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Motorcycle museum set to roll out

Thousands of people will be in hog heaven when July 12 rolls around.

That's the opening date for the new Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee.

The 20-acre complex includes the 130,000-square-foot museum itself as well as indoor and outdoor event spaces, a restaurant, cafe and museum store.

Stories are told to visitors through a variety of media, including photographs, videos, apparel, rare documents and other artifacts. The H-D Archives, open to the public for the first time and home base to more than 450 motorcycles, and hundreds of thousands of artifacts will be utilized for museum exhibits.

Hours: May through October, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., till 8 p.m. Wednesdays; November through April, weekdays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., weekends 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
ON THE WEB
Dowd's Guide to Classic Car Collections
Harley-Davidson.com
Milwaukee Convention & Visitors Bureau
Dowd's Guides

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