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Heritage Motor Centre to showcase special 1963 Jaguar Mark X
The Heritage Motor Centre, home to the world's largest historic collection of British cars, is to showcase a special 1963 Jaguar Mark X as part of an exhibition by leading Portuguese artist ‘Miguel Palma’. The exhibition is being held in conjunction with the Mead Gallery at Warwick Arts Centre from 1 – 29 May 2010. The car itself will be on display at the HMC from 1 May - 30 June 2010.
Special weekend to celebrate Land Rovers & Range RoversThe Heritage Motor Centre, home to the world's largest collection of British cars, is to host a special celebratory weekend for Land Rovers and Range Rovers. The weekend, which takes place from 1 - 3 May, will feature the annual Heritage Land Rover Show and celebrate both the Range Rovers 40th anniversary and the launch of the new Land Rover Experience at the HMC. Thousands of enthusiasts and club members will congregate at the HMC to enjoy a host of exciting events and activities over the three days.
Roary the Racing Car & Big Chris to make a guest appearance at the Heritage Motor Centre!The Heritage Motor Centre has a whole host of exciting events and activities taking place for all the family during the Easter holidays. One highlight will be the chance to see Roary the Racing Car and Big Chris on Sunday 28 March at various intervals from 10am – 4pm. These well loved and popular TV characters will be visiting the Centre for a fantastic family fun day of crafts, quizzes and colouring. Children will be able to have their photographs taken with the cheeky young racing car and mechanic as a memento of their day. The Centres electric Go Karts will also be open for those under 8 years who want to have some fun behind the wheel and the petrol Go Karts will be open for those aged 8 years and over.
MCE Insurance, Ducati UK Roadshow and sorrymate.com to support second annual Heart of England Bike showMCE Insurance - Official Title Partner to this year’s British Superbikes Championships – has confirmed its support for the Heart Of England Bike Show on Sunday 9th May 2010.
Heritage Motor Centre wins prestigious industry awardThe Heritage Motor Centre, home to the world's largest historic collection of British cars, has won a prestigious award at the Renaissance West Midlands Best of the West Awards 2010. The results were announced at a ceremony on Friday 26 February at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts in Birmingham. The Centre scooped the ‘Best Temporary Exhibition Award’ for the Mini 50th Anniversary Exhibition which took place in 2009. The annual awards programme aims to reward excellence and highlight best practice in museums and galleries in the West Midlands.
Mini Fortnight - Maximum FunMini's 50th Birthday celebrations continue at the Heritage Motor Centre. After the successful opening of the Mini Exhibition in May and Mini Festival in July, we now eagerly await the start of "Mini Fortnight" - two weeks of Mini Madness with events, lectures and activities for all ages. Taking place between 2-15 August....
Mini Madness at the Heritage Motor Centre
The Heritage Motor Centre is soooo much more than just a car museum and throughout the summer holidays there are loads of activities taking place to help beat the boredom....
Heritage Motor Centre selected as one of the top museums in Europe
The Heritage Motor Centre was shortlisted as one of the best 35 museums in Europe at the Museum of the Year Awards which was celebrated in Bursa, Turkey on Saturday 9th May....
Guests have a wheely good time at Mini's 50th birthday bash
The Heritage Motor Centre gave the Mini a birthday bash to remember on Friday 8th May, precisely 50 years since the first Morris Mini-Minor rolled off the production lines in Cowley, to celebrate the opening of the brand new "50 Years of the Mini" exhibition on 10th May....
Family friendly fun this Easter!
This Easter the Heritage Motor Centre is offering kids, young and old, the chance experience "eggsactly" what is needed for a fantastic family friendly day out....
Duke makes welcome return to award winning museum
On a recent visit to Warwickshire HRH the Duke of Kent was pleased to be reacquainted with the Heritage Motor Centre's cars and interested to see the more recent additions to the collection since his last visit in 2002....
Mini looks "A'OK"
The Heritage Motor Centre's annual Club Expo Event kicked off the 50th Anniversary celebrations of the Nation's favourite little car, the Mini, in style with a wax job for the first Morris Mini affectionately known as 621 AOK courtesy of Autoglym....
Heritage Motor Centre receives full museum accreditation
The Heritage Motor Centre Gaydon has recently achieved full Accreditation under the national scheme promoted by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA)....