„Ride On!“ - Lightner Museum Exhibition, Florida, USA 
Ride On! Historic Bicycles from the Keith Pariani Collection
February 2, 2023 – September 30, 2023
In the 1890s the bicycle took over the hearts and minds of Americans. By the early twentieth century, almost 300 bicycle manufacturing firms were established in the US. Swept up in the craze for cycling, the Lightner Museum’s historic building, the Hotel Alcazar, offered its own bicycle academy, allowing its guests to tour Gilded Age St. Augustine on two wheels.
Drawn from the collection of St. Augustine bicycle aficionado Keith Pariani, Ride On! features bicycles selected by Pariani as important examples of design in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century bicycle manufacture.
Address: 75 King St. in St. Augustine, Florida, USA
Contact: https://lightnermuseum.org/exhibitions/
Bicycle Heaven, Pittsburg, PA - USA
Worlds Largest Bicycle Museum and Bike Shop!
Bicycle Heaven, a museum and shop, is arguably one of Pittsburgh's most unique museums and an absolutely amazing place to visit. Dubbed the world's largest bicycle museum, Bicycle Heaven welcomes visitors to view its vast collection of bicycles and bicycle-related items.
Address: RJ Casey Industrial Park, 1800 Preble & Columbus Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15233 - USA
Contact: https://www.bicycleheaven.org
album: 299/A - Bicycle Heaven, USA
Science Museum Oklahoma – OK, USA
Science Museum Oklahoma has over 200 bicycles in its collections.
Address: 2020 Remington Pl, Oklahoma City, OK 73111, USA
Contact: https://www.sciencemuseumok.org
Indiana State Museum, Indianopolis, IN – USA
Exposition: Major Taylor – Fastest cyclist in the world!
The museum's website invited the exhibition in 2022 with these words:
„Discover the life and career of champion bicycle racer and Indianapolis native Marshall “Major” Taylor. In this interactive experience, venture into the training room to learn how Taylor developed his speed and agility through a strict regimen of exercise and diet. Discover the pervasive racism that Taylor battled – from his competitors and in his hometown – and hear from great contemporary cyclists about how Taylor’s story has inspired a new generation of Black riders. See Taylor’s bicycle and many artifacts from the museum collection donated by his daughter Rita Sydney Taylor Brown, plus learn about bicycle safety and design, tinker with bikes and bike parts, test your skills and times on stationary bikes and more.“
Address: 650W.Washington St., Indianopolis, IN 46204
Contact: https://www.indianamuseum.org
The bike collection of Robin Williams – California, USA 
The famous actor, who passed away in 2014 aged 63, was a keen cyclist and had 87 bicycles in his collection, all of which were donated to the charity auction by his family.
Robin Williams lived a majority of his life in Marin County, California, a mecca for both road cycling and mountain biking. He was a passionate cyclist, an accomplished collector of bicycles and a compassionate supporter of people with disabilities. His children have donated a selection of favorites from his personal bicycle collection to be auctioned off in support of the Challenged Athletes Foundation and Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation.
album: 262/B - Robin Williams collection
The bike collection of Robin Williams was sold 2014
Bicycle Raillway, Smithville – NJ, USA
In 1891, four years after H.B.Smith´s death, Arthur E. Hotchins approached Smith Company officials to discuss plans for the production of his latest invention, an elevated bicycle railroad. A finished prototype served as a test model for bicycle railroads throughout the United States.
The Smith Company agreed to invest in this invention. The company´s mechanics completed the prototypes of the bicycle-like conveyance by the end of 1891 and tested these pedal-powered vehicles on a 200-foot section of track erected at the factory.
Smithville presented an ideal setting to demonstrate the railway. The most direct route between Mt. Holly and Smithvile lay along the creek´s level floodplain, making it possible to built the bicycle railroad on undevelopment land.
During good bussines times, the H.B. Smith Machine Company employed men from Mt. Holly. They walked the two miles to Smithville or took the train, but the station location was not convenient to most of the workers´ houses. This made the construction of the bicycle railway between the towns a practical proposal.
album: 228/A - Smithville museum
The pictures were showed for 27th International Cycling History Conference, Nort Haven, USA, 2016.
album: 228/B - Bicycle Raillway
Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, MI – USA
The Pompous Museum, unfortunately, when we visited it in 2018, only two bikes are exposed to the public, although a large and valuable collection is hidden in the depository.
Contact: http://www.thehenryford.org/museum/index.aspx
Henry Ford said of his museum: “I am collecting the history of our people as written into things their hands made and used.... When we are through, we shall have reproduced American life as lived, and that, I think, is the best way of preserving at least a part of our history and tradition.”
Photos of bicycle display from 2005 (taken by Mr. Zdeněk Měsíček)
Pierce - Arrow Museum, Buffalo, NY – USA
The Buffalo Transportation Pierce Arrow Museum and a new exhibit on Buffalo's Bicycles (1860s - 1920s).
The collection of vintage bicycles and rare cycling memorabilia from the collections of Jim and Mary Ann Sandoro, the Burgwardt Family and the former Pedaling History Museum.
Contact: http://www.pierce-arrow.com
THE BUFFALO TRANSPORTATION PIERCE-ARROW MUSEUM HONORS AND PRESERVES THE COMPANY’S LONG AND PRESTIGIOUS HISTORY.
The Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Company was a symbol of one of Buffalo’s most significant eras of growth, prosperity and of American innovation and ingenuity.
Gary and Mary COOK´S Bicycle collection, Vallejo CA – USA
Gary Cook was owner of bicycle shop and big bicycle collector. „He had so much energy and was very funny“ said me his wife Mary. Gary passed away in June 2008. Part of his collection was sold and many bikes and parts were donated to the museum at Davis University in California.
album: 219/A - Gary COOK collection
album: 219/B - Gary COOK Collection
Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago - USA
Rare and fascinating historic bicycles from the Museum's collection alongside new high-tech bikes in exposition „The Art of the Bicycle“.
Link exhibition: http://www.msichicago.org/explore/whats-here/exhibits/art-of-the-bicycle/
„It is an invention where science, art and engineering intersect—and one we can master at six years old. The first bicycles were revolutionary 200 years ago, and today's bike designers continue to redefine and revisit the concept of cycling. Trace the path of an evolution from Boneshaker to Moonlander in a beautiful gallery of creativity and ingenuity.“
All photos exhibition The Art of the Bicycle were find on thr internet:
Museum contact: http://www.msichicago.org
