National Motorcycle Museum (Anamosa, IA)

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National Motorcycle Museum
Type Museum
Genre Motorcycles
Founded 1989
Headquarters Anamosa, IA, United States
Industry Motorcycles and Auto
Website http://www.nationalmcmuseum.org

The National Motorcycle Museum in Anamosa, Iowa is a non-profit museum, founded in 1989 by motorcycle builders, racers, and riders. Its purpose to maintain the experience of bikes past and present as well as motorcycle memorabilia, documents and actual vintage bikes from as far back as 1903. It was named Iowa Tourism Attraction of the Year in 2001.

The museum contains a huge collection of motorcycles over the past 100 years as well as thousands of photos, postcards and posters. The bikes come from all over the world; there are American, Japanese, British and other European motorcycles on display.