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A charity that works in the most generous ever awarded to an institution in one, Petersen Automotive Museum received a gift of $ 100,000,000 and Margie Margie and Robert Petersen, E. Petersen Foundation, the almost sure it is open to all eternity Museum will do. "We surrender to the memory of Mrs. Peterson's generosity and enthusiastic about Mr. Peterson," said Steven Young, Peterson Automotive Museum Foundation and President of directors.
Robert E. Peterson is a car-based publishing empire that began in 1948 with Hot Rod magazine and set up a month includes 36 tracks. He led the formation of the museum that bears his name, until his death in 1994 at the age of 80 in 2007 after the opening of the museum's philanthropic passion, Margie Peterson's Peterson's widow. 1963.While couple donated all cash "a significant financial contribution limit, no," married. Current board and management of a sports museum to donate enough to maintain the need for a challenge. Museum building and lease it was a box, opened the car park because it generously, and his life's work, which assembles the part of the museum foundation, Robert Peterson, including a large collection of cars.
"I am delighted that this gift, Mr. Peterson and I began two decades ago - the largest automotive museum in the nation," said Margie Peterson.is for. " The fact that hot rod in the heart of the country which is no coincidence.
"Automobile of the social and cultural impact, huge in Southern California, especially," Young said.Some said that fixing up ", while some have served in building maintenance, in the end, the distribution of public evidence at the scene". " However, Plant, which ultra-cold "vault", which hosts some of the museum's great cars converted for other purposes will be a library research everything, including the automotive industry, known as the garage as a kind of the lowest level of functions. "We were blessed with a lot of wonderful pictures of the" Young said.
