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“The Greatest [Bicycle] Exhibit You’ll Never See” Magazine article

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jimbo53

I live for the CABE
Here is an excellent article from Milwaukee Magazine from 2011. While 10 years old, it details the TOC collection of Carl Deitz and how the Milwaukee Public Museum has been so dismissive of the importance of the collection and has no desire to publicly display and catalogue such a collection of iconic bicycles. A long read, but very well worth it for us bicycle historians.

https://www.milwaukeemag.com/TheGreatestExhibitYouveNeverSeen/
 
@New Mexico Brant

“First American Made Bicycle. 1865. Made by Pierre Lallement, at Ansonia, Connecticut, and patented by him November 20, 1866,” the back of the photo reads. “This model was brought to Albuquerque, New Mexico over the Santa Fe Trail in an ox-cart, where Mr. Dietz secured it for his collection.”
 
Just checked the Milwaukee Public Museum. The have Carl Dietz’s typewriter collection on display with a nice write-up, but no mention at all about his bicycle collection, wasting away in the basement, unseen and unappreciated. What kind of museum would be so blind to the importance of his bicycle collection??😡
 
Perhaps a “defund the museum” initiative might allow the assets to be sold to private entities or non-government museum.
 
Perhaps a “defund the museum” initiative might allow the assets to be sold to private entities or non-government museum.
I’ve never known of a museum that couldn’t use some extra money. A museum is about preservation and education, neither of which these bikes in the basement are helping achieve. Could be a goldmine for someone living near Milwaukee that has some spare cash laying around.
 
Just checked the Milwaukee Public Museum. The have Carl Dietz’s typewriter collection on display with a nice write-up, but no mention at all about his bicycle collection, wasting away in the basement, unseen and unappreciated. What kind of museum would be so blind to the importance of his bicycle collection??😡
You wouldn't believe what the Smithsonian has and never shows. Probably like that last scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
 
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