About Us
About Blackhawk Museum
Opened in September of 1988, Blackhawk Museum was dedicated to the pride, the beauty and the craftsmanship inherent in the legacy of the automobile. The Blackhawk Museum has been described as possibly the finest museum of its type devoted to the enjoyment, appreciation and education of the automobile artform.
Additional galleries were introduced to the public beginning in 2015 with the completion of the Spirit of the Old West, featuring the Fick Collection. Art of Africa, added in 2016. Into China, opening in February of 2020, followed by the opening of World of Nature.
Founder, Kenneth E. Behring’s vision of Museums as Temples of Learning is evident throughout five exquisite galleries, and remains a unique feature of the Western United States.
Blackhawk Museum is a subsidiary of Behring Global Educational Foundation – a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization Tax I.D. 84-4053692
Behring Global Educational Foundation
The Behring Global Educational Foundation has been developed upon the tremendous success of the Wheelchair Foundation, a non-profit organization founded by Kenneth E. Behring in 2000, now a sub-division of BGEF.
BGEF was established to identify, create and oversee multiple operations that specialize in providing aid to international health and educational related areas of need. With projects like the Wheelchair Foundation and the International Museums Partnership, BGEF is a united network of charitable organizations dedicated to eliminating suffering, providing hope, mobility and freedom and expanding basic education and economic development opportunities around the world.
