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The Museum is home to an operating collection of exceptional antique cars, planes, motorcycles and more. In addition to ever-changing indoor exhibits and educational offerings, the Museum hosts a variety of special events utilizing our expansive outdoor campus situated on the picturesque coast of Maine. Annual events include vintage car rallies, antique airplane shows, The New England Auto Auction™, family activities, demonstrations, Model T rides and more — there’s fun for the whole family!

What are your main interests?: The Owls Head Transportation Museum is a non-profit educational organization founded in 1974. Its mission is to collect, preserve, exhibit and operate pre-1940 aircraft, ground vehicles, engines and related technologies, significant to the evolution of transportation for the purpose of education.

Through our world-class operating collection of aircraft, ground vehicles and related technologies, the Museum promotes a greater understanding of the history and collective evolution of transportation.

The Museum's core collection focuses on the period from the first attempts at manned flight and wheeled transport to circa 1940, with many pieces manufactured pre-1920. This landmark period in the development of transportation is recognized for milestone achievement that paved the way for modern-day transport.

The goal of the Museum is to promote its mission through a year-round educational experience offering creative and exciting exhibits, events, programs and publications that inspire, promote understanding, perspective and vision.