General/Multi-marque museums & collections

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 Nepal Army's national military history museum in Kathmandu, opened in 2005, which displays Nepal's first Rolls-Royce (gifted by Queen Elizabeth II to King Mahendra in 1961) alongside military vehicles, a light tank and a Skyvan aircraft.

The former royal palace of Nepal, converted into a public museum in 2008, displaying former royal vehicles among its state-gift and historical exhibits.

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 volunteer-run regional museum displaying around 50 vintage cars (including Dutch DAFs) plus motorcycles, mopeds, and antique farm tools and bicycles.

Former car and motorcycle museum built around Max Lips's vintage vehicle collection; the museum function ended in 2003 and most vehicles were transferred to the Louwman Museum.

Housed in a former Mercedes-Benz dealership, this free museum displays around 38 classic and modern classic cars, roughly half of them Mercedes-Benz and AMG models.

A combined car museum, classic-car sales gallery, and events venue displaying a rotating collection of veteran, pre-war and post-war classic cars alongside modern exotics.

A 'living' collection of roughly 200 mostly post-war classic cars that changes as vehicles are bought and sold, located in the tourist village of Giethoorn.

World's oldest private car collection, housed in a purpose-built museum designed by Michael Graves, with roughly 275 automobiles, motorcycles, and carriages dating from 1886 to the present.

A BOVAG-recognized museum opened in 2022 displaying around 140 cars from 1926-2018 with a strong emphasis on French marques, plus dedicated Renault Sport/Alpine and Opel sub-collections.

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

Invercargill's leading visitor attraction and the largest automotive/transport museum of its type in the world, built from one man's passion into a major family legacy collection of trucks, cars and transport memorabilia.

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

Family-owned Invercargill hardware store, trading since 1932, which displays the free-to-view E Hayes Motorworks Collection of classic motorcycles, automobiles and engines, built around Burt Munro's record-breaking 'World's Fastest Indian' motorcycle.

Far North collection near Awanui featuring an extensive range of Farmall tractors from the 1920s-1960s, stationary engines, and vintage cars including Nash, Morris, Chevrolet and Singer models.

New Zealand's largest transport, technology and social history museum, established in 1960 and spread across two sites (Western Springs and Meola Road) linked by a vintage tram, covering road vehicles, aviation and rail.

The Southern Hemisphere's largest private transport and toy collection, open to the public for over 60 years, located next to Wanaka Airport in Central Otago.

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.

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.

Volunteer-run technical museum in a former tram depot (Trikkestallen) in Møhlenpris, Bergen, with motor cars, commercial vehicles, a working heritage tram line, a print shop and a large model railway.

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.

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.

Volunteer/charity-run museum in central Narvik, entered through the War Museum and tourist information office, covering local vehicle history - everyday motoring, caravanning, buses, taxis and ferries - with a model railway of the Ofotbanen line.

Private collection of vintage vehicles and objects in the Verdal area, owned by collector Håkon Arndal.

Museum in Eide depicting the mining company of Nils 'Nilsen' Naas, exhibiting classic cars alongside tractors and mining equipment.

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.

Private tractor and motor museum near Sandefjord Torp in Stokke, founded 2003, focused on preserving historic tractors and motors alongside some vehicles.

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.

Norway's national museum for science, technology, industry, transport and medicine, in Oslo, with more than 25 exhibitions including automobiles, motorcycles, aircraft and trains.

Museum run by classic car club Gammelbilens Venner (founded 1974) in Klepp, showing 100 years of automotive history including passenger cars, fire trucks, motorcycles and vintage workshop equipment.

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.

A national heritage museum on Shakarparian hills in Islamabad that added two historic state vehicles to its exhibits in 2015, alongside its broader collection on Pakistan's history and culture.

Club-run museum on the sixth floor of the Touring y Automóvil Club Paraguayo headquarters in Asunción, exhibiting Paraguay's oldest known automobile and race photographs dating to 1921.

Family classic car collection in Arequipa marketed as the city's first antique-car museum, open on weekends.

Peru's first and largest classic car museum, opened in 2002 by collector Jorge Nicolini Bernucci in La Molina, Lima, with more than 120 restored vehicles dating from 1901 and a working restoration workshop.

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.

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.

City-founded (1998) museum in a historic tram depot, tracing Polish motorization from the interwar period through the PRL era, including rare unproduced prototypes.

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.

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.

One of Poland's largest technical museums, in a heritage-listed tram depot, holding nearly 100 antique vehicles alongside trams, buses, motorcycles and household/electronic technology.

Poland's largest technical museum, housed since 1955 in the Palace of Culture and Science, with exhibits spanning historic cars, motorcycles, bicycles, locomotives and industrial technology.

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.

Founded in the 1950s by brothers Abel and João de Lacerda in the hill town of Caramulo, this is one of Portugal's premier automobile museums, spanning vehicles from an 1886 Benz Dreirad to modern racing cars.

Housed in Porto's historic Alfândega Nova (customs house) on the Douro riverfront, this multi-modal transport museum includes the permanent exhibition 'O automóvel no espaço e no tempo' on automobile history and 'O motor da República,' featuring cars used by Portuguese presidents since 1910.

A municipal museum in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico founded in 2013 documenting the history of transportation from native canoes and horse carriages to the Tren Urbano subway, with a first floor of permanent exhibits and a second floor of rotating automotive exhibitions.

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.

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.

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.

Civic association founded in 2016 with the goal of opening a museum in Svätý Jur documenting the history and production of automobiles in Slovakia.

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.

A branch of the Slovak Technical Museum located at Košice Airport; primarily an aviation museum, but it includes a 'Road Transport Exhibition' created with the Cassovia Retro veteran vehicle club, featuring mostly Czechoslovak-made vintage cars, motorcycles and bicycles.

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.

Castle-based cultural institute exhibit tracing the rise in living standards 'from bicycles to cars,' displaying a mix of vehicles, motorcycles and other objects, some awaiting restoration.

Slovenia's national technical museum, housed in a former Carthusian monastery at Bistra, with a 2,300 m² road-vehicle hall of roughly 50 cars and 50 motorcycles plus a separate permanent exhibit of vehicles once used by Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito.

Museum on a renovated old farm run by the Oldtimer Stara Gora heritage society, displaying vintage tractors, motorcycles, mopeds, farm equipment and a wine collection; opened 2017 after 20,000+ volunteer hours of restoration.

Run by the Albany Vintage and Classic Motor Club in Port Alfred, this museum displays more than 100 vehicles dating from 1901 to 1980, including cars, motorcycles, bicycles, and engines.

Located on the L'Ormarins wine estate near Franschhoek, this museum displays a rotating selection of roughly 80 vehicles from a collection of more than 200 spanning over 100 years of motoring history, across four climate-controlled halls. The collection originated with Dr. Anton Rupert and was relocated here from the former Heidelberg Motor Museum, opening to the public in May 2007.

Opened in 1974 by Dr. Anton Rupert to display his personal car collection, this museum in Heidelberg, Gauteng was a popular attraction for over two decades before closing.

Located within the Casterbridge Lifestyle Centre in the Lowveld region, this museum displays more than 60 classic cars, motorcycles, and motoring memorabilia spanning a century of motoring.

A private collection near the small town of Lothair, Mpumalanga, displaying more than 50 vehicles including classic cars, tractors, and motorcycles in a converted barn.

A large private collection reputed to be one of South Africa's biggest, featuring both restored classic cars and a large yard of unrestored 'barn find' vehicles, with a mounted passenger aircraft visible from the N1 highway near Cape Town.