List of automotive museums

An automotive museum is a museum that explores the history of automotive-related transportation.

  • Bold – Automotive museums owned by automotive manufacturers
  • Italics – no longer open to public access, excludes private or invitation only collections that was never intended for public access

Asia

Eastern Asia

China

Grand Prix Museum, Macau, China

Japan

Toyota Automobile Museum, Nagakute, Japan

South Korea

Southeastern Asia

Indonesia

Southern Asia

India

  • Sudha Cars Museum
  • Dastan Auto World Vintage Car Museum, Ahmedabad, India
  • Heritage Motor Museum, Gurgaon, India
  • GeeDee Car Museum, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu

Western Asia

Emirates National Auto Museum, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Cyprus

  • Cyprus Historic & Classic Motor Museum[6]

Georgia

  • Tbilisi Auto Museum[7]

Iran

Israel

  • Tefen Car Collection, Tefen[8]
  • Ralex Automobile museum, Ashdod

Kuwait

Turkey

United Arab Emirates

Europe

Eastern Europe

Bulgaria

  • Retro-Museum, Varna shopping centre

Czech Republic

Škoda Auto Museum, Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic

Poland

  • Muzeum Inżynierii Miejskiej w Krakowie

Romania

Russia

Ukraine

Northern Europe

Denmark

Sommer's Automobile Museum, Nærum, Denmark

Estonia

Finland

  • Mobilia,[14] Kangasala
  • The Car Museum of Vehoniemi (Vehoniemen automuseo)
  • Uudenkaupungin Automuseo
  • Oulun Automuseo
  • Espoon Automuseo

Latvia

Sweden

Volvo Museum, Gothenburg, Sweden

Southern Europe

Croatia

Greece

  • Hellenic Motor Museum[15]

Italy

Museo Ferrari, Maranello, Italy

Western Europe

Andorra

Austria

Belgium

AutoWorld, Brussels, Belgium
  • AutoWorld

France[20]

Musée national de l’automobile (Cité de l'Automobile), Mulhouse, France

Germany

Autostadt, Wolfsburg, Germany
Mercedes-Benz Museum, Stuttgart, Germany
Porsche Museum, Stuttgart, Germany

Malta

Monaco

Netherlands

Louwman Museum, The Hague, Netherlands

Portugal

Museu do Caramulo, Caramulo[22]

San Marino

Serbia

Spain

  • Museo Automovilístico de Málaga
  • Museo de Historia de la Automoción de Salamanca
  • Museo de Coches Clásicos y Antiguos Torre Loizaga (Galdames)

Switzerland

United Kingdom

England
British Motor Museum, Gaydon, United Kingdom
Donington Grand Prix Collection, Castle Donington, United Kingdom
National Motor Museum, Beaulieu, United Kingdom
Scotland
Wales

North America

Visit the Automotive Museum Guide which features an interactive map of all automotive museums in North America: Map of America's Automotive Museums

Canada

Cayman Islands

United States

America On Wheels, Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States
Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame Museum, Speedway, Indiana, United States

Eastern United States

  • AACA Museum, Hershey, Pennsylvania. 90 cars on display.[26] Named as one of the 12 car museums worth a detour by MSNBC.[27]
  • America On Wheels, Allentown, Pennsylvania. 75 cars, trucks & motorcycles.[28]
  • BMW CCA Foundation Museum, Greer, South Carolina Features vintage BMW cars, motorcycles, and memorabilia. Affiliated with the BMW Car Club of America
  • BMW Zentrum, Greer, South Carolina The visitor center and museum for the BMW US Manufacturing facility, displaying classic and currently produced vehicles
  • Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum, Madison, Georgia. This museum has closed and the cars sold.[29]
  • Buffalo Transportation Pierce-Arrow Museum, Buffalo New York. Features a Frank Lloyd Wright gas station.[30]
  • Champlain Valley Transportation Museum, Plattsburgh, New York. 25 cars plus model trains.[31]
  • Cole Land Transportation Museum, Bangor, Maine. Anything with wheels. Open in summer only.[32]
  • Fort Lauderdale Antique Car Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Features the largest collection of Packard Cars and historical memorabilia from 1900 onwards.[33]
  • Frick Car & Carriage Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[34]
  • Larz Anderson Auto Museum, Brookline, Massachusetts. Eclectic collection of cars, motorcycles and artifacts.[35]
  • Memory Lane Motorsports & Historic Auto Museum, Mooresville, North Carolina. Specializes in motor sports.[36]
  • Miami Auto Museum at the Dezer Collection, North Miami, Florida. 200 cars and other vehicles.[37]
  • Miles Through Time Automotive Museum, Toccoa, Georgia. co-op style with over 100 years of automotive history on display[38]
  • Muscle Car City, Punta Gorda, Florida. 200 GM muscle cars.[39] Named as one of the 12 car museums worth a detour by MSNBC.[27]
  • Newport Car Museum, Newport, Rhode Island. 75+ cars in six galleries for Ford/Shelby, Corvette, World Car, Fin Cars, Mopars, American Muscle. Eight driving simulators, Mid-Century Modern Furniture, award-winning videos. Named USA Today's Top 10 Best New Attraction, Yankee Magazine's Best Specialty Museum[40]
  • Northeast Classic Car Museum, Norwich, New York. 160 cars.[41]
  • Old Spokes Auto Museum, New Smithville, Pennsylvania. Small collection of mostly Hudsons.[42]
  • Owls Head Transportation Museum, Owls Head, Maine. 50 cars from 1885 to 1940, plus airplanes, motorcycles and other forms of transportation.[43] Named as one of the 12 car museums worth a detour by MSNBC.[27]
  • Revs Institute, Naples, Florida. Collection of over 100 significant automobiles with library and archives.[44]
  • Saratoga Automobile Museum, Saratoga Springs, New York. Cars and artifacts.[45]
  • Seal Cove Auto Museum, Seal Cove, Maine. 50 cars and motorcycles from 1895 to 1917.[46]
  • Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 65 racing sports cars.[47] Named one of America's best car museums by Autoweek[48] and Jalopnik.[49]
  • Tallahassee Automotive Museum, Tallahassee, Florida. 130 cars plus a wide variety of other collectibles.[50]
  • Tampa Bay Automobile Museum, Pinellas Park, Florida. 58 cars.[51]
  • The William E. Swigart, Jr. Antique Automobile Museum, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. 35 cars on display.[52]

Central United States

Western United States

  • World of Speed, Wilsonville, Oregon. Motor sports related, with up to 100 cars in 50,000 feet of public displays. Permanently closed due to regulations surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.[122] Rather than a large permanent collection, the museum relies on loans from collectors.[123]

Oceania

Australia

Current museums

Former museums

New Zealand

South America

Argentina

Brazil

  • Museu do Automóvel do Ceará
  • Museu do Automóvel de Curitiba

Chile

  • Auto Museum Moncopulli, Casilla 204, Osorno, Región de los Lagos. 70 Studebakers and 70 other vintage cars.

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