At the end of January 2023, we learned the sad news that the National Motorcycle Museum in Anamosa, Iowa would be closing later this year. Citing the intertwined struggles of financial woes and low attendance, the museum announced tentative plans for its closure on its social media pages to allow all who wanted to visit one last time to hopefully have a chance to do so.
While some of the bikes on display at the museum have been on loan from collectors who aren’t part of the museum, the majority are part of the John Parham collection. At the time it announced its impending closure, the Museum also mentioned in passing that those bikes would be auctioned off. Now that it’s April 2023, we have more information about the John Parham Estate Collection auction, to be held by Mecum in September 2023.
