Today Tara and Brett headed out to the Petersen Automotive Museum, the oddly shaped red and silver building we had seen when we drove through Beverly Hills. The museum is a non-profit with one of the world’s largest collections of card. The museum was opened in 1994 by a magazine publisher, Robert E Petersen, initially in the LA Natural History Museum. The new building façade was designed in 2015 and cost US$125 million. It is made of stainless steel ribbons weighing 100 tons. The museum has 25 galleries with over 100 vehicles on display and an additional 100 in an underground vault.
In keeping with the Tupac story from Vegas, Notorious B.I.G had just attended a party at the museum when he was killed in a drive-by in 1997.
Here's a small sample of the cars they saw:
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| Waymo Demonstration |
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| 1912 Mercedes 28/95 HP Sport |
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| 1953 Mercedes-Benz 220 Cabriolet A. Titled "Wedding" and hand painted by Hiro Yamagata |
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| Letty Ortiz's 1970 Plymouth Barracuda from the Furious 7 movie |
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| Porsche 911 GT3 R "Rexy" |
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| 1915 Rolls Royce 40/50 HP Silver Ghost (left), 1913 Rolls Royce 40/50 Silver Ghost (Right) |
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| 1939 Bugatti Type 57C Cabriolet - originally owned by Crown Prince Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran |
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| 2019 Kalk OR - one of the first electric off-road motorbikes from Swedish company Cake |
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| 1925/1934 Rolls-Royce Phantom I Aerodynamic Coupe |
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| 1957 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz |
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| 1981 DMC DeLorean, 24-karat gold plated (one of only three created) |
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| 1992 Jaguar XJ220 |
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| 1966 Cannara I - One of a kind hand-built prototype of the wedge shape |
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| 1962 GAZ-13B Chaika Convertible |
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| 1998 Cadillac De Ville Papal Parade Phaeton "Popemobile" |
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| 1981 HMV Free-Way - Three-wheeled microcar |
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| 1959 Roth Outlaw |
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| 2002 Xeno III |
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| 2016 Nissan GT-R Track Edition - Used in Furious 7 |
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| 1970 Dodge Charger R/T - used in F9: The Fast Saga |
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| 1966 Chrysler Imperial "Black Beauty" - used in Green Hornet (1966) |
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| 2002 Jaguar XKR - Used in Die Another Day |
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| Screen used DeLorean Time Machine - Used in Back to the Future |
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| 1932 Ford Roadster - Used in Iron Man |
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| Lightning McQueen |
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| 1968 Dodge Charger R/T - Used in Furious 7 |
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| 2022 Flip Car 2.0 - Used in Fast X |
Their next stop was the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, which was themed for Halloween. The museum opened in 2021 and houses over 52 million items from films and the movie industry.
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| Full-Scale Model Shark ("Bruce") from Jaws (1975) |
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| Drumming Monkey from The Monkey (2025) |
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| Annabell doll from The Conjuring |
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| Enchanted Rose from Beauty and the Beast (2017) |
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| Cape worn by Bela Lugosi in Dracula (1931) |
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| Costume and Axe from The Shining (1980) |
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| Costume and Restraints from The Silence of the Lambs (1991) |
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| Xenomorph from Alien |
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| Props from Young Frankenstein (1974) |
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| Slasher Film display |
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