List of automobile museums
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An Automobile museum is a museum
Museum
A museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities...

 that explores the history of all aspects of automotive related transportation.

New Zealand

  • Museum of Transport and Technology
    Museum of Transport and Technology
    The Museum of Transport and Technology is a museum located in Western Springs, Auckland, New Zealand. It is located close to the Western Springs Stadium, Auckland Zoo and the Western Springs Park. The museum has large collections of civilian and military aircraft and other land transport vehicles...

  • Southward Car Museum
    Southward Car Museum
    The Southward Car Museum is an automobile museum housing a collection of over 250 vehicles, as well as three aircraft, located on Otaihanga Road, Otaihanga, just north of Paraparaumu on the Kapiti Coast of New Zealand's North Island...

  • World of Wearable Art
    World of Wearable Art
    The World of Wearable Art is a museum devoted to wearable art and classic cars located in Nelson, New Zealand, opened in October 2001. It is a tourist attraction...


Canada

  • Canadian Automotive Museum
    Canadian Automotive Museum
    The Canadian Automotive Museum is an automobile museum located in Oshawa, Ontario. The museum features many Canadian-made cars as the automobile industry, specifically the Canadian division of the General Motors, known as General Motors Canada, has always been at the forefront of Oshawa's...

  • Manitoba Antique Automobile Museum
    Manitoba Antique Automobile Museum
    The Manitoba Antique Automobile Museum, located on Trans Canada Highway 1 in Elkhorn, Manitoba, has a collection of over 100 rare automobiles dating back to 1908.-Collection:...

  • Reynolds-Alberta Museum
    Reynolds-Alberta Museum
    The Reynolds-Alberta Museum, in Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada, one of 18 provincially owned and operated historic sites and museums, honours the "spirit of the machine"...


United States

  • America's Car Museum
    America's Car Museum
    The LeMay - America's Car Museum is a museum currently in the city of Tacoma, Washington. A new museum facility is currently under construction adjacent to the Tacoma Dome...

  • America On Wheels
    America On Wheels
    America On Wheels is an over-the-road transportation museum located in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania in the United States.The museum offers over of exhibit space divided into three main galleries and several smaller exhibits...

  • Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum
  • Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum
    Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum
    The Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum, is a museum in the University Circle neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio. Part of the Western Reserve Historical Society, it was founded by industrialist, Frederick C. Crawford, of TRW and opened in 1965...

  • Gilmore Car Museum
    Gilmore Car Museum
    The Gilmore Car Museum, located in Hickory Corners in the U.S. state of Michigan, houses a collection of classic automobiles. The collection ranges from the 1899 Locomobile, to muscle cars of the 1960s, as well as alternative fuel cars like the Stanley Steamer, and the Western Michigan University...

  • Historic Auto Attractions
    Historic auto attractions
    Historic Auto Attractions is an automobile, history and pop culture museum in Roscoe, Illinois, most known for its large collection of artifacts associated with the John F. Kennedy assassination...

  • Lane Motor Museum
    Lane Motor Museum
    Lane Motor Museum is located in Nashville, Tennessee and features a unique collection of mostly European automobiles.-History:The Lane Motor museum was established in 2003 by Jeff and Susan Lane and began with Jeff Lane's personal collection of 70 vehicles. The collection is housed in the former...

  • National Automobile Museum
    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...

  • Petersen Automotive Museum
    Petersen Automotive Museum
    The Petersen Automotive Museum is located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile neighborhood of Los Angeles. One of the world's largest automotive museums, the Petersen Automotive Museum is a non profit organization specializing in the education and history of the...

  • National Corvette Museum
    National Corvette Museum
    The National Corvette Museum showcases the Chevrolet Corvette, an American sports car that has been in production since 1953. It is located in Bowling Green, Kentucky, off Interstate 65's Exit 28...

  • Small Wonders Microcar Museum

Austria


France

  • Cité de l'Automobile
  • Manoir de l'Automobile
  • Musée Automobile de Reims-Champagne
  • Musée Automobile de Vendée
  • Musée de l'Aventure Peugeot
    Musée de l'Aventure Peugeot
    The Musée de l'Aventure Peugeot is a historical museum devoted to the Peugeot automobile business. The museum was founded by members of the Peugeot family, opening in 1988 across the road from the company’s huge industrial site at Sochaux in the Franche-Comté...

  • Musée de l'Automobile (Valencay)
  • Musée de la Voiture (Château de Compiègne
    Château de Compiègne
    The Castle of Compiègne is a French château, a royal residence built for Louis XV and restored by Napoleon. Compiègne was one of three seats of royal government, the others being Versailles and Fontainebleau...

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Germany

  • August Horch Museum
  • Autostadt
    Autostadt
    The Autostadt is a visitor attraction adjacent to the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, Germany, with a prime focus on automobiles. It features a museum, feature pavilions for the principal automobile brands in the Volkswagen Group, a customer centre where customers can pick up new cars, and take a...

  • BMW Museum
    BMW Museum
    The BMW Museum is located near the Olympiapark in Munich and was established in 1972 shortly before the Summer Olympics opened. It deals with the history of the automobile manufacturer BMW. In connection with the construction of the BMW Welt, directly opposite the museum, it was renovated from 2004...

  • Mercedes-Benz Museum
    Mercedes-Benz Museum
    The Mercedes-Benz Museum is an automotive museum housed in Stuttgart, Germany. Stuttgart is home to the Mercedes-Benz brand and the international headquarters of Daimler AG. The current building, which stands directly outside the main gate of the Daimler factory in Stuttgart-Untertürkheim, was...

  • Museum Autovision
    Museum Autovision
    Museum Autovision is a museum for cars, motorcycles, bicycles and alternative propulsion in Altlußheim, a small town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany....

  • Porsche Museum, Stuttgart
    Porsche Museum, Stuttgart
    The Porsche Museum is an automotive museum in the Zuffenhausen district of Stuttgart, Germany on the site of carmaker Porsche.- The new museum :The new Porsche museum stands on a conspicuous junction just outside Porsche Headquarters in Zuffenhausen...

  • Sinsheim Auto & Technik Museum
    Sinsheim Auto & Technik Museum
    The Auto & Technik Museum Sinsheim is a technology museum in Sinsheim, Germany. Opened in 1981, it is run by a registered association called "Auto & Technik Museum Sinsheim e.V." which also runs the Technik Museum Speyer. , it has more than 3,000 exhibits and an exhibition area of more than 50,000 m²...

  • Technikmuseum Speyer

Italy

  • Galleria Ferrari
    Galleria Ferrari
    Galleria Ferrari is a Ferrari company museum dedicated to the Ferrari sports car marque. The museum is not purely for cars;also on view are prizes, photographs and other historical objects relating to the Italian motor racing industry...

  • Museo Nazionale dell'Automobile
    Museo Nazionale dell'Automobile
    The Museo Nazionale dell'Automobile , named after Carlo Biscaretti di Ruffia, is an automobile museum in Turin, northern Italy. The collection has around eighty automobile brands representing eight countries...

  • Museo Storico Alfa Romeo
    Alfa Romeo Museum
    Alfa Romeo History Museum , which opened on December 18, 1976, is located in Arese, Milan, Italy. The museum is located in the now unused Alfa Romeo Arese factory area, which stopped manufacturing of cars in 2003 and engines in 2005, with the museum, left is only Alfa Romeo style centre.The whole...


Poland


Sweden

  • Göran Karlsson's Motor Museum
    Göran Karlsson's Motor Museum
    Göran Karlsson started Gekås in Ullared, Sweden in 1963 which today is the largest big-box store in Scandinavia. Göran Karlsson was a dedicated collector of classic cars and motorcycles and in 2007 Göran Karlsson's Motor Museum opened its doors to the public...

  • Marcus Wallenberg-hallen
    Marcus Wallenberg-hallen
    The Marcus Wallenberg-hallen is a vehicle museum in Södertälje, in the Swedish province of Sörmland.-Background:...

  • Motala Motor Museum
    Motala Motor Museum
    Motala Motor Museum is a museum in Motala harbour, Sweden. The museum opened in 1995 and could be described as a "nostalgic museum". Over 200 vehicles; cars, mopeds, bicycles and 300 radios and TVs are displayed.-External links:...

  • Volvo Museum
    Volvo Museum
    The Volvo Museum is in Gothenburg, Sweden. It covers the development of Sweden's leading vehicle manufacturer Volvo, from the first ÖV 4 to the current cars, trucks, buses and other products. The museum also contains many other exhibits, including Gabrielsson’s and Larson’s joint desk from the...


United Kingdom

  • Bentley Wildfowl and Motor Museum
    Bentley Wildfowl and Motor Museum
    The Bentley Wildfowl and Motor Museum is a visitor attraction at Halland, East Sussex, England. The site has a wildfowl collection a motor museum and the house and formal garden are all open to the public.-History:...

  • British Commercial Vehicle Museum
    British Commercial Vehicle Museum
    The British Commercial Vehicle Museum displays antiquarian buses, early Fire engines and other historical and commercial vehicles produced by the British manufacturing industry....

  • Brooklands Museum
    Brooklands Museum
    Brooklands Museum is an independent charitable trust, established in 1987, whose aim is to conserve, protect and interpret the unique heritage of the Brooklands site. It is located south of Weybridge, Surrey and was first opened regularly in 1991 on of the original 1907 motor-racing circuit...

  • Bubble Car Museum
  • Cars of the Stars Motor Museum
    Cars of the Stars Motor Museum
    The Cars of the Stars Motor Museum was in the English town of Keswick, Cumbria, and owned a collection of celebrity television and film vehicles...

  • Cotswold Motoring Museum
    Cotswold Motoring Museum
    The Cotswold Motoring Museum is a museum located in the Cotswolds village of Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England, which features motoring history of the 20th century.- Collection :...

  • Coventry Transport Museum
    Coventry Transport Museum
    The Coventry Transport Museum is a motor museum, located in Coventry City Centre, England. It houses a collection of British-made road transport. It is located in Coventry because the city was previously the centre of the British car industry...

  • Donington Grand Prix Exhibition
  • Haynes International Motor Museum
    Haynes International Motor Museum
    Haynes International Motor Museum at Sparkford near Yeovil in Somerset, England, contains over 400 cars and motorcycles and a collection of other automobilia....

  • Heritage Motor Centre
    Heritage Motor Centre
    The Heritage Motor Centre is a British motor museum and research centre, located adjacent to the Jaguar Land Rover Gaydon Centre near Gaydon in Warwickshire, England. The centre is open to the public, and houses a collection of important vehicles, celebrating Britain's motoring heritage...

  • Ipswich Transport Museum
    Ipswich Transport Museum
    The Ipswich Transport Museum is a museum in Ipswich, Suffolk, England devoted principally to the history of road vehicles as represented by those used or built in its local area....

  • Lakeland Motor Museum
    Lakeland Motor Museum
    The Lakeland Motor Museum is a museum now located at Backbarrow, Cumbria, England which houses a collection of classic cars, motorcycles, bicycles, pedal cars and motoring related items and memorabilia and an exhibition dedicated to the land and water speed record activities of Sir Malcolm Campbell...

  • Mercedes-Benz World
    Mercedes-Benz World
    Mercedes-Benz World is a facility at the Brooklands motor racing circuit in Weybridge, Surrey, UK. It opened on 29 October 2006.Mercedes-Benz World has five courses for learning advanced skills and trying out an AMG....

  • Myreton Motor Museum
    Myreton Motor Museum
    The Myreton Motor Museum is a museum located near the village of Aberlady, East Lothian, Scotland, which has a motoring history collection which covers most of the twentieth century.- Collection :...

  • National Motor Museum, Beaulieu
  • Oxford Bus Museum
    Oxford Bus Museum
    The Oxford Bus Museum, of buses and other road transport associated with Oxfordshire, England, is in Long Hanborough, near Oxford.The museum collection was established by the Oxford Bus Preservation Syndicate, who acquired a 1949 semi-coach in 1967...

  • Pembrokeshire Motor Museum
    Pembrokeshire Motor Museum
    The Pembrokeshire Motor Museum exhibits a range of restored vintage cars. It is located at Simpson Cross, in Pembrokeshire, West Wales on the A487 road, about from Haverfordwest.-External links:*...

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