Choose How You Want to Support the Packard Legacy with Your Donation
General Fund Support
Your generosity helps ensure visitors from around the world can enjoy learning about the history of Packard. Just like running any business or househeld, the Museum has many behind-the-scenes expenses. For example, our original 1917 building is magnificent, but requires constant upkeep. We are continually trying to update exhibits, facilities, and operations to give our visitors a wonderful experience while learning about the Packard legacy. General Operating Support is so vital, and every little bit helps. When you give to America’s Packard Museum, you help preserve the Packard story for generations to come.
Raise the Roof Challenge
To continue educating and preserving Packard’s legacy, we’re putting a new roof on the Main Museum building in the summer and early fall. We’ll also be adding solar panels on that roof to increase our commitment to the environment, provide additional renewable energy, and lower APM’s overall operating costs. We need to raise $40,000 to complete the roof this year, and we want to do it soon, while the Dayton weather holds.
A generous donor has graciously offered a challenge grant of $10,000 to help APM reach its goal. Securing the physical envelope of our building is the single most important initiative we can complete to preserve the Packard story for generations to come.
School Field Trip
Education is at the center of our mission at America’s Packard Museum. We strive to inspire Dayton-area students by bringing innovation and history together.
Unfortunately, with school funding shortages, many students do not have the opportunity to take field trips. America’s Packard Museum is committed to the needs of all students and educators who want to visit, and we’re asking for your assistance in removing some of the financial roadblocks. Your gift can help pay for desperately needed school transportation.
Rare & Unique Vehicles
At America’s Packard Museum, we try to help other enthusiasts and supporters of our mission. Rare & Unique Vehicles magazine is the finest automotive history publication in the world, and we look forward to each issue. The magazine features outstanding photography and excellence in research and writing. It has won prestigious awards from the Society of Automotive Historians and the Guild of Motoring Writers. Rare & Unique Vehicles does not accept advertising, so your support is most welcome!
What is that rare and unique vehicle?
The GT was the first self-built car by Lutz (later Luigi) Colani (1928-2019), who did not consider himself a designer, but a philosopher. Here a GT which was available as a self-built kit on VW Beetle chassis in the 1960s, is seen at the Swiss Glossglöckner mountains. Colani's life was covered in issue No11 of Rare & Unique Vehicles, which featured Imagination as its central theme.