{"id":72496,"date":"2020-05-14T13:31:26","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T20:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=72496"},"modified":"2020-05-14T13:31:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T20:31:26","slug":"world-of-speed-museum-to-close-permanently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/world-of-speed-museum-to-close-permanently\/","title":{"rendered":"World of Speed Museum to Close Permanently"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_72499\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72499\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"72499\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/world-of-speed-museum-to-close-permanently\/webslider_museumexterior\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/webSlider_MuseumExterior-e1589487738849.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,194\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"webSlider_MuseumExterior\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo: World of Speed Museum&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/webSlider_MuseumExterior-300x91.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/webSlider_MuseumExterior-1024x310.jpg\" class=\"size-large wp-image-72499\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/webSlider_MuseumExterior-1024x310.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"310\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-72499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: World of Speed Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sadly, The World of Speed motorsport museum will be permanently closing its doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Their board of directors announced Tuesday to shut down museum operations after Gov. Kate Brown released a phased plan to restart the state economy.\u00a0 The museum&#8217;s board of directors couldn&#8217;t see a light at the end of the tunnel, the museum has been closed for 2 months amidst the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVoting to close the museum permanently was an extremely difficult decision for the board,\u201d said Sally Bany, co-founder of World of Speed, in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Bany added that board members took into consideration that the museum would likely fall into Phase 2 or even\u00a0 Phase 3 of the governor\u2019s current reopening plan, which could push the museum\u2019s reopening date into 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After much deliberation, our board determined that we are unable to continue our mission for such an extended closure period,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The museum opened in April 2015 and offered visitors a behind-the-\u00adscenes view of the racing world through its exhibits, hands-on activities, and collection of historic race cars, boats, and motorcycles.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Sadly, The World of Speed motorsport museum will be permanently closing its doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":72499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1082,3470],"tags":[7775,7567,2052,266,41,1631,7776],"class_list":["post-72496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","category-news","tag-corons-virus","tag-covid-19","tag-events","tag-museum","tag-news","tag-world-of-speed-museum","tag-world-of-speed-museum-to-close-permanently"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/webSlider_MuseumExterior-e1589487738849.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-iRi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72500,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72496\/revisions\/72500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}