Brass/Antique museums & collections

Community-association-run museum in Casilda, Santa Fe, displaying antique and classic automobiles, relocated to a purpose-built venue and officially inaugurated in 2021.

Private museum in Villa Ciudad Parque, Córdoba, created in 1988 by the Dick-Rapisarda family, displaying more than 40 horse-drawn carriages alongside antique automobiles, photographs, and engravings.

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.

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.

A car museum in Aspang Markt with over 100 vehicles spanning early motoring history, including a 1908 Delaunay-Belleville, 1910 Adler and 1936 Graf & Stift.

A museum in Mattsee near Salzburg dedicated to the early career of Ferdinand Porsche, displaying historic Austro-Daimler, Lohner-Porsche and Steyr vehicles connected to his pioneering automotive engineering work.

A private early-automobile museum at the Das Salvator country hotel in St. Salvator near Friesach, Carinthia, showing veteran-era cars including rare makes such as Praga, Orel and SS.

Austria's national museum of science and technology in Vienna, whose mobility galleries include early automobiles such as the 1888 Marcus car, the 1893 Benz Model 3 and a 1920 Austro-Daimler, alongside rail, aviation and industrial exhibits.

Believed to be the first car museum in Bahrain and the GCC, established roughly two decades ago by Bahraini businessman Akram Miknas, with a small collection of around 20 antique vehicles.

Bangladesh's largest private vintage car collection, assembled by the late Mahmudul (E.M.) Faruq in Dhaka, comprising more than 70 vehicles including Morris, Ford, Austin, Oldsmobile, Mercedes and Toyota models.

Private motor museum housed in a historic red-brick former British garrison building at Pavilion Court, curated personally by owner Bill Mallalieu. Tied closely to the history of the Barbados Rally Club, founded 1957.

Municipal classic car museum located inside Parque Barigui in Curitiba, rotating a collection of about 150 antique vehicles with roughly 70 on display at a time.

Private classic vehicle collection in São Paulo founded by collector Romeu Siciliano, displaying around 60 cars, carriages, motorcycles, and bicycles from the 1910s-1950s.

Museum in Fortaleza run by the Veteran Car Club do Ceará since 1973, with the museum building operating since 1981, displaying 57 vehicles from 1910 to 1970.

Private automobile museum near Plovdiv with over 70 restored retro, classic and modern exhibits including cars, motorcycles and bicycles, adjoining the Park & SPA Hotel Markovo.

Private retro-car museum opened in 2022 next to the Zlaten Rozhen winery, spanning 1,400 m² in two halls with roughly 60 cars and 44 motorcycles.

A provincial agricultural, industrial and transportation museum on a 220-acre site in Wetaskiwin, built around Stan Reynolds' collection. Its automobile holdings are among Canada's most significant.

A private museum in Shuangcheng District, Harbin, established in 2009 and relocated to a new 17,600-square-metre facility in 2019. It holds nearly 200 vehicles, including a replica 1890s steam-powered vehicle, a 1945 ZIS-110B Soviet state limousine, and the only known surviving 1966 Hongqi CA770L station wagon.

A private museum in Chengdu founded in 2005 by collector Huang Zongmin and rebuilt into a new purpose-built facility in 2016, it holds one of China's largest private collections of "collection-class" classic cars from more than 70 manufacturers. Exhibits range from restored Hongqi and Shanghai-brand sedans to Western classics and modern supercars.

Founded by Xiamen antique-car collector Chen Yue and opened in 2015, this was the first classic-car museum in South China. Its roughly 8,000-square-metre facility in Xiang'an District displays more than 1,000 items from over 40 car brands alongside interactive automotive-culture exhibits.

Turn-of-the-20th-century antique car theme park near Villa de Leyva, Boyacá.

Museum in a former hydroelectric power station displaying about 40 pre-war automobiles plus motorcycles, bicycles, stationary engines, tractors and petrol pumps dating up to 1950.

One of the largest publicly accessible museums of pre-war Czechoslovak cars in the country, spanning more than 3,000 m² in Olomouc.

Formerly one of Europe's largest private veteran car collections, housed at Aalholm Castle near Nysted, with four halls showing around 200 motorcars from 1886 to modern times, mostly pre-1940.

Northern Europe's largest veteran motorcycle collection, in Stubbekøbing since 1977, with more than 200 motorcycles spanning from the late 1800s to the Japanese-bike era of the 1980s; also includes a radio museum.

National museum in Helsingør covering the history of Danish science, industry and technology, including a significant road-transport collection alongside rail, aviation and other exhibits.

Formerly Denmark's leading vintage car museum in Gjern (near Silkeborg), founded in 1967 by master mechanic Aage Louring, displaying around 140 vehicles from 1900-1987 representing a cross-section of the Danish vehicle population.

An engine and motoring museum in Skagen harbour featuring stationary and marine engines (BUKH, B&W, Frich) alongside motorcycles, mopeds and classic cars, plus reproductions/examples referencing very early automobiles.

Finland's oldest and one of its largest vehicle museums, housed in an atmospheric stone barn in Pakankylä, Espoo. It displays over 200 vehicles spanning early-1900s automobiles to 1980s family cars, plus a notable sports-car collection and motorcycles.

A veteran car museum in Oulu holding more than 50 vintage cars and motorcycles, with the oldest vehicles dating to around 1910.

A nostalgic private automobile museum and tourism/camping site in Karstula (Central Finland), converted from an old potato-flour mill, with over 100 (some sources say up to 400 counting all vehicle types) restored vehicles including cars, motorcycles and mopeds.

Founded in 1927 by the Touring Club de France and housed within the Château de Compiègne, this French national museum documents the transition from horse-drawn carriages to early motorized transport.

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 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.

Hungary's oldest private veteran-car collection, housing around 200 cars and 100 motorcycles in the former Puskin Cultural Center in Tatabánya-Bánhida.

Private collection of running, pre-WWII-era veteran automobiles and vehicles, all kept operational and started daily.

Goa's only dedicated vintage car museum, founded in 2004 by businessman Pradeep V. Naik, though his personal collecting reportedly began in 1985.

Established by the late collector Pranlal Bhogilal on his private estate in Ahmedabad, this museum (also known as Dastan Autoworld) displays over 100 vintage and classic automobiles and was once Guinness-listed as the world's largest private garage.

An automobile museum inside the Udai Bilas Palace complex in Dungarpur, created by Harshvardhan Singh of the Dungarpur royal family in a building that was originally a stable and grain store. It houses more than 40 vehicles, plus motorcycles and a steam road-roller.

Opened in April 2024 on the Bengaluru–Mysuru Expressway by Dr. D. Veerendra Heggade, this newer museum displays 69 vehicles spanning early automotive history through the mid-20th century.

A private by-appointment collection assembled by lawyer Diljeet Titus since around 2003, featuring more than 100 vintage and classic cars once owned by Indian princely families.

Owned by the House of Mewar and housed in the former Mewar State Motor Garage in Udaipur, this museum opened in 2000 and displays about 20 antique cars, all maintained in running condition.

Opened in 2001 near Karaj west of Tehran, displaying dozens of classic and vintage cars, carriages, and motorcycles that belonged to the Pahlavi royal family, including Mohammad Reza Shah; administered by Iran's Cultural Institution of Museums and expanded in 2024 with new halls.

A distinct royal car collection housed in a former palace garage within the Niavaran Palace Historical-Cultural Complex in northern Tehran, displaying private cars, motorcycles, and model cars of the Pahlavi family, separate from the Sa'dabad and Karaj collections.

One of several museums inside the Sa'dabad Palace Complex, a former royal residence in northern Tehran, displaying Pahlavi-era royal automobiles near the complex's Zaferanieh entrance.

Ireland's first dedicated veteran-car museum, opened in 1966 by collector Knollys Stokes at the Muskerry Arms Hotel in Blarney, displaying around 20 veteran cars from 1899-1920 including a rare 1900 Arrol-Johnston and a 1910 Wolseley-Siddeley formerly of the Gore-Booth family.

Major private collection of roughly 200 vintage and veteran vehicles assembled by veterinary surgeon and collector Denis Lucey, exhibited as the Museum of Irish Transport at Scott's Gardens, Killarney, from 1987. Noted for nine early Wolseleys and the rare 1907 Silver Stream, the first car assembled in southern Ireland.

Ireland's principal transport-heritage collection, holding roughly 170 vehicles including trams, buses, fire engines, military and utility vehicles spanning 1883-1984. Around 60 of the ~100 vehicles at the Howth site are on permanent display, with others viewable by prior arrangement.