Volo Auto Museum
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Volo Auto Museum is a museum in Illinois, at a modelled elevation of 238 m. High Point stands 362 m to the west-northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Volo Auto Museum Sign, a attraction 0.2 miles away. 10 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
Established in 1960 by the Grams family, the Volo Museum (formerly the Volo Auto Museum) is an automotive museum and collector car dealer in the Chicago suburb of Volo, Illinois, US. The museum contains an exhibit of collectors' autos from vintage to modern classics, with the main focus being American cars of the 1950–1980 period, over 50 famous TV and movie cars, cars previously owned by the rich and famous, animatronics from ShowBiz Pizza Place and Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre, and a large array of Disney and Looney Tunes displays. Unique to this museum is that many of the vehicles on display (in five large buildings) are for sale. One of 50 exhibits on the 75-acre museum campus is a military-oriented "Armed Forces Exhibit", added in the late 2000s. Of the 4 antique malls on the museum grounds, one is reported to be haunted and has become a magnet for ghost hunters and sightings and an episode of the TV show Ghost Lab was filmed here. The museum has its own TV series on History called Volo, House of Cars beginning in 2017.
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Dates from 1960.
Wikidata Q14688159, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
- Fee
- Yes
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Volo Auto Museum Sign: 0.2 mi
- Volo Auto Museum Sign: 0.4 mi
- Horse Barn: 4.6 mi
- Lake County Fairgrounds: 7.9 mi
- Richardson's Christmas Tree Farm: 10.0 mi
- Marl Flat Forest Preserve: 1.2 mi
- Black Crown Marsh State Natural Area: 1.6 mi
- Volo Bog State Natural Area: 2.6 mi
- Kestrel Ridge Forest Preserve: 3.0 mi
- Moraine Hills State Park: 3.6 mi
- Heritage Community Park: 1.4 mi
- Symphony Meadows South Park: 1.5 mi
- Morrison Park: 1.7 mi
- Park Lane Nature Park: 2.0 mi
- Meadowview Park: 2.5 mi
- Alex Lancaster Memorial Bench: 2.5 mi
- Helicopter: 3.7 mi
- 1995 Fox River Grove Bus–Train Collision Memorial: 9.3 mi
- Lindenhurst Veterans Memorial: 9.3 mi
- Bettendorf Castle: 9.4 mi
- Round Entry Door: 9.3 mi
- The Beatitudes & Ten Comandments: 9.7 mi
- Alumni Sculpture: 9.9 mi
- Polar Bear Statue: 10.4 mi
- Geoscene wall: 11.0 mi
- Grant Township Museum: 4.2 mi
- Grayslake Heritage Center: 6.8 mi
- Grayslake Historical Museum: 6.8 mi
- Bess Bower Dunn Museum of Lake County: 9.2 mi
- Powers-Walker Historical Homestead: 10.1 mi
- Picnic Grove: 12.6 mi
- Deer Grove Picnic Grove 3: 13.8 mi
- Deer Grove East Picnic Shelter 2: 14.2 mi
- Deer Grove East Picnic Shelter Grove 1: 14.3 mi
- Deer Grove East Picnic Shelter 3: 14.3 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 1.9 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 9.0 mi
- Smart Farm: 9.1 mi
- Our lady of Mt. Carmel Garden: 10.2 mi
- Master Gardeners' Demonstration Garden: 11.0 mi
- Morrison Park Beach: 1.6 mi
- Petersen Park Beach: 6.1 mi
- Jones Island Beach: 6.3 mi
- Lake Miltmore Beach: 8.1 mi
- George's Beach: 8.3 mi
- Bald Knob: 4.4 mi
- Camelback Kame: 10.4 mi
- Hill Fifteen: 11.1 mi
- Gander Mountain: 11.6 mi
- Mount Moriah: 14.2 mi
- Kenosha Rest Area 26 (I-94 WB): 17.6 mi
- Covington Bluff: 19.6 mi
- Aurora: 22.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Volo Auto Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Point | WNW 297° | 362 m | 22.0 mi |
| Gander Mountain | N 355° | 283 m | 11.6 mi |
| Hill Fifteen | NNW 327° | 276 m | 11.1 mi |
| Camelback Kame | NW 308° | 268 m | 10.4 mi |
| Mount Tom | N 358° | 265 m | 22.7 mi |
| Mount Moriah | NNW 340° | 257 m | 14.2 mi |
| Bald Knob | NNW 336° | 235 m | 4.4 mi |
| Leahy Hill | ENE 63° | 234 m | 14.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:28 | 19:05 |
| June solstice | 05:17 | 19:51 | 20:34 |
| September equinox | 06:41 | 18:15 | 18:52 |
| December solstice | 07:19 | 15:38 | 16:24 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 22 | 25 | 36 | 48 | 59 | 69 | 73 | 71 | 64 | 51 | 39 | 28 |
| Precip in | 1.6 | 1.6 | 2.2 | 3.6 | 4.5 | 4.8 | 3.8 | 3.7 | 3.6 | 3.2 | 2.4 | 1.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — MC Henry -WG Stratton L&D, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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