Barber Motorsports Museum & Park - Leeds, AL - one's man passion brought to life

The charge of admission to the facility is $15 for adults; $10 for children aged four to twelve while those three and younger are admitted free of The large multipurpose racing facility known as the Barber Motorsports Park is on seven hundred and forty acres in Birmingham, Alabama close to Leeds. George Barber had an interest in vintage motorcycles and discovered there was not a museum reflecting the history of the world's motorcycles. He wanted the history of motorcycles preserved in the United States so that it would represent the international aspect and give an example of rare motorcycles that had only been seen in magazines or books up to that point.

George W. Barber began Barber Motorsports Museum and Park with his private collection during 1988 with other motorcycles being acquired during 1989. It was officially opened to the public during 1994 and in 2003 was moved to the Barber Motorsports Park in Leeds, Alabama. There are over nine hundred modern and vintage racecars and motorcycles. The facility has the world's largest museum for motorsports. There are international race cruisers such as the Lotus included in the collection at the museum.

The collection has over eighty-four Harley's in it, it takes less than an hour to get ninety-nine percent of the motorcycles in the museum to run. There are some machines in the Barber Motorsports Museum and Park that the mechanical components could not be fabricated or located for. Every effort has been made to restore each item in the collection to its regular running condition.

The bike collection at the Barber Motorsports Vintage Museum has bikes that date back as far as 1904 all the way up to those that are coming off the assembly line today. There are bikes from as far as Australia, Sweden and New Zealand representing over 140 marques out of sixteen countries. There are no pets allowed in the facility.

The facility is open April 1 through September 30 the facility is open from 10am until 6pm Monday through Saturday and from noon until 6pm on Sunday. From the 1st of October through the 31st of March the facility is open from 10am until 5pm Monday through Friday. On Sunday the facility opens at noon and closes at 5pm. The facility is closed on major holidays.

There are three events during the year where visitors are required to have tickets for the races to enter into the park; admission to the museum is separate. The events are the IRL/Grand Am, AMA Superbike and the Barber Vintage Festival. The Barber Motorsports Museum and Park offers a fifty-nine seat theatre, meeting rooms, large fifth floor and Atrium giving the facility the ability to accommodate groups as small as fifty or as large as nine hundred.

Those that wish to obtain additional information about the events that are regularly held at the Barber Motorsports Museum and Park should contact the facility directly. Anyone with an interest in racecars and motorcycles should make it a point to visit the museum if they are ever in the Leeds, Alabama area.