Coventry Transport Museum
Coventry, Warwickshire
Millennium Place
HalesStreet
Coventry
Warwickshire
CV1 1JD
Approx 19.37 miles from The Arden Hotel
Tel: 024 7623 4270
You’ll discover the stories behind the people who made Coventry the centre of the world’s motor and cycle industries, and get up close and personal with the actual vehicles that defined some of history’s most important moments. The Museum is laid out as a journey through time – you’ll wander 19th Century streets and discover the first bicycles, carriages and cars, then explore the first car factories and gasp as you witness their wartime destruction in the Blitz Experience. The journey continues through the Boomtown, Spirit of Speed and Ghost Town galleries to bring you right up to the present day.
A visit to the Museum brings you face to face with Royal cars, military vehicles, and cars that played vital parts in their drivers’ life stories – none more so than the current Land Speed Record holding vehicle, ThrustSSC, which lives at the Museum. Not only can you marvel at this spectacular piece of British engineering, you can experience for yourself what it’s like to travel through the sound barrier at over 760mph in the ThrustSSC Simulator.
The Museum boasts an ever-changing programme of special events and activities, and being situated in Coventry City Centre, is easily accessed by car, bus or train. Parking is available in a public car park directly behind the Museum, and there’s a lovely coffee shop within the Museum itself, serving sandwiches, fabulous cakes and a range of hot and cold drinks.
Entry to the Museum is FREE.
Find out more at www.transport-museum.com
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Nearby Eden Hotels
The Arden Hotel, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire (approx 19.37 miles)
