Revs Institute for Automotive Research

Revs Institute Inc. Manages and facilitates an educational research library dedicated to the interdisciplinary study on all facets of the automobile ranging from its history, manufacturing, agent for social change, psycho-social personification, recreational and sporting use. This extensive library is available free of charge to accredited researchers and educational organizations by appointment basis and through online access. Revs Institute Inc. offers 144 archival collections, over 23,100 books, 1,677 magazine titles, 201,677 magazine & journal issues, and 1,500,000 original images of which 730,095 are digitized and on rdl (Revs digital library). Revs Institute Inc. added several library collections in 2022: the renzo castagneto papers, collection on michelin tires, mercedes car model collection, ralph mulford collection, ralph stein collection, henry ryan collection of automobile sales literature, otto zaiser photograph album, and collection of motorcycle festival papers.

Revs Institute Inc. was selected to host a joint meeting of the national association of automobile museums and the world forum for motor museums on november 9, 2022 through november 12, 2022. The conference theme was "the future of the past is collaboration and included 42 keynote speakers, some of which are part of the leadership of the american alliance of museums and the international oclc consortium. The attendees included motor museum professionals, principals, owners and collectors. The forum intinerary included 34 educacional events. Topics included automobile archaeology and the museum, european museums working together, relevance of mobility in the lifecycle of vehicles, and acoustic emission: a tool for restarting historical engines.

Revs Institute Inc. enters various automobiles in historic races, historic car tours, car shows and concours de elegance events. The exhibitions educate the public about the history of the automobile, including text labels for specific cars explaining their significance and historical perspective, and trained staff who provide information on the automobile. Revs Institute Inc. Participated in several events during 2022 including the amelia concours d'elegance, pacific union car show, highlands motoring event, pebble beach event, and nicola bulgari award presentation (automotive heritage).

Educational tours of and general admissions to auto and library collections to 23,166 people, students, researchers and professionals.

Educational materials including 287 research projects provided to professors and researchers which included 1462 images sold.

The biennial world forum for motor museums was held at Revs Institute Inc. museum in november 2022. The conference theme was "the future of the past is collaboration". The forum was a four day event offering keynote speaker sessions of which miles c. collier presented regarding the automobile archaeology and the museum (Revs), continuing his life-long advocacy of the importance of the automobile. Attendees included motor museum professionals, principals, owners and collectors.