Bicycle Heaven
Transportation museum in Pittsburgh, PA From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bicycle Heaven is the largest transportation museum in the world dedicated to bicycles.[2][3][4] The museum was founded by Craig Morrow and comprises his personal collection gathered over decades. It is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
 One of the prop bicycles used in Pee-wee's Big Adventure on display | |
  Location in Pittsburgh | |
| Established | July 2, 2011[1] |
|---|---|
| Location | Casey Industrial Park 1800 Preble Ave Pittsburgh, PA 15233 |
| Coordinates | 40.456139°N 80.032190°W |
| Type | Transportation museum |
| Founder | Craig Morrow |
| Director | Henry Morrow |
| Nearest parking | On site (no charge) |
| Website | bicycleheaven |
The museum is an active collection. The 650 m2 show room contains over 3,500 bicycles with an additional 27,000 in storage.[5] There are over 100,000 parts to keep the collection in repair.[6]
Bicycle Heaven maintains free entry by serving as a bike shop and consulting as prop agents for film, television and theatrical productions. After filming, the bicycles are returned and become part of the permanent collection.[7][8]
Bicycle Heaven was founded in 2011.
Bowden Spacelanders
Benjamin Bowden, a British industrial designer, designed a space-age fiberglass bicycle in 1946. Bowden named the design the Spacelander; it entered production in 1960 and sold for $89.50.[9] Only 522 Spacelander bicycles were made in the original run.[10] By the 1990s only a few dozen were estimated to have survived. Morrow collected 17 of the proposed 38 left in the world.[11] The Bowden Spacelanders are some rarest bicycles in the museum. Given their scarcity and good condition, they are valued over $50,000 each.[12][13]
Pee-Wee Herman's Bicycle
One of the jewels of the museum is one of the prop bikes used as Pee-wee Herman's bicycle, the MacGuffin of the film Pee-wee's Big Adventure.[5][12][14]
Other Movie Bicycles
The museum displays bicycles used in the films A Beautiful Mind,[7] Fences, Super 8,[13] and others.
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