Gasoline Alley Museum at Heritage Park

Location   
Address: 1900 Heritage Dr. S.W.

Admission: Admission to Heritage Park Applies to Gasoline Alley. Heritage Park Historical Village is closed over the Winter but Heritage Town Square and  Gasoline Alley are open all year. See here for current rates

Parking: large lots of paid parking
Age Range: The museum is for all ages.
Stay Length: 1-3 hours depending on your party’s interest in cars and the activities at the play area.

Overall: Gasoline Alley Museum is organized into 3 main sections. You can see the Family Gallery area immediately on your right but the entrance is actually towards the back of the museum.

The museum features restored classic cars and gas pumps on two floors (don’t miss out seeing the cars in the basement!). There is a huge number of them, all but 2 of them are in running condition and the vast majority were all donated by Calgarian Ron Carey.

Museum Main Floor

There are two cars that you can sit in one of which is in the main floor museum area.

There is also a rusty car (one of the two that doesn’t run) that looks a bit like Mater from Pixar’s Cars and a ton of other cars and gas pumps to look at and a plane right over the entrance.

Museum Basement

I would definitely recommend taking the elevator down to the basement floor. The cars are just as impressive as on the main floor and there are cars that looks similar to Doc, Mater and Lizzie from the Cars movie.

Family Gallery – Play Area

Although the Family Gallery is primarily aimed at kids, it’s worth a look even if you don’t have any kids with you. There are a couple of interesting cars, an old camper and a car set up like a drive-in movie theatre.

This is the other car that you can sit in at Gasoline Alley and when you do, the speaker turns on so you can listen to the movie (about drive-ins) as well as watch it projected against the far wall.