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An amazing April Breakfast Car Morning

12/04/2017

For the April 2017 Breakfast Cat Morning at Coventry Transport Museum, we welcomed 83 classic cars and motorcycles onto Millennium Place to bask in the morning spring sunshine. The cars ranged in age from 1935, a Riley Falcon, up to a 2010 Ford Focus Rally ST3… both in navy blue. We also had on display a Reliant Kitten Van... Read more

Mick Ives's bike joins Coventry Champions Gallery

21/03/2017

World Cycling Champion Mick Ives’s Fuji Cyclo Cross Bike is now on display in the Coventry Champions Gallery. The bike is the one Mick used to win the 2004 and 2005 U.C.I. World Masters Cyclo Cross Championships, at Zilvermeer, Belgium, a championship he has won six times, along with one W.A.O.D. World Masters Road Race... Read more

Jaguar statue leaps into Coventry Transport Museum

06/03/2017

There's a new addition in the Jaguar Gallery at Coventry Transport Museum, a large silver 'leaper' Jaguar. This is one of the iconic Jaguar leapers that adorned the Browns Lane site in Coventry, home of Jaguar for 65 years and now a Jaguar Land Rover site. This particular leaper guarded the Education... Read more

Vehicles of a Possible Future

28/02/2017

Last November, thirteen Year 13 engineering students from local schools visited the museum to take inspiration from the collections on display and to create designs for their own ‘vehicles of a possible future’. This was an opportunity to explore creative approaches to problem solving and work with a professional artist, Jasleen Kaur.... Read more

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Coventry Transport Museum is home to the world's two fastest cars.

Marvel at these spectacular feats of British engineering.

Get up close to the two fastest cars in the world, Thrust SSC and Thrust 2.

Bring the curriculum to life!

Coventry Transport Museum's interactive exhibitions make the perfect venue for school visits in Coventry.

We offer a wide range of sessions for school groups, all 'Learning Outside The Classroom' quality assured.

We thoroughly believe there is no such thing as being too old for play!

Get involved in our ever-growing Family Programme around Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths.

We also have free to loan family activities which are available at the Box Office.