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GENERAL INFORMATION
LOCATION: The Owls Head Transportation Museum is located in mid-coast Maine, 2 miles south of Rockland on route 73.
MAIL TO: P.O. BOX 277, OWLS HEAD, MAINE 04854
PHONE: (207) 594-4418
FAX: (207) 594-4410
E-MAIL: info@ohtm.org
HOURS: The Museum is open daily, 361 days a year. We are closed Thanksgiving, Christmas Day, New Year's Day, and the first Sunday of April for our Volunteer's Banquet.

Hours from April through October are 10 AM to 5 PM daily.

Hours from November through March are 10 AM to 4 PM daily.

In addition, the Museum's Ground Vehicle and Aircraft Restoration Shops are open Thursday evenings year round from 6:30 to 9 PM.
ADMISSION: The following rates are good for non-event days throughout 2004. For Special Event admission rates, see the pages of each event for details.

Adults: $7.00
Seniors: $6.00
Children 5–12: $5.00
Family: $18.00
Museum Members and children under 5 are admitted free of charge throughout the year.
ABOUT: The Owls Head Transportation Museum is a non-profit organization founded in 1974. Its purpose is to collect, preserve and exhibit pioneer aircraft, ground vehicles and engines significant to the evolution of transportation and/or the state of Maine. As part of its educational role, it will document, research and demonstrate its collection and offer related programs and services.

(Note: the pioneer period is considered to be that time from the first attempts at manned flight and motorized wheeled transport to circa 1930).

The Owls Head Transportation Museum demonstrates many of the restored aircraft, vehicles and engines in its collection during special event days. Through these special event days in the summer and fall, the Museum draws thousands of people, and is able to showcase its collection with demonstrations of vehicles, which provide the required contrast and comparison to the Museum's pioneer collection.

Annually, more than 1500 exhibitors display their antique, classic and special interest autos, motorcycles, aircraft, engines, bicycles, and related vehicles. These exhibitors, combined with the Museum's own collections and airshows featuring its World War One aircraft, provide a unique opportunity for Maine residents, tourists, hobbyists, researchers, and enthusiasts to experience and better understand the evolution of transportation.

From the beginning this philosophy of demonstrating the collection, combined with a dynamic schedule of events, educational programs and changing exhibitions, has provided an added dimension of transportation history not available elsewhere. The Museum is a mecca to individuals and institutions interested in pioneer aircraft, automobiles, engines, motorcycles, bicycles, and carriages.

Today, the Museum has one of the world's finest collections of original and representative pioneer aircraft. With a core collection of pioneer engines, automobiles, carriages, bicycles and motorcycles as well as special events, exhibits, guided tours, programs and services, the Museum draws between 75,000 and 80,000 visitors annually. It continues to refine its collection and focuses on pre-1930 transportation.

Each year hundreds of people visit the Museum to study their particular interest in the pioneer era of transportation. Insights learned from the operation of certain pieces of the collection are valuable to scholars, institutions, and individuals with special interests in these machines. The Owls Head Transportation Museum serves as a clearinghouse for information in the field of these landmark aircraft, ground vehicles, and engines.

The evolution of ground and air transportation has had profound effects upon humanity around the world. The Museums ongoing challenge is to continue and to present the connections, relationships, and effects that transportation has had on mankind, in a way that audiences can understand.
 

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