Its purpose to maintain the experience of bikes past and present as well as motorcycle memorabilia, documents and actual vintage bikes from as far back as 1903.
The museum contains a collection of motorcycles over the past 100 years as well as thousands of photos, postcards and posters.
The bikes come from all over the world; there are American, Japanese, British and other European motorcycles on display.
In 2010, the museum moved its collection of more than 300 motorcycles to a much larger building, and celebrated a grand re-opening in June 2011.
[1] In 2023, it was announced that the museum would permanently close in September.