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Visit the Museum This Easter Holidays!
Celebrate the Easter break with a special visit to the museum! We're opening our doors for two relaxed, family‑friendly days where you can discover...
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New exhibition at the AMHT Museum: 25 years in 25 objects
This year is the Aston Martin Heritage Trust’s 25th birthday. As part of the celebrations, a new exhibition runs throughout August and September at the AMHT Museum in Wallingford, Oxfordshire. The latest curated collection tells the story of the AMHT’s...
Stellar turnout for the Aston Martin Heritage Festival 2023
Nearly 600 examples of the Aston Martin Lagonda cars, including hugely rare and genuine one-off creations, made their way to the British Motor Museum, Warwickshire, to honour 25 years of the AMHT and 110 years of the great British car maker. The AMHT’s celebration...
‘Team of the Year’ nomination for the AMHT team
The Aston Martin Heritage Trust team have been hard at work to make this year the best one yet. And it hasn't gone unnoticed. The team have been shortlisted for 'Team of the Year' in Octane's Historic Motoring Awards. With this fantastic achievement, it's only right...
DB9 in a line. Here is a small selection of the DB9s you’ll see at the Aston Martin Heritage Festival.
It was two decades ago that Aston Martin launched the DB9 at the Frankfurt Motor Show. In celebration of 20 years of the beautiful DB9, there will be over 15 examples at the Aston Martin Heritage Festival. Before introducing them, let’s review what made the DB9 a...
The DB5s you’ll see at the Aston Martin Heritage Festival.
The year 2023 marks sixty glorious years of the DB5. Often billed as the “most famous car in the world”, James Bond’s DB5 in Goldfinger became the car everyone desired. It’s regarded by many as the most beautiful Aston Martin produced. Come to the Aston Martin...
Aston Martin DB12s and DBX707 confirmed for Aston Martin Heritage Festival.
Aston Martin Lagonda will attend the Aston Martin Heritage Festival (AMHF) to showcase the all-new DB12s and exceptional DBX707. Celebrating 110 years of Aston Martin, the brand brings two of the newest additions to its stable to the festival at the British Motor...
Collections Corner
Object in Focus: Photograph of the London Motor Show, 1934
Object Number: AMHT-2007-288 Object Type: Photographic Material Object Description: The Aston Martin stand at the London Motor Show, October 1934 With our Heritage Festival happening at the end of the month, it seems only fair that this ‘Object in Focus’ highlights...
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt
This month we were joined by a lovely student called Oliver for a week of work experience. While we were having a chat about all things museums and collections management we discussed the Spectrum standard. Spectrum is the UK collections management standard and...
Aston Martin & Le Mans
Hands up who knew it was 65 years this year since that auspicious 1959 day when Aston Martin took their iconic Le Mans victory? 65 years and five days in fact. Fresh off the back of this year's race, I thought it would be only right to make Le Mans the theme for this...
Object in Focus: DB7 Exterior Paint Samples
Object Number: AMHT-2018-101 Object Type: Artefact Object Description: DB7 colour range swatch book of exterior paint samples This month’s ‘Object in Focus’ comes under one of my favourite subjects here at the museum; paint and trim samples. Oh, and it also nicely...
DB7: ‘The car that saved Aston Martin’?
As this year marks the 30th anniversary of the DB7, we’re shining a spotlight on it with our newest temporary exhibition, DB7: ‘The car that saved Aston Martin’? ‘A Legend Reborn’ was quite a proclamation to have graced the cover of a 1996 DB7 sales brochure, and what...
Spies, Lies & Deception… and a racing driver
Before it closed earlier this month I went to see Spies, Lies & Deception at the Imperial War Museum. This brilliantly named exhibition full of espionage and intrigue did not disappoint. But how, you might wonder, is this in any way connected to AMHT? The short...
Trustees’ Talk
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