Car museums & collections in Australia

Volunteer-run, not-for-profit museum near Wollongong tracing the history of the motor vehicle from the 1880s to today, using cars, motorcycles and interactive displays.

Brisbane's only rotating motor museum, located near the airport in Banyo. Displays a continually changing selection of classic, muscle and exotic cars drawn from private collections.

Motor museum in Bunbury's city centre featuring more than 100 classic cars, motorcycles and motoring memorabilia focused on classic Australian vehicles.

Long-running private motor museum near Hamilton, Victoria, founded more than three decades ago, housing vintage cars, buses and an array of motoring memorabilia.

Museum on the Mornington Peninsula housing a unique collection of more than 80 motor vehicles alongside motorcycles, petrol bowsers, model cars and memorabilia spanning over 100 years.

Private collection assembled by transport entrepreneur Lindsay Fox, displayed in the heritage-listed Queen's Warehouse in Melbourne's Docklands. Features dozens of rare and prestigious cars spanning motor racing, luxury marques and Australian motoring history.

Museum in Hamlyn Heights paying tribute to Geelong's motor vehicle manufacturing and industrial heritage, evolved from the former Ford Discovery Centre collection.

Regional vehicle museum in Maffra offering a rotating display of more than 160 cars, motorbikes, machinery, historic vehicles and motoring memorabilia.

Small motor museum in the historic river port of Goolwa displaying around 45 classic cars from the 1920s to 1970s, including a number of unique one-off vehicles.

Former large-scale private museum on the NSW Central Coast displaying a rotating selection from owner Tony Denny's collection of more than 450 cars and motorcycles, which opened in 2016.

Perth's dedicated car museum, located within Whiteman Park, opened to the public in December 1994. Displays vintage, veteran, classic and modern cars, motorcycles and racing vehicles with guided tours available.

Vehicle museum south of Shepparton housing more than 100 classic, vintage and veteran cars, muscle cars, trucks, motorbikes and pedal cars, alongside motoring collectibles.

Collections and visible-storage facility of the Powerhouse Museum (part of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences), displaying historic cars, trams, steam engines and aircraft from the state collection at Castle Hill in Sydney's north-west.

Launceston museum showcasing the development of the international automotive industry through cars and motorcycles, with four themed displays refreshed each year plus a motorcycle mezzanine.

Long-running single-marque museum dedicated to Holden, which opened in Bayswater, Victoria in 1984 and relocated to Echuca in 1993, displaying around 50 vehicles (mostly on loan) at the time of closure.

Museum in Edinburgh, north of Adelaide, established in 1993 and operated by the Military Vehicle Preservation Society of South Australia, displaying privately owned military vehicles maintained in running condition.

Australia's oldest and largest automotive museum, operated by the History Trust of South Australia in the historic township of Birdwood since 1965. The collection spans more than 300 cars, motorcycles and commercial vehicles from 1899 to the present.

Museum at the base of Mount Panorama dedicated to the history, personalities and achievements of Australian motor racing, with a particular focus on Bathurst.

The Southern Hemisphere's largest private motorcycle collection open to the public, housing more than 800 motorcycles and related memorabilia from 1900 to the present, on the NSW Mid North Coast.

Transport museum in Alice Springs owned and operated by the Road Transport Historical Society, dedicated to the history of Australia's road transport industry, with the adjoining Old Ghan Heritage Railway and Museum.

Rotational classic car display and showroom in Canberra, initially built around unrestored 'survivor' cars, including Holdens, Rolls-Royces and Bentleys, and home to the Sir Henry Royce Foundation's Canberra showroom.

Museum in a former powerhouse building in Portland on Victoria's Great Ocean Road, featuring veteran, vintage and classic cars, motorcycles, stationary engines, a 1920s cable tram and grip car, and general motoring memorabilia.

Museum and research centre dedicated to Queensland's motor racing history, previously operating from a facility in Sumner on Brisbane's western outskirts.

Vehicle museum housed within the Lockyer Valley Cultural Centre in Gatton, west of Brisbane, featuring a rotating display of cars, motorcycles, commercial and military transport vehicles.

Vintage motoring museum in the Dandenong Ranges town of Gembrook, with the centrepiece being the world's only 1925 Studebaker limousine with a polished brass body.

Museum in a former dairy factory in Gippsland dedicated to telling the complete story of the Holden brand, from the 48-215 through to the HZ series and beyond.

Long-running motor museum on the main street of the historic town of York, Western Australia's oldest inland town. Since 2017 it has been run as a community venture by the non-profit Avon Valley Motor Museum Association.