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A Car Lover’s Paradise How a private collection has accelerated into one of Rhode Island’s busiest attractions One of Rhode Island’s fastest growing attractions is the Newport Car Museum. Located in a former missile manufacturing facility in Portsmouth, it served over 50,000 visitors in 2021. The museum features over 80 cars in its collection, all belonging to Gunther Buerman, a part-time Newport resident, car collector, and sailing enthusiast. He opened the museum in 2017. “My wife Maggie and I moved to Newport in 2010, and we had some cars in storage that we weren’t using,” Buerman explains. “I woke up one morning and said to Maggie, ‘why don’t we sell the cars or start a museum?’” She agreed to the latter. “It gave me the opportunity to collect the cars that I’ve always wanted.” Photo courtesy of Newport Car Museum The Bay • February 2022 9
