Motorcycles museums & collections

A motorsport museum at the Hockenheimring in Hockenheim, Baden-Württemberg, opened April 1986, primarily exhibiting the motorsport collection of Walter Brandstetter (largely historic NSU and Norton motorcycles), later supplemented with racing and sports cars, growing to over 200 exhibits.

A museum in Chemnitz, Saxony, dedicated to the history of Saxon vehicle manufacturing, housed since 2008 in the historic Stern-Garagen, one of Germany's oldest preserved multi-story parking garages. It displays roughly 150-200 automobiles, motorcycles and bicycles from over 50-70 Saxon manufacturers.

Small private museum in Leisnig, Saxony, run by the Andrä family since 2004 in a former noodle factory, depicting everyday life in the former East Germany with an emphasis on vehicles.

A private automobile and motorcycle museum in Ebersbach an der Fils, Baden-Württemberg, founded in 2012 by Markus Paschke, distinguished by displaying many vehicles in unrestored, weathered ('patina') condition.

A private automobile, motorcycle and vintage tractor museum in Knittlingen, Baden-Württemberg, built from the collection of entrepreneur Walter Pfitzenmeier and operated since 2016 by the association 'Museum Walters Oldtimer Knittlingen e.V.'

A volunteer-run vintage vehicle museum in Engen, opened in October 2013 by an association of about 20 enthusiasts, with rotating themed exhibitions of two-, three- and four-wheeled vintage vehicles.

Vintage vehicle and technology museum in Perleberg, Brandenburg, run by Oldtimerfreunde Perleberg e.V. in a listed former gymnasium built in 1896, open since May 1, 2002.

A private classic-vehicle exhibition in Guben, Brandenburg, run by Oldtimerclub Guben e.V. and housed on the upper floor of the Hoffmann-Möbel furniture store. It displays over 80 historic cars, motorcycles, mopeds and engines dating from the early 20th century to the 1990s.

A private motorcycle, automobile and engine collection in Bergholz-Rehbrücke (Nuthetal, Brandenburg), opened in 1977 by collector Herbert Schmidt, who died at the end of 2021.

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.

An automobile museum in the Culitzsch district of Wilkau-Haßlau, Saxony, built on a GDR-era vehicle collection begun by taxi entrepreneur Andreas Schwalbe; opened September 22, 2018 and operated by Historische Technik Culitzsch e.V. Around 50 vehicles are shown, dominated by GDR-era passenger cars, staged within period scenarios.

A motorcycle-and-car museum in Groß Raden, a district of Sternberg in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, opened in spring 1999 by Freunde historischer Fahrzeuge e.V. in a restored grain storage building. The collection is dominated by two-wheeled vehicles with a smaller complement of about 8-10 automobiles from 1924-1970.

An automobile and motorcycle museum operating since 1999 in the former carriage house ('Remise') of Schloss Meßkirch, run by the Verein der Oldtimer-Freunde Meßkirch und Umgebung e.V.

A vintage vehicle museum in Hechingen occupying a former department store building (~1,800 m²), presenting the history of mobile transport since 1886 through cars, motorcycles, and tractors, with over 100 vehicles on rotating display.

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.

Private automobile and vehicle museum in Benneckenstein (Oberharz am Brocken), Saxony-Anhalt, housed in a former VEB workwear factory; shows predominantly East German vehicles including Trabant, Wartburg, Lada and Škoda models.

A private vintage vehicle museum in Berlin-Charlottenburg founded by industrialist Hugo Poddig, exhibiting roughly 60 automobiles and 40 motorcycles.

A museum in Bad Iburg displaying small and microcars on the ground floor and scooters/mopeds on the upper floor, housed in the former ballroom of Hotel Felsenkeller.

Private family museum in Nassach (Aidhausen, Landkreis Haßberge, Bavaria), run by the Hesse family since 1970, exhibiting roughly 1,000 objects - predominantly antique tractors and agricultural machinery - alongside a genuine collection of historic cars and motorcycles from the 1920s-30s.

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.

Private vehicle and art museum in the Stritzling district of Lalling, Bavaria (Bavarian Forest), founded 1991 by car dealer Albert Streicher and now run by Roland Streicher. Displays roughly 100 classic and exotic automobiles alongside more than 200 motorcycles and a large model collection.

Association-run technology museum in Büschergrund, Freudenberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, founded 1991 and renamed in 2014 to broaden scope. Exhibits roughly 60 historic commercial vehicles (mainly tractors and trucks), historic motorcycles, a historic fire-brigade collection, and a working 1904 steam engine.

Local heritage and technology museum in the Kratzmühle district of Kinding, Landkreis Eichstätt, Bavaria, founded 1995 by the Kulturhistorischer Verein Beilngries-Kinding e.V. Alongside motorcycles, mopeds, bicycles and craft workshops, displays a small collection of historic automobiles including a Messerschmitt Kabinenroller, NSU Prinz, Fiat Nuova 500, Opel P1, Trabant 601, and Apollo Piccolo cyclecar.

A foundation-run technical collection in the Gallus district of Frankfurt am Main, assembled by entrepreneur Fritz Hochhut and converted into a foundation after his death in 1999. Alongside stationary steam engines, Stirling engines, and aircraft/ship engines, it holds a notable group of historic automobiles and motorcycles.

A private collection assembled by Bert Grimmer in Eppelheim documenting post-war West German motorization, comprising roughly 40 microcars and about 45 motor scooters, plus motorized mobility/invalid vehicles from the 1950s-60s.

Transport museum housed in the historic Johanneum building on Dresden's Neumarkt, covering rail, road traffic, aviation and shipping across roughly 5,000 m². Its road-traffic holdings focus heavily on Saxon and Thuringian automotive history (Zittau, Dresden, Chemnitz, Zwickau, Eisenach, Suhl) alongside bicycles and motorcycles.

Volunteer-run transport museum operated by Deutsche Verkehrswacht im Stadt- und Landkreis Karlsruhe e.V. in a former electrical-appliance factory, covering roughly 200 years of road and rail mobility including historic automobiles, motorcycles and a large model railway.

Hungary's oldest private veteran-car collection, housing around 200 cars and 100 motorcycles in the former Puskin Cultural Center in Tatabánya-Bánhida.

Private vintage car, motorcycle and microcar collection housed at the Euroring motorsport race track and event center near Örkény.

Private automobile and motorcycle museum near Lake Balaton with roughly 140 vehicles spanning classic cars and motorcycles.

Classic car and motorcycle museum with an attached café and a glass-walled restoration workshop.

Opened in May 2011 in a purpose-built 800 m² building in Akureyri, this museum documents 100 years of motorcycle history in Iceland, with a collection spanning classic British, European and Japanese bikes as well as American marques such as Harley-Davidson. Its origin traces to the personal motorcycle collection of the late Heiðar Þ. Jónsson.

The largest privately owned vehicle museum in Iceland, formally opened in 2004 near Hofsós in Skagafjörður. It exhibits around 100 vehicles indoors — cars, buses, motorcycles, snowmobiles and agricultural machinery — with several hundred more vehicles and machines displayed outside.

An automobile museum inside the Udai Bilas Palace complex in Dungarpur, created by Harshvardhan Singh of the Dungarpur royal family in a building that was originally a stable and grain store. It houses more than 40 vehicles, plus motorcycles and a steam road-roller.

India's largest private transportation museum, opened in 2013 near Gurugram, spanning four floors and 12 galleries covering automobiles, aviation, rail, maritime heritage, rural transport and folk art. Its Automobile Gallery houses a significant collection of vintage and classic cars.

A large private vehicle collection in Yogyakarta founded by businessman David Sunar Handoko, reportedly the largest private automotive museum in the city, holding roughly 300 motorcycles and 60 cars spanning multiple eras.

Described as Indonesia's first private automotive museum combining a rare car and motorcycle collection with curated thematic displays and an in-house cafe, reported to have opened in early 2026 in South Jakarta.

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.

A small volunteer-run museum in a former cotton-mill building in Rivarolo Canavese, displaying motorcycles built between 1912 and the 1950s, including locally made "Saetta" bikes and Vespa scooters.

Established in 2003 at the historic Agusta family estate in Cascina Costa di Samarate, covering MV Agusta's world championship-winning racing motorcycles alongside Agusta helicopter heritage.

Company museum at Ducati's Borgo Panigale headquarters in Bologna, opened in 1998 and renovated in 2016, covering the marque's history from 1926 to the present through road and race motorcycles.

Moto Guzzi's factory museum on Lake Como, tracing the marque's motorcycle history since the company's founding in 1921 through racing bikes and prototypes.

Opened in July 2022 near the former Laverda motorcycle factory in Breganze, displaying more than 100 Laverda motorcycles built between 1948 and 2000, based on a collection originally assembled by Dutch collector Cor Dees.

Italy's first motorcycle museum open to the public, established in 1993 in Rimini, housing over 250 motorcycles from 55 different brands including Aermacchi, Benelli, Ducati, Moto Guzzi, and MV Agusta.

Private collection founded by Luigi Nicolis and opened in 2000 in Villafranca di Verona, displaying roughly 200 vintage and rare cars alongside motorcycles, bicycles, aircraft, and other mechanical and technological objects.

Located in the historic Benelli factory building in Pesaro, displaying around 150 Benelli and MotoBi motorcycles from the 1920s to modern production. Since 2021 it has also temporarily hosted the ASI-owned Morbidelli Collection of 71 pre-1945 historic motorcycles.

Piaggio's company museum in Pontedera, opened in March 2000 in the former tooling workshop of the Piaggio industrial complex, tracing the history of Piaggio, Vespa, and Gilera (acquired by Piaggio in 1969).

A planned dedicated Gilera motorcycle museum project ("Hangar-Core") in the former Bestetti Hangar in Arcore, organized by the Registro Storico Gilera historic registry founded in 1999. As of mid-2026 the project remains in planning and development and is not yet open to the public.

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.

Located alongside the Kobe Maritime Museum, this Kawasaki Heavy Industries corporate museum displays the company's motorcycles and personal watercraft alongside its shipbuilding, rail, and aerospace heritage.

Suzuki's corporate museum in Hamamatsu, known in Japanese as Suzuki Rekishikan, presents the company's evolution from a loom manufacturer into a maker of automobiles, motorcycles, and outboard motors through interactive displays; admission is free but requires advance reservation.

Yamaha Motor's corporate showroom in Iwata traces the company's history and technology across motorcycles, marine engines, and other mobility products, displaying models from its first motorcycle to current superbikes; admission is free with no reservation required.

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 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.

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

A dedicated automobile-and-motorcycle pavilion that opened November 30, 2025 inside the Museo Sol del Niño children's science museum in Mexicali, built with vehicles and support from local collectors and the city's automobile/motorsport enthusiast association.

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.

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.

A private collection of European motorcycles built exclusively between 1920 and 1965, 'from Adler to Zündapp,' maintained alongside a classic European motorcycle parts business.

Founded from a private collection and opened in 2004, displaying around 140 American motorcycles from the early 1900s to the 1980s, mainly Harley-Davidson and Indian.

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

A private collection of more than 40 Indian motorcycles opened in 1991 by owner Tony Leenes, who personally guides visits.

The first Dutch museum dedicated to historic 50cc cross motorcycles and sport mopeds from the 1960s-70s, alongside racing 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.

Family-run private museum near Storforshei (Rana municipality), just off the E6, displaying over 20 vintage motorcycles from 1925-1985.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Motorcycle museum, workshop and café in Magnor (Eidskog), displaying veteran motorcycles from the early 1900s to modern times.

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).

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).

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.

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

Primarily a railway and industrial-heritage museum in Jaworzyna Śląska with over 150 historic locomotives and wagons, but also includes a room dedicated to Silesian motorcycle history and a small toy-car collection.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Run by the Clube Português de Automóveis Antigos in Paço de Arcos (Oeiras), this small museum exhibits around 11 antique cars, motorcycles and bicycles manufactured between the early 20th century and 1960.

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.

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.

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.

State museum dedicated to Ural motorcycles produced at the local IMZ-Ural factory, with an extensive collection of production, racing and prototype bikes alongside foreign motorcycle models.

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 city-recognized private collection of antique motorcycles displayed in Pančevo, built up piece by piece by a local enthusiast.

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.

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.