Hibbing Greyhound Bus Museum
— where a bus line started with one Hupmobile.
Not only on a wall.
Hibbing Greyhound Bus Museum, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“Hibbing, Minnesota, in the Mesabi Iron Range. In 1914 a Swedish immigrant miner named Carl Eric Wickman bought a seven-passenger Hupmobile and ran iron miners the four miles to Alice for fifteen cents a trip. That line became Greyhound. The museum on Greyhound Boulevard holds a dozen restored coaches across the company's century, from the 1914 starter car to a 1947 Silversides and an Eisenhower-era Scenicruiser.
The place, in three passes.
The Greyhound Bus Museum sits on Greyhound Boulevard in Hibbing, a mining town of about 16,000 in the Mesabi Iron Range of northeastern Minnesota, roughly 75 miles northwest of Duluth. The town is also the birthplace of Bob Dylan and the home of the Hull-Rust-Mahoning Mine, the largest open-pit iron ore mine in the world. The museum, opened in 1989 and operated by a local nonprofit, occupies a purpose-built coach-house style building with both indoor and outdoor display yards holding restored buses from across the twentieth century.
Greyhound Lines began in 1914 when Carl Eric Wickman, a Swedish-born iron miner laid off in the slump, used his last savings to buy a seven-passenger 1914 Hupmobile. He ran it between Hibbing and the mining settlement of Alice, four miles south, charging fifteen cents one way and a quarter round-trip. The line incorporated as the Mesaba Transportation Company, merged its way across the Midwest through the 1920s, and adopted the Greyhound name in 1929 after a hotelkeeper said the long grey buses looked like running dogs.
The museum is open seasonally, typically from May 15 through September 30, Monday through Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Admission in the recent season has run about ten dollars for adults, with reduced rates for veterans, seniors, and children. The collection includes the 1936 Supercoach, the 1947 Silversides, the 1954 Scenicruiser with its split-level dome, and a dozen others arranged across an indoor hall and an outdoor yard. The gift shop carries the route maps and the early advertising posters. The Hull-Rust-Mahoning Mine overlook is a five-minute drive north.
