Car museums & collections in Germany

Association-run technology museum in Büschergrund, Freudenberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, founded 1991 and renamed in 2014 to broaden scope. Exhibits roughly 60 historic commercial vehicles (mainly tractors and trucks), historic motorcycles, a historic fire-brigade collection, and a working 1904 steam engine.

Local heritage and technology museum in the Kratzmühle district of Kinding, Landkreis Eichstätt, Bavaria, founded 1995 by the Kulturhistorischer Verein Beilngries-Kinding e.V. Alongside motorcycles, mopeds, bicycles and craft workshops, displays a small collection of historic automobiles including a Messerschmitt Kabinenroller, NSU Prinz, Fiat Nuova 500, Opel P1, Trabant 601, and Apollo Piccolo cyclecar.

A foundation-run technical collection in the Gallus district of Frankfurt am Main, assembled by entrepreneur Fritz Hochhut and converted into a foundation after his death in 1999. Alongside stationary steam engines, Stirling engines, and aircraft/ship engines, it holds a notable group of historic automobiles and motorcycles.

Automobile museum in Berlin-Kreuzberg near Checkpoint Charlie dedicated to the Trabant, opened June 1, 2014 and operated by André Prager.

Former Trabant-focused automobile museum in Kölleda, Thuringia, opened August 27, 2016 by Trabiparadies Kölleda e.V., which took over the collection from the earlier Trabiparadies Weberstedt; exhibits emphasized customized/modified Trabants.

The Unimog-Museum in Gaggenau-Bad Rotenfels documents the history, technology and applications of the Mercedes-Benz Unimog all-wheel-drive utility vehicle, near where series production began in 1951. Opened June 2006 and reopened early 2023 after an expansion that doubled exhibition space.

A private collection assembled by Bert Grimmer in Eppelheim documenting post-war West German motorization, comprising roughly 40 microcars and about 45 motor scooters, plus motorized mobility/invalid vehicles from the 1950s-60s.

A general transportation museum operated by the association Verkehrsmuseum Berlin e.V., with exhibition rooms in the Urania building in Berlin-Schöneberg, covering rail, aviation/space, road traffic, urban transport and shipping; automobiles were only one of five departments.

Transport museum housed in the historic Johanneum building on Dresden's Neumarkt, covering rail, road traffic, aviation and shipping across roughly 5,000 m². Its road-traffic holdings focus heavily on Saxon and Thuringian automotive history (Zittau, Dresden, Chemnitz, Zwickau, Eisenach, Suhl) alongside bicycles and motorcycles.

Volunteer-run transport museum operated by Deutsche Verkehrswacht im Stadt- und Landkreis Karlsruhe e.V. in a former electrical-appliance factory, covering roughly 200 years of road and rail mobility including historic automobiles, motorcycles and a large model railway.

Branch of the Deutsches Museum at Theresienhöhe/Bavariapark in Munich, housed in three historic former trade-fair halls, displaying roughly 250 objects from its land-transport collection (cars, locomotives, bicycles, motorcycles, carriages).

A factory museum operated by VEB Automobilwerk Eisenach (AWE), opened October 1967 in an exhibition pavilion on Wartburgallee in Eisenach, displaying vehicles tied to Eisenach's automobile-manufacturing history centered on the Wartburg marque.

The factory museum of Westfalia-Werke in Wiedenbrück (Rheda-Wiedenbrück), exhibiting mainly vehicles and items the company manufactured or converted - trailers, motorhomes/campers, vintage cars and special vehicles - alongside carriages, farm equipment and other company memorabilia.

Corporate heritage exhibition of ZF Friedrichshafen AG on the ground floor of the company's ZF Forum headquarters building, covering over 100 years of drivetrain technology (gearboxes, steering, axles) as used in cars, trucks and racing vehicles.