Transportation (multi-modal) museums & collections

Collections and visible-storage facility of the Powerhouse Museum (part of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences), displaying historic cars, trams, steam engines and aircraft from the state collection at Castle Hill in Sydney's north-west.

Austria's second-largest transport museum, located in Ferlach, Carinthia, with over 4,700 square metres of exhibits covering historic cars, trucks, fire-brigade vehicles, streetcars, buses and industrial machinery.

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 museum in St. Veit an der Glan combining regional transport history (rail, road traffic and gendarmerie) with the city history of St. Veit, opened in 2004 on the town's main square.

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.

Housed in the 1897 Woluwe tram depot, this museum displays more than 60 historic trams, buses, trolleybuses and taxis, some of which run live on public routes during opening hours.

Housed in the classified 1912 Groenenhoek tram depot, this museum displays more than 55 historic trams and buses dating from 1873 to the present.

Housed in a former tram depot, this museum displays around 40-50 vehicles including carriages, trams and trolleybuses spanning the 18th century to today.

A former tram depot heritage site with a station, water tower, smithy and three depot sheds, including a royal tram carriage once used by King Leopold II.

Private collection museum near the Royal Naval Dockyard in Somerset featuring vintage Bermuda cars, motorcycles (including Bermuda-specific Mobylette and Cyrus scooters), horse carriages and boats, assembled by collector Paul Martins.

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.

Bulgaria's national museum of science and technology, with a sizeable transport collection of cars, motorcycles, mopeds, bicycles and scale vehicle models.

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.

Foundation established in 2002 in Medellín by antique and classic car clubs together with the Automóvil Club de Colombia, best known for organizing itinerant exhibitions and Medellín's annual classic-car parade during the Feria de las Flores rather than operating a permanent walk-in gallery.

Multi-modal transport museum near Palmira, Valle del Cauca, founded in 1998 as the Museo Nacional del Transporte and rebranded in 2010 with a primary focus on aviation, while retaining a classic automobile section.

National technical museum in Zagreb with a dedicated road/rail/sea/air transport section opened to the public in 1963, covering the historical development of transportation.

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.

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.

Multi-pavilion technical museum; Pavilion A is dedicated to transportation, exhibiting 20th-century automobiles, motorcycles and a bicycle collection alongside a Tesla Liberec electronics display.

A broad technical/farm heritage museum in Allinge, Bornholm, covering toys, radios, hand tools, electrical appliances, agricultural implements and tractors alongside vehicles from Denmark's past.

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.

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.

L'Aventure Michelin in Clermont-Ferrand is Michelin's corporate museum tracing the history of the tire manufacturer and its impact on mobility and motorsport since 1889. The 2,000 m² scenographic exhibit covers pneumatic tire invention, transportation history, and the Bibendum mascot.

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 large privately-owned eclectic collection at the Moulin de Marnay near Azay-le-Rideau, assembled by collector Maurice Dufresne, spanning vintage cars, motorcycles, bicycles, aircraft, trucks, tractors, and military and agricultural machinery from the 1850s to 1950s.

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.

Museum of mobile travel in Bad Waldsee, Baden-Württemberg, opened October 29, 2011, located near the Hymer motorhome manufacturer's facilities. Permanent exhibition of over 80 motorhomes and caravans spanning six decades of camping/caravanning history across roughly 6,000 m², plus 1,000 m² of rotating special exhibitions.

A vehicle and technology museum in the Fürstenau district of Boitzenburger Land (Uckermark district, Brandenburg), founded in 2013 by Gerhard Eberwein and housed in the renovated former grain store of the Fürstenau manor estate. It displays a mixed collection including automobiles, motorcycles, mopeds, bicycles, trucks/buses, tractors and engines, plus everyday GDR-era household items.

A large private transportation museum in Marxzell near Karlsruhe, opened in 1968 in a former sawmill by Bernhard Reichert and still family-run. It spans over 3,600 m² of exhibition space.

A private transport museum near Prora on the island of Rügen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, open since 1994, combining a large collection of East and West German automobiles with historic railway locomotives, trucks and fire-service vehicles.

A general transportation museum operated by the association Verkehrsmuseum Berlin e.V., with exhibition rooms in the Urania building in Berlin-Schöneberg, covering rail, aviation/space, road traffic, urban transport and shipping; automobiles were only one of five departments.

Transport museum housed in the historic Johanneum building on Dresden's Neumarkt, covering rail, road traffic, aviation and shipping across roughly 5,000 m². Its road-traffic holdings focus heavily on Saxon and Thuringian automotive history (Zittau, Dresden, Chemnitz, Zwickau, Eisenach, Suhl) alongside bicycles and motorcycles.

Volunteer-run transport museum operated by Deutsche Verkehrswacht im Stadt- und Landkreis Karlsruhe e.V. in a former electrical-appliance factory, covering roughly 200 years of road and rail mobility including historic automobiles, motorcycles and a large model railway.

Branch of the Deutsches Museum at Theresienhöhe/Bavariapark in Munich, housed in three historic former trade-fair halls, displaying roughly 250 objects from its land-transport collection (cars, locomotives, bicycles, motorcycles, carriages).

Hungary's national museum of science, technology and transport, historically including a dedicated automobile/transport vehicle collection.

The largest privately owned vehicle museum in Iceland, formally opened in 2004 near Hofsós in Skagafjörður. It exhibits around 100 vehicles indoors — cars, buses, motorcycles, snowmobiles and agricultural machinery — with several hundred more vehicles and machines displayed outside.

Iceland's oldest transportation museum, established in 1998 and opened to the public in 2000, located in the Kaldakinn valley between Akureyri and Húsavík. It holds one of Iceland's largest collections of historic cars and trucks alongside displays on Icelandic road and transport history.

India's largest private transportation museum, opened in 2013 near Gurugram, spanning four floors and 12 galleries covering automobiles, aviation, rail, maritime heritage, rural transport and folk art. Its Automobile Gallery houses a significant collection of vintage and classic cars.

A broad private heritage museum in Dharmasthala founded in 1989 by Dr. Veerendra Heggade, holding over 8,000 artifacts including temple chariots and manuscripts, with a section devoted to vintage automobiles.

Southeast Asia's first large-scale multi-mode transportation museum, opened in March 2014 on a 3.8-hectare site on the slopes of Mount Panderman, housing more than 500 exhibits including vintage and classic cars organized into themed zones.

Indonesia's Ministry of Transportation museum within Taman Mini Indonesia Indah, covering land, sea, air, and rail transport history since 1991, including antique cars and taxis alongside a newer electric-vehicle mobility exhibit.

Rural-life museum housed in the farm courtyard buildings of Johnstown Castle Estate; alongside extensive farming and dairy machinery, its transport gallery includes vintage tractors, carts and a small number of period cars.

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.

Ireland's principal transport-heritage collection, holding roughly 170 vehicles including trams, buses, fire engines, military and utility vehicles spanning 1883-1984. Around 60 of the ~100 vehicles at the Howth site are on permanent display, with others viewable by prior arrangement.

A museum run by Egged, Israel's largest bus operator, displaying over 60 restored buses spanning nearly 70 years of public transport history, from British Army-surplus trucks converted to buses after WWI to modern vehicles.

A museum operated by the Taavura Group, a major Israeli transport and logistics company, in Ramla, established to commemorate the 85th birthday of company founder Abraham "Bondi" Lavant, displaying historic trucks and transport vehicles.

Located in Nagoya on the former site of Sakichi Toyoda's textile business, this museum documents the parallel development of the Toyota Group's automatic loom technology and Toyota Motor Corporation's automobile manufacturing, with working-machinery demonstrations.

Operated by the City of Luxembourg, this free museum traces the history of the capital's public transport from horse-drawn trams (1875) through the electric tram era to buses.