Petersen Automotive Museum

For the better part of the past year, the joy of taking a leisurely, maskless stroll through just about any museum has been put on hold. Mark it down as yet another one of the many ways the COVID-19 pandemic has changed daily life and affected activities people might have previously taken for granted.

When the Petersen Automotive Museum, a Los Angeles haven for auto enthusiasts, closed its doors in March 2020, it locked away everything from classic cars and artifacts from automotive history, to dreamy concept rides that look like they leaped straight off the pages of a science fiction novel.

“In the beginning, we really had no idea what was going to happen. We didn’t know if we were going to be closed for a week or three weeks or two months,”  Bryan Stevens, creative exhibitions director of Petersen Automotive Museum, tells Fortune. “I don’t even think at that point, any of us were thinking as far out as six months or a year.”

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