Pre-war museums & collections

Perth's dedicated car museum, located within Whiteman Park, opened to the public in December 1994. Displays vintage, veteran, classic and modern cars, motorcycles and racing vehicles with guided tours available.

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.

Vintage motoring museum in the Dandenong Ranges town of Gembrook, with the centrepiece being the world's only 1925 Studebaker limousine with a polished brass body.

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.

A car museum in Aspang Markt with over 100 vehicles spanning early motoring history, including a 1908 Delaunay-Belleville, 1910 Adler and 1936 Graf & Stift.

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 private early-automobile museum at the Das Salvator country hotel in St. Salvator near Friesach, Carinthia, showing veteran-era cars including rare makes such as Praga, Orel and SS.

A large private collection at the Heldenberg exhibition grounds in Kleinwetzdorf showing roughly 100 cars from 1886 to modern times, including rare marques such as Bugatti, Hispano-Suiza and Packard, plus motorcycles and tractors.

A private technology museum in the Lauffen district of Bad Ischl combining historic automobiles with aviation and general technology exhibits, including makes such as Adler, Aero and Steyr.

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.

Austria's national museum of science and technology in Vienna, whose mobility galleries include early automobiles such as the 1888 Marcus car, the 1893 Benz Model 3 and a 1920 Austro-Daimler, alongside rail, aviation and industrial exhibits.

Believed to be the first car museum in Bahrain and the GCC, established roughly two decades ago by Bahraini businessman Akram Miknas, with a small collection of around 20 antique vehicles.

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.

Planned automobile museum in Vila Velha, Espírito Santo, announced for opening in 2025, intended to display around 30 pre-1950s European cars.

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.

Private retro-car museum opened in 2022 next to the Zlaten Rozhen winery, spanning 1,400 m² in two halls with roughly 60 cars and 44 motorcycles.

A provincial agricultural, industrial and transportation museum on a 220-acre site in Wetaskiwin, built around Stan Reynolds' collection. Its automobile holdings are among Canada's most significant.

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.

Turn-of-the-20th-century antique car theme park near Villa de Leyva, Boyacá.

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.

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.

A large transportation museum located in Parque Nacional Baconao, roughly 25 km east of Santiago de Cuba, tracing the history of land transport from early wheeled vehicles to modern automobiles. It combines an outdoor collection of full-size vehicles with an extensive miniature/model vehicle exhibit.

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.

The first and largest museum of pre-war American automobiles in the Czech Republic, with more than 70 cars displayed in themed halls inside a former textile factory.

The largest Czech technical museum; its Transport Hall in Prague exhibits Czechoslovak-made automobiles from Laurin & Klement, Tatra, Škoda, Praga, Aero, Jawa, Wikov and others alongside motorcycles, bicycles, aviation and rail history.

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 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.

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.

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

Formerly one of Europe's largest private veteran car collections, housed at Aalholm Castle near Nysted, with four halls showing around 200 motorcars from 1886 to modern times, mostly pre-1940.

National museum in Helsingør covering the history of Danish science, industry and technology, including a significant road-transport collection alongside rail, aviation and other exhibits.

A large collection of over 100 vehicles, from the early 20th century to the early 1980s, displayed in a converted historic thatched barn on the grounds of Egeskov Castle on Funen. Part of the wider Egeskov Castle visitor attraction alongside the castle, gardens and other collections.

Formerly Denmark's leading vintage car museum in Gjern (near Silkeborg), founded in 1967 by master mechanic Aage Louring, displaying around 140 vehicles from 1900-1987 representing a cross-section of the Danish vehicle population.

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 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 automobile museum in the Lehtoniemi district of Varkaus, open since 1994 (at its current site since 2003), displaying around 30 of the owner's collection of over 100 vintage cars from the 1920s–1960s.

Housed in a former Mulhouse spinning mill, this museum displays the Schlumpf brothers' collection of over 400 vehicles, the largest single automobile collection in the world. It holds the world's largest collection of Bugatti automobiles, including three Bugatti Royales.

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 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.

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.

This museum displays over 150 vintage vehicles spanning roughly forty marques, including an 1885 De Dion-Bouton steam car, within a 3,300 m² hall furnished with period posters and accessories.

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 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.

Founded in 1927 by the Touring Club de France and housed within the Château de Compiègne, this French national museum documents the transition from horse-drawn carriages to early motorized transport.

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.