Museum fun continues to appeal to thousands of people today, becoming a major tourism attraction all over the world. Consequently, fun museums have sprouted up in the last three decades to feature just about anything conceived of man or even natural phenomena that have a mystic value. Motorcycles too, in this very decade have celebrated the inauguration of their museum. The Harley Davidson Museum is the name of an American motorcycle museum located at the junction of Canal Street and Sixth Street, downtown Milwaukee, in Wisconsin.
The Harley Davidson Museum measures a whooping 130,000-square-foot space of a three-storey building complex on a 20-acre piece of land. In here, over 450 specimens of the Harley-Davidson motorcycles have been amassed and displayed artistically. These are then complemented by thousands and thousands of keepsake artifacts from the Harley-Davidson Motor Company, collected during the 106-year reign as a global motorcycle legend. Museum fun is so addictive that if you are into museums, you can trot the globe to every museum available and displaying whatever form of treasures. The Harley Davidson Museum today attracts over 300,000 guests annually, some being lovers of the motorcycles while other are just in love with fun museums.
Harley Davidson Museum
The museum was designed over an eight year duration by the Pentagram architects firm associates, James Biber and Michael Zweck-Bonner. It took two years to build the museum, after Harley Davidson signed out $75 million on 1st June 2006 for the complex engineers to resume construction. Instead of using a golden shovel as is the tradition in inaugural ceremonies, Scott Parker, the famous Harley Davidson dirt-track motorcycle racer, flagged off the construction with a burnout of the Harley-Davidson XL883R Sportster. Two years later,
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