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.