Racing/Motorsport museums & collections

Non-profit museum in the Villa Real neighborhood of Buenos Aires, inaugurated in 2000, recreating an early-1900s streetscape alongside a collection of classic and racing automobiles.

Small memorial museum in Concepción, Tucumán, dedicated to racing driver Nasif Estéfano, with a documented history of reduced hours and periodic closures.

Museum on the first floor of the Automóvil Club Argentino headquarters in Buenos Aires, honoring pioneers of Argentine motoring and motorsport. Free admission.

Motorsport museum located inside the Autódromo Roberto José Mouras in La Plata, displaying more than 70 historic, race-ready Turismo Carretera cars with original engines.

Six-level, roughly 4,600 square meter museum in Balcarce dedicated to five-time Formula One World Champion Juan Manuel Fangio, opened in 1986.

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.

Museum at the base of Mount Panorama dedicated to the history, personalities and achievements of Australian motor racing, with a particular focus on Bathurst.

Museum and research centre dedicated to Queensland's motor racing history, previously operating from a facility in Sumner on Brisbane's western outskirts.

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.

Private motor museum housed in a historic red-brick former British garrison building at Pavilion Court, curated personally by owner Bill Mallalieu. Tied closely to the history of the Barbados Rally Club, founded 1957.

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.

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.

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.

Private memorabilia collection near Balneário Camboriú, Santa Catarina, described as the largest Ayrton Senna memorabilia collection in Brazil, including helmets, race suits, and trophies.

Classic car theme park in São Roque, São Paulo, with more than 185 vehicles and a dedicated Formula One-themed wing opened in April 2026 featuring life-size replicas of cars driven by Ayrton Senna.

Free outdoor tribute park at the Interlagos racetrack in São Paulo honoring Ayrton Senna, with sculptures and QR-code exhibits rather than physical cars.

Motorsport museum in Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, displaying more than 100 historic competition vehicles including cars associated with Emerson Fittipaldi and Rubens Barrichello, plus an archive of over 100,000 photographs and documents.

Private archive of Emerson Fittipaldi's Formula One memorabilia in São Paulo, not regularly open to walk-in visitors.

Motorsport museum at the Autódromo Velocitta in Mogi Guaçu, São Paulo, open to groups and events only, not general walk-in visitors.

Planned museum inside a tower under construction in Balneário Camboriú, intended to display Ayrton Senna memorabilia including his 1987 Lotus 99T, which has already arrived on site.

Croatia's first museum dedicated exclusively to historic rally and racing cars, opened 2022 in Mavrinci near the Grobnik circuit, displaying more than twenty competition vehicles from world rally history.

Museum documenting the history of Curaçao motorsport since the 1960s — hillclimbs, rallies, international drag racing and karting — housed in the curator's personal garage near Jan Thiel.

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.

Former museum exhibiting about 100 racing and sports cars from the 1930s to the modern era, including an early Ford Model T (1914).

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.

Car museum, showroom, dealership and event venue opened in August 2021 by K.W. Bruun (a Danish car-importer family business with roots to the 1910s) in a converted former agricultural museum building in Kongens Lyngby; includes motorsport-themed exhibitions.

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

Mobilia is Finland's national responsibility museum for road and motor transport, located on Lake Längelmävesi in Kangasala near Tampere. It combines a permanent exhibition on Finnish road history with a Rally Museum and a classic/vintage car gallery (Fenno Galleria), drawing around 45,000 visitors a year.

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.

Opened in 1983 on the scenic Vehoniemi ridge nature reserve in Kangasala, this is one of Finland's best-known private automobile museums, showing restored classic cars, rally history and Finnish prototypes.

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.

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 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.

Formerly the Musée des 24 Heures du Mans, this motorsport museum beside the Circuit de la Sarthe was fully rebuilt and rebranded as 'M24', reopening on 28 May 2026 under a joint venture between the Automobile Club de l'Ouest and Richard Mille, broadening its scope beyond Le Mans to Formula 1, rally and IndyCar.

Founded in 1985 by Michel Hommell in a 17th-century manor adjoining the Circuit de Lohéac, this private museum displays over 400 vehicles across 15,000 m², including dedicated Ferrari and Lamborghini rooms and an 18-car Formula 1 starting grid.

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.

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.

A short-lived automobile museum housed within Schloss Salem (former Reichsabtei/Salem Abbey) in Salem, Baden-Württemberg, displaying sports and racing cars.

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.

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.

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 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.

A permanent, free-of-charge exhibition inside the Motorworld Köln-Rheinland complex in Cologne (Ossendorf district), opened on 15 June 2018, displaying Michael Schumacher's personal motorsport memorabilia and race cars.

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 large private automobile museum in Dietzhölztal-Ewersbach, Hesse, opened to the public on 23 July 2023 by the nonprofit Stiftung Nationales Automuseum, showcasing the collection of entrepreneur Friedhelm Loh in a converted historic ironworks building.

A privately run automobile museum in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, founded by tuner/YouTuber Jean Pierre Kraemer (JP Performance) and opened in May 2022 in a repurposed three-floor former car dealership. It presents a rotating exhibition mixing classic cars, modern sports cars, and genuine racing cars, plus racing simulators and a café.

A satellite exhibition within Fritz B. Busch's museum enterprise, opened around 1977 in Friedrichshafen-Ailingen, Baden-Württemberg, as a seasonal summer display of racing and sports cars complementing the main Wolfegg collection.

ring°werk (Ringwerk) is a roughly 15,000 m² motorsport experience museum at the Nürburgring in Nürburg, Rheinland-Pfalz, operated as part of the Nürburgring leisure complex since 2009, featuring historic race-winning cars/motorcycles, a 4D cinema of the 24-hour race, and pit-stop/cockpit simulators.

A private automobile museum in Aschaffenburg, Bavaria, founded by collector Peter Kaus and billed as one of the world's largest sports car collections, with more than 200 vehicles on permanent display plus an associated art collection (Art & Auto-Forum) added in 1990.

Corporate heritage exhibition of ZF Friedrichshafen AG on the ground floor of the company's ZF Forum headquarters building, covering over 100 years of drivetrain technology (gearboxes, steering, axles) as used in cars, trucks and racing vehicles.

Athens museum owned by the Theodore Charagionis Foundation, opened in March 2011, displaying around 110 of its roughly 300-car collection at a time, spanning from Karl Benz's era to modern cars.

Historic 17th-century estate near Drogheda whose motor collection was assembled by 1960s-70s racing driver Gabriel Konig (Gabriel De Freitas), featuring classic racing and rally saloons alongside other vintage cars, shown as part of guided estate tours.

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.

One of Italy's most significant private historic car collections, with roughly 350 vehicles including the 1940 Auto Avio Costruzioni 815 - the first car built by Enzo Ferrari before Ferrari existed as a marque - and Tazio Nuvolari's Alfa Romeo 2300 8C.

Italy's national automobile museum, opened in its current building in 1960 with roots in a 1932 collection; one of the world's oldest and most significant car museums. Holds roughly 200 vehicles including the 1907 Peking-Paris winning Itala 35/45 HP and the Cisitalia 202.

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.

Housed in the restored 11th-century Sant'Eufemia monastery in Brescia, dedicated to the history of the Mille Miglia road race (1927-1957) with period race cars on loan from private collectors and partner museums, plus an archive of roughly 130,000 original race documents. Founded as an association in 1996 and opened to the public in 2004.

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.

Official Ferrari company museum located near the factory in Maranello, opened in 1990 as "Galleria Ferrari" and expanded in 2004; operated directly by Ferrari since 1995. Displays historic road cars and Formula 1 championship-winning race cars alongside rotating special exhibitions.

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.

Housed in the former Stanguellini family Fiat dealership and racing workshop founded in 1900, displaying Stanguellini-built twin-cam racers and Formula Junior cars alongside other family-collected historic vehicles including a 1908 Fiat Tipo 1.

Alfa Romeo's company museum in Arese, reopened in 2015 as "La Macchina del Tempo" after a multi-year closure. Displays roughly 70 vehicles spanning from the 1910 24 HP, the marque's first Portello-built car, to current models and racing cars.

A small municipal museum in a former church in Mantua, opened in 1985 and dedicated to Italian racing driver Tazio Nuvolari.

Private collection founded by Umberto Panini after he rescued 19 historic Maserati vehicles, including an ex-Fangio 250F and a Tipo 61 "Birdcage," from being sold abroad following the 1996 auction of Maserati's official collection. The museum relocated to a new Modena site near the airport in 2025.

Opened in 2021 at Fuji Speedway Hotel, this museum traces the history of global and Japanese motorsport from early Grand Prix racing to modern Formula One through historic race cars, engines, and interactive exhibits.

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.

Opened in April 2024 at Suzuka Circuit Park to mark Honda's 60th anniversary in Formula One, this gallery displays historic Honda racing cars and engines, including the 1965 RA272 and championship-winning McLaren-Honda and Williams-Honda machines.

Mazda's museum at its Hiroshima head office traces the company's history from its origins as a cork manufacturer through rotary-engine development and motorsport success, including the Le Mans-winning 787B; visits are by guided tour only, booked online in advance.

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.

Nissan's official vehicle archive in Zama, Kanagawa, preserves roughly 400 historic Nissan and Datsun cars, prototypes, and race cars, and is open to the public only through scheduled guided tours booked in advance.

Opened in 1997 in Okaya's Toriidaira Yamabiko Park, this was Japan's first single-model automobile museum, and it displays a rotating collection of Prince and Nissan Skyline vehicles spanning the model's history.

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.

The largest antique vehicle museum in Latvia and the Baltic states, founded in 1989 and fully renovated in 2016, housing more than 100 unique vehicles including the 'Kremlin Collection' of Soviet leaders' limousines.

Malaysia's national automotive history museum, opened in March 2004 at the Sepang International Circuit, with two floors covering the country's transport history and national automotive industry including Proton, Perodua, and Modenas.

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

Private museum in Cancún founded and directed by Benjamín de la Peña, dedicated to the history of the Carrera Panamericana road race; holds roughly 45 antique and classic automobiles (1917-1992) plus an archive of more than 18,000 photographs and 200 hours of film on the race.

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 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.

The world's first museum dedicated to Healey, founded in 2012 by former Le Mans driver Hans van de Kerkhof, displaying rare Austin-Healeys, Healey specials, and competition history.

Home of the New Zealand National Motorsport Museum, located within the Highlands Motorsport Park complex in Cromwell, Central Otago, displaying rare cars from New Zealand motor racing history including ex-Formula One cars.

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.

Club-run museum on the sixth floor of the Touring y Automóvil Club Paraguayo headquarters in Asunción, exhibiting Paraguay's oldest known automobile and race photographs dating to 1921.

Founded in the 1950s by brothers Abel and João de Lacerda in the hill town of Caramulo, this is one of Portugal's premier automobile museums, spanning vehicles from an 1886 Benz Dreirad to modern racing cars.

Opened in 2022 in Fafe, this museum ('Cathedral of Rallies') is dedicated to the history of rallying, with rally cars, memorabilia and multimedia exhibits tied to Portugal's rallying heritage.

A forthcoming national automobile museum being developed by Qatar Museums in the former Doha Exhibition Centre building along the Lusail Expressway, designed by OMA (Rem Koolhaas) and originally targeted to open around 2026.

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.

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.

Formerly Serbia's flagship car museum, jointly founded by the City of Belgrade and collector Bratislav Petković, holding roughly 100 historically significant vehicles plus an archive/library on the history of Serbian motoring and the Belgrade Grand Prix.

A free-entry exhibition space at Dempsey Hill run in connection with the Singapore Grand Prix, featuring Ferrari Formula 1 show cars and a history of Singapore's motor racing heritage.

Private collection of vintage sport motorcycles assembled by former racer Franc Pušnik in his ex-car dealership showroom, with the owner personally guiding visitors through the bikes' racing history.

Located on the L'Ormarins wine estate near Franschhoek, this museum displays a rotating selection of roughly 80 vehicles from a collection of more than 200 spanning over 100 years of motoring history, across four climate-controlled halls. The collection originated with Dr. Anton Rupert and was relocated here from the former Heidelberg Motor Museum, opening to the public in May 2007.

Opened in March 2017 in Gyeongju's Bomun tourist district, this three-story museum traces about 130 years of global automotive history, from an early Benz Patent Motorwagen to modern supercars and Formula 1 cars.

The Fundación Cultural RACE maintains a private historic vehicle collection at the Jarama circuit in San Sebastián de los Reyes (Madrid), viewable only via pre-arranged weekday guided group tours.

Opened in December 2023 by the Fundación Jorge Jove in Arteixo, near A Coruña, MAHI displays roughly 300 vehicles - cars, motorcycles, trucks, buses, racing cars and fire engines - across 15,000 square meters, alongside a library and workshops.

SEAT's historic vehicle collection, housed in Nave A122 at the company's Zona Franca plant in Barcelona, holds roughly 300 vehicles including historic production cars, competition cars and prototypes.

A museum in Llanera, Asturias, dedicated to two-time Formula 1 champion Fernando Alonso, exhibiting around 400 items from his personal collection, from childhood karts to F1 single-seaters, alongside an attached karting circuit.

One of southern Sweden's largest vehicle museums, with roughly 120 cars, about 80 motorcycles/mopeds and two aircraft spanning 1898 to today. Formed in 2008 largely from the collection of the former Skoklosters bil- och motormuseum, which closed in Håbo in 2007-08.

Veteran vehicle collection in Hoting adjacent to the E45, ranging from exclusive marques such as Rolls-Royce to vintage racing cars and classic motorcycles.

Part of the larger Målilla hembygdspark heritage village, comprising a vehicle/technology museum, a fire-brigade museum and a speedway museum among its 17 themed museum buildings.