Classic (postwar-70s) museums & collections

A private collection near Mount Fuji pairing vintage and classic automobiles with restored World War II-era Japanese fighter aircraft, including Zero fighters; the museum opens to the public only during August each year, with restoration work continuing the rest of the year.

Mazda's museum at its Hiroshima head office traces the company's history from its origins as a cork manufacturer through rotary-engine development and motorsport success, including the Le Mans-winning 787B; visits are by guided tour only, booked online in advance.

Toyota's large showroom and classic-car exhibition complex in Tokyo's Odaiba district, which included the "History Garage" collection of vintage vehicles, permanently closed on December 31, 2021, and the site was demolished in 2022.

Established in 1978 in Komatsu, this is Japan's first and largest dedicated automobile museum, displaying more than 500 vehicles including American classics, European exotics, and historic Japanese cars across roughly 12,000 square meters.

Nissan's official vehicle archive in Zama, Kanagawa, preserves roughly 400 historic Nissan and Datsun cars, prototypes, and race cars, and is open to the public only through scheduled guided tours booked in advance.

Opened in 1997 in Okaya's Toriidaira Yamabiko Park, this was Japan's first single-model automobile museum, and it displays a rotating collection of Prince and Nissan Skyline vehicles spanning the model's history.

Opened in 1989 by Toyota Motor Corporation in Nagakute, this museum traces the global history of the automobile through roughly 140 vehicles from Japan, Europe, and the United States dating from the late 19th century to the present. Since 2023 it has also housed an exhibition dedicated to the Japan Automotive Hall of Fame.

The first public automotive museum in the Arab region, inaugurated in 2003 by King Abdullah II as a tribute to the late King Hussein of Jordan, displaying roughly 70-80 vehicles and motorcycles from the king's personal collection.

A Kuwaiti classic car museum opened in October 2010 with support from former PM Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah, housing over 30 restored historic cars from the early 1900s through the 1970s, alongside a children's driving track.

The largest antique vehicle museum in Latvia and the Baltic states, founded in 1989 and fully renovated in 2016, housing more than 100 unique vehicles including the 'Kremlin Collection' of Soviet leaders' limousines.

Volunteer-run museum reopened in Seduva in 2016 (originally founded in Kaunas in 2013), containing nearly 100 vehicles including cars, motorbikes, lorries and minibuses, plus WWII-era and older military equipment.

Lithuania's largest private historic transportation museum, opened in 2023 in the former Vilnius Taxi Park, exhibiting over 100 vehicles from more than 70 brands including Rolls-Royce, Hispano-Suiza and Ferrari.

A private car and motorcycle museum owned by collector Chin Jit Pyng, opened to the public in 2023 with more than 100 vehicles across roughly ten themed sections.

An outdoor park in downtown Malacca displaying vintage vehicles near Dutch Square, part of a cluster of PERZIM-run heritage attractions.

A land-transport museum that formerly displayed around 50 antique vehicles including cars, motorcycles, bicycles, and ox-carts at the Melaka International Trade Centre.

Malaysia's national automotive history museum, opened in March 2004 at the Sepang International Circuit, with two floors covering the country's transport history and national automotive industry including Proton, Perodua, and Modenas.

A private royal collection of 49 cars and 20 motorcycles belonging to the Sultan of Selangor, housed at Istana Alam Shah palace in Klang.

Private museum in Le Diamant, Martinique holding a collection of Simca automobiles described by multiple French tourism sources as unique in the world, assembled by collector Christian Gallet-de-Saint-Aurin.

A purpose-built museum under construction in Beaux Songes, Mauritius, funded by UK businessman Terry Smith via the Star & Key Foundation, that will house more than 200 vintage, classic, and supercar vehicles including several notable film cars. Construction began in April 2024 with an announced opening in late 2026.

Private museum established in 1995 by the Puebla chapter of the Club Mexicano del Automóvil Antiguo (founded 1968), displaying members' antique and classic cars, including a section on 18th-19th century horse-drawn carriages.

Housed in a former army barracks in Parque Niños Héroes and inaugurated in July 1990, displaying more than 60 antique and classic automobiles from the early 1900s through the 1960s across two permanent halls.

Latin America's pioneering classic-car museum, founded by Arturo Pérez Gutiérrez and opened around 1989/1991 in San Pablo Tepetlapa, Coyoacán; displayed more than 120 vehicles from 1904 onward, including steam-, gasoline-, and diesel-powered cars, with roughly 30 cars rotated periodically from lending collectors. Permanently closed in December 2021.

Private museum in Cancún founded and directed by Benjamín de la Peña, dedicated to the history of the Carrera Panamericana road race; holds roughly 45 antique and classic automobiles (1917-1992) plus an archive of more than 18,000 photographs and 200 hours of film on the race.

Small private museum started by retired teacher José Cruz Jiménez, opened April 2010 from a personally assembled collection of vehicles and automotive memorabilia; relocated more than once, including to the founder's home during the COVID-19 pandemic, before reaching its current site.

State-run museum in the former La Constancia Mexicana textile factory, opened January 2017, showcasing historic Volkswagen and Audi vehicles produced in or important to Mexico's auto industry, alongside a rotating temporary exhibition hall.

Run by the Royal Automobile Club Marocain, this museum near Casablanca presents the history of the automobile through permanent and rotating exhibitions of more than 50 vehicles, from antique cars to race cars, plus an on-site restoration workshop. It opened its current exhibition space on 21 February 2024.

A collector car museum near Rabat's Poney-Club, reportedly founded with backing from an Emirati sheikh and described at its opening as the largest museum of its kind in Africa.

Run by the Old Wheelers Club, Namibia's antique-vehicle club founded in 1986, this museum in Windhoek has been open to visitors since December 2013, displaying cars, motorcycles, and engines more than 20 years old.

The first Dutch museum dedicated to Opel, displaying roughly 55-70 Opel classics from 1935-1980 alongside Opel-branded memorabilia and period settings.

One of the largest car museums in the Netherlands, displaying more than 400 classic and exotic cars, trucks, and motorcycles from the private Frans van Haren collection in a 30,000 square-meter waterside hall.

A private family collection emphasizing pre-war French cars and 1950s-60s English sports cars, plus a near-complete range of DAF passenger car models.

Christchurch collection of rare and sought-after vehicles, viewable only through pre-arranged bookings and guided tours.

Hamilton museum owned by local businessman Tom Andrews, featuring over 100 classic cars alongside an extensive collection of petrol and motoring memorabilia.

South Canterbury museum with over 1,400 exhibits, including around 30 vintage cars from 1905 and 101 tractors from 1912 onward, among them the oldest working tractor in New Zealand.

Museum in Nelson displaying more than 150 classic cars in immaculate condition, formerly associated with the World of WearableArt collection.

The largest vintage and specialty vehicle collection in the Southern Hemisphere, founded in the 1970s by Len Southward and now managed by a charitable trust, housing over 400 vehicles across two showrooms.

Christchurch's oldest private museum collection, established 1968, featuring vintage cars, horse-drawn carriages, motorcycles, tractors and agricultural equipment in Yaldhurst.

Nostalgia museum in Frøland (Samnanger), focused on the 1950s-60s, owned and operated by Anton Kåre Drønen in a former schoolhouse purchased in 2007; ground floor displays vintage vehicles and period artifacts, upper floor recreates everyday life of past decades.

Museum in Kaupanger showcasing the personal collection of the late Bjarne Lerum, who collected and restored cars until his death in 2010; roughly 24 vehicles including five Mercedes-Benz SL models spanning 1956-2003.

Car-history center near Oslo Gardermoen airport run by Eight AmCars Club (founded 1977), preserving American 'orphan' makes that lost out to Ford and GM between 1946-1966; roughly 120 of the club's 400+ cars are on display.

Formerly Norway's oldest continuously operating car museum, located in a former brewery basement in Horten, covering automotive history from 1904 to 1973 with cars ranging from a De Dion-Bouton to Porsche 356 and Ferrari 246 GT.

Combined museum complex at Fornebu (Bærum) with a changing exhibition of classic and exotic cars, said to be Northern Europe's largest Vespa scooter collection, model aircraft and a model railway.

Private farm museum in Markabygda run by the Friberg family since 1990; tractors dominate the collection alongside cars, motorcycles, mopeds and everyday household antiques.

Self-owned foundation established 1990 on the Lindstad Vestre farm in Stange, preserving around 400 motorized vehicles and machines (roughly 200 on display) - predominantly tractors and stationary engines, but also vintage cars, motorcycles and construction machinery.

Preservation center run by Motorhistorisk Klubb Drammen (founded 1972) at the former Burud site in Øvre Eiker, focused on motor vehicles and memorabilia from the 1950s-70s, with garages, a workshop and a recreated vintage gas station.

State-run road-history museum complex near Hunderfossen outside Lillehammer, operated by the Norwegian Public Roads Administration (Statens vegvesen). Includes the Norwegian Vehicle History Museum (Norsk Kjøretøyhistorisk Museum), with over 80 historic cars, motorcycles, mopeds and bicycles from the early 1900s to the 1990s, plus a large road-history exhibition and open-air museum park.

Private marque-specific collection of Opel automobiles produced between 1909 and 1991, along with other Opel-branded objects and memorabilia.

Combined diner, café and small museum in Eiken (Agder) celebrating 1950s-60s American and Norwegian nostalgia; rebuilt after a fire destroyed the original building in December 2019. Regularly hosts classic car and motorcycle meets.

Cultural-history museum in Treungen (Nissedal, Telemark) with more than 50 thematic exhibitions, including a display of rare vintage cars alongside antique toys, hats, oriental rugs and other collectibles.

Privately owned museum in a former gas station in Ådalsbruk, Løten, established 2013, displaying around 80 motorcycles, mopeds and scooters plus roughly 40 old cars (oldest from 1923).

A museum established per the vision of the late Sultan Qaboos bin Said, who began collecting cars in the early 1970s; the current building dates to 2012 and formally opened to the public on December 10, 2024, at Bait Al Barakah Royal Palace in Seeb.

Pakistan's first antique car museum, launched online in May 2022 by collector Shoaib Qureshy, aggregating more than 100 antique and vintage cars owned by private Pakistani collectors, organized by decade from the 1920s to 1980s.

A government-run museum operated by the National Historical Commission of the Philippines within Quezon Memorial Circle, displaying official cars used by Philippine presidents from Emilio Aguinaldo through Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Formally inaugurated in 2018, it underwent renovation and re-opened in December 2024.

A privately owned museum billed as the first dedicated Toyota car museum in Southeast Asia, opened in late 2022, housing roughly 50 restored Toyota vehicles on rotating display spanning the 1960s to the modern era.

Private museum in Gdynia-Cisowa styled as a 1920s street scene, with roughly 200 fully restored and drivable vehicles (about 50 cars and 150 motorcycles).

The first permanent vintage-vehicle exhibition in the Lublin region, opened May 2023, showing around 30 operational vehicles from a wider collection of nearly 100.

Poland's largest standing automotive exhibition, with over 300 vehicles displayed inside the former paint shop of the FSO passenger-car factory in Warsaw's Żerań district, including FSO-built Warszawa, Syrena, Fiat 125p and Polonez models alongside foreign marques.

Small collection housed at a vocational school, originating from a 1992 student restoration project; includes 13 cars and 21 motorcycles from Polish, Czechoslovak, East/West German, Soviet and Hungarian production.

Family-run museum in the Masurian lake region housed in two manor buildings, with about 200 exhibits focused on Polish motorization history.

Newly opened (2025) museum in a restored former Electrocarbon factory building, presenting over 700 exhibits across three guided exhibitions: bicycles/mopeds, motorcycles, and classic cars.

Museum run by the 'Moto-Retro' association of old-motorization enthusiasts in a former military garage, with cars and motorcycles from the 1930s-1981 plus firefighting, transit and militaria artifacts.

Poland's largest private automotive museum, founded 1995, displaying over 300 historic vehicles, motorcycles, bicycles and rickshaws from the 1920s through the PRL era, plus thousands of period props and memorabilia.

Two-level automotive museum on the grounds of Topacz Castle near Wrocław, opened 2010, with roughly 100-200 vehicles spanning pre-war to PRL-era Polish and international motorization.

Club-run museum founded 2006 by Automobilklub Beskidzki in a former fruit-processing plant, with about a dozen roadworthy historic cars and a similar number of motorcycles from the interwar period onward.

A classic-motorization collection referenced in local directories and social media, reportedly also offering classic car rentals.

Private open-air and tent-hall museum near Łowicz, founded 2012, showing several hundred exhibits including over 100 historic cars and roughly 200 motorcycles/mopeds/scooters, plus aircraft and farm machinery.

A recurring exhibition of privately owned historic vehicles belonging to Automobilklub Wielkopolski members, staged periodically in Pavilion 12 of the Poznań International Fair grounds rather than as a permanent standalone museum.

Opened June 2024, billed as the largest private motorization museum in Central Europe, spanning roughly 5,500 m2 with around 300 cars, 100 motorcycles and 192 bicycles.

Private museum near Łódź showcasing roughly 300 historic vehicles spanning motoring history.

Museum on the grounds of the Królowa Luiza mining heritage site, run by Automobilklub Śląski, showing cars and motorcycles largely on loan/deposit from private collectors, with rotating exhibits.

Private museum near Brzozów created by Andrzej Bieńczak, showing over 70 antique car models spanning more than 100 years of motoring history.

A combined theatre, music club and rotating automotive museum in a historic former cinema building in the Piotrowice district, with over 30 exhibits on rotating display.

A private collection of the Batista family in Trofa, coordinated through the local municipal council, displaying around 60 cars including a 1916 Hanomag, Volkswagen Beetles, Citroën 2CV and a Lancia Lambda.

Inaugurated in 2013 in Ribeirão, near Vila Nova de Famalicão, this museum occupies over 3,000 square meters and traces automobile design through the 20th century with roughly 150 cars, motorcycles and bicycles.

A forthcoming national automobile museum being developed by Qatar Museums in the former Doha Exhibition Centre building along the Lusail Expressway, designed by OMA (Rem Koolhaas) and originally targeted to open around 2026.

A dedicated car museum within the large private Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani Museum complex at Al Samriya Estate, displaying more than 600 vehicles spanning over 120 years of automotive history, from steam cars to modern sports cars.

Private museum founded in 2014 by engineer Emil Hagi, dedicated to vehicles manufactured in Romania, with roughly 70 cars in various restoration stages including Dacia, ARO, Oltcit and pre-war Ford România models.

Small royal vehicle collection housed in a converted garage on the Săvârșin Royal Estate, exhibiting cars and a photographic history linked to King Michael I of Romania, including Jeeps relocated from the Versoix estate in Switzerland in 2017.

Romania's first private automobile gallery, exhibiting roughly 300 of the approximately 400 vehicles and motorcycles owned by businessman Ion Țiriac, spanning 1899 to the present.

Private museum opened in 2019 that brings together more than 150 cars from private collectors to illustrate the evolution of automobile design worldwide.

Official museum of the AvtoVAZ automobile plant tracing the history of Zhiguli and Lada production cars, from the first models to modern vehicles, alongside unique prototypes and concept cars built on Lada platforms.

Official museum of the GAZ automobile plant, tracing the history of the Volga, Chaika and GAZ trucks alongside the company's manufacturing heritage.

Museum dedicated to the Garage of Special Purpose (GON), the historic Soviet and Russian state motor pool, displaying government limousines and motorcycles used by national leaders.

Family-run museum opened in 1999 from a collection built since 1964, displaying more than 85 restored antique cars and motorcycles, including Stalin's ZIS-110 limousine and rare pre-war foreign models.

Opened in 2003, this Moscow museum displays roughly 260 vintage cars, trucks, buses, motorcycles and bicycles, with exhibition themes covering Moskvich history and the Soviet automotive industry.

One of the world's largest museums of military and automotive technology, part of the UMMC Museum Complex funded by the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company. Displays more than 500 Soviet and foreign vintage cars, motorcycles, bicycles and trucks across a large indoor hall plus an 8-hectare open-air exhibit.

Russia's largest privately owned technical museum, established in 2001, showcasing retro cars, motorcycles, and military vehicles from the early 20th century through the Soviet era.

Opened in 2002 as the first dedicated car museum in Russia, housed in a reconstructed 1939 building, with more than 50 antique cars and motorcycles from the 1920s-1970s, including GAZ-21 Volgas and Ural motorcycles.

A private/municipal classic car museum in Buraydah, Al-Qassim Region, displaying over 300 vehicles manufactured between 1899 and 1979, including cars linked to prominent Saudi figures and to Aramco.

A personal collection of roughly 36 mostly American classic cars housed in a private garage in Riyadh, assembled by retired academic Dr. Nasser Al-Massari; select cars are also shown publicly at the weekly Cars and Coffee gathering at Granada Market.

A combined heritage and classic car museum in Riyadh Al-Khabra, Al-Qassim Region, founded by Abdulrahman bin Nasser Al-Abry, pairing a folk-heritage exhibit with a courtyard display of classic cars and antique fuel pumps.

A large heritage complex surrounding the Murabba Palace in Riyadh, inaugurated in 1999, that includes an exhibition hall displaying King Abdulaziz Al Saud's personal car collection alongside the broader National Museum, library, and palace buildings.

Formerly Serbia's flagship car museum, jointly founded by the City of Belgrade and collector Bratislav Petković, holding roughly 100 historically significant vehicles plus an archive/library on the history of Serbian motoring and the Belgrade Grand Prix.

Private museum of a local classic car club/owner (Ján Horňák) with a permanent exhibition of roughly 14 historic cars and motorcycles, presented with period music and guided commentary.

Described as one of the largest sports and exotic car museums in Central Europe, spread across five floors of a converted factory building in Brezno, with more than 120 cars organized by decade from the 1970s to the present.

A private showroom/museum in Košice affiliated with the Cassovia veteran vehicle club, historically displaying around 20 cars (mostly Czechoslovak-made, including Škoda rarities), a few motorcycles, two trucks, and period memorabilia.

Opened in June 2023 by the Zemplín Veterán Klub Michalovce with support from a regional grant program, displaying historic automobiles and motorcycles connected to a children's rest zone and the 'Veterán Express' sightseeing tourist train.

Opened in summer 2023 at the P3 Bratislava Airport logistics park in Ivanka pri Dunaji, showcasing more than 80 historic vehicles made in Czechoslovakia, with emphasis on the First Republic (pre-war) era, across roughly 1,400 m² on two floors.

Branch of the Slovak Technical Museum (STM) Košice, located on the site of Bratislava's first steam-railway station. Comprehensively documents the history of road and rail transport in Slovakia from the mid-19th century to the 1980s.

One of Slovakia's largest private technical museums, founded by the Belaň brothers, housed across five buildings on the DKP Slovakia company premises. Features more than 150 motorcycles and vintage vehicles alongside firefighting, agricultural, and craft equipment, plus an attached toy museum.