DONATION OPTIONS

How You Can Help Today

Gifts of all kinds are accepted with gratitude. Your donation to the Petersen Automotive Museum helps build exhibits, education programs, preserve 2D & 3D artifacts, digitize our archive, and extend the reach of car culture. Below are the most effective ways you can make a difference right now.

Over the last three years, the Petersen has received over 100 vehicle donations. These donations benefit future generations and allow us to educate the public using new stories. Check out some of the amazing donations we’ve received on our Car Stories blog.

Vehicle donations are tax-deductible and preserve your car-collecting legacy! If you want to learn more about car donations, please call (323) 964-6380.

We appreciate all donation inquiries and are happy to help with your philanthropic wishes. 

• For vehicle donations, please call (323) 964-6380

• For artifacts and automobilia donations, please call (323) 964-6336

• For all estate planning and monetary donations, please call (323) 964 6377

When you make a financial gift, you're helping us bring car history and culture to the entire world.

While maintaining a global reach, the Petersen Automotive Museum continually studies the crucial role that this city, and California as a whole, has played in the development of the automobile and its establishment as a cultural artifact. To ensure that the Petersen continues to become the center for automotive thought by presenting mobility’s past, present, and future, we need your support.

• Giving over 25,000 K-12 students who qualify for free lunch programs a fully funded field trip to the museum. For many of these students, their visit to the Petersen is often their first experience with museums.

• Preserving the museum’s collection of 1M images and making them publicly available online.

• Providing 15 students from across the state the opportunity to participate and engage at no cost in the inaugural class of Teen Auto Workshop.

• Advancing our mission to explore and present the history of the automobile.

Your support makes it possible.