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.

Opened in 2017 inside the Mawei Shipbuilding Culture Park in Fuzhou, alongside the China Shipping Heritage Museum, this museum mainly displays Western classic cars such as Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen models. It also functions as an event venue with an on-site restoration workshop.

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.

China's first dedicated automobile museum, opened to the public in January 2007 in Anting, Jiading District. It displays more than 100 classic and vintage automobiles representing roughly 50 domestic and international brands across themed halls covering the history, collection, technology, and future of the automobile.

Built by collector Zhang Yonglong and opened around 2016-2017 on the shore of Tianyi Lake south of Tai'an, Shandong, this large private museum displays over 300 vehicles across six themed zones, including classic cars, off-road and military vehicles, and domestic Chinese brands. The complex also includes a race track and stunt-show area.

Founded by collector Gu Haijun and officially opened in October 2017, this was the first classic-car themed museum in Shanxi Province. Beyond passenger cars, its roughly 6,500-square-metre display includes military vehicles, commercial trucks, tractors, and a locomotive, organized around eight historical exhibition sections.

A sister museum to the Taishan Classic Car Museum, assembled by the same collector, Zhang Yonglong, from his personal collection of more than 500 vehicles, which are rotated between his two Shandong museums. It opened around 2017 in Changle County near Weifang.

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.

Foundation established in 2002 in Medellín by antique and classic car clubs together with the Automóvil Club de Colombia, best known for organizing itinerant exhibitions and Medellín's annual classic-car parade during the Feria de las Flores rather than operating a permanent walk-in gallery.

Croatia's first dedicated automobile museum, relocated from a Zagreb factory hall to the WestGate Shopping City in Jablanovec near Zaprešić; displays over 100 historic cars, motorcycles and bicycles plus thousands of photographs from early Croatian drivers' family albums.

Private collection founded by restorer Ivica/Antun Presečki in Krapina featuring over twenty cars, more than sixty motorcycles, and buses, with an emphasis on factory-original, meticulously documented restorations and an on-site workshop.

Dalmatia's first technical/vehicle museum, opened July 2018 in Skradin in partnership with the Ferdinand Budicki Museum; showcases over 120 years of Croatian and Eastern/Western European motoring culture including a 'Behind the Iron Curtain' themed section.

State-run museum operated by the Oficina del Historiador de La Habana, housed in a former 1891 neoclassical warehouse in Old Havana. It displays roughly 40 antique automobiles and motorcycles dating from 1905 to 1989, many with ties to notable Cuban historical figures. It opened at this San Ignacio location in November 2019, succeeding the earlier 'Depósito del Automóvil' that had been located on Calle Oficios.

A large transportation museum located in Parque Nacional Baconao, roughly 25 km east of Santiago de Cuba, tracing the history of land transport from early wheeled vehicles to modern automobiles. It combines an outdoor collection of full-size vehicles with an extensive miniature/model vehicle exhibit.

Displays passenger cars and motorcycles from the socialist era (mainly 1960-1990), including Trabant, Wartburg, Škoda, Tatra, Dacia, Lada and Moskvich.

Private museum in the forests near Lužná (Rakovník district) with more than 80 American classic cars displayed indoors and outdoors, styled as an old American town with a diner-style bistro.

The first and largest museum of pre-war American automobiles in the Czech Republic, with more than 70 cars displayed in themed halls inside a former textile factory.

The largest Czech technical museum; its Transport Hall in Prague exhibits Czechoslovak-made automobiles from Laurin & Klement, Tatra, Škoda, Praga, Aero, Jawa, Wikov and others alongside motorcycles, bicycles, aviation and rail history.

The second-largest museum of historic BMW vehicles in Europe, founded by collector Miloš Vránek, showing more than 40 cars covering BMW's history.

One of the largest private car museums in the Czech Republic, showing nearly 100 vehicles from the 1948-1989 socialist era.

Private family collection of about 300 cars and 150 motorcycles, including a Benz Parsifal, extensive Mercedes-Benz and Laurin & Klement holdings, and the largest Bugatti collection in the Czech Republic.

Private museum in a former Jawa motorcycle factory building displaying more than 60 historic Škoda vehicles, from prototypes and rally/racing specials to government limousines.

Museum devoted to Tatra passenger cars, part of the Regional Museum in Kopřivnice, tracing more than a century of Tatra's typologically distinctive car designs.

Private collection near Bítov Castle featuring cars manufactured 1924-1998, primarily Tatra but also Škoda, Volkswagen and Citroën.

Museum tracing the complete production history of the Trabant, from the AWZ P70 predecessor (1954) through the Trabant 601 to the final Trabant 1.1 (1989-1991).

Exhibition space in Herning showing around 140 privately owned vintage/classic cars, hobby cars, vintage motorcycles and other vehicles spanning nearly a century, some dating to the 1920s.

An award-winning museum near Aakirkeby on the island of Bornholm with more than 80 vehicles - cars, motorcycles and tractors - from different eras and countries.

Car museum, showroom, dealership and event venue opened in August 2021 by K.W. Bruun (a Danish car-importer family business with roots to the 1910s) in a converted former agricultural museum building in Kongens Lyngby; includes motorsport-themed exhibitions.

A large collection of over 100 vehicles, from the early 20th century to the early 1980s, displayed in a converted historic thatched barn on the grounds of Egeskov Castle on Funen. Part of the wider Egeskov Castle visitor attraction alongside the castle, gardens and other collections.

Formerly a private museum on the outskirts of Odense (Fraugde) with over 100 vehicles, mainly from the 1950s-60s, plus motorcycles, mopeds, toys and automobilia.

Modern car museum in Bagsværd (north of Copenhagen), successor to the Haaning family's earlier Vestsjællands Bilmuseum in Høng, presenting roughly 80 cars and motorcycles spanning five eras from 1886 to today in a 4,500 m² renovated former factory, with café, cinema and event space.

A 3,400 m² nostalgia and collector's museum in Næstved displaying around 160 cars and 60 motorcycles/mopeds along with period shop and street-scene displays.

Private museum in Nærum established 2004 by former car importer/dealer Ole Sommer, showcasing almost 80 cars from the early days of motoring through the 1950s-60s golden era, with a strong emphasis on Jaguar and Volvo reflecting Sommer's career as importer of both marques.

A Volkswagen-focused retro museum in Ulfborg displaying Volkswagens and everyday household items from the 1950s-1970s, including VW camper buses and a recreated period grocery shop.

Museum focused on Soviet-era automobiles as part of world automotive history, located between Tallinn and Parnu, with one of the largest Soviet-car collections in the EU alongside classic Western models.

Informal open-air and warehouse collection of roughly 500 vehicles that once traveled Estonian roads during the Soviet era, including cars, trucks, buses, agricultural machinery and fire trucks.

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.

Housed in a former Tsarist-era brick building in Kuopio, this museum presents a broad look at Finnish vehicle and traffic history through about 80 cars along with motorcycles, bicycles and old traffic signage.

Mobilia is Finland's national responsibility museum for road and motor transport, located on Lake Längelmävesi in Kangasala near Tampere. It combines a permanent exhibition on Finnish road history with a Rally Museum and a classic/vintage car gallery (Fenno Galleria), drawing around 45,000 visitors a year.

Finland's largest private vehicle collection, opened in 1999 in Ylämylly (Liperi) near Joensuu in North Karelia. Over 400 vehicles are on display, from mopeds and tractors to American cars and curiosities across decades, along with scale models.

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

Run by the Etelä-Karjalan Vanhat Ajoneuvot ry association in Rauha (Lappeenranta/Joutseno area), the museum tells the story of motoring and motorcycling in South Karelia through roughly 30 cars and 20 motorcycles from the 1920s–1980s, plus a Finnish license-plate museum exhibit.

Opened in 1983 on the scenic Vehoniemi ridge nature reserve in Kangasala, this is one of Finland's best-known private automobile museums, showing restored classic cars, rally history and Finnish prototypes.

A private automobile museum in the Lehtoniemi district of Varkaus, open since 1994 (at its current site since 2003), displaying around 30 of the owner's collection of over 100 vintage cars from the 1920s–1960s.

Part of the Woikoski Feeling attraction in Nurmaa (Mäntyharju), this museum showcases around 35 vehicles from the early automobile age to the present, including notable Cadillacs, Mercedes-Benzes and Finnish rarities, tied to the Palmberg family's automotive history.

A private museum opened in 2017 in Châtillon-Coligny exhibiting roughly 80-100 sports cars from the 1950s through 1990s, alongside vintage motorcycles and scale-model collections.

Housed in a former Mulhouse spinning mill, this museum displays the Schlumpf brothers' collection of over 400 vehicles, the largest single automobile collection in the world. It holds the world's largest collection of Bugatti automobiles, including three Bugatti Royales.

Founded in 1985 by Michel Hommell in a 17th-century manor adjoining the Circuit de Lohéac, this private museum displays over 400 vehicles across 15,000 m², including dedicated Ferrari and Lamborghini rooms and an 18-car Formula 1 starting grid.

This museum displays over 150 vintage vehicles spanning roughly forty marques, including an 1885 De Dion-Bouton steam car, within a 3,300 m² hall furnished with period posters and accessories.

France's first automobile museum, opened in 1960 inside the 12th-century Château de Rochetaillée near Lyon, based on the collection assembled by Henri Malartre. It displays around 150 cars (1890-1986), 40 motorcycles, and Lyon public-transport vehicles.

An association-run museum founded in 1998 and relocated in 2011 into part of the former Vallérysthal crystal factory in Troisfontaines. It is billed as the world's largest Citroën 2CV collection.

A private museum near the Périgord Noir/Quercy area founded by collector Benoît Jouclar, combining agricultural machinery with automobiles and two-wheelers.

A 'living museum' near Jallais (Beaupréau-en-Mauges) with over 100 collectible and prestige vehicles - including Rolls-Royce, Ferrari, Jaguar and Lamborghini models - and motorcycles, distinguished by allowing visitors to drive select cars with an instructor.