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As of November 2026
The museum's present state: The Studebaker National Museum is open at 201 Chapin Street, Monday through Saturday 10 to 5 and Sunday noon to 5, on the ground beside The History Museum that the two institutions have shared since the Studebaker museum's 2005 building opened. Its state in November 2026 is its exhibition calendar, and the calendar is full: three special exhibitions stand on view together, a combination the museum's own release of November 9, 2026 names in one breath.
On view: Motor City, Indiana, on northern Indiana's early automakers, runs through January 31, 2027. Testing Tomorrow: The Proving Ground at 100 marks the centenary of Studebaker's proving ground — established in 1926 on 840 acres — and runs through November 30, 2026. Moments That Made US, mounted jointly with The History Museum for the America250 commemoration, runs through January 3, 2027. The American Treasures self-guided audio tour runs April 26, 2026 to January 31, 2027. Behind them in the same year: Five Driven Women (June 3 – July 19, 2026), the eighth annual Concours d'Elegance at Copshaholm (July 10–11, 2026), and a theatrical tour program, Wheels of Time, launched in 2026. Ahead on the calendar: free admission for Veterans Day, Wednesday, November 11, 2026, held jointly with The History Museum; a November 18, 2026 presentation on Hodak Motor Sales, a local Studebaker dealership, with a Guitars & Cars concert; and the announced Happy Holidays from Studebaker! (December 11, 2026 – January 18, 2027).
The marker: The state's own commemoration joined the museum's in 2025: the Indiana Historical Bureau erected its Studebaker Corporation marker (71.2024.1) that year at 700 South Lafayette Boulevard, by the corporation's historic plant ground, with the museum among its sponsors.
The Administration Building, at pointer size: The cross-reference the museum's record owes to the Heritage record stands as a pointer only: Studebaker's Administration Building stands stabilized, not converted, as of November 2026 — the July 2024 stabilization agreement executed, the conversion unexecuted. Its full record — the $825,000 city abatement commitment against $3.3 million of private stabilization, the January 2025 vacant-building abatement, the roughly $920,000 of initial stabilization work — stands in the Heritage section and is not retold here.
Sources:
- Studebaker National Museum (studebakermuseum.org), exhibition pages and hours, read November 10, 2026 — the three special exhibitions and their closing dates; the American Treasures tour dates; the announced holiday exhibition.
- Studebaker National Museum, press release, November 9, 2026 — Veterans Day free admission, November 11, 2026, jointly with The History Museum; the three special exhibits on view named together.
- South Bend Tribune, August 2026 — the Wheels of Time program's launch; the 2026 season's Five Driven Women and the eighth Concours d'Elegance at Copshaholm as held.
- Indiana Historical Bureau marker record 71.2024.1 (via the Historical Marker Database) — the Studebaker Corporation marker, erected 2025, 700 South Lafayette Boulevard.
- The banked Heritage entry on the Administration Building — the stabilization record cross-referenced here at pointer size.