National Automobile Museum named in the 'Top Ten Museums' by "Car Collector" magazine, one of "America's Five Greatest Automobile Museums" and one of the top sixteen auto museums in the world by "AutoWeek", and has been repeatedly selected as the best museum in Northern Nevada by "Nevada Magazine"'s annual reader's poll. National Automobile Museum The National Automobile Museum, located just south of the Truckee River in Reno, Nevada, displays historic automobiles from the late 19th century and from throughout the 20th. Most of the vehicles displayed are from the collection of the late casino owner William F. Harrah, and so the museum is
William F. Harrah Gentry in 1969. With ex-wife Scherry (whom he married twice), he adopted two boys named John and Tony. His widow, Verna, worked as a film producer on such features as "Anaconda". The highest Total Rewards Card Tier, "Seven Stars", was named after his seven wives. Harrah died in Rochester, Minnesota, at the age of 66, during a cardiac surgery operation to repair an aortic aneurysm. William F. Harrah William Fisk Harrah (September 2, 1911 – June 30, 1978) was an American businessman and the founder of Harrah's Hotel and Casinos, now part of Caesars Entertainment Corporation. Harrah was born in