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World Forum for Motor Museums comes to the UK

The 10th World Forum for Motor Museums will be hosted by Haynes International Motor Museum, Sparkford, Somerset, from Sunday 16 September to Friday, 21 September 2007.  

The World Forum for Motor Museums is a biennial conference for people who work in motor and transportation museums. They meet to discuss the restoration and preservation of the world’s international motoring heritage. Delegates from nearly 1,000 motor museums in more than 50 countries are being invited to the 10th World Forum.

There are four themes for the 2007 Haynes World Forum for Motor Museums and they are Education, Marketing & Financial, Curatorial and General. The schedule will involve more than a dozen notable industry speakers or expert panel sessions over the five days. At the 2005 World Forum for Motor Museums, speakers included Edsel B. Ford, great grandson of Henry Ford and a member of the Ford Motor Company Board of Directors, GM Vice Chairman, Robert A. Lutz, and Trevor Creed, Senior Vice President of Design at the Chrysler Group.

The call for papers for the 2007 forum is currently being promulgated and three of the industries leading figures have already presented some extremely interesting ideas for discussion.

The Forum will open with a cocktail party to be held in the ballroom at Cricket St Thomas near Chard in Somerset and attended by some of the leading lights in the motor industry heritage world.


John Haynes OBE is Chairman of the Haynes International Motor Museum – the UK's largest exhibition of cars. He said: “It gives me immense pleasure to be hosting the World Forum for Motor Museums. At the Haynes International Motor Museum, we believe that looking at progress all over the world is the only way to cover the complete history of the automobile and motorcycle. The Forum provides vital information to the industry on global developments and ensures we sustain the future of our motoring heritage."
The forum is open to delegates throughout the world who work in motor museums or have connections with, or an interest in such museums or collections.

Notes to Editors:

The prestigious Haynes International Motor Museum, at Sparkford in Somerset, is the UK's largest exhibition of the greatest cars from around the world. It is a living and working museum, with more than 340 amazing cars and bikes – nostalgic classics of the '50s and '60s, glorious Bentleys and Rolls Royces and exciting supercars of today, such as the Jaguar XJ220.
The museum is actively committed to education and offers schools and sixth form college’s programmes based on history, science, technology, design and sociology using the museum exhibits as the major resource.
Nearly every car in the museum is driven at least once a year – to preserve our motoring heritage properly all vehicles are maintained in full working order.

The world forum was founded by Lord Montagu of Beaulieu and first took place at the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu, Hampshire, England in November 1989. In addition to England, the conference has been held in four other countries including Australia, France, Germany and the last one held in Detroit United States, 2005.