Sports cars museums & collections

A marque museum run by Club Lotus Austria in Bad Aussee, displaying Lotus road and sports cars from the Elan and Elite through to the Esprit and Elise. Open during summer months.

A Porsche marque museum in Gmuend, the Carinthian town where the first Porsche 356 was hand-built in 1948. The collection focuses on early and historic Porsche models connected to the marque's Gmuend origins.

Free-to-enter gallery of more than 200 cars including Porsche, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Aston Martin, BMW and Lancia, located inside the POP Airport shopping outlet near Prague Airport, with an on-site restoration workshop.

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

A small, intimate automobile museum on the island of Samsø dedicated to Morgan sports cars, showing Morgans from 1937 to 2017 alongside other period memorabilia.

Private museum in Nærum established 2004 by former car importer/dealer Ole Sommer, showcasing almost 80 cars from the early days of motoring through the 1950s-60s golden era, with a strong emphasis on Jaguar and Volvo reflecting Sommer's career as importer of both marques.

Finland's oldest and one of its largest vehicle museums, housed in an atmospheric stone barn in Pakankylä, Espoo. It displays over 200 vehicles spanning early-1900s automobiles to 1980s family cars, plus a notable sports-car collection and motorcycles.

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.

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.

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.

Classic and vintage car showroom and service center in Berlin, launched in 2003 under the 'Meilenwerk' brand and renamed Classic Remise in 2011, offering free daily public viewing of cars in glass storage boxes alongside dealer, restoration and event spaces.

Classic and vintage car showroom and service center in Düsseldorf, launched in 2006 under the 'Meilenwerk' brand and renamed Classic Remise in 2011, with around 80 glass storage boxes displaying classic cars, open to the public free of charge.

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 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.

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.

Classic and vintage car showroom and collection at the former Böblingen airfield, launched in 2009 as 'Meilenwerk Region Stuttgart' and renamed Motorworld Region Stuttgart in January 2014, displaying a daily-changing collection of several hundred vehicles and motorcycles alongside dealer and restoration workshops.

The Oldtimermuseum Nottuln houses the Klopfer Foundation's private collection in Nottuln, North Rhine-Westphalia, focused on English and German sports car classics produced in small numbers. Founded by collectors Monika and Dieter Klopfer starting in 1996, the collection was transferred into a non-profit foundation for technical cultural heritage in 2022.

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.

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.

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.

Billed as the world's largest private Chevrolet Corvette collection, built over roughly 35 years by dealership owner André Boer and reportedly including a Corvette from nearly every model year since 1954.

Museum in Kaupanger showcasing the personal collection of the late Bjarne Lerum, who collected and restored cars until his death in 2010; roughly 24 vehicles including five Mercedes-Benz SL models spanning 1956-2003.

Formerly Norway's oldest continuously operating car museum, located in a former brewery basement in Horten, covering automotive history from 1904 to 1973 with cars ranging from a De Dion-Bouton to Porsche 356 and Ferrari 246 GT.

A privately owned museum billed as the first dedicated Toyota car museum in Southeast Asia, opened in late 2022, housing roughly 50 restored Toyota vehicles on rotating display spanning the 1960s to the modern era.

Described as one of the largest sports and exotic car museums in Central Europe, spread across five floors of a converted factory building in Brezno, with more than 120 cars organized by decade from the 1970s to the present.

A large private collection near Riudoms (Tarragona) spanning 10,000 square meters, with classic cars including Rolls-Royce, Hispano-Suiza, Cadillac and Packard alongside sports cars such as the Alpine A110, plus motorcycles and bicycles.

An 'experience world' in Romanshorn displaying part of collector Fredy Lienhard's collection across more than 2,000 square metres. Over 120 sports cars, supercars, racing cars and classics from marques such as Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche and Aston Martin are on show.

A curated classic and supercar exhibition on the 2nd floor of the Bluport Hua Hin shopping mall, showing more than 40 vehicles from the 1950s to the present alongside paintings by Thai National Artists.

Private collection of over 60 concours-restored classic cars and more than 100 vintage petrol pumps and automobilia, owned by Robert and Tanya Lewis and maintained by an in-house restoration workshop.

Private motor museum housing over 100 veteran, vintage, sports and racing cars, many kept in working order, including early Bugattis and Sir Malcolm Campbell's 1937 Bluebird car alongside his Bluebird K3 hydroplane.

A small display of Austin-Healey and Healey cars, including a Healey Silverstone, an Austin-Healey 3000 and two Austin-Healey Sprites, shown by the Healey family (direct descendants of Donald Healey) as part of their cyder farm visitor attraction.

Formerly a private collection of around 100 sports and sports-racing cars (notably Bugattis, Ferraris, Jaguars and Aston Martins) plus motorcycles, displayed in the stable block of Stanmore Hall.

Museum housed in a former mill building in the centre of Elgin, displaying a collection of veteran, vintage and classic cars and motorbikes, most kept in running order, plus model cars and automobilia.

Visitor centre at Morgan's historic Malvern factory featuring the Archive Room museum with over a century of company artefacts, documents and audio-visual displays, alongside guided factory tours showing the hand-built construction of Morgan cars.

A 10,000 sq ft classic car showroom and gallery with an attached restoration workshop at Alserkal Avenue, opened in 2017 as one of the first dedicated classic car showrooms in the Middle East.

High-end classic and collector car showroom/gallery in Al Barsha, Dubai, presenting a rotating curated collection of rare classic and exotic cars in a gallery-style setting.

FIVA-standard classic and sports car museum run by the Club Sport & Classic Car de Punta del Este, relocated in 2023 to the grounds of the Fundación Kobylanski in Manantiales after its original Avenida Gorlero location was vacated.

Eclectic private collection in Grandview ranging from a 1910 International to a Ferrari Testarossa, with Studebaker as its signature marque (28 Studebakers on display).

A "premium car museum & club" displaying luxury and collector vehicles owned by local Utah County residents, with locations in Provo, Sandy, and the Utah Motorsports Campus in Erda; combines museum tours with club membership, event space, and car storage.

Antique and muscle-car museum in Lancaster County's Intercourse, PA, displaying roughly 50 cars in four rows, focused on American muscle from the 1950s-70s alongside signage, gas pumps, and motorcycles.

A Smithsonian-affiliate museum (founded 1988) whose signature Automotive Gallery presents 55+ vintage, classic and sports cars emphasizing design and coachbuilding. Four other galleries cover non-automotive themes.

A volunteer-run nonprofit dedicated to British-built vehicles used in the US, featuring 40+ British cars from the 1930s-1990s (MG, Triumph, Austin, Jaguar).

Opened in 2019 in Memphis's Edge District inside a historic 1920s Cherokee Motors showroom/assembly building, its inaugural 'American Speed' exhibit tracks the rise and fall of the American sports car from post-WWII through the 1970s with over a dozen iconic examples.

A private collection of manual-transmission sports cars housed in "Deerwood Castle," the former North American headquarters of Lamborghini, in Jacksonville, FL.

A newly built (2022), climate-controlled 501(c)(3) museum displaying a rotating selection of American, English, French and German classic cars from the early 1900s to the early 2000s. Founded by collector Jim Taylor.

Private collection of 30+ British and European classics, including Jaguars, Rolls-Royce, Aston Martin, MG, Triumph, and Bentley, housed in a 1920 former Willys-Overland dealership building.

Private Arvada-area collection of sports/vintage racing cars (historically up to 15 McLarens), roughly 15 Corvettes, and motorcycles, built by the Mathews family since around 1970.

A private, personally curated collection of sports cars accumulated over 50 years by an individual Maui-based owner/enthusiast, showcased via a personal website.

A museum dedicated solely to the Chevrolet Corvette, adjacent to the GM Bowling Green Assembly Plant. Its 115,000-sq-ft campus displays 80+ Corvettes among 100+ significant cars and 50,000 artifacts.

Manufacturer museum for Panoz sports cars in Hoschton, GA, showcasing the brand's road cars and Le Mans/IMSA racing history including hybrid and prototype race cars.

Private museum in Winona with vintage drag race cars, muscle cars, and exotics; hosts one of the Midwest's largest classic car auctions annually.

A research-oriented automotive museum and archive in Naples, FL housing the Miles Collier Collections of over 100 significant automobiles built 1896-1995, called by the New York Times the finest sports car collection in America.

Privately owned collection of 75+ vehicles from the early 1900s through the 1990s in Springfield, started by Guy Mace in 1990.

A 17,000-sq-ft museum in Balboa Park displaying 75+ cars and motorcycles through a permanent collection plus rotating themed exhibits, from brass-era and classic cars to a strong motorcycle collection.

Boulder museum dedicated to Carroll Shelby and the Shelby American racing legacy.

A 15,000 sq ft heritage/manufacturing facility in Las Vegas honoring Carroll Shelby, displaying over 30 historic Shelby vehicles alongside an active vehicle-build shop floor.

Assembled over 50+ years by Dr. Frederick Simeone, one of the world's foremost collections of racing sports cars - 75+ significant vehicles (1909-mid-1970s) grouped by famous racing venues.

A 'living museum' (founded 2002) displaying the Snook collection of 1930s-1970s cars in period scenes such as a 1950s diner, a recreated 1940s Texaco station and a Sebring pit lane, plus extensive automobilia.

Established 1994, a combined classic car dealership and museum with 100+ vehicles in 85,000+ sq ft of climate-controlled space in the Overland area of St. Louis.

A museum focused on SAAB automobile heritage in the US.

A massive private muscle-car and exotic-car collection in a 117,000-sq-ft Salem warehouse, owned by brothers Barton and Bradley Colson; access limited to private tours and charity events.

A 35,000 sq ft museum in Jacksonville, FL preserving the history of Brumos Racing and Porsche in North America, alongside other significant makes such as Peugeot, Miller, and Bugatti.

Private collection of roughly 150 vehicles (Corvettes, muscle cars, exotics, race cars) owned by Ken and Kristen Lingenfelter at Lingenfelter Performance Engineering headquarters.

A research institute and museum housing the Miles Collier Collections of 100+ historically significant automobiles and race cars (1896-1995) across four galleries, plus a major automotive research library.

A collection dedicated to Porsche automobiles.

Consignment dealer/museum in Elkhart Lake showcasing rotating luxury, vintage, and exotic cars and motorcycles near Road America.

Private collection of Bill Putnam comprising roughly 30-50 classic sports cars, mostly British marques (Lotus, MG, Triumph, Jaguar, Austin-Healey) plus some Ferrari, Mazda, Morgan, AC, Sunbeam and Mini, all painted red.

26,000-sq-ft facility housing 80+ rare and classic American and foreign automobiles, all of which run and drive, spanning pre-war classics to postwar coachbuilt cars.

A private collection displayed at Apple Island Resort, focused largely on commercially available sports cars from the 1960s to the present, chosen for styling and engineering. A small weekly-rotating sampling is shown.

Free public car museum at Apple Island Resort showcasing a rotating selection of commercially available sports cars from the 1960s to present.