I remember the Harrah’s car museum in Reno NV back in the late 70’s, absolutely fantastic. Sadly it closed and was broken up when the founder died and the family didn’t have the same passion. The massive increase in value of the collection and property makes insurance and taxes too great of burden for most to continue on with the museum.
The main hall is, by the look of it, designed to resemble a Paris Motor Show from back in the day, with the art deco manufacturer signs hanging and so on. What a shame this collection is being broken up. I would've loved to go there. RIP Peter Mullin.
Yeah, a good museum is more than just its collection, and the Mullin seemed like a superbly curated space. Always sad when places like this disappear, even if their contents will certainly be well preserved.
For the most part people were not into the European cars he collected. His museum had very low attendance. When he took some to the Petersen when he became a board member there was an outcry that they were destroying Bob Petersen's vision for a museum of Hot Rods and Hollywood cars. The Merle Norman has similar cars and is much closer so I hope some of the cars go into their collection.
Bob Petersen first started a museum on Hollywood Blvd in the 70s. After a couple attempts he bought the current location filled it with cars and gave them nearly 5 million to run it. He later gave them another 6-7 million and when his wife Margie passed away the remainder of the estate went to the museum. It takes cubic dollars to run a world class museum even with memberships and ticket sales.
Odd memory: Brighton on the South Coast of England, used to have a motor museum, nowhere near a grand as this, but I was in the museum on the very last day, and the curator started moving the exhibits around before we left. A sad day, but the important stuff went somewhere else like Lord Montagu's museum in the New Forest, Hampshire.
I wanted to go for the longest since I live here in California, but up north. Covid hit and things got busy and the past few years have been a blur then I find out it was closing. 😢
I'm sure the Nethercutt has more than one fancy clock in its museum. Hope everything goes to good homes. We never did get to see more Mullin cars from Jay Leno.
James ask yourself: have you owned a PC with Gate's software in it? Have you ever once stared as the first SpaceX booster touched down successfully or been at all interested upon seeing a Tesla? Have you stayed in a resort hotel or played a course...or had friends who have? Then your question is answered. For that is why they now stand astride the world as great collosus...the fault dear Brutus is not in our stars.
@@willicat44 I don't watch any Fox news. I think about things and form MY OWN OPINION. Worked for me in the corporate world, worked for me with my own business, and it's still working for me in my 50's as I sit back and enjoy a lifetime of hard work that put me in the 1%. My point is that jamesonspace76 is just another liberal prick that thinks his opinion is worth a damn. I think my comment was clear in reply to him. What's your point? Are you a Karen?
Thanks for showing this wonderful place with fantastic cars that have fantastic style.
It’s a shame it’s gone I love this place
Great video. I like your takeaway. Bummer that it's going, but super cool to have had it.
So sad to see it go Peter's vision was awesome - seeing his cars on Laguna Seca at the historics was a treat - he is missed in the car world
I remember the Harrah’s car museum in Reno NV back in the late 70’s, absolutely fantastic. Sadly it closed and was broken up when the founder died and the family didn’t have the same passion. The massive increase in value of the collection and property makes insurance and taxes too great of burden for most to continue on with the museum.
The main hall is, by the look of it, designed to resemble a Paris Motor Show from back in the day, with the art deco manufacturer signs hanging and so on. What a shame this collection is being broken up. I would've loved to go there. RIP Peter Mullin.
Visited during the museum’s last months before closing and the collection was sold off. It was an incredible collection.
Yeah, a good museum is more than just its collection, and the Mullin seemed like a superbly curated space. Always sad when places like this disappear, even if their contents will certainly be well preserved.
We were there in December 2022 and LOVED it. So sad it is gone.
For the most part people were not into the European cars he collected. His museum had very low attendance. When he took some to the Petersen when he became a board member there was an outcry that they were destroying Bob Petersen's vision for a museum of Hot Rods and Hollywood cars. The Merle Norman has similar cars and is much closer so I hope some of the cars go into their collection.
Why is this museum closing?!!! I’ve lived in LA for 48 years and NEVER heard of it. Why was it kept a secret?
If you like the vibe of this museum, you should check out the Nethercutt Collection in Sylmar, California
What a tragedy that the founder didn't provide a perpetual operating endowment for this fabulous collection.
Bob Petersen first started a museum on Hollywood Blvd in the 70s. After a couple attempts he bought the current location filled it with cars and gave them nearly 5 million to run it. He later gave them another 6-7 million and when his wife Margie passed away the remainder of the estate went to the museum. It takes cubic dollars to run a world class museum even with memberships and ticket sales.
Odd memory: Brighton on the South Coast of England, used to have a motor museum, nowhere near a grand as this, but I was in the museum on the very last day, and the curator started moving the exhibits around before we left. A sad day, but the important stuff went somewhere else like Lord Montagu's museum in the New Forest, Hampshire.
The only thing David Tracy probably knows about French cars is that some Jeep XJ used to have various parts from Renault in them back in the day!
You never addressed one of the most obvious questions, WHY was this museum closing?
Probably bad location, in. A industrial park without signs or advertising. Hopefully they can relocate to a better location 🤨
Peter Mullin, the owner, passed away and the estate sold the collection.
@@mtnvalley9298 You are correct sir. I went to this museum and it was fabulous.
Lived 10 miles from this museum and never visited ! 😕
I have been to the museum. It is a shame that greedy, short-sighted heirs have destroyed this.
I wanted to go for the longest since I live here in California, but up north. Covid hit and things got busy and the past few years have been a blur then I find out it was closing. 😢
I'm sure the Nethercutt has more than one fancy clock in its museum.
Hope everything goes to good homes. We never did get to see more Mullin cars from Jay Leno.
Wow, thanks.
Wow! What a wonderful place. Huge shame it's closing, sheesh. You'd think we would have heard more about it from other well known car media/youtubers?
Unfortunately I think appreciation for cars of this age are at an all time low.
What was the Burgundy Convertible Car that you passed up on?
everything there but the most important thing , people !
How many of these will Leno buy?
I dunno, Rudi Klein's hoard auction is tomorrow... oh wait, Jay can afford a little bit from both.
He's getting tired of collecting. He has to start thinking about what's going to happen to his collection when he's not here.
Where did the cars go? I haven’t seen them for sale
Bought up by restomodders.
@@garryferrington811 No they haven't, you're just being ridiculous
Did they sell of the cars?
What this is gorgeous and it’s a two hour drive...
Are the cars moving to a better place, or several better places?
The Voisin C7 looks like a Cartoon car
getting tired of auto museums closing
Why is it being closed?!?
It's a private collection, it's being auctioned off by Peter Mullin's heirs - he died about a year ago.
@@nonono8788 How heart breaking that this amazing museum was so close to me and yet I had no idea of its existence. And now it is too late.
It’d be great if you added captions for the vehicles as you show them
You can download the video and edit it to add the captions. Then upload it with proper attribution.
Bummer I'd never heard of it before it had already closed. Very nice exhibit.
lmao you don't watch Leno? There is also the nethercutt that's still open
epic
Tattra..the inventors of the rear engine air cooled motor and won a lawsuit against Porsche for stealing their design !!!
Americans are all class ?
What happened funding?or didn't want to go down with California ship the way it going
Peter Mullin died a year ago, and the heirs seem to prefer hard cash instead of having to preserve the collection.
California ship going? Why don't you move to Alabama?
@garryferrington811 As someone who grew up in California. I’d rather be in Alabama…..
Why such beautiful places fail & Trump, or Elon, or Gates get to continue, I'll never understand....
The family didn't like grandpa's hobbies and are going to sell the cars for insane amounts of money plus the building. very short sighted
James ask yourself: have you owned a PC with Gate's software in it?
Have you ever once stared as the first SpaceX booster touched down successfully or been at all interested upon seeing a Tesla?
Have you stayed in a resort hotel or played a course...or had friends who have?
Then your question is answered. For that is why they now stand astride the world as great collosus...the fault dear Brutus is not in our stars.
Who the hell are you to decide what interests another person? We can tell you’re a liberal by the way you think yours is the only view that matters.
@@mitchd949 Fox seems to think only right wing matters...so what's your point?
@@willicat44 I don't watch any Fox news. I think about things and form MY OWN OPINION. Worked for me in the corporate world, worked for me with my own business, and it's still working for me in my 50's as I sit back and enjoy a lifetime of hard work that put me in the 1%. My point is that jamesonspace76 is just another liberal prick that thinks his opinion is worth a damn. I think my comment was clear in reply to him. What's your point? Are you a Karen?