Classic (postwar-70s) museums & collections

Volunteer-run, not-for-profit museum near Wollongong tracing the history of the motor vehicle from the 1880s to today, using cars, motorcycles and interactive displays.

Brisbane's only rotating motor museum, located near the airport in Banyo. Displays a continually changing selection of classic, muscle and exotic cars drawn from private collections.

Motor museum in Bunbury's city centre featuring more than 100 classic cars, motorcycles and motoring memorabilia focused on classic Australian vehicles.

Long-running private motor museum near Hamilton, Victoria, founded more than three decades ago, housing vintage cars, buses and an array of motoring memorabilia.

Museum on the Mornington Peninsula housing a unique collection of more than 80 motor vehicles alongside motorcycles, petrol bowsers, model cars and memorabilia spanning over 100 years.

Private collection assembled by transport entrepreneur Lindsay Fox, displayed in the heritage-listed Queen's Warehouse in Melbourne's Docklands. Features dozens of rare and prestigious cars spanning motor racing, luxury marques and Australian motoring history.

Museum in Hamlyn Heights paying tribute to Geelong's motor vehicle manufacturing and industrial heritage, evolved from the former Ford Discovery Centre collection.

Regional vehicle museum in Maffra offering a rotating display of more than 160 cars, motorbikes, machinery, historic vehicles and motoring memorabilia.

Small motor museum in the historic river port of Goolwa displaying around 45 classic cars from the 1920s to 1970s, including a number of unique one-off vehicles.

Former large-scale private museum on the NSW Central Coast displaying a rotating selection from owner Tony Denny's collection of more than 450 cars and motorcycles, which opened in 2016.

Perth's dedicated car museum, located within Whiteman Park, opened to the public in December 1994. Displays vintage, veteran, classic and modern cars, motorcycles and racing vehicles with guided tours available.

Vehicle museum south of Shepparton housing more than 100 classic, vintage and veteran cars, muscle cars, trucks, motorbikes and pedal cars, alongside motoring collectibles.

Launceston museum showcasing the development of the international automotive industry through cars and motorcycles, with four themed displays refreshed each year plus a motorcycle mezzanine.

Australia's oldest and largest automotive museum, operated by the History Trust of South Australia in the historic township of Birdwood since 1965. The collection spans more than 300 cars, motorcycles and commercial vehicles from 1899 to the present.

Rotational classic car display and showroom in Canberra, initially built around unrestored 'survivor' cars, including Holdens, Rolls-Royces and Bentleys, and home to the Sir Henry Royce Foundation's Canberra showroom.

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.

Long-running motor museum on the main street of the historic town of York, Western Australia's oldest inland town. Since 2017 it has been run as a community venture by the non-profit Avon Valley Motor Museum Association.

Dr. Jackob Barnea's private automobile and motorcycle museum, one of Austria's largest, housed in a former silk-weaving factory in Gramatneusiedl with around 120 vehicles including a working 1946 repair shop reconstruction.

A Renaissance castle in Lassing housing one of Austria's largest oldtimer collections, focused almost exclusively on the Steyr marque, with a near-complete run of Steyr passenger cars from 1920 to 1941.

A large private collection at the Heldenberg exhibition grounds in Kleinwetzdorf showing roughly 100 cars from 1886 to modern times, including rare marques such as Bugatti, Hispano-Suiza and Packard, plus motorcycles and tractors.

A private oldtimer museum in Sigmundsherberg with over 150 vehicles including unusual American, Eastern-Bloc and coachbuilt cars such as an AMC Javelin, GAZ Chaika and Monteverdi.

A large classic car and music-memorabilia museum near Salzburg in Koppl, spanning roughly 4,400 square metres and mixing Ferrari, Maserati, Mercedes, Fiat and Jaguar classics with vintage jukeboxes, phonographs and dolls.

A private technology museum in the Lauffen district of Bad Ischl combining historic automobiles with aviation and general technology exhibits, including makes such as Adler, Aero and Steyr.

A private museum in Puchberg am Schneeberg specialising in the Mercedes-Benz W136/170 model series, with the owner personally guiding visitors through the collection.

A Porsche marque museum in Gmuend, the Carinthian town where the first Porsche 356 was hand-built in 1948. The collection focuses on early and historic Porsche models connected to the marque's Gmuend origins.

A private collection in Dornbirn billed as the world's largest Rolls-Royce museum, with around 60 original vehicles spanning the Phantom I through Silver Cloud/Silver Wraith eras, displayed across three floors of a historic building.

A classic-car museum at the Voetters Hotel in Kaprun, displaying vehicles from the 1950s through 1970s alongside motorcycles.

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.

A private collection of roughly 50-55 American cars from 1940 to 1964, assembled by collector Dr. Paul Lombard and displayed in a 1,000 square-meter hangar.

Private collection museum near the Royal Naval Dockyard in Somerset featuring vintage Bermuda cars, motorcycles (including Bermuda-specific Mobylette and Cyrus scooters), horse carriages and boats, assembled by collector Paul Martins.

Interactive automobile museum in Balneário Camboriú, Santa Catarina, inaugurated in December 2020, displaying more than 30 restored classic cars and motorcycles alongside augmented-reality exhibits and a racing simulator.

Cinema-themed classic car museum in Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul, founded in 1997 and home to what is described as Latin America's largest Cadillac collection.

Museum on the Estrada Real near Tiradentes, Minas Gerais, displaying about 70 European, American, and Brazilian classic cars.

Classic car museum in Canela, Rio Grande do Sul, inaugurated in 2016 by the Azambuja brothers, displaying around 40 vehicles from the 1920s to the 1980s across roughly 1,700 square meters.

Museum in Pomerode, Santa Catarina, displaying American classic cars from the 1940s to 1970s.

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.

Museum in downtown Peshtera dedicated to Eastern Bloc-era vehicles used in Bulgaria between 1944 and 1989, with 23 emblematic vehicles plus period household objects.

Bulgaria's first museum located inside a shopping mall, exhibiting more than 50 immaculately restored Eastern Bloc-era cars.

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 12,000-square-foot automobile museum in West Bay, Grand Cayman that opened in May 2010, displaying around 80 rare, exotic and classic cars and motorcycles owned by Norwegian businessman Andreas Ugland.

Chile's first antique-car museum, near Osorno, home to what is described as the largest Studebaker collection in Latin America along with period gas-station and household artifacts.

Classic car collection in Punta Arenas, in Chile's Magallanes region.

A privately owned museum in Huairou District that opened in 2009 and was extensively renovated in 2014, built around the personal collection of Chinese collector Luo Wenyou. Exhibits range from stretched Hongqi state limousines to Chinese minicars, vintage buses, and unusual replica vehicles.

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.