The Museum of Steering Wheels

Field notes

The museum organizes its subject into collection, exhibit, cinema, and ashtray sections, treating familiar driving objects as cultural artifacts rather than simple vehicle parts. Its steering-wheel archive labels examples with categories such as “Pareidolia,” “Just a horn,” “Baroque,” and “wtf,” while the navigation material includes Texaco maps, Thomas Guides, and AAA TripTiks. Interactive descriptions extend the premise into map-folding, hill starts, parallel parking, snowy donuts, and simulated traffic stops.