Lecture Series
Learn From the Experts
The Gilmore Car Museum’s annual Winter Lecture Series is highly anticipated every year. Each week a different speaker will present on a variety of intriguing topics from Michigan based history to aircraft to automobiles, of course!
When is lecture series?
- Every Sunday at 2pm in the Heritage Ballroom
- January through April
Admission is easy -
- FREE to museum members
- Included with your museum general admission ticket
- $5.00/person if you are only attending the lecture
* The Winter Lecture Series will not be streamed via Facebook, YouTube or any other means.
2023 Schedule
| January 8th | "Car Transport 1893-2023" Getting Your Car from the Factory to Your Dealer | Mark Tomlonson Historian |
| January 15th | "Aircraft Restoration"
Kalamazoo Air Zoo | Dan Brant Assistant Aircraft Restoration Manager Kalamazoo Air Zoo |
| January 22nd | "Oddities & Rarities" | Ron Rademacher Historian |
| January 29th | "The Mustangs That Never Were" | John Clor
Enthusiast Communications Manager / Ford Performance |
| February 5th | “Seeking the Lord, The Search for The Jarvis Lord Shipwreck" | Ross Richardson Michigan Shipwreck Historian |
| February 12th | "Willow Run Boys Camp to Bomber Plant" | Rick Cahow
Historian, GCM Education Committee Member |
| February 19th | "Ladies of the Lights" | Dianna Stampfler Promote Michigan, Founder |
| February 26th | "Route 66" | John Lacko Photo Journalist |
| March 5th | "Open-Wheel Racing" | Fred Otterbein |
| March 12th | "Automotive Painting - A Brief History" | Mark Zickefoose Automotive Paint Expert |
| March 19th | "Retro Recreation - Vintage Boats and Travel Trailers" | David Irvine Historian and Writer |
| March 26th | "The Model T Ford AKA The Mechanical Cockroach" | Don LaCombe Automotive Historian, Pickette Avenue Museum |
| April 2nd | "The Rich History of Grand Hotel Mackinac Island" | Bob Tagatz Resident Historian, Grand Hotel Mackinac Island |
| April 16th | "America's First Road Trip" The Story of Heratio Nelson Jackson's 1903 Trip Across America | John Burton Historian, GCM Education Committee Member |
| April 23rd | "Strange, Weird, Unusual, Unique and Crazy Highway Signs" 2nd Edition | Dr. John Geisler Historian |
Have a topic idea that you'd like to present at a future series? Please email our Director of Education, Fred Colgren.
Winter Lecture Series sponsored by -
