Visited the PAM during the national Championship weekend for TCU_Georgia.. The quality of the vehicles is second to none. If there is any car that you remember from TV or movies, it is probably here. Tucker #30, The Mystery Machine, Pope Mobile, F-1 Race cars... the list goes on. They are spaced out so many can observe one at a time and stay as long or as little as you want. The one downer was that they discontinued the guided tours and replaced them with docents spread out through the museum. They are knowledgable, but if you dont know to ask about a particular vehicle, you may never know that you just passed the First Honda, First natural gas truck, "car X owned by Y" etc.

Wow, second visit to the Peterson, it is just amazing and if you love cars it’s car heaven. Give yourself at least half a day and take the vault tour. Plenty of parking $20 and no time limit, probably best value in area. If you visit LA and love cars you must visit

I’ve been to the Peterson before and love it but never done the vault until today. It was so worth it! We loved every second of it. Wish some of the cars had more info cards in the vault but it’s a storage area so not on display all the time. If you have kids who love Batman and they don’t have the OG Batmobile on display in the regular museum then it’s in the vault!

We went to see the Tesla display. It was very well done, comprehensive and interesting. This was our second visit to the museum. If you are at all interested in cars, it is worth a visit. We like the Hollywood cars displayed, too. Batmobile, Back to the Future Delorean, Ricky Nelson jalopy, Iron Man, etc. Very nice!

The museum has some nice cars and some that other car museums do not. This is an expensive visit, though. The showcase exhibits are interesting but not that special. My biggest complaint is the vault. The vault is just a parking garage in the basement where they put the cars they aren't showcasing. In the vault you're not allowed to walk between the cars so if you want to see that part of a car that isn't visible as you pass by, forget it. Then there are the cars that are placed behind other cars. Some of these are too far away that there's no way to identify them without the ability to walk beside those cars in front. Speaking of identification, most of the cars in the vault are not identified - they're just parked in a parking space. What it really looks like is that the museum just plain doesn't have enough room to feature all their collection so their marketing scheme is presented in a way that leads a person to believe that they'll see something really special for $25 (on top of the general admission fee). These cars should be part of the normal display of cars. Then there's the Meyer's Manx Cafe. The food they offer is pretty good. It's expensive like the cost of the teeny tiny cocktails on their menu. If there's a half-jigger of alcohol in the tiny, shallow little glass, I'd be surprised. So, in conclusion, if you love cars, bite the bullet and go. You'll see some interesting cars. But don't believe you're going to get anything particularly special from your visit that you won't find at other car museums.

We had an amazing time in the Petersen Vault! We had some questions so we found Steven, one of the docents there! He was totally awesome, he answered our initial question and the proceeded to share his passion for the cars there with us! He made our visit 5stars! We only wish we could have taken him with us on the other three amazong floors! Thank you Steven for making our day spectacular!

The visit exceeded our expectations! This car museum is definitely worth taking the time to visit. We loved their exhibits of the "movie" cars, McClaren race cars, and all the concept cars. The museum is very well done.