Car museums & collections in Germany

Museum in the Wehrshausen district of Marburg, Hesse, run by the Polizei-Motorsport-Club Marburg 1990 e.V., displaying over 100 vehicles spanning several decades of German police history including patrol cars, motorcycles, armored special vehicles and water cannons.

A private automobile and motorcycle museum in Adlkofen, Bavaria, founded in 1980 by racing driver Walter Proebst and now run by his daughter Verena Proebst. It displays approximately 70 classic cars, around 120 motorcycles, and roughly 250 engines and technical cutaway models from Germany and abroad.

A combined vehicle museum in Gebhardsweiler (Uhldingen-Mühlhofen) on Lake Constance, pairing a large rural-life/tractor exhibit with an urban-life section of classic automobiles and motorcycles. In 2017 it absorbed the former Fritz B. Busch classic car collection from Wolfegg.

Also known as the Krauser-Gedächtnis-Zweiradmuseum, a museum in a heritage-protected former tobacco shed in Pleidelsheim, Baden-Württemberg, predominantly a motorcycle collection honoring BMW/Krauser racing history, opened 1993 by collector Manfred Wirth, also including a small number of automobiles.

A private museum in Endersbach, a district of Weinstadt, Baden-Württemberg, opened 17 April 1976 by Peter Oelschläger, displaying automobiles, motorcycles, military vehicles and aircraft engines.

A private classic vehicle and toy museum in the Norddeich district of Norden, Lower Saxony, opened in November 2002 by Michael Klein. On roughly 2,000 m² it displays about 55 cars, 40 motorcycles, 20 mopeds, two trucks, racing cars, and a large historic toy collection.

A short-lived private museum founded by Joachim Pett, opened at Pentecost 1977 in a rented 750 m² hall in Bremen, displaying 27 automobiles with an emphasis on vehicles from Bremen's Borgward group.

A private oldtimer museum in the Wellinghofen district of Dortmund, opened 1 May 1999, exhibiting roughly 50 classic automobiles (emphasis on Jaguar and Mercedes-Benz) alongside about 15 motorcycles and tractors.

A private museum in Pilsting, Bavaria, founded by Dr. Konrad Auwärter to preserve the history of the family's Gottlob Auwärter/Neoplan bus-manufacturing business. On about 3,000 m² it displays roughly 20 historic Neoplan and other buses alongside about 25 automobiles, plus some motorcycles and tractors.

A small private vintage car and motorcycle collection in Gundelfingen an der Donau, Bavaria, founded in 1972 by collector Jürgen Viktor Mayr. It displays around 20 cars and 10 motorcycles dated 1907 to 1955, sourced largely from France, Spain, Portugal and Italy.

A temporary exhibition of historic East German automobiles, held under the name 'KraftfahrZeugen Ostmobil' in the Neustädter Markthalle in Dresden from 2003 to 2005, focused on vehicles produced by the East German IFA combine.

A private automobile museum founded in 1973 by motoring journalist Fritz B. Busch (1922-2010) in an outbuilding of Schloss Waldburg-Wolfegg in Wolfegg, Baden-Württemberg, growing to more than 200 vehicles including cars, scooters, motorcycles, tractors and caravans.

A manufacturer-owned vehicle collection housed at the former Karmann headquarters in Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, documenting the history of coachbuilder Wilhelm Karmann and its collaboration with Volkswagen. It comprises over 100 vehicles, prototypes, design studies and cutaway models, including the Karmann Ghia, Beetle Cabriolet, Scirocco, Corrado and the VW XL1.

Vehicle museum in the Querum district of Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, founded in 2009 by Jürgen Kolle. Exhibits about 80 cars, 10 motorcycles, 10 mopeds, 15 bicycles and 15 engines, with a particular focus on Volkswagen models.

Private automobile museum in the Hörstmar district of Lemgo, Lippe district, North Rhine-Westphalia. Founded in 1993 by orthopedic surgeon Klaus Otto Räker; now run by Gerrit Emmerich following Räker's death in 2019.

Automuseum Melle ("Geschichte auf Rädern"), operated as a nonprofit (gGmbH), is located in Melle, Landkreis Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, in a protected former furniture-factory building with nearly 3,000 m² across three floors. It displays roughly 250-350 operational vehicles spanning from the earliest automobiles to more recent historically significant cars.

Automuseum Nossen, also known as Automuseum Hertrampf, is a private automobile and motorcycle museum operated by the Hertrampf car dealership in Nossen, Saxony, housed in a former Konsum department store building since the 1990s. It displays roughly 30-50 cars alongside about 50 motorcycles, 15 mopeds, bicycles, and engines spanning the 1920s to 1970s.

A short-lived automobile museum housed within Schloss Salem (former Reichsabtei/Salem Abbey) in Salem, Baden-Württemberg, displaying sports and racing cars.

Private collection in Weil im Schönbuch, Baden-Württemberg, displaying around 50 historic automobiles, roughly 70 motorcycles, and about 12 tractors, per the town's official tourism listing.

Automobile museum in two auxiliary buildings of Schloss Wolfegg, Baden-Württemberg, exhibiting around 80 automobiles and 40 motorized two-wheelers focused on everyday vehicles of the 1960s-1980s, plus tractors and the world's largest one-wheel-trailer collection.

Collection in Erndtebrück, North Rhine-Westphalia, now managed by the Rudolf-Bald-Stiftung, comprising one of the world's largest collections of roadworthy historic BMW boxer motorcycles (1923 to the mid-1970s) alongside a small number of military and vintage vehicles.

A small private automobile and motorcycle museum documented as operating in Wolfratshausen, Bavaria.

The first automobile museum in Rhineland-Palatinate, located in Neuwied and founded 10 November 1975 by collector Heinz Schramm, exhibiting roughly 60 vehicles of the former Borgward group brands (Borgward, Lloyd, Goliath, Hansa and Hansa-Lloyd).

A private car-and-toy museum combined with a restaurant in Tübingen, showing the collection of Rainer and Ute Klink. Founded in 1985, it has grown to about 1,200 m² and displays roughly 70 vehicles, including rare sports cars and motorcycles spanning six decades, alongside a large toy collection.

A privately operated museum in Hachenburg dedicated to vintage Cadillac automobiles, focused on vehicles from the 1950s through 1970s.

Automobile museum in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Hesse, opened in 2007 on the former premises of the Opel dealership Jäger. Presents over 100 years of automotive history across roughly 670-760 m² of exhibition space, with special exhibitions rotating every 6-12 months, plus a recreated 1940s/50s auto workshop and filling station.

Private single-marque collection of roughly 130 historic Citroën vehicles dating from 1934 onward, housed in 16 former Bundeswehr munitions-bunker buildings near Sandelzhausen (a district of Mainburg), Bavaria.

Classic and vintage car showroom and service center in Berlin, launched in 2003 under the 'Meilenwerk' brand and renamed Classic Remise in 2011, offering free daily public viewing of cars in glass storage boxes alongside dealer, restoration and event spaces.

Classic and vintage car showroom and service center in Düsseldorf, launched in 2006 under the 'Meilenwerk' brand and renamed Classic Remise in 2011, with around 80 glass storage boxes displaying classic cars, open to the public free of charge.

A classic car museum combined with an event hall in Leipzig-Plagwitz, housed in a former iron-foundry building (1894) once part of the Rudolph Sack works. Opened in 2000 by collector Manfred Rübesam and operated since 2002 by the event company Michaelis.

Private museum founded by collector Harald Driemel in Horrheim (a district of Vaihingen an der Enz), Baden-Württemberg, combining roughly 60 vintage vehicles - cars, trucks/buses, scooters, mopeds, bicycles and caravans - with everyday 1950s/60s household items.

Private collection of around 160 classic cars and over 240 motorcycles owned by the Dauphin family, displayed chronologically by brand in a converted 1960s factory hall in Hersbruck, Bavaria, as the centerpiece of the Dauphin Speed Event venue.

Museum of Opel vehicles housed at the former NS-Ordensburg Vogelsang site near Schleiden, Euskirchen district, North Rhine-Westphalia. Founded by brothers Martin and Josef Degener after acquiring the on-site Malakoff complex in 2019; the collection comprises roughly 250 vehicles, mostly Opel models from the 1940s-50s.

A private collection of vintage and rare Land Rover vehicles associated with the Land Rover restoration specialist Landypoint GmbH in Neidingen, a district of Beuron, Baden-Württemberg.

A private automobile museum in Fichtelberg (Bavaria) founded in 1992 by the Eckert family, displaying more than 500 exhibits across three exhibition halls plus outdoor space totaling roughly 10,000 square meters. The collection spans automotive history from 1896 to the present and includes cars, motorcycles, aircraft, fire engines, tractors, and prototypes.

A small-car (Kleinwagen) museum founded in 1984 by collector Anton Marth in Neckarmühlbach (Haßmersheim), exhibiting small and microcars.

A privately run Toyota marque museum in the Hartkirchen district of Pocking, Bavaria, founded in 1994 by longtime Toyota dealer Peter Pichert, displaying more than 120 Toyota vehicles including Corolla, Celica, Crown, Cressida and Carina models.

Museum of mobile travel in Bad Waldsee, Baden-Württemberg, opened October 29, 2011, located near the Hymer motorhome manufacturer's facilities. Permanent exhibition of over 80 motorhomes and caravans spanning six decades of camping/caravanning history across roughly 6,000 m², plus 1,000 m² of rotating special exhibitions.

A vehicle and technology museum in the Fürstenau district of Boitzenburger Land (Uckermark district, Brandenburg), founded in 2013 by Gerhard Eberwein and housed in the renovated former grain store of the Fürstenau manor estate. It displays a mixed collection including automobiles, motorcycles, mopeds, bicycles, trucks/buses, tractors and engines, plus everyday GDR-era household items.

A large private transportation museum in Marxzell near Karlsruhe, opened in 1968 in a former sawmill by Bernhard Reichert and still family-run. It spans over 3,600 m² of exhibition space.

Fahrzeugmuseum Suhl, located within the Congress Centrum Suhl (CCS) in Thuringia, documents about 120 years of vehicle manufacturing tradition in Suhl, displaying over 260 exhibits across 1,400 square meters spanning bicycles, mopeds, motorcycles, and automobiles.

A private collection of around 20 West German post-war microcars in Stopfenheim (part of Ellingen, Middle Franconia), assembled by the Bittner family, including Fend Flitzer, Brütsch Mopetta, Goggomobil, BMW Isetta, Fuldamobil, Heinkel Kabine, Champion, Lloyd, and Victoria Spatz.

A small private museum of Italian classic vehicles in a historic 1851 former fire station in Lengfeld (Otzberg, Odenwaldkreis), run by Herbert G. Spross and Anette Lutz-Spross, displaying about 15 cars (predominantly Fiat, including Topolino models) and around 6 Moto Guzzi motorcycles.

A private museum near Reichwalde (Boxberg/O.L., Saxony) dedicated exclusively to historic off-road and utility vehicles, run since 2003 by the association 'Interessengemeinschaft Geländewagenmuseum'.

A private vintage vehicle museum in Gundelsheim, Baden-Württemberg, opened 1991 by Fritz Schmid, operator of the Hotel-Restaurant 'Zum Lamm,' displaying roughly 10 cars, 1 truck, 32 motorcycles, 4 mopeds and 1 engine.

A collection of East German (DDR) vehicles - including Trabant, Wartburg, Barkas, and Simson Schwalbe models - operated by the Trabi-Buggy-Club '93 e.V. since September 2020, housed within the Wasserschloss Quilow in Groß Polzin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

A small in-house museum/showroom at the headquarters of Irmscher Automobilbau GmbH & Co. KG, an Opel tuning company founded in 1968, in Remshalden, Baden-Württemberg, displaying around 20 Irmscher-built or -tuned vehicles.

A private collection of historic West German post-war microcars (up to 600cc) and matching period camping vehicles, assembled by Stefan Voit and housed in a roughly 900 m² former industrial building in St. Ingbert, Saarland.

A small-car museum on Bundesstraße 39 in Willsbach (district of Obersulm), operated by Anton Marth, exhibiting around 20 mostly German microcars.

An automobile and vehicle museum in Cunewalde, Saxony (Oberlausitz), opened in 2000 and operated by the Oberlausitzer Kfz.-Veteranen Club e.V. in a restored three-sided farm barn. It focuses on vehicles that shaped the streetscape of East Germany, displaying about 18 cars, 3 trucks/buses, 30 motorcycles, 10 mopeds, 8 bicycles, and 12 engines.

A small private vintage vehicle museum in Ellrichshausen (part of Satteldorf, Baden-Württemberg), founded in 1987 by Rudolf and Lore Wagner and housed in a former Royal Württemberg State Railways station building from 1870.

A museum in Singen, Baden-Württemberg, pairing classic, vintage, sports and racing automobiles with fine art across two buildings (MAC 1, opened 2013, and MAC 2, opened 2019), founded by Hermann Maier and Gabriela Unbehaun-Maier.

Nuremberg's first automobile museum, opened in April 2011 in a restored former window-factory hall in the Schafhof district, displaying the private collection of the Merk family.

A permanent, free-of-charge exhibition inside the Motorworld Köln-Rheinland complex in Cologne (Ossendorf district), opened on 15 June 2018, displaying Michael Schumacher's personal motorsport memorabilia and race cars.

A private collection of Mitsubishi-related vehicles and products in Rettenberg, Bavaria, assembled by collector Matthias Lang and opened in 2015, housed at a private equestrian facility.

An Oldtimer museum in Calau, Brandenburg, opened October 7, 2006 in the rooms of a former car dealership. It houses roughly 150 vehicles produced between the end of WWII and the fall of the Berlin Wall in East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and the Soviet Union.

A family-run automobile museum in Öhringen founded in 1980 by engineer Paul Heyd, sharing a building with the Museum für modernes Glas. Since Heyd's death in 2016, it has been run by his sons Christian, Markus, and Stefan Heyd.

A motorsport museum at the Hockenheimring in Hockenheim, Baden-Württemberg, opened April 1986, primarily exhibiting the motorsport collection of Walter Brandstetter (largely historic NSU and Norton motorcycles), later supplemented with racing and sports cars, growing to over 200 exhibits.

Classic and vintage car showroom and collection at the former Böblingen airfield, launched in 2009 as 'Meilenwerk Region Stuttgart' and renamed Motorworld Region Stuttgart in January 2014, displaying a daily-changing collection of several hundred vehicles and motorcycles alongside dealer and restoration workshops.

A private Lamborghini collection in Stuttgart-Plieningen belonging to Robert 'Bob' Forstner, an authorized Lamborghini dealer since 1993, displaying around 20 selected Lamborghini models.

An automobile museum in Hameln, Lower Saxony, located in the Hefehof complex; it opened on 1 July 2006 and is run by the Förderverein der Fahrzeuggeschichte Hameln e.V. It documents the history of vehicle manufacturing in Hameln, focusing on the local marques Norddeutsche Automobilwerke (NAW) and Selve, active from 1907 to 1929.

A private automobile museum in Warstein-Belecke, North Rhine-Westphalia, dedicated to postwar microcars and bubble cars, opened in 1976 by collector Felix Berger.

A museum in Chemnitz, Saxony, dedicated to the history of Saxon vehicle manufacturing, housed since 2008 in the historic Stern-Garagen, one of Germany's oldest preserved multi-story parking garages. It displays roughly 150-200 automobiles, motorcycles and bicycles from over 50-70 Saxon manufacturers.

Small private museum in Leisnig, Saxony, run by the Andrä family since 2004 in a former noodle factory, depicting everyday life in the former East Germany with an emphasis on vehicles.

A private automobile and motorcycle museum in Ebersbach an der Fils, Baden-Württemberg, founded in 2012 by Markus Paschke, distinguished by displaying many vehicles in unrestored, weathered ('patina') condition.

A private automobile, motorcycle and vintage tractor museum in Knittlingen, Baden-Württemberg, built from the collection of entrepreneur Walter Pfitzenmeier and operated since 2016 by the association 'Museum Walters Oldtimer Knittlingen e.V.'

A large private automobile museum in Dietzhölztal-Ewersbach, Hesse, opened to the public on 23 July 2023 by the nonprofit Stiftung Nationales Automuseum, showcasing the collection of entrepreneur Friedhelm Loh in a converted historic ironworks building.

A private transport museum near Prora on the island of Rügen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, open since 1994, combining a large collection of East and West German automobiles with historic railway locomotives, trucks and fire-service vehicles.

A volunteer-run vintage vehicle museum in Engen, opened in October 2013 by an association of about 20 enthusiasts, with rotating themed exhibitions of two-, three- and four-wheeled vintage vehicles.

Vintage vehicle and technology museum in Perleberg, Brandenburg, run by Oldtimerfreunde Perleberg e.V. in a listed former gymnasium built in 1896, open since May 1, 2002.

A private classic-vehicle exhibition in Guben, Brandenburg, run by Oldtimerclub Guben e.V. and housed on the upper floor of the Hoffmann-Möbel furniture store. It displays over 80 historic cars, motorcycles, mopeds and engines dating from the early 20th century to the 1990s.

A private motorcycle, automobile and engine collection in Bergholz-Rehbrücke (Nuthetal, Brandenburg), opened in 1977 by collector Herbert Schmidt, who died at the end of 2021.

A private automobile museum in Dornburg (part of Dornburg-Camburg, Thuringia), also known as the 'Wartburgmuseum', housing one of the most extensive private collections of vehicles from the Eisenach automobile works (Wartburg), assembled by collector Marco Brauer.

An automobile museum in the Culitzsch district of Wilkau-Haßlau, Saxony, built on a GDR-era vehicle collection begun by taxi entrepreneur Andreas Schwalbe; opened September 22, 2018 and operated by Historische Technik Culitzsch e.V. Around 50 vehicles are shown, dominated by GDR-era passenger cars, staged within period scenarios.

A motorcycle-and-car museum in Groß Raden, a district of Sternberg in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, opened in spring 1999 by Freunde historischer Fahrzeuge e.V. in a restored grain storage building. The collection is dominated by two-wheeled vehicles with a smaller complement of about 8-10 automobiles from 1924-1970.

An automobile and motorcycle museum operating since 1999 in the former carriage house ('Remise') of Schloss Meßkirch, run by the Verein der Oldtimer-Freunde Meßkirch und Umgebung e.V.

The Oldtimermuseum Nottuln houses the Klopfer Foundation's private collection in Nottuln, North Rhine-Westphalia, focused on English and German sports car classics produced in small numbers. Founded by collectors Monika and Dieter Klopfer starting in 1996, the collection was transferred into a non-profit foundation for technical cultural heritage in 2022.

A vintage vehicle museum in Hechingen occupying a former department store building (~1,800 m²), presenting the history of mobile transport since 1886 through cars, motorcycles, and tractors, with over 100 vehicles on rotating display.

Opel Classic is Opel's manufacturer-owned heritage vehicle collection, housed in a hall (Hall K6) on the secured Opel factory grounds in Rüsselsheim am Main. It preserves several hundred vehicles spanning more than 160 years of company history, from the 1899 Opel Patent-Motorwagen and the 'Laubfrosch' to postwar touring/rally cars, concept studies, and modern production vehicles.

An Opel-operated 'experience park' on the factory grounds in Rüsselsheim, Hesse, opened May 1999, combining a factory tour with interactive exhibits, driving simulators and a showcase of current, concept and historic Opel models.

A private classic-car collection maintained by the Opel dealership Autohaus Konrad Martin GmbH & Co. KG in Stockach, Baden-Württemberg. Displays roughly 20-25+ historic Opel vehicles, most kept running, plus a few vintage motorcycles, illustrating over 80 years of Opel history including rare pre-war convertibles.

A private technology and automobile museum in Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia, founded in 1990 by mechanical engineer Hilmar Born and dedicated to products of Adam Opel AG.

Private automobile and vehicle museum in Benneckenstein (Oberharz am Brocken), Saxony-Anhalt, housed in a former VEB workwear factory; shows predominantly East German vehicles including Trabant, Wartburg, Lada and Škoda models.

A privately run automobile museum in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, founded by tuner/YouTuber Jean Pierre Kraemer (JP Performance) and opened in May 2022 in a repurposed three-floor former car dealership. It presents a rotating exhibition mixing classic cars, modern sports cars, and genuine racing cars, plus racing simulators and a café.

A private vintage vehicle museum in Berlin-Charlottenburg founded by industrialist Hugo Poddig, exhibiting roughly 60 automobiles and 40 motorcycles.

Private Renault museum in Fellbach (near Stuttgart), run by Fritz Schweier, owner of one of Germany's oldest Renault dealerships (Autohaus Schweier, selling Renault since 1951). Since 1999 he has exhibited his collection in a converted glass hall called Primastella.

Private automobile and transport-history museum in Sinsheim, run by Klaus Philipp of Autohaus Philipp, covering roughly 100 years of vehicle history (c. 1908-1990s) across about 2,000 m².

A satellite exhibition within Fritz B. Busch's museum enterprise, opened around 1977 in Friedrichshafen-Ailingen, Baden-Württemberg, as a seasonal summer display of racing and sports cars complementing the main Wolfegg collection.

ring°werk (Ringwerk) is a roughly 15,000 m² motorsport experience museum at the Nürburgring in Nürburg, Rheinland-Pfalz, operated as part of the Nürburgring leisure complex since 2009, featuring historic race-winning cars/motorcycles, a 4D cinema of the 24-hour race, and pit-stop/cockpit simulators.

A museum in Bad Iburg displaying small and microcars on the ground floor and scooters/mopeds on the upper floor, housed in the former ballroom of Hotel Felsenkeller.

Private museum in Hessisch Oldendorf (Lower Saxony) dedicated exclusively to Karosserie Friedrich Rometsch of Berlin-Halensee, a coachbuilder that produced custom bodies (coupes, cabriolets, taxis) on Volkswagen Beetle chassis from the 1950s into the early 1960s. Opened October 2015 by collectors Traugott and Christian Grundmann.

Automobile museum in Bedburg-Rath (North Rhine-Westphalia), housed in a manor estate (Schopenhof) with 12th-century origins, opened September 1992 and dedicated to French automaker Lucien Rosengart, whose cars (built partly under Austin Seven license) it displays.

A private automobile museum in Aschaffenburg, Bavaria, founded by collector Peter Kaus and billed as one of the world's largest sports car collections, with more than 200 vehicles on permanent display plus an associated art collection (Art & Auto-Forum) added in 1990.

Private family museum in Nassach (Aidhausen, Landkreis Haßberge, Bavaria), run by the Hesse family since 1970, exhibiting roughly 1,000 objects - predominantly antique tractors and agricultural machinery - alongside a genuine collection of historic cars and motorcycles from the 1920s-30s.

Private automobile and motorcycle museum in the Fischbach district of Nuremberg, Bavaria, opened May 2024 by builder/hotelier Christian Silberhorn. Houses roughly 90 BMW automobiles (one of the world's largest private BMW collections) and about 230 motorcycles, most of Nuremberg manufacture.

A marque museum in Wald-Michelbach, Hesse, dedicated to the Stettin-based car and bicycle manufacturer Stoewer, built around a private collection assembled by collector Manfred Bauer, open from April 2002.

Private vehicle and art museum in the Stritzling district of Lalling, Bavaria (Bavarian Forest), founded 1991 by car dealer Albert Streicher and now run by Roland Streicher. Displays roughly 100 classic and exotic automobiles alongside more than 200 motorcycles and a large model collection.

Commercial-vehicle museum in Hartmannsdorf near Chemnitz, Saxony, opened May 26, 2001 by Verein Historische Nutzfahrzeuge Hartmannsdorf e.V. on about 1,400 square meters of exhibition space.

Private Tatra-marque vehicle collection in Angermünde (Landkreis Uckermark, Brandenburg), maintained by Iris and Jürgen Riesebeck and associated with the Internationaler Kreis der Tatra-Freunde e.V.; described as the only privately-owned Tatra collection open to visitors in Germany.

A small museum in Bad Tölz exhibiting nine vintage vehicles, predominantly taxis.