Marque-specific museums & collections

Long-running single-marque museum dedicated to Holden, which opened in Bayswater, Victoria in 1984 and relocated to Echuca in 1993, displaying around 50 vehicles (mostly on loan) at the time of closure.

Museum in a former dairy factory in Gippsland dedicated to telling the complete story of the Holden brand, from the 48-215 through to the HZ series and beyond.

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 museum in Mattsee near Salzburg dedicated to the early career of Ferdinand Porsche, displaying historic Austro-Daimler, Lohner-Porsche and Steyr vehicles connected to his pioneering automotive engineering work.

A museum in Graz on the site of Johann Puch's original factory, tracing the history of the Puch/Steyr-Daimler-Puch marque from bicycles through motorcycles to automobiles.

A marque museum run by Club Lotus Austria in Bad Aussee, displaying Lotus road and sports cars from the Elan and Elite through to the Esprit and Elise. Open during summer months.

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 museum in Judenburg dedicated to the history of the Austrian Puch brand, exhibiting Puch bicycles, motorcycles and automobiles produced over the marque's history.

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.

The collection of the Oldtimer Club Niederoesterreich und Tatra-Sammlung, dedicated to the Czech Tatra marque alongside other classic vehicles. The museum relocated from Woellersdorf-Steinabrueckl to nearby Theresienfeld.

Austria's first VW Beetle museum, located in Gaal, Styria, dedicated to the history and variants of the Volkswagen Beetle. Open on weekends and public holidays from May to October.

Belgium's national automobile museum, housed in the 1880 South Hall of the Cinquantenaire complex, displaying more than 300 cars and motorcycles from 1896 to the present with a strong focus on Belgian marques.

An Americana-themed exhibition run by a motorcycle shop, displaying vehicles such as a Studebaker Avanti and vintage Harley-Davidson and NSU motorcycles.

A private collection of East German IFA-brand vehicles, including Trabants, Wartburgs and Barkas vans built between 1953 and 1991, personally guided by owner Achiel Olbrechts.

Located in the former Saroléa motorcycle factory, this reservation-based guided visit displays the world's largest collection of Saroléa motorcycles alongside Herstal's industrial history since 1830.

Formerly the Abarth Works Museum founded by racer Guy Moerenhout, this museum relocated and reopened under a new name in April 2025, displaying more than 175 Abarth, Fiat, Lancia and other rally-related vehicles.

Volkswagen's historic vehicle collection at its Anchieta plant in São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo, viewable via a scheduled Thursday factory-tour program reopened and expanded in August 2025.

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.

Themed park in Nova Petrópolis, Rio Grande do Sul, dedicated to the Ford Model A, opened in 2026 and featuring around 40 restored vehicles and related exhibits.

Private museum in the Ipiranga district of São Paulo dedicated to the Volkswagen Beetle ("Fusca"), owned by collector Camilo Cristófaro, with roughly 28-30 vehicles.

City-owned museum in Caçapava, São Paulo, reopened in October 2023 after being closed since 1993, displaying 26 vehicles and 10 engines including Willys-Overland Brazil models, Bugatti, Rolls-Royce, Alfa Romeo, Packard, and Cadillac.

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.

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.

Regional museum in Arica displaying cars locally assembled in the city between 1953 and 1976, including Citroën, Opel, Studebaker, Mini, MG, and Simca models.

Established in 2011 as China's only government-led automobile museum, the complex spans roughly 49,000 square metres in Fengtai District. Exhibits trace the invention of the wheel through the development of China's auto industry, including Hongqi state limousines, Shanghai-brand sedans, and early joint-venture models.

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 31,800-square-metre museum being built inside FAW's original factory grounds in Changchun, converted from a 1953 tool-and-die workshop, and scheduled to open to the public on 14 July 2026. Planned themed halls will display about 150 historic vehicles and over a thousand artifacts tracing FAW's 70-plus year history, including the Hongqi marque.

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.

Former single-marque museum devoted to Praga vehicles produced 1908-1989, once rated among the world's most valuable branded car collections.

Museum in a former trolleybus depot in Plzeň combining historic Praga automobiles and motorcycles with modern art installations.

Private museum near Dolní Bousov displaying more than 180 Jawa motorcycles produced between 1929 and 2006, plus a hall of home-built Jawa-engined vehicles.

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

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 of Tatra trucks in a reconstructed former foundry building, displaying nearly 80 vehicles and over 20 engines across 14 chronological thematic units.

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).

One of the largest publicly accessible museums of pre-war Czechoslovak cars in the country, spanning more than 3,000 m² in Olomouc.

Official museum of Škoda Auto in Mladá Boleslav tracing the brand's history from Laurin & Klement (1895) to the present, one of only four automakers worldwide with an unbroken production history since the 1890s.

A small, intimate automobile museum on the island of Samsø dedicated to Morgan sports cars, showing Morgans from 1937 to 2017 alongside other period memorabilia.

A small technical museum on the island of Samsø dedicated primarily to Austin-brand cars, with more than 30 Austins on display along with related technical history.

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.

The only Škoda museum in the world outside the factory museum in the Czech Republic, located on the Krengerup estate near Glamsbjerg on Funen; houses around 30-35 Škoda vehicles from 1937 to 1994.

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.

Motorsport museum housed in the former Ellamaa power station in Turba, presenting the history of Estonian motorsports through race cars and racing equipment.

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.

Located next to the Valmet Automotive factory, this is considered Finland's leading automobile museum and the home of the Finnish automotive industry. It holds roughly 100 cars including Finland's first domestically built car and the country's largest Saab collection, plus mopeds, motorcycles and two aircraft.

A château near Beaune housing around 250 vintage motorcycles (1902-1960), one of the world's rare Abarth prototype racing car collections (around 30 models), and nearly 100 fighter aircraft displayed in the grounds.

France's first private Citroën-dedicated museum, founded by collector Henri Fradet in Castellane, exhibiting over 120 low-mileage, largely unrestored Citroën vehicles produced between 1938 and 1998.

Citroën's manufacturer heritage collection of roughly 370 vehicles, formerly housed at a 6,500 m² site adjacent to the Aulnay-sous-Bois plant, was permanently closed to visitors on 30 June 2024 after the land was reclaimed for redevelopment.

A municipal museum in Romorantin-Lanthenay dedicated to Matra Automobile, which built cars locally from the 1960s until 2003. Spanning over 3,000 m², it covers Matra's origins, competition history, series production and prototypes.

This foundation preserves the heritage of Lyon-based truck, bus and industrial-vehicle manufacturer Berliet (founded 1899, later absorbed into Renault Véhicules Industriels). Its Conservatoire, a 7,200 m² building in Le Montellier (Ain), holds around 280 restored vehicles spanning 30 marques from 1886 to today.

Founded by collector André Sagne and opened on 2 April 1994, this museum exhibited around 60 pre-1940 French vehicles including Bugatti, Hotchkiss, Panhard-Levassor and Lorraine-Dietrich models. It closed permanently in 2004.

Located in Sochaux beside the Peugeot factory, this museum traces the 200-year industrial history of the Peugeot family enterprise, from tools, bicycles and sewing machines to automobiles. It displays over 100 vehicles spanning the marque's history.

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 municipal history museum in a former Carthusian monastery in Molsheim, which also houses the Fondation Bugatti honoring Ettore Bugatti, whose automobile factory has stood on the town's edge since 1909.

A museum in Melle dedicated to the Monet & Goyon motorcycle marque, built from the Gagnaire family collection, displaying 60 fully restored machines produced between 1917 and 1959.

Renault's heritage vehicle collection of over 700 cars is currently stored within the Flins factory and is not open to the public. Renault has announced an 11,500 m² public museum, working name 'Les Collections', to open at Flins-sur-Seine by around 2027.

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 museum in Pilsting, Bavaria, founded by Dr. Konrad Auwärter to preserve the history of the family's Gottlob Auwärter/Neoplan bus-manufacturing business. On about 3,000 m² it displays roughly 20 historic Neoplan and other buses alongside about 25 automobiles, plus some motorcycles and tractors.

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 manufacturer-owned vehicle collection housed at the former Karmann headquarters in Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, documenting the history of coachbuilder Wilhelm Karmann and its collaboration with Volkswagen. It comprises over 100 vehicles, prototypes, design studies and cutaway models, including the Karmann Ghia, Beetle Cabriolet, Scirocco, Corrado and the VW XL1.

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.

Private automobile museum in the Hörstmar district of Lemgo, Lippe district, North Rhine-Westphalia. Founded in 1993 by orthopedic surgeon Klaus Otto Räker; now run by Gerrit Emmerich following Räker's death in 2019.

Collection in Erndtebrück, North Rhine-Westphalia, now managed by the Rudolf-Bald-Stiftung, comprising one of the world's largest collections of roadworthy historic BMW boxer motorcycles (1923 to the mid-1970s) alongside a small number of military and vintage vehicles.

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 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.

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 collection of vintage and rare Land Rover vehicles associated with the Land Rover restoration specialist Landypoint GmbH in Neidingen, a district of Beuron, Baden-Württemberg.

A privately run Toyota marque museum in the Hartkirchen district of Pocking, Bavaria, founded in 1994 by longtime Toyota dealer Peter Pichert, displaying more than 120 Toyota vehicles including Corolla, Celica, Crown, Cressida and Carina models.

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 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.

A small in-house museum/showroom at the headquarters of Irmscher Automobilbau GmbH & Co. KG, an Opel tuning company founded in 1968, in Remshalden, Baden-Württemberg, displaying around 20 Irmscher-built or -tuned vehicles.

A private collection of Mitsubishi-related vehicles and products in Rettenberg, Bavaria, assembled by collector Matthias Lang and opened in 2015, housed at a private equestrian facility.

A private Lamborghini collection in Stuttgart-Plieningen belonging to Robert 'Bob' Forstner, an authorized Lamborghini dealer since 1993, displaying around 20 selected Lamborghini models.

An automobile museum in Hameln, Lower Saxony, located in the Hefehof complex; it opened on 1 July 2006 and is run by the Förderverein der Fahrzeuggeschichte Hameln e.V. It documents the history of vehicle manufacturing in Hameln, focusing on the local marques Norddeutsche Automobilwerke (NAW) and Selve, active from 1907 to 1929.

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.

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.

An Opel-operated 'experience park' on the factory grounds in Rüsselsheim, Hesse, opened May 1999, combining a factory tour with interactive exhibits, driving simulators and a showcase of current, concept and historic Opel models.

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.

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.

Automobile museum in Bedburg-Rath (North Rhine-Westphalia), housed in a manor estate (Schopenhof) with 12th-century origins, opened September 1992 and dedicated to French automaker Lucien Rosengart, whose cars (built partly under Austin Seven license) it displays.

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.

A marque museum in Wald-Michelbach, Hesse, dedicated to the Stettin-based car and bicycle manufacturer Stoewer, built around a private collection assembled by collector Manfred Bauer, open from April 2002.

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.

Automobile museum in Berlin-Kreuzberg near Checkpoint Charlie dedicated to the Trabant, opened June 1, 2014 and operated by André Prager.

Former Trabant-focused automobile museum in Kölleda, Thuringia, opened August 27, 2016 by Trabiparadies Kölleda e.V., which took over the collection from the earlier Trabiparadies Weberstedt; exhibits emphasized customized/modified Trabants.

The Unimog-Museum in Gaggenau-Bad Rotenfels documents the history, technology and applications of the Mercedes-Benz Unimog all-wheel-drive utility vehicle, near where series production began in 1951. Opened June 2006 and reopened early 2023 after an expansion that doubled exhibition space.

A factory museum operated by VEB Automobilwerk Eisenach (AWE), opened October 1967 in an exhibition pavilion on Wartburgallee in Eisenach, displaying vehicles tied to Eisenach's automobile-manufacturing history centered on the Wartburg marque.

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.

Ireland's only dedicated motorsport museum, housed at the Mondello Park racing circuit. It showcases the Martin Birrane Collection of historic Formula One, IndyCar, NASCAR and sportscar/touring racers assembled by the circuit's late owner and racer Martin Birrane.

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.

Lamborghini's company museum at the Sant'Agata Bolognese factory, opened in 2001 and substantially renovated and expanded in June 2016. Displays historic and current models including the 350 GT, Miura, Countach, and Sesto Elemento, plus a driving simulator.