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Mississippi State Automobile Museum
The Tupelo Auto Museum, Inc.
Adopted on July 1, 2003.
The History
The Tupelo Automobile Museum opened on December 7, 2002 and was designated
the official State of Mississippi automobile museum in the spring of 2003.
MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972
As Amended
SEC. 3-3-47. State Automobile Museum.
The Tupelo Auto Museum, Inc., is designated as the state automobile museum.
SOURCES: Laws, 2003, ch. 362, § 1, HB 1158, eff from and after July 1, 2003.
Establishing the Tupelo Automobile Museum was a 28 year process. It began
when founder Frank Spain acquired his first antique car in 1974. Spain and
his good friend, museum curator, Max Berryhill, spent the next many years
researching, finding and acquiring the 150 rare automobiles in the
collection. Cars were gathered from all over North America and Europe.
Until the late 1990's the vehicles were stored at various locations
throughout the United States. Spain and Berryhill desired to develop a
museum so the public could enjoy and learn from the collection. Spain's
hometown of Tupelo, Mississippi rallied support for the museum. With the
help of the Tupelo Convention and Visitors Bureau and Tupelo Mayor Larry
Otis, placing the museum in Tupelo became a reality.
Featuring 120,000 square feet of automobile displays and open viewing
restoration bays. Over 100 antique, classic and collectible automobiles,
chronologically displayed, illustrate the progress of over 100 years of
automobile design and engineering. Your self-guided tour begins with an 1886
Benz, representing the birth of the automobile, and culminates with a
never-driven 1994 Dodge Viper. The collection, valued at over $6 million,
includes a rare Tucker, a Lincoln previously owned by Elvis Presley, other
movie and celebrity vehicles, Hispano Suizas, a Duesenberg and many more
rare brands and American favorites. Automobiles currently under restoration
will be added to the display area as they are completed.
Directions:
Located ½ block off Hwy. 45, Main Street Exit
Adjacent to Bancorp South Center on Otis Blvd.,Tupelo, Mississippi
Telephone: 662-842-4242
Hours
OPEN TUESDAYS-SUNDAYS, 10am - 6pm
Closed Mondays, Christmas
Admission Fees:
$10.00 Adult
$8.00 for AAA members and Seniors
$7.50 Group discount for 10 or more people
$5 Children ages 5-12
Free Children 4 and under
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State Symbols
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State symbols represent things that are special to a
particular state.
symbol \ˈsim-bəl\
noun
Etymology:
in sense 1, from Late Latin symbolum, from Late Greek symbolon, from Greek, token, sign; in
other senses from Latin symbolum token, sign, symbol, from Greek symbolon, literally, token
of identity verified by comparing its other half, from symballein to throw together,
compare, from syn- + ballein to throw — more at devil
Date: 15th century
1: Something that represents something else by association, resemblance, or
convention, especially a material object used to represent something invisible.
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