Trucks/Commercial museums & collections

Long-running private motor museum near Hamilton, Victoria, founded more than three decades ago, housing vintage cars, buses and an array of motoring memorabilia.

Regional vehicle museum in Maffra offering a rotating display of more than 160 cars, motorbikes, machinery, historic vehicles and motoring memorabilia.

Museum in Edinburgh, north of Adelaide, established in 1993 and operated by the Military Vehicle Preservation Society of South Australia, displaying privately owned military vehicles maintained in running condition.

Australia's oldest and largest automotive museum, operated by the History Trust of South Australia in the historic township of Birdwood since 1965. The collection spans more than 300 cars, motorcycles and commercial vehicles from 1899 to the present.

Transport museum in Alice Springs owned and operated by the Road Transport Historical Society, dedicated to the history of Australia's road transport industry, with the adjoining Old Ghan Heritage Railway and Museum.

Museum in a former powerhouse building in Portland on Victoria's Great Ocean Road, featuring veteran, vintage and classic cars, motorcycles, stationary engines, a 1920s cable tram and grip car, and general motoring memorabilia.

Vehicle museum housed within the Lockyer Valley Cultural Centre in Gatton, west of Brisbane, featuring a rotating display of cars, motorcycles, commercial and military transport vehicles.

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.

One of Europe's largest fire-service heritage collections, with around 110 fire vehicles (the oldest a 1927 ladder truck) and roughly two million smaller artifacts.

The only Belgian museum dedicated entirely to brewery delivery trucks, housed in a 19th-century malting farmhouse with around 20 trucks and a reconstructed 1930s bistro bar.

Formerly the largest firefighter-heritage museum in Belgium, with a large collection of fire-service miniatures and memorabilia.

Built on the Ghislain Mahy collection begun in 1944, this museum occupies a former textile factory and displays roughly 300 cars, trucks, buses, motorcycles, bicycles and carriages from 1895 to the present.

Private collector's museum in Bebedouro, São Paulo, established in 1964, displaying antique vehicles, machines, and weapons.

Opened on 26 March 2025 on the historic site of the former Second Automobile Works in Shiyan, Hubei, this is the first comprehensive automotive-industry museum in central China. Its roughly 21,000-square-metre space displays more than 2,000 artifacts across four galleries tracing Dongfeng's history from truck maker to global automaker.

Located within Sinotruk's factory complex in Jinan, this manufacturer museum displays historic heavy trucks such as the JN150, JN160, JN252, and licensed Steyr 91, alongside modern Sinotruk Howo trucks.

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.

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.

Private collection founded by restorer Ivica/Antun Presečki in Krapina featuring over twenty cars, more than sixty motorcycles, and buses, with an emphasis on factory-original, meticulously documented restorations and an on-site workshop.

Private museum in Selnica near Sveti Martin na Muri housing vintage cars, motorcycles (including the domestic TMZ Švrćo scooter), tractors, firefighting vehicles and a tram acquired from Zagreb's ZET transit authority.

Former single-marque museum devoted to Praga vehicles produced 1908-1989, once rated among the world's most valuable branded car collections.

Private museum near Týn nad Vltavou displaying historic trucks and passenger cars, horse-drawn carriages, motorcycles, bicycles and antique agricultural machinery across a three-storey, ~1,800 m² building.

Museum of Tatra trucks in a reconstructed former foundry building, displaying nearly 80 vehicles and over 20 engines across 14 chronological thematic units.

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.

A volunteer-run national bus museum in Skælskør preserving and displaying historic Danish buses and related commercial-vehicle heritage.

Combined tank/artillery and fire-engine museum in Oksbøl (part of Vardemuseerne), holding Denmark's largest collection of military armoured vehicles alongside a large collection of historic fire trucks and fire-fighting vehicles, including horse- and hand-drawn examples dating to around 1700.

Informal open-air and warehouse collection of roughly 500 vehicles that once traveled Estonian roads during the Soviet era, including cars, trucks, buses, agricultural machinery and fire trucks.

Housed in a former Tsarist-era brick building in Kuopio, this museum presents a broad look at Finnish vehicle and traffic history through about 80 cars along with motorcycles, bicycles and old traffic signage.

Finland's largest private vehicle collection, opened in 1999 in Ylämylly (Liperi) near Joensuu in North Karelia. Over 400 vehicles are on display, from mopeds and tractors to American cars and curiosities across decades, along with scale models.

This foundation preserves the heritage of Lyon-based truck, bus and industrial-vehicle manufacturer Berliet (founded 1899, later absorbed into Renault Véhicules Industriels). Its Conservatoire, a 7,200 m² building in Le Montellier (Ain), holds around 280 restored vehicles spanning 30 marques from 1886 to today.

Formerly France's largest private heavy-truck collection, assembled by Jacques Passenaud (1932-2022) in Cormenon. After his death, the roughly 190-lot collection (72 major vehicles plus engines and accessories) was fully dispersed at a public auction on 30 September 2023.

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.

Museum in the Wehrshausen district of Marburg, Hesse, run by the Polizei-Motorsport-Club Marburg 1990 e.V., displaying over 100 vehicles spanning several decades of German police history including patrol cars, motorcycles, armored special vehicles and water cannons.

A private classic vehicle and toy museum in the Norddeich district of Norden, Lower Saxony, opened in November 2002 by Michael Klein. On roughly 2,000 m² it displays about 55 cars, 40 motorcycles, 20 mopeds, two trucks, racing cars, and a large historic toy collection.

A private museum in Pilsting, Bavaria, founded by Dr. Konrad Auwärter to preserve the history of the family's Gottlob Auwärter/Neoplan bus-manufacturing business. On about 3,000 m² it displays roughly 20 historic Neoplan and other buses alongside about 25 automobiles, plus some motorcycles and tractors.

A private automobile museum in Fichtelberg (Bavaria) founded in 1992 by the Eckert family, displaying more than 500 exhibits across three exhibition halls plus outdoor space totaling roughly 10,000 square meters. The collection spans automotive history from 1896 to the present and includes cars, motorcycles, aircraft, fire engines, tractors, and prototypes.

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 vintage vehicle museum in Gundelsheim, Baden-Württemberg, opened 1991 by Fritz Schmid, operator of the Hotel-Restaurant 'Zum Lamm,' displaying roughly 10 cars, 1 truck, 32 motorcycles, 4 mopeds and 1 engine.

An automobile and vehicle museum in Cunewalde, Saxony (Oberlausitz), opened in 2000 and operated by the Oberlausitzer Kfz.-Veteranen Club e.V. in a restored three-sided farm barn. It focuses on vehicles that shaped the streetscape of East Germany, displaying about 18 cars, 3 trucks/buses, 30 motorcycles, 10 mopeds, 8 bicycles, and 12 engines.

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.

An automobile museum in the Culitzsch district of Wilkau-Haßlau, Saxony, built on a GDR-era vehicle collection begun by taxi entrepreneur Andreas Schwalbe; opened September 22, 2018 and operated by Historische Technik Culitzsch e.V. Around 50 vehicles are shown, dominated by GDR-era passenger cars, staged within period scenarios.

Commercial-vehicle museum in Hartmannsdorf near Chemnitz, Saxony, opened May 26, 2001 by Verein Historische Nutzfahrzeuge Hartmannsdorf e.V. on about 1,400 square meters of exhibition space.

Association-run technology museum in Büschergrund, Freudenberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, founded 1991 and renamed in 2014 to broaden scope. Exhibits roughly 60 historic commercial vehicles (mainly tractors and trucks), historic motorcycles, a historic fire-brigade collection, and a working 1904 steam engine.

The Unimog-Museum in Gaggenau-Bad Rotenfels documents the history, technology and applications of the Mercedes-Benz Unimog all-wheel-drive utility vehicle, near where series production began in 1951. Opened June 2006 and reopened early 2023 after an expansion that doubled exhibition space.

The factory museum of Westfalia-Werke in Wiedenbrück (Rheda-Wiedenbrück), exhibiting mainly vehicles and items the company manufactured or converted - trailers, motorhomes/campers, vintage cars and special vehicles - alongside carriages, farm equipment and other company memorabilia.

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.

36-hectare open-air park displaying more than 700 unrestored ex-COMECON cars, trucks and buses from the 1960s-1980s.

Manufacturer-run showroom of Rába Automotive Holding displaying the company's truck, bus and off-road/military vehicle heritage dating to 1896.

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.