Volo Museum | |
Coordinates: | 42.3267°N -88.1713°W |
Location: | 27582 Volo Village Road Volo, Illinois, United States |
Established in 1960 by the Grams family, the Volo Auto Museum (since renamed simply the Volo Museum) is an automobile museum and collector car dealer in the Chicago suburb of Volo, Illinois, US.[1] The museum contains an exhibit of collectors' autos from vintage to modern classics, with the main focus being American cars of the 1950–1980 period, over 50 famous TV and movie cars, cars previously owned by the rich and famous, and a large, one-of-a-kind, Disney and Looney Tunes characters display. Unique to this museum is that many of the vehicles on display (in five large buildings) are for sale. One of 50 exhibits on the 75-acre museum campus is a military-oriented "Armed Forces Exhibit," added in the late 2000s.[1] Of the 4 antique malls on the museum grounds, one is reported to be haunted and has become a magnet for ghost hunters and sightings and an episode of the TV show Ghost Lab.[2] The museum has its own TV series on History called Volo, House of Cars beginning in 2017.[3]
The museum features cars (some original and many replicas) from notable television shows and movies. These include:
Some of the vehicles referred to by the museum as "star cars" are available for purchase.[5]
Volo museum hours have changed from October to April.