Car museums & collections in New Zealand

Christchurch collection of rare and sought-after vehicles, viewable only through pre-arranged bookings and guided tours.

Invercargill's leading visitor attraction and the largest automotive/transport museum of its type in the world, built from one man's passion into a major family legacy collection of trucks, cars and transport memorabilia.

Hamilton museum owned by local businessman Tom Andrews, featuring over 100 classic cars alongside an extensive collection of petrol and motoring memorabilia.

Family-owned Invercargill hardware store, trading since 1932, which displays the free-to-view E Hayes Motorworks Collection of classic motorcycles, automobiles and engines, built around Burt Munro's record-breaking 'World's Fastest Indian' motorcycle.

Living-history heritage park in Christchurch recreating an early-1900s township, with a classic car and fire engine museum said to hold the Southern Hemisphere's largest fire engine collection, alongside trams, trains, wagons and aircraft.

South Canterbury museum with over 1,400 exhibits, including around 30 vintage cars from 1905 and 101 tractors from 1912 onward, among them the oldest working tractor in New Zealand.

Home of the New Zealand National Motorsport Museum, located within the Highlands Motorsport Park complex in Cromwell, Central Otago, displaying rare cars from New Zealand motor racing history including ex-Formula One cars.

New Zealand's largest private collection of Holden cars and memorabilia, located a short drive from central New Plymouth, with an adjoining Bathurst-themed mini-golf course and cafe.

Far North collection near Awanui featuring an extensive range of Farmall tractors from the 1920s-1960s, stationary engines, and vintage cars including Nash, Morris, Chevrolet and Singer models.

New Zealand's largest transport, technology and social history museum, established in 1960 and spread across two sites (Western Springs and Meola Road) linked by a vintage tram, covering road vehicles, aviation and rail.

The Southern Hemisphere's largest private transport and toy collection, open to the public for over 60 years, located next to Wanaka Airport in Central Otago.

Museum in Nelson displaying more than 150 classic cars in immaculate condition, formerly associated with the World of WearableArt collection.

Museum housed in an old dairy factory near Whangarei displaying around 230 vehicles and machinery from the Industrial Revolution to the present, and home to the largest collection of Packard automobiles in the world.

The largest vintage and specialty vehicle collection in the Southern Hemisphere, founded in the 1970s by Len Southward and now managed by a charitable trust, housing over 400 vehicles across two showrooms.

Christchurch's oldest private museum collection, established 1968, featuring vintage cars, horse-drawn carriages, motorcycles, tractors and agricultural equipment in Yaldhurst.