Steam/Early museums & collections

Housed in Bulgaria's first railway station (built 1866) on the Danube riverbank; focuses primarily on rail and river transport history and communications rather than road vehicles.

A private museum in Shuangcheng District, Harbin, established in 2009 and relocated to a new 17,600-square-metre facility in 2019. It holds nearly 200 vehicles, including a replica 1890s steam-powered vehicle, a 1945 ZIS-110B Soviet state limousine, and the only known surviving 1966 Hongqi CA770L station wagon.

Founded by collector Gu Haijun and officially opened in October 2017, this was the first classic-car themed museum in Shanxi Province. Beyond passenger cars, its roughly 6,500-square-metre display includes military vehicles, commercial trucks, tractors, and a locomotive, organized around eight historical exhibition sections.

Voluntary heritage society (founded 1964) preserving stationary steam engines and operating a narrow-gauge woodland railway at Stradbally, Co. Laois; its broader collection, contributed by members, also includes vintage cars, tractors, motorcycles and lorries.

Latin America's pioneering classic-car museum, founded by Arturo Pérez Gutiérrez and opened around 1989/1991 in San Pablo Tepetlapa, Coyoacán; displayed more than 120 vehicles from 1904 onward, including steam-, gasoline-, and diesel-powered cars, with roughly 30 cars rotated periodically from lending collectors. Permanently closed in December 2021.

Museum housed in an old dairy factory near Whangarei displaying around 230 vehicles and machinery from the Industrial Revolution to the present, and home to the largest collection of Packard automobiles in the world.

A dedicated car museum within the large private Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani Museum complex at Al Samriya Estate, displaying more than 600 vehicles spanning over 120 years of automotive history, from steam cars to modern sports cars.

The only museum of antique tractors and steam machines in the Balkans, begun by Milivoj Žeravica and expanded by his son Čedomir in Novo Miloševo, Vojvodina.

Located in Pioneers' Park, La Rochelle, this is described as the largest transport museum in Africa, covering South African land transport history from the late 1700s through the 1980s, including cars, bicycles, motorcycles, buses, trams, and fire engines.

Housed in a former goods shed in George on the Garden Route, this museum is primarily a railway museum with steam locomotives and coaches, but also displays road vehicles and a private vintage car collection.

Open-air industrial heritage museum with over 20 exhibition areas, including a collection of more than 25 vintage vehicles such as veteran Southdown buses, commercial vehicles, traction engines and road rollers, plus a narrow-gauge railway.

Primarily a steam engine and gardens attraction that also houses the national Dad's Army collection of vintage vehicles, including Jones's butcher's van, a period fire engine and Captain Mainwaring's Austin 8 staff car, set on a reconstructed Walmington-on-Sea high street.

Independent charitable museum in Alford telling the story of transport in North East Scotland through historic and classic cars, motorcycles, steam vehicles, a double-decker bus and an electric tram.

Large indoor vintage transport collection at Flower of May Holiday Park near Scarborough, covering cycles, motorcycles, cars, commercial vehicles and steam traction engines from the late 19th century through the 1980s.

Free transport museum in Hull's Museums Quarter covering veteran cars, horse-drawn carriages, trams and bicycles, including a recreated 1940s street scene.

55-acre living-history museum near Vista dedicated primarily to antique stationary steam/gas engines and vintage tractors/crawlers; not a dedicated automobile museum but holds early motorized/industrial vehicles.

Founded 1965 in the former Boyertown Auto Body Works, preserving PA transportation history with 90+ vehicles (carriages, bicycles, cars, trucks) almost all built in Pennsylvania, plus period displays.

Over 150 collectible, classic, and muscle cars alongside farm exhibits, steam engines, 150+ tractors, and harvesting equipment; inventory changes as vehicles are bought/sold.

A seasonal museum displaying the classic-car collection of thriller author Clive Cussler, many appearing in his Dirk Pitt novels. 100+ rare/vintage cars with ~60 on display (Rolls-Royce, Bentley, Bugatti, Packard, Cadillac).

Boulder County collection near Longmont of 40+ fully operable antique cars (steam, electric, early gasoline) plus tractors and buggies, founded in 1977 by Ray Dougherty.

A multi-modal transportation museum with 800+ artifacts: automobiles, motorcycles, carriages, bicycles, steam locomotives, rail equipment and fire apparatus.

A "living museum" in Fairbanks with 95+ pre-WWII automobiles (65-75 on display at a time), most operable, alongside a vintage-fashion collection and Alaskan motoring photo archive.

A rural Ferry County collection of rare antique automobiles and trucks alongside a reconstructed steam-powered sawmill, antique farm machinery, and a blacksmith shop.

A 128-acre nonprofit showgrounds near Le Sueur with 25+ buildings preserving antique farm equipment, steam/gas/diesel engines, and old cars/trucks; volunteer association founded 1977.

Housed on the grounds of the 1897 Auburn Heights mansion in Yorklyn, Delaware, this museum displays the collection built by T. Clarence Marshall beginning in 1947, anchored by the world's largest operating collection of Stanley steam cars.

Private steam/gas tractor collection near Great Falls/Belt started in the late 1940s by Walter Mehmke; includes antique automobiles alongside roughly 20 steam tractors and 12 gas tractors.

Volunteer-run museum near South Haven focused on antique gas/steam engines and tractors, an approximately 80-acre living-history site with an annual Antique Engine & Tractor Show.

Agricultural/rural heritage complex in Mount Pleasant with traction steam engines, antique tractors, antique cars and trucks, gas engines, a historic mill, and a 1915 farmhouse.

A nonprofit celebrating the pre-1916 Brass Era automobile, displaying early cars in the Steam Barn on the Gilmore campus and telling the story of the birth of the auto industry.

Museum dedicated to inventors Francis and Freelan Stanley, born in Kingfield, and their Stanley Steamer automobiles, with family history exhibits.

Family-run antique car museum begun in the 1970s by Feltz Terrill, with restored vehicles from 1901-1941.

A nonprofit automotive-history museum housing the Feldman collection, focused on the Brass Era (1896-1915) with antique cars dating 1886-1952. The 5-acre site also features antique field power and a 1/8-scale railway.

An online-only resource (not a physical museum) functioning as a historical encyclopedia of antique steam automobiles, with a database of known steam car manufacturers.

A volunteer-run museum (founded 1977) displaying ~47 antique/collector cars (1910s-1980s) alongside fire trucks, Caterpillar equipment, aircraft, tractors and a 1910 steam locomotive.

Operated by the National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe, this regional museum in Mutare holds a significant collection of vintage cars, motorcycles, horse-drawn wagons and coaches, and steam engines, largely donated by local collectors.