate guiding participants to where they needed to go Spectators as well as show bikes. What a great crowd, people milling about the motorcycles renewing old aquaintances and gazing at motorcycles. We are not of the loud pipes crowd, most bikes in the show you would not have known that they had just passed your house. Quiet and fuel efficient. As the one of the previous comments pointed out, if more people rode scooters and bikes we as a nation would consume less fuel.

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jefe Volunteer

Rating: 4

09/18/2009

You're kidding, right? I happened to be at the Museum for this event last Sunday, and two circumstances should be noted: 1. It was foggy and grey till about 11AM, when the sun finally came out, and until that time, there were very few motorcycles that showed up. After that time, till 2PM when the event was over with, it's true, the lawn of Larz Anderson was filed with beautiful European motorcycles, many of them hugely valuable antique objects. 2. It was *European* Motorcycle day, meaning most of the motorcycles there sounded like sewing machines, unlike the Harley-Davidson American loud pipes crowd. They're about as loud as regular automobiles in that neighborhood, a neighborhood that is hemmed-in by some awfully busy highways, I must say. In addition, you know, it's motorcycles, whose fuel consumption and resulting air pollution is averagely around one-third that of an automobile. By introducing more people to the possibilities these European Classics provide - and have provided for populations in the past - I think the Larz Anderson Museum is doing us all quite a service. Sorry you weren't appreciating the beauty of those wonderful machines plying the neighborhood for a couple hours mid-day on Sunday. Next year - and I certainly hope there is a next year - you should come by the museum. If I am in attendance I'll be happy to pay for your admission and introduce you to the finer points of life with these efficient, quiet and thrilling vehicles, more of which on Boston's and America's roads would lead to far fewer barrels of imported oil in future.

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