coventry motor meuseum

 

Coventry motor museum 

The Coventry motor museum focuses on the development of automotive through the years and the future technology that may be implemented to provide many befits to travel such as fuel conservation and other forms of greener travel in addition to creating entirely different means of transportation entirely. 
The entire museum is organised in chronological order displaying many means of transportation, also the make of the vehicle is also displayed with other like vehicles, in addition to the date and make of the vehicles notice events such as world war 1 in which uses a verity of stimuli such as low lighting and sounds in a reconstruction of a ww1 environment of both the battlefield and back in England.

Exhibitions
The start of the exhibition begins with many bicycles that line shelves also in chronological order. All kinds of bicycle made to accommodate the needs of various people of bygone times such as large Victorian dresses. Most of the cycles have little to no paintwork due to age, however the more recent of the exhibits do tent to be in better condition. the rest of the galley also consist of exhibitions organised in this way, ranging from motor bikes to cars of the future, even horse drawn carts were included. some of the rooms also features a theme such as war and the future.

World war 1 and 2

the largest exhibition within the Coventry motor museum features a series of vehicles used for the war effort, such as convoys and even tanks. however, it was just the vehicles alone that made this exhibition notable would be the scenery put into this giving it a sense of being thrown into a war-torn city complete with sounds lighting and interactive environments making this exhibition far more impressive.

future designs

toward the end of the gallery trail was another large section dedicated to the construction of revolutionary and pioneering designs for transport and breaking records. this exhibition features a display case showing a small variety of these designs such as cars designed for road transport, others for on difficult terrain and others to achieve extreme speed. such designs are often found within todays media in the form of science fiction in which transport evolves to cater to an ever growing population, becoming more efficient or even not longer needing traction to move.

summary

being close to home I have visited this museum many time and seen exhibitions come and go as well as seen layouts change, however the war exhibition has remained steadfast throughout the many years in which it has existed. the primary function of this museum is to offer an educational experience rather than that offered by an art gallery which makes it perfect for my theme of mechanics. this has inspired me to focus my work on the changes that have taken place within the way we get around with how transport has developed alongside technology.