Motorcycles museums & collections

Industrial heritage museum in a former 1896 railway building in Córdoba, founded in 1996 to document the region's metal-mechanic and automotive industrial history through cars, motorcycles, and aircraft engines.

Private collection of classic cars and motorcycles from the 1950s-70s assembled by collector Alberto Fenoglio in Villa María, Córdoba, paired with a themed café.

Museum located inside the Autódromo Internacional de Termas de Río Hondo, displaying cars on loan from other Argentine collections plus what is reported to be the country's largest vintage motorcycle collection.

Motor museum in Bunbury's city centre featuring more than 100 classic cars, motorcycles and motoring memorabilia focused on classic Australian vehicles.

Launceston museum showcasing the development of the international automotive industry through cars and motorcycles, with four themed displays refreshed each year plus a motorcycle mezzanine.

Australia's oldest and largest automotive museum, operated by the History Trust of South Australia in the historic township of Birdwood since 1965. The collection spans more than 300 cars, motorcycles and commercial vehicles from 1899 to the present.

The Southern Hemisphere's largest private motorcycle collection open to the public, housing more than 800 motorcycles and related memorabilia from 1900 to the present, on the NSW Mid North Coast.

Museum in a former powerhouse building in Portland on Victoria's Great Ocean Road, featuring veteran, vintage and classic cars, motorcycles, stationary engines, a 1920s cable tram and grip car, and general motoring memorabilia.

Long-running motor museum on the main street of the historic town of York, Western Australia's oldest inland town. Since 2017 it has been run as a community venture by the non-profit Avon Valley Motor Museum Association.

Dr. Jackob Barnea's private automobile and motorcycle museum, one of Austria's largest, housed in a former silk-weaving factory in Gramatneusiedl with around 120 vehicles including a working 1946 repair shop reconstruction.

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.

KTM's brand experience museum at the company's headquarters in Mattighofen, showcasing the manufacturer's motorcycle history, off-road and motorsport racing heritage, and current model range.

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 vehicle and radio museum in Villach specialising in microcars and small vehicles of the 1950s-60s, including Goggomobil, Lloyd, Messerschmitt Kabinenroller and NSU Prinz models, alongside motorcycles and mopeds.

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

Built on the Ghislain Mahy collection begun in 1944, this museum occupies a former textile factory and displays roughly 300 cars, trucks, buses, motorcycles, bicycles and carriages from 1895 to the present.

A small private collection of about a dozen roadworthy vintage motorcycles dating from 1920 to 1980.

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.

Located in the cellars of the Abbey of Stavelot, this museum traces the history of the Spa-Francorchamps circuit since 1921 through race cars, motorcycles and memorabilia.

A private collection of roughly 100-120 motorcycles, scooters, mopeds and bicycles from the 1900s through 1980, run by collector Johan Schaeverbeke.

A museum of around 95 classic cars dating from 1899 to the 1970s, plus roughly 20 vintage motorcycles and militaria, displayed with period decor.

Opened in 2021 in a former Citroën-Peugeot garage, this museum displays around 30 cars and motorcycles from 1906 to 1980, alongside a vintage flea market and driving simulator.

Private collection museum near the Royal Naval Dockyard in Somerset featuring vintage Bermuda cars, motorcycles (including Bermuda-specific Mobylette and Cyrus scooters), horse carriages and boats, assembled by collector Paul Martins.

Interactive automobile museum in Balneário Camboriú, Santa Catarina, inaugurated in December 2020, displaying more than 30 restored classic cars and motorcycles alongside augmented-reality exhibits and a racing simulator.

Private museum in Maricá, Rio de Janeiro, inaugurated in December 2024 and described as the state's first private automobile museum open to the public, with a broad collection including taxis, film vehicles, and motorcycles.

Private car museum and experience venue in Brasília that opened in July 2023, displaying around 220 classic vehicles including cars and motorcycles across roughly 5,000 square meters.

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.

Private museum built by businessman Carlos Cardoen on the Viña Santa Cruz estate in Chile's Colchagua Valley, tracing automotive history from the 1890s to the 1980s.

Museum in the Estación Central district of Santiago, opened in October 2010 on a former sugar-refinery site, displaying around 60 rotating vehicles including luxury and sports cars, antique motorcycles, boats, and aircraft.

Dark-tourism museum in the El Poblado district of Medellín displaying vehicles once owned by drug lord Pablo Escobar, including classic and luxury cars and a motorcycle; distinct from the original "Casa Museo" that was demolished in 2023.

Croatia's first dedicated automobile museum, relocated from a Zagreb factory hall to the WestGate Shopping City in Jablanovec near Zaprešić; displays over 100 historic cars, motorcycles and bicycles plus thousands of photographs from early Croatian drivers' family albums.

Private collection founded by restorer Ivica/Antun Presečki in Krapina featuring over twenty cars, more than sixty motorcycles, and buses, with an emphasis on factory-original, meticulously documented restorations and an on-site workshop.

Private museum in Selnica near Sveti Martin na Muri housing vintage cars, motorcycles (including the domestic TMZ Švrćo scooter), tractors, firefighting vehicles and a tram acquired from Zagreb's ZET transit authority.

Dalmatia's first technical/vehicle museum, opened July 2018 in Skradin in partnership with the Ferdinand Budicki Museum; showcases over 120 years of Croatian and Eastern/Western European motoring culture including a 'Behind the Iron Curtain' themed section.

State-run museum operated by the Oficina del Historiador de La Habana, housed in a former 1891 neoclassical warehouse in Old Havana. It displays roughly 40 antique automobiles and motorcycles dating from 1905 to 1989, many with ties to notable Cuban historical figures. It opened at this San Ignacio location in November 2019, succeeding the earlier 'Depósito del Automóvil' that had been located on Calle Oficios.

Exhibition and recreational complex near Znojmo with six exhibition halls of historic motorcycles, sidecars and automobiles.

Automobile and motorcycle museum housed in a former glassworks building near Jablonec nad Nisou.

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.

Museum in Hořice v Podkrkonoší dedicated to the history of Czech road racing, a town with one of the oldest motorcycle racing circuits in Europe.

Museum in a former hydroelectric power station displaying about 40 pre-war automobiles plus motorcycles, bicycles, stationary engines, tractors and petrol pumps dating up to 1950.

Private family collection of about 300 cars and 150 motorcycles, including a Benz Parsifal, extensive Mercedes-Benz and Laurin & Klement holdings, and the largest Bugatti collection in the Czech Republic.

Multi-pavilion technical museum; Pavilion A is dedicated to transportation, exhibiting 20th-century automobiles, motorcycles and a bicycle collection alongside a Tesla Liberec electronics display.

Family-run museum in a former Art Nouveau textile factory in the village of Kuks, exhibiting historic cars and motorcycles of various brands along with motoring memorabilia and cameras.

Exhibition space in Herning showing around 140 privately owned vintage/classic cars, hobby cars, vintage motorcycles and other vehicles spanning nearly a century, some dating to the 1920s.

An award-winning museum near Aakirkeby on the island of Bornholm with more than 80 vehicles - cars, motorcycles and tractors - from different eras and countries.

A broad technical/farm heritage museum in Allinge, Bornholm, covering toys, radios, hand tools, electrical appliances, agricultural implements and tractors alongside vehicles from Denmark's past.

Northern Europe's largest veteran motorcycle collection, in Stubbekøbing since 1977, with more than 200 motorcycles spanning from the late 1800s to the Japanese-bike era of the 1980s; also includes a radio museum.

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.

A 2,000 m² collection in Hjallerup (North Jutland) of cars, motorcycles, tractors, engines and other mechanical/agricultural equipment, with café and meeting facilities.

An engine and motoring museum in Skagen harbour featuring stationary and marine engines (BUKH, B&W, Frich) alongside motorcycles, mopeds and classic cars, plus reproductions/examples referencing very early automobiles.

A 3,400 m² nostalgia and collector's museum in Næstved displaying around 160 cars and 60 motorcycles/mopeds along with period shop and street-scene displays.

Finland's only dedicated motorcycle museum, located in Lahti, displaying up to 100 motorcycles spanning world-famous makes, national race bikes and mopeds, with annually changing exhibitions and an on-site café.

Housed in a former Tsarist-era brick building in Kuopio, this museum presents a broad look at Finnish vehicle and traffic history through about 80 cars along with motorcycles, bicycles and old traffic signage.

A small, one-man passion-project museum in Perniö (Salo) founded in 2003, exhibiting about 20 old cars, tractors, mopeds and motorcycles, including a rare Swedish tracked vehicle once used by the Finnish postal service in Lapland.

Run by the Etelä-Karjalan Vanhat Ajoneuvot ry association in Rauha (Lappeenranta/Joutseno area), the museum tells the story of motoring and motorcycling in South Karelia through roughly 30 cars and 20 motorcycles from the 1920s–1980s, plus a Finnish license-plate museum exhibit.

A nostalgic private automobile museum and tourism/camping site in Karstula (Central Finland), converted from an old potato-flour mill, with over 100 (some sources say up to 400 counting all vehicle types) restored vehicles including cars, motorcycles and mopeds.

A private museum opened in 2017 in Châtillon-Coligny exhibiting roughly 80-100 sports cars from the 1950s through 1990s, alongside vintage motorcycles and scale-model collections.

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.

A 'living museum' of vintage motorcycles opened in April 2013 in Bantzenheim, built around the donated Lemoine Collection of 90 vintage machines, operated by Mulhouse Alsace Agglomération.

A municipal museum on the site of the former Châtellerault arms manufactory (a classified historic monument), renamed from 'Musée Auto Moto Vélo' in 2019. Its transportation section displays over 200 vehicles and objects from the early 19th century to the 2000s.

A private collection near Serres assembled by local enthusiast Michel Mouttet, covering cars, motorcycles, agricultural equipment and WWI/WWII-era objects from 1898 to the present.

Founded in 1967 by driver and collector Pierre Delliere in Orgon, this museum displayed vintage cars, motorcycles and curiosities. It closed permanently around September 2022 after more than 50 years, and the site has since been redeveloped for housing.

An associative museum founded in 1985 by enthusiasts to continue the collection of automotive designer Philippe Charbonneaux, originally the 'Centre Historique de l'Automobile Française'. It is one of the largest private vehicle collections in France.

France's first automobile museum, opened in 1960 inside the 12th-century Château de Rochetaillée near Lyon, based on the collection assembled by Henri Malartre. It displays around 150 cars (1890-1986), 40 motorcycles, and Lyon public-transport vehicles.

A private collection of over 400 vintage motorcycles, sidecars, mopeds, scooters and bicycles (1905-1985) across 2,000 m² in Riom, built by collector Guy Baster.

A municipal motorcycle museum operated by the City of Marseille, housed in a former flour mill, tracing motorcycle history from 1885 to the present with over 250 machines.

A private museum near the Périgord Noir/Quercy area founded by collector Benoît Jouclar, combining agricultural machinery with automobiles and two-wheelers.

A large privately-owned eclectic collection at the Moulin de Marnay near Azay-le-Rideau, assembled by collector Maurice Dufresne, spanning vintage cars, motorcycles, bicycles, aircraft, trucks, tractors, and military and agricultural machinery from the 1850s to 1950s.

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.

A 'living museum' near Jallais (Beaupréau-en-Mauges) with over 100 collectible and prestige vehicles - including Rolls-Royce, Ferrari, Jaguar and Lamborghini models - and motorcycles, distinguished by allowing visitors to drive select cars with an instructor.

Museum in the Wehrshausen district of Marburg, Hesse, run by the Polizei-Motorsport-Club Marburg 1990 e.V., displaying over 100 vehicles spanning several decades of German police history including patrol cars, motorcycles, armored special vehicles and water cannons.

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.

Also known as the Krauser-Gedächtnis-Zweiradmuseum, a museum in a heritage-protected former tobacco shed in Pleidelsheim, Baden-Württemberg, predominantly a motorcycle collection honoring BMW/Krauser racing history, opened 1993 by collector Manfred Wirth, also including a small number of automobiles.

A private museum in Endersbach, a district of Weinstadt, Baden-Württemberg, opened 17 April 1976 by Peter Oelschläger, displaying automobiles, motorcycles, military vehicles and aircraft engines.

A private classic vehicle and toy museum in the Norddeich district of Norden, Lower Saxony, opened in November 2002 by Michael Klein. On roughly 2,000 m² it displays about 55 cars, 40 motorcycles, 20 mopeds, two trucks, racing cars, and a large historic toy collection.

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 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 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 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.

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.

Private collection in Weil im Schönbuch, Baden-Württemberg, displaying around 50 historic automobiles, roughly 70 motorcycles, and about 12 tractors, per the town's official tourism listing.

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.

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.

A small private automobile and motorcycle museum documented as operating in Wolfratshausen, Bavaria.

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 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 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.

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 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 private vintage vehicle museum in Gundelsheim, Baden-Württemberg, opened 1991 by Fritz Schmid, operator of the Hotel-Restaurant 'Zum Lamm,' displaying roughly 10 cars, 1 truck, 32 motorcycles, 4 mopeds and 1 engine.

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.

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.