Classic (postwar-70s) museums & collections

A private automobile and motorcycle museum in Adlkofen, Bavaria, founded in 1980 by racing driver Walter Proebst and now run by his daughter Verena Proebst. It displays approximately 70 classic cars, around 120 motorcycles, and roughly 250 engines and technical cutaway models from Germany and abroad.

A combined vehicle museum in Gebhardsweiler (Uhldingen-Mühlhofen) on Lake Constance, pairing a large rural-life/tractor exhibit with an urban-life section of classic automobiles and motorcycles. In 2017 it absorbed the former Fritz B. Busch classic car collection from Wolfegg.

A short-lived private museum founded by Joachim Pett, opened at Pentecost 1977 in a rented 750 m² hall in Bremen, displaying 27 automobiles with an emphasis on vehicles from Bremen's Borgward group.

A private oldtimer museum in the Wellinghofen district of Dortmund, opened 1 May 1999, exhibiting roughly 50 classic automobiles (emphasis on Jaguar and Mercedes-Benz) alongside about 15 motorcycles and tractors.

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 temporary exhibition of historic East German automobiles, held under the name 'KraftfahrZeugen Ostmobil' in the Neustädter Markthalle in Dresden from 2003 to 2005, focused on vehicles produced by the East German IFA combine.

A private automobile museum founded in 1973 by motoring journalist Fritz B. Busch (1922-2010) in an outbuilding of Schloss Waldburg-Wolfegg in Wolfegg, Baden-Württemberg, growing to more than 200 vehicles including cars, scooters, motorcycles, tractors and caravans.

Vehicle museum in the Querum district of Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, founded in 2009 by Jürgen Kolle. Exhibits about 80 cars, 10 motorcycles, 10 mopeds, 15 bicycles and 15 engines, with a particular focus on Volkswagen models.

Automuseum Melle ("Geschichte auf Rädern"), operated as a nonprofit (gGmbH), is located in Melle, Landkreis Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, in a protected former furniture-factory building with nearly 3,000 m² across three floors. It displays roughly 250-350 operational vehicles spanning from the earliest automobiles to more recent historically significant cars.

Automuseum Nossen, also known as Automuseum Hertrampf, is a private automobile and motorcycle museum operated by the Hertrampf car dealership in Nossen, Saxony, housed in a former Konsum department store building since the 1990s. It displays roughly 30-50 cars alongside about 50 motorcycles, 15 mopeds, bicycles, and engines spanning the 1920s to 1970s.

Automobile museum in two auxiliary buildings of Schloss Wolfegg, Baden-Württemberg, exhibiting around 80 automobiles and 40 motorized two-wheelers focused on everyday vehicles of the 1960s-1980s, plus tractors and the world's largest one-wheel-trailer collection.

The first automobile museum in Rhineland-Palatinate, located in Neuwied and founded 10 November 1975 by collector Heinz Schramm, exhibiting roughly 60 vehicles of the former Borgward group brands (Borgward, Lloyd, Goliath, Hansa and Hansa-Lloyd).

A private car-and-toy museum combined with a restaurant in Tübingen, showing the collection of Rainer and Ute Klink. Founded in 1985, it has grown to about 1,200 m² and displays roughly 70 vehicles, including rare sports cars and motorcycles spanning six decades, alongside a large toy collection.

A privately operated museum in Hachenburg dedicated to vintage Cadillac automobiles, focused on vehicles from the 1950s through 1970s.

Private single-marque collection of roughly 130 historic Citroën vehicles dating from 1934 onward, housed in 16 former Bundeswehr munitions-bunker buildings near Sandelzhausen (a district of Mainburg), Bavaria.

Classic and vintage car showroom and service center in Berlin, launched in 2003 under the 'Meilenwerk' brand and renamed Classic Remise in 2011, offering free daily public viewing of cars in glass storage boxes alongside dealer, restoration and event spaces.

Classic and vintage car showroom and service center in Düsseldorf, launched in 2006 under the 'Meilenwerk' brand and renamed Classic Remise in 2011, with around 80 glass storage boxes displaying classic cars, open to the public free of charge.

A classic car museum combined with an event hall in Leipzig-Plagwitz, housed in a former iron-foundry building (1894) once part of the Rudolph Sack works. Opened in 2000 by collector Manfred Rübesam and operated since 2002 by the event company Michaelis.

Private museum founded by collector Harald Driemel in Horrheim (a district of Vaihingen an der Enz), Baden-Württemberg, combining roughly 60 vintage vehicles - cars, trucks/buses, scooters, mopeds, bicycles and caravans - with everyday 1950s/60s household items.

Private collection of around 160 classic cars and over 240 motorcycles owned by the Dauphin family, displayed chronologically by brand in a converted 1960s factory hall in Hersbruck, Bavaria, as the centerpiece of the Dauphin Speed Event venue.

Museum of Opel vehicles housed at the former NS-Ordensburg Vogelsang site near Schleiden, Euskirchen district, North Rhine-Westphalia. Founded by brothers Martin and Josef Degener after acquiring the on-site Malakoff complex in 2019; the collection comprises roughly 250 vehicles, mostly Opel models from the 1940s-50s.

A private automobile museum in Fichtelberg (Bavaria) founded in 1992 by the Eckert family, displaying more than 500 exhibits across three exhibition halls plus outdoor space totaling roughly 10,000 square meters. The collection spans automotive history from 1896 to the present and includes cars, motorcycles, aircraft, fire engines, tractors, and prototypes.

A large private transportation museum in Marxzell near Karlsruhe, opened in 1968 in a former sawmill by Bernhard Reichert and still family-run. It spans over 3,600 m² of exhibition space.

Fahrzeugmuseum Suhl, located within the Congress Centrum Suhl (CCS) in Thuringia, documents about 120 years of vehicle manufacturing tradition in Suhl, displaying over 260 exhibits across 1,400 square meters spanning bicycles, mopeds, motorcycles, and automobiles.

A private collection of around 20 West German post-war microcars in Stopfenheim (part of Ellingen, Middle Franconia), assembled by the Bittner family, including Fend Flitzer, Brütsch Mopetta, Goggomobil, BMW Isetta, Fuldamobil, Heinkel Kabine, Champion, Lloyd, and Victoria Spatz.

A small private museum of Italian classic vehicles in a historic 1851 former fire station in Lengfeld (Otzberg, Odenwaldkreis), run by Herbert G. Spross and Anette Lutz-Spross, displaying about 15 cars (predominantly Fiat, including Topolino models) and around 6 Moto Guzzi motorcycles.

A collection of East German (DDR) vehicles - including Trabant, Wartburg, Barkas, and Simson Schwalbe models - operated by the Trabi-Buggy-Club '93 e.V. since September 2020, housed within the Wasserschloss Quilow in Groß Polzin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

An automobile and vehicle museum in Cunewalde, Saxony (Oberlausitz), opened in 2000 and operated by the Oberlausitzer Kfz.-Veteranen Club e.V. in a restored three-sided farm barn. It focuses on vehicles that shaped the streetscape of East Germany, displaying about 18 cars, 3 trucks/buses, 30 motorcycles, 10 mopeds, 8 bicycles, and 12 engines.

A small private vintage vehicle museum in Ellrichshausen (part of Satteldorf, Baden-Württemberg), founded in 1987 by Rudolf and Lore Wagner and housed in a former Royal Württemberg State Railways station building from 1870.

A museum in Singen, Baden-Württemberg, pairing classic, vintage, sports and racing automobiles with fine art across two buildings (MAC 1, opened 2013, and MAC 2, opened 2019), founded by Hermann Maier and Gabriela Unbehaun-Maier.

Nuremberg's first automobile museum, opened in April 2011 in a restored former window-factory hall in the Schafhof district, displaying the private collection of the Merk family.

An Oldtimer museum in Calau, Brandenburg, opened October 7, 2006 in the rooms of a former car dealership. It houses roughly 150 vehicles produced between the end of WWII and the fall of the Berlin Wall in East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and the Soviet Union.

A family-run automobile museum in Öhringen founded in 1980 by engineer Paul Heyd, sharing a building with the Museum für modernes Glas. Since Heyd's death in 2016, it has been run by his sons Christian, Markus, and Stefan Heyd.

Classic and vintage car showroom and collection at the former Böblingen airfield, launched in 2009 as 'Meilenwerk Region Stuttgart' and renamed Motorworld Region Stuttgart in January 2014, displaying a daily-changing collection of several hundred vehicles and motorcycles alongside dealer and restoration workshops.

A private automobile museum in Warstein-Belecke, North Rhine-Westphalia, dedicated to postwar microcars and bubble cars, opened in 1976 by collector Felix Berger.

A museum in Chemnitz, Saxony, dedicated to the history of Saxon vehicle manufacturing, housed since 2008 in the historic Stern-Garagen, one of Germany's oldest preserved multi-story parking garages. It displays roughly 150-200 automobiles, motorcycles and bicycles from over 50-70 Saxon manufacturers.

A private automobile and motorcycle museum in Ebersbach an der Fils, Baden-Württemberg, founded in 2012 by Markus Paschke, distinguished by displaying many vehicles in unrestored, weathered ('patina') condition.

A private automobile, motorcycle and vintage tractor museum in Knittlingen, Baden-Württemberg, built from the collection of entrepreneur Walter Pfitzenmeier and operated since 2016 by the association 'Museum Walters Oldtimer Knittlingen e.V.'

A large private automobile museum in Dietzhölztal-Ewersbach, Hesse, opened to the public on 23 July 2023 by the nonprofit Stiftung Nationales Automuseum, showcasing the collection of entrepreneur Friedhelm Loh in a converted historic ironworks building.

A private transport museum near Prora on the island of Rügen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, open since 1994, combining a large collection of East and West German automobiles with historic railway locomotives, trucks and fire-service vehicles.

A private motorcycle, automobile and engine collection in Bergholz-Rehbrücke (Nuthetal, Brandenburg), opened in 1977 by collector Herbert Schmidt, who died at the end of 2021.

A private automobile museum in Dornburg (part of Dornburg-Camburg, Thuringia), also known as the 'Wartburgmuseum', housing one of the most extensive private collections of vehicles from the Eisenach automobile works (Wartburg), assembled by collector Marco Brauer.

An automobile museum in the Culitzsch district of Wilkau-Haßlau, Saxony, built on a GDR-era vehicle collection begun by taxi entrepreneur Andreas Schwalbe; opened September 22, 2018 and operated by Historische Technik Culitzsch e.V. Around 50 vehicles are shown, dominated by GDR-era passenger cars, staged within period scenarios.

A motorcycle-and-car museum in Groß Raden, a district of Sternberg in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, opened in spring 1999 by Freunde historischer Fahrzeuge e.V. in a restored grain storage building. The collection is dominated by two-wheeled vehicles with a smaller complement of about 8-10 automobiles from 1924-1970.

An automobile and motorcycle museum operating since 1999 in the former carriage house ('Remise') of Schloss Meßkirch, run by the Verein der Oldtimer-Freunde Meßkirch und Umgebung e.V.

A vintage vehicle museum in Hechingen occupying a former department store building (~1,800 m²), presenting the history of mobile transport since 1886 through cars, motorcycles, and tractors, with over 100 vehicles on rotating display.

Opel Classic is Opel's manufacturer-owned heritage vehicle collection, housed in a hall (Hall K6) on the secured Opel factory grounds in Rüsselsheim am Main. It preserves several hundred vehicles spanning more than 160 years of company history, from the 1899 Opel Patent-Motorwagen and the 'Laubfrosch' to postwar touring/rally cars, concept studies, and modern production vehicles.

A private classic-car collection maintained by the Opel dealership Autohaus Konrad Martin GmbH & Co. KG in Stockach, Baden-Württemberg. Displays roughly 20-25+ historic Opel vehicles, most kept running, plus a few vintage motorcycles, illustrating over 80 years of Opel history including rare pre-war convertibles.

A private technology and automobile museum in Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia, founded in 1990 by mechanical engineer Hilmar Born and dedicated to products of Adam Opel AG.

A private vintage vehicle museum in Berlin-Charlottenburg founded by industrialist Hugo Poddig, exhibiting roughly 60 automobiles and 40 motorcycles.

Private Renault museum in Fellbach (near Stuttgart), run by Fritz Schweier, owner of one of Germany's oldest Renault dealerships (Autohaus Schweier, selling Renault since 1951). Since 1999 he has exhibited his collection in a converted glass hall called Primastella.

Private automobile and transport-history museum in Sinsheim, run by Klaus Philipp of Autohaus Philipp, covering roughly 100 years of vehicle history (c. 1908-1990s) across about 2,000 m².

Private museum in Hessisch Oldendorf (Lower Saxony) dedicated exclusively to Karosserie Friedrich Rometsch of Berlin-Halensee, a coachbuilder that produced custom bodies (coupes, cabriolets, taxis) on Volkswagen Beetle chassis from the 1950s into the early 1960s. Opened October 2015 by collectors Traugott and Christian Grundmann.

Private automobile and motorcycle museum in the Fischbach district of Nuremberg, Bavaria, opened May 2024 by builder/hotelier Christian Silberhorn. Houses roughly 90 BMW automobiles (one of the world's largest private BMW collections) and about 230 motorcycles, most of Nuremberg manufacture.

Private vehicle and art museum in the Stritzling district of Lalling, Bavaria (Bavarian Forest), founded 1991 by car dealer Albert Streicher and now run by Roland Streicher. Displays roughly 100 classic and exotic automobiles alongside more than 200 motorcycles and a large model collection.

Private Tatra-marque vehicle collection in Angermünde (Landkreis Uckermark, Brandenburg), maintained by Iris and Jürgen Riesebeck and associated with the Internationaler Kreis der Tatra-Freunde e.V.; described as the only privately-owned Tatra collection open to visitors in Germany.

Founded by Ghanaian businessman Dr. Osei Kwame Despite and opened on 1 June 2025, this is billed as Ghana's first world-class automobile museum, housing more than 60 vehicles spanning vintage classics to modern supercars.

Athens museum owned by the Theodore Charagionis Foundation, opened in March 2011, displaying around 110 of its roughly 300-car collection at a time, spanning from Karl Benz's era to modern cars.

Museum of the Greek Federation of Vintage Vehicles (E.O.O.E) displaying members' restored antique and classic vehicles in Nafplio, one of Greece's historic former capital cities.

Non-profit science center and technology museum near Thessaloniki that restores and exhibits cars of historical and educational value, organized around five thematic units built on landmark 20th-century car models.

Private classic and vintage car exhibition in Óbuda, Budapest, displaying over 100 vehicle rarities across roughly 2,000 m², with quarterly rotating themed exhibits.

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

Private vintage car, motorcycle and microcar collection housed at the Euroring motorsport race track and event center near Örkény.

Private automobile and motorcycle museum near Lake Balaton with roughly 140 vehicles spanning classic cars and motorcycles.

36-hectare open-air park displaying more than 700 unrestored ex-COMECON cars, trucks and buses from the 1960s-1980s.

Classic car and motorcycle museum with an attached café and a glass-walled restoration workshop.

Former private museum in Budapest showcasing American classic cars from the 1940s-1970s plus a few Rolls-Royces.

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.

Founded in 2015 by G.D. Gopal in memory of his father, industrialist G.D. Naidu, this Coimbatore museum displays around 110 cars across roughly 35 brands. A 2023 expansion added a section dedicated to Indian-made automobiles.

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 museum and restoration workshop in Pune operating since 2009, displaying vintage and classic cars including European and American models from the 1950s.

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.

A royal car collection of the Jodhpur royal family displayed in a garage/gallery on the grounds of Umaid Bhawan Palace, which also functions as a hotel and royal residence.

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.

A cafe and restaurant in Lembang owned by Soeyono, a former aide-de-camp to President Suharto, displaying roughly 30 classic cars and motorcycles dating from the 1930s onward as part of the venue's decor.

A private classic car gallery and cafe in South Jakarta with roughly 50 restored, running antique and classic cars, popular for photography and event use.

A private vintage car museum in Denpasar founded by collector Jos Dharmawan and opened in 2019, showcasing pre-1970 imported vehicles from Asia, Europe, and the US alongside an on-site cafe.

A large private vehicle collection in Yogyakarta founded by businessman David Sunar Handoko, reportedly the largest private automotive museum in the city, holding roughly 300 motorcycles and 60 cars spanning multiple eras.

Southeast Asia's first large-scale multi-mode transportation museum, opened in March 2014 on a 3.8-hectare site on the slopes of Mount Panderman, housing more than 500 exhibits including vintage and classic cars organized into themed zones.

A private art and classic car museum opened in April 2018 by the Lukminto family (founders of textile company Sritex) in Solo, combining contemporary art with a small vintage car collection. Visits must be booked online in advance.

Described as Indonesia's first private automotive museum combining a rare car and motorcycle collection with curated thematic displays and an in-house cafe, reported to have opened in early 2026 in South Jakarta.

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.

A planned private museum in Tabriz intended to showcase classic and vintage cars gathered over four decades by Iranian collector Khalil Ghaffari, according to a 2018 report citing the provincial cultural-heritage office.

Historic 17th-century estate near Drogheda whose motor collection was assembled by 1960s-70s racing driver Gabriel Konig (Gabriel De Freitas), featuring classic racing and rally saloons alongside other vintage cars, shown as part of guided estate tours.

Family-run museum (Mitchell family) displaying restored vintage and classic cars including Rolls-Royce, Bentley, Alvis, Armstrong Siddeley and Cork-built Model T Fords, plus motorcycles and automobilia. Particular emphasis is placed on Irish-registered and Irish-assembled cars.

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.

Small private museum formerly operating in Buncrana, Co. Donegal, displaying vintage and classic cars, Victorian bicycles, and model car/railway collections.

A private collection of mostly British vintage cars from the 1930s-40s housed in an old agricultural building at Kibbutz Eyal, owned by Uri Sahar.

Formerly the largest classic car collection in Israel, housed at the Tefen Industrial Park in the Western Galilee and built around industrialist Eitan Wertheimer's private collection, including Israeli-made Autocars Sussita and Sabra models alongside Jaguar, MG, Chevrolet, Cadillac, Lancia, Citroen and Porsche examples.

A private car museum attached to the Ralex Toyota dealership and restoration workshop in Ashdod, founded around 1991 by mechanical engineer Rafael (Rafi) Herscovici, combining a working classic-car restoration shop with a display collection.

A private collection of roughly 60 automobiles spanning the early 20th century to the modern era, located at the Tel Hai Industrial Park near Kiryat Shmona, next to the Open Museum of Photography.

Italy's national automobile museum, opened in its current building in 1960 with roots in a 1932 collection; one of the world's oldest and most significant car museums. Holds roughly 200 vehicles including the 1907 Peking-Paris winning Itala 35/45 HP and the Cisitalia 202.

Private museum founded by Tonino Lamborghini covering his father Ferruccio Lamborghini's full industrial output spanning tractors, cars, helicopters, and boats. First opened in 1995 at Dosso di Sant'Agostino and relocated to Funo di Argelato in 2014.

Private collection founded by Luigi Nicolis and opened in 2000 in Villafranca di Verona, displaying roughly 200 vintage and rare cars alongside motorcycles, bicycles, aircraft, and other mechanical and technological objects.

The Jamaica Classic Car Club (JCCC), founded in 1989 and based in the Kingston area, is Jamaica's principal classic-car club. Club materials describe a long-standing aspiration to build a permanent clubhouse incorporating a 'Classic Car Museum,' but no such physical museum has been built or opened.

Located within the Mobility Resort Motegi complex, this museum displays around 150 Honda motorcycles, cars, power products, and racing machines charting the company's history from its founding to the present. It reopened in March 2024 after a full renovation.