provincial government announced it would provide over million to the museum over the next three years; with approximately million being used to expand the museum by , as well as creating an aviation storage facility. In August 2019, the federal government also committed funds towards the expansion project. However, in March 2020, Alberta Culture, Multiculturalism, and Status of Women announced that construction would not proceed as planned, with the expansion plans placed on hold. Site The museum is located on an property in Wetaskiwin, Alberta. The property is adjacent to Wetaskiwin Regional Airport, and is situated near the eastern portion of Alberta Highway 13 before it branches north. Three major buildings are situated on the property; the main museum building, the aviation display hangar, and the collections storage facility. RPK Architects served as the architect for the museum buildings. The main museum building is and houses the museum's exhibition gallery. The gallery has a number of artifacts from the museum's collection on display, in addition to several interactive displays on mechanization and how it changed life in Alberta from the 1890s to the present. Historically themed interactive exhibits include a 1911 automobile assembly line, a 1920s grain elevator, a 1930s service station, and a 1950s drive-in theatre. Other facilities in the main museum building include a theatre, offices, a café, event venues, and a gift shop. The main museum building also houses a conservation and restoration workshop to restore its vehicles; and a library/resource centre, whose collection pertains to transportation and agricultural machinery. The museum's library contains over 1,800 publications and 18,000 trade literature items. The display hangar is a hangar connected to Wetaskiwin Regional Airport, and is used to exhibit airplanes from the museum's collection. Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame, which moved to the display hangar in 1992 when the museum opened, moved to The Hangar Flight Museum in Calgary in 2022. The storage facility houses artifacts from the museum's collection which are not on exhibit in its main building nor at its aviation display hangar. As opposed to the other museum buildings, access to the storage facility remains limited to the public. However, the museum does provide private tours of the facility. Collections The museum's collection originated from the private collections of Stan Reynolds, who donated a number of items to the government of Alberta in 1981, and later the museum after it was opened in 1992. Reynolds