Brass/Antique museums & collections

A nonprofit collection displaying 100+ cars across the Brass, Depression, pre/post-war and modern eras, with emphasis on Art Deco and Great Depression-era vehicles, plus automobilia and mechanical music instruments.

A free-admission museum owned by the Swope dealership family, displaying ~60 museum-quality vehicles from the early 1900s to the 1960s in original and restored condition.

A large private museum displaying 160+ rare and historic automobiles from an 1894 Duryea to a modern Camaro, plus extensive non-automotive collections (pedal cars, cash registers, pianos, sports memorabilia).

A large science museum in Cartersville, GA whose "Science in Motion" gallery traces transportation history from early automobiles through aviation and spaceflight, including replicas of pioneering vehicles.

Family-run antique car museum begun in the 1970s by Feltz Terrill, with restored vehicles from 1901-1941.

All-volunteer museum (founded 1964) with a heritage railroad, model train layouts, and antique automobiles/road vehicles from 1899 to present.

Non-profit museum (founded 2002) known for ~130 antique/classic cars (1886-2000) that visitors could ride in during Sunday car rides.

A nonprofit automotive-history museum housing the Feldman collection, focused on the Brass Era (1896-1915) with antique cars dating 1886-1952. The 5-acre site also features antique field power and a 1/8-scale railway.

Museum maintained by the Thomas H. Hubbard/H.H. Franklin Foundation in Tucson, exclusively dedicated to the Franklin Automobile Company, a pioneering air-cooled-engine maker (1902-1934). Holds roughly 26-30 vehicles.

A major indoor-outdoor American history museum complex whose 'Driving America' exhibit presents a comprehensive history of the US automobile from the 1860s, alongside presidential vehicles and broad Americana.

Roughly 100 antique vehicles on display in the small town of Marmarth, paired with an ice cream parlor.

A 500-acre nonprofit foundation campus near Buffalo with multiple barns housing 80+ restored vehicles and 200+ rare gas pumps and automobilia.

A volunteer-founded museum displaying vintage automobiles from around the world with a rotating lineup, alongside automotive artifacts such as photos, tools, signs and gas pumps. Free admission.

An appointment-only private motorcycle collection in Chehalis featuring 36 fully restored antique motorcycles, over two dozen pre-1920.

The Commonwealth's official transportation museum in a century-old freight station, covering rail, road and air. Auto holdings include early GM electric-car tech, vintage Whippets, a 1913 Metz and a 1920 Buick.

An online-only resource (not a physical museum) functioning as a historical encyclopedia of antique steam automobiles, with a database of known steam car manufacturers.

Local history museum documenting Waltham's industrial past, including the Metz/Waltham Manufacturing Company's early automobile and motorcycle production from 1895 to 1931; holds a restored 1911 Metz Plan Car and hosts an annual "Metz Day" car show.

A three-building rural-life museum complex in Boonsboro, Maryland; its Early Roads Transportation Museum wing (opened 2013) displays cars, trucks, bicycles, carriages, and sleighs used on Washington County roads prior to 1940.

Long-running roadside museum of antique automobiles, bicycles, and nostalgic Americana.

A large Hood River museum pairing still-flying antique aircraft with still-driving antique automobiles and motorcycles, one of the largest such combined collections in the country.

Rural heritage center in Tracy combining historic buildings with a "car barn" of antique vehicles, farm-equipment wheels, and a steam engine.

Opened 1957, preserving American automobile history with ~150 cars (30-35 rotated on display) plus carriages dating from 1896. The only museum where two Tuckers can be seen side by side.

Oldest antique automobile museum in the country, dating back to 1920s collecting activity, rotating roughly 35 of about 150 owned cars, plus one of the largest license plate and car badge collections anywhere.

Wisconsin's largest auto museum, in Hartford (original home of Kissel cars). Holds the world's largest Kissel collection plus ~120+ vehicles overall (Nash, Pontiac, Studebaker, Chevrolet, Kaiser, Ford).

Housed in Hopkinsville's old Central Fire Station, this museum (operated by Museums of Historic Hopkinsville-Christian County) displays fire trucks, antique automobiles, wagons, buggies, a sleigh, and license plates.

Small free antique collection in Maracay housed at a restaurant, displaying three running antique cars including a Ford Model A and a Buick Roadster.

Multi-modal transport museum near Parque del Este in Caracas with an antique automobile hall, subject to a 2024 Supreme Court ruling requiring the operating foundation to return the land to the state, with restoration reported 57% complete as of January 2025 and no confirmed reopening as of mid-2026.