Royse, Auburn, In.

Leroy · Mar 18, 2013

For the Auburn show it sounds like you have never been there before. The show grounds are the old auction park on if my directions are not turned around on the east side of the highway and north of the cross highway. It is an indoor only show and with the 2 buildings even tho they have a lot of room it is not a bring your display the day of the show. It is more like an invitation show in that you summit what you want to bring and they will usually aprove it but some exibits they just cannot handle. The exibitors will know a few months ahead if they are OK'd and then tho the show starts on a friday all exibitors have to bring there exibit up on thursday as getting them all lined up in the buildings is a big job and cannot be reasonably be done with visitors there. The only museum they are or were connected with is the Natmus museum in the old Auborn car factory uptown. They are in no way connected to that museum on the west side of the highway, fact is when we were there that other place was closed, not interested in visitors as neer as I can tell.

gtractorfan · Mar 18, 2013

The museum across the interstate west from the auction place-- that's a WW II museum. Been there once, interesting. Are you saying it's closed?

Royse · Mar 18, 2013

Appreciate the directions, you're right, I have not been to the tractor show there.
I have been to the Natmus museum, and most of the others in Auburn.
There's a lot to see and do there for those of us that like old cars/planes.
We just stopped in because we were passing by and heard there was a
tractor show that weekend.
Interesting coincidence that they were setting up a tractor display in the
Kruse museum the same weekend. I doubt it will have much given the space.
Half of that building is a war museum, the other half is a transportation
museum. Horse drawn carriages up to and including the Batmobile.
Interesting place if folks haven't seen it. Both sides.

Leroy · Mar 18, 2013

Just when we were up there it was closed, might just have been time of day.

Paul from MI · Mar 18, 2013

I don't think the WWII museum is closed, but they did have some financial obligations that forced them to sell off quite a bit of their collection. I don't know how much is left, or if it's worth seeing anymore. I have not been to the show at the War Memorial Coliseum in Ft. Wayne as it is a conflict with other scheduled events for me.

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