Modern/Contemporary museums & collections

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.

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.

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.

Finland's largest private automobile museum, spread over three floors in Vaasa with more than 300 vehicles and engines, ranging from civilian and Japanese cars to racing cars, aircraft engines and moped rarities.

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.

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 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.

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.

An announced automotive museum and science-center combination billed as one of Southeast Asia's largest automotive attractions, blending supercar exhibits with hands-on science and technology experiences.

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.

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.

Nissan's free public gallery on the ground floor of its Global Headquarters in Yokohama displays 20 to 30 current, concept, and heritage vehicles, including classic Datsun and Skyline GT-R models alongside its electric-vehicle lineup.

Located at Subaru's Yajima Plant, this visitor center introduces the company's brand philosophy, engineering, and manufacturing process and displays historic and current Subaru vehicles; visits require advance reservation as part of a plant tour.

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.

Toyota's corporate showroom and museum in Toyota City introduces the company's history, products, and manufacturing philosophy, and serves as the starting point for guided tours of the adjacent Toyota Motor plant.

Factory and showroom of Bufori, a boutique manufacturer of handcrafted luxury automobiles that relocated from Sydney, Australia to Kepong, Kuala Lumpur in the late 1990s. Group factory tours show hand-fabrication of car bodies and upholstery.

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.

Interactive automotive-history museum within the state-run Parque Guanajuato Bicentenario, opened in 2018, combining permanent educational exhibits (assembly-line experience, "anatomy of the automobile") with rotating displays of private classic-car collections and new-vehicle launches.

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.

Opened February 26, 2022 and owned by the Instituto de Ciencias y Estudios Superiores de Tamaulipas (ICEST); exhibits over 100 vehicles dating from the late 1800s to the 2010s divided into antique, classic, and contemporary categories.

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.

Announced in 2024 as Porsche's first regional Experience Centre in Southeast Asia, planned to include themed exhibitions with rotating historic cars from the Porsche Museum archive in Stuttgart, a handling track, and dining facilities, targeted to open in 2027.

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 Volkswagen-branded heritage museum and expo centre adjacent to the Volkswagen South Africa assembly plant, showcasing VW's South African history since 1946 alongside factory tours.

Hyundai Motorstudio Busan occupies the former F1963 Kiswire wire-rope factory in Suyeong-gu and combines Hyundai design exhibitions with a library, workshop space, and restaurant. It opened in 2016 under the theme 'Design to Live By.'

Hyundai Motorstudio Goyang is a brand experience space operated by Hyundai Motor Company inside the KINTEX exhibition complex, showcasing current production and concept vehicles alongside design and mobility exhibits. It opened in 2018 as one of Hyundai's flagship domestic Motorstudio venues.

Hyundai Motorstudio Hanam is a Hyundai-operated design and mobility exhibition space located on the first floor of the Starfield Hanam shopping mall. It displays current Hyundai models, concept vehicles, and design-themed exhibits that rotate periodically.

Hyundai Motorstudio Seoul in Apgujeong is Hyundai's flagship brand experience center, reopened in September 2025 after a full renovation spanning five floors, including an auto-themed library and a floor dedicated to the Hyundai N performance brand.

Kia360 is Kia's flagship brand experience center in Apgujeong, Seoul, built around a 360-degree track-shaped layout with zones for brand and design storytelling, EV experiences, and a Kia User & Heritage Zone that digitally recreates the brand's history.

Located at Renault Korea's Busan assembly plant, this factory gallery opened as the Renault Samsung Culture Center in 2001 and was renamed in 2006. It displays cutaway SM7/QM5 vehicle and engine models plus historic Renault Samsung/Renault Korea production cars.

Housed in the former Tabacalera tobacco factory, this museum presents almost 100 cars curated as 'the car as a work of art,' paired with vintage haute couture and hats from the 1920s-1950s. Opened in 2010, it is one of Spain's best-known automotive museums.

Opened in April 2023 in Finestrat (Alicante), this 3,000 sqm museum displays around 60-80 vehicles and motorcycles from the 1920s to today, plus well-known film and TV vehicle replicas.

Museum in the Innovatum district of Trollhättan covering the full history of Saab automobiles from the first prototype to the final production models. Collection totals roughly 120-140 cars, with about 70 normally on display.

Volvo Cars' and Volvo Group's joint brand experience centre and museum, opened April 2024 as successor to the former Volvo Museum in Arendal (closed December 2023). Displays Volvo's automotive, truck, bus, construction and marine/industrial engine history from 1927 to present, blended with interactive digital exhibits.

A two-building car exhibit within the privately owned Nong Nooch Tropical Botanical Garden, showcasing owner Kampon Tansacha's personal collection of more than 100 vehicles in air-conditioned halls.

Museum run by the Aston Martin Heritage Trust in a 14th-century tithe barn, tracing over 110 years of Aston Martin history through cars, archive material and memorabilia.

Independent museum combining classic cars with an extensive James Bond 007 memorabilia collection, including film props and vehicles such as the Lotus Esprit S1 used in 'The Spy Who Loved Me'.

Britain's newest motor museum (opened November 2023) in a former 1836 department store in central Taunton, displaying around 100 cars and 80+ motorcycles focused on the 1950s-1990s.

Interactive museum telling the story of British car manufacturing from 1922 to the present through more than 130 British-built cars, plus 'Drive Dad's Car' — the UK's largest classic car driving experience with over 60 drivable classics on-site.

East Midlands heritage motoring hub converted from the former Rolls-Royce Heritage Centre at the historic Victoria Ironworks site, featuring vintage vehicle exhibitions, dehumidified car storage, and rotating displays plus talks with collector-car figures.

The UK's largest collection of cars and motorcycles, with over 300 vehicles spanning from the earliest days of motoring to modern supercars, including a dedicated Red Room of sports cars and a Williams Formula 1 exhibition.

Former privately-run motor museum displaying classic, custom and celebrity/film cars, including movie vehicles such as a Batmobile replica and the Herbie VW Beetle.

Headquarters and factory of McLaren Racing/McLaren Automotive, featuring a boulevard display of historic McLaren Formula 1 and road cars; not open for casual walk-in visits.

Mercedes-Benz-owned visitor attraction on the former Brooklands site displaying over 100 historic and current Mercedes-Benz and Mercedes-AMG cars across three floors, with on-site driving experiences on handling circuits and an off-road course.

BMW Group factory tour and visitor centre with a small exhibition on the history of the Mini, followed by a guided walk through the live production lines where new MINIs are assembled.

Charitable foundation housing what is billed as Scotland's largest private collection of classic and performance cars and motorcycles, over 400 vehicles assembled by philanthropist David Moulsdale.