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.

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.

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.

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.

Operated by the Italian Army at the Cecchignola military complex in Rome, founded in 1955 and moved to its current 50,000 sqm site in 1991. Houses over 300 civilian and military vehicles, 60 tracked/armored vehicles, 60 motorcycles, and a historical archive.

Hino Motors' free corporate museum in Hachioji showcases the history of Hino trucks and buses through vehicle displays, historic engines, and models, including the Hino Contessa passenger car; individual visits are free and do not require reservation.

Isuzu's corporate museum in Fujisawa showcases the company's history in trucks, buses, and diesel engines through vehicle displays and interactive exhibits; admission Tuesday through Friday requires advance online booking.

Volunteer-run museum reopened in Seduva in 2016 (originally founded in Kaunas in 2013), containing nearly 100 vehicles including cars, motorbikes, lorries and minibuses, plus WWII-era and older military equipment.

A volunteer-run fire brigade museum opened in 2020 in a former fire station, displaying historic fire engines, equipment and uniforms.

An outdoor park in downtown Malacca displaying vintage vehicles near Dutch Square, part of a cluster of PERZIM-run heritage attractions.

A land-transport museum that formerly displayed around 50 antique vehicles including cars, motorcycles, bicycles, and ox-carts at the Melaka International Trade Centre.

One of the largest car museums in the Netherlands, displaying more than 400 classic and exotic cars, trucks, and motorcycles from the private Frans van Haren collection in a 30,000 square-meter waterside hall.

A private collection of post-war European vans and pickup trucks that served tradespeople during the reconstruction era, assembled by collector Jacques Kemp.

Housed in a former brewery building, the DAF Museum traces the history of Van Doorne's Automobiel Fabriek through more than 100 vehicles including cars, prototypes, trucks, buses, and military vehicles.

Housed in an 18th-century naval building, this museum displays around 75 historic fire engines and pumps, from hand pumps to steam and early motor engines.

A museum of historic Dutch buses, mostly from northern-Netherlands regional operators, some restored to operating condition.

A private collection of 13 historic ambulances built by the Gebr. Visser coachbuilding workshop, once responsible for around 90% of Dutch ambulances.

Invercargill's leading visitor attraction and the largest automotive/transport museum of its type in the world, built from one man's passion into a major family legacy collection of trucks, cars and transport memorabilia.

Volunteer-run technical museum in a former tram depot (Trikkestallen) in Møhlenpris, Bergen, with motor cars, commercial vehicles, a working heritage tram line, a print shop and a large model railway.

Volunteer/charity-run museum in central Narvik, entered through the War Museum and tourist information office, covering local vehicle history - everyday motoring, caravanning, buses, taxis and ferries - with a model railway of the Ofotbanen line.

Museum run by classic car club Gammelbilens Venner (founded 1974) in Klepp, showing 100 years of automotive history including passenger cars, fire trucks, motorcycles and vintage workshop equipment.

Military museum at Setermoen (Bardu) with a large collection of armored and unarmored military vehicles used by Norwegian defense forces, alongside weapons and uniforms.

A historic jeepney manufacturing plant founded in 1953 by Leonardo Sarao, historically the largest jeepney maker in the Philippines, building vehicles derived from surplus WWII US military jeeps. Still an active assembly plant that welcomes visitors by arrangement.

Headquarters of the Polish national roads authority's (GDDKiA) road-engineering history unit, with an open-air museum of historic road-building and maintenance machinery rather than passenger cars.

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.

Official museum of the GAZ automobile plant, tracing the history of the Volga, Chaika and GAZ trucks alongside the company's manufacturing heritage.

Opened in 2003, this Moscow museum displays roughly 260 vintage cars, trucks, buses, motorcycles and bicycles, with exhibition themes covering Moskvich history and the Soviet automotive industry.

One of the world's largest museums of military and automotive technology, part of the UMMC Museum Complex funded by the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company. Displays more than 500 Soviet and foreign vintage cars, motorcycles, bicycles and trucks across a large indoor hall plus an 8-hectare open-air exhibit.

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.

A private showroom/museum in Košice affiliated with the Cassovia veteran vehicle club, historically displaying around 20 cars (mostly Czechoslovak-made, including Škoda rarities), a few motorcycles, two trucks, and period memorabilia.

Permanent exhibition of Czechoslovak People's Army-era military technology located in the off-road area of the Slovakia Ring racing circuit, including tanks, artillery, and a small number of historic military trucks.

One of Slovakia's largest private technical museums, founded by the Belaň brothers, housed across five buildings on the DKP Slovakia company premises. Features more than 150 motorcycles and vintage vehicles alongside firefighting, agricultural, and craft equipment, plus an attached toy museum.

Collection preserving the heritage of Industrija motornih vozil (IMV) Novo mesto, the former Dolenjska vehicle and caravan manufacturer, run by the IMV Friends Club with support from the Dolenjski Museum, Technical Museum of Slovenia, Revoz, Adria Mobil and TPV.

Museum on a renovated old farm run by the Oldtimer Stara Gora heritage society, displaying vintage tractors, motorcycles, mopeds, farm equipment and a wine collection; opened 2017 after 20,000+ volunteer hours of restoration.

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.

Opened in December 2023 by the Fundación Jorge Jove in Arteixo, near A Coruña, MAHI displays roughly 300 vehicles - cars, motorcycles, trucks, buses, racing cars and fire engines - across 15,000 square meters, alongside a library and workshops.

Run by the Fundación Eduardo Barreiros in Valdemorillo (Madrid), this museum preserves vehicles and history related to Spanish industrialist Eduardo Barreiros and the Barreiros/Dodge/Simca marques he built.

Large private motor museum at Torstorps Gård near Svenljunga, with a collection historically described as around 300 motorcycles alongside roughly 100 cars, 15 trucks and other memorabilia including radios and a country-store display.

Part of the larger Målilla hembygdspark heritage village, comprising a vehicle/technology museum, a fire-brigade museum and a speedway museum among its 17 themed museum buildings.

Scania's own heritage vehicle museum in Södertälje covering the history of Vabis, Scania and Scania-Vabis, with historic and modern trucks, buses, and rail-related exhibits.

Family-oriented agricultural and motor museum on Öland displaying tractors, cars, fire trucks, mopeds and engines alongside a working antique rake factory.

Museum devoted to the industrial history of Tidaholm, including surviving vehicles built by Tidaholms Bruk (which produced around 1,000 vehicles, mainly trucks, between 1903 and 1934) plus the Vulcan match factory history.

Free-entry car museum operated by dealer group Toveks Bil, focused on Volkswagen Group marques along with related trucks and motorcycles; moved from Kinna to Falkenberg in 2024. Roughly 80 vehicles on display, including Sweden's oldest known VW.

Small industrial and car museum in Åtvidaberg preserving vehicles built by the local Åtvidabergs Vagnfabrik, including the sole surviving example of the rare "Åtvidabergsbilen" (only 15 built), plus motorcycles and antique calculating machines.

A company museum in Dintikon run by Oskar Setz AG, documenting the history of the firm's commercial vehicles and related trade activity.

Turkey's first major industrial museum, dedicated to the history of transport, industry and communications, with extensive vintage and classic car, motorcycle and bicycle collections from marques such as Rolls-Royce, Ford and Mercedes-Benz.

Volunteer-run museum preserving vehicles and archives of Albion Motors, the Scotstoun-based commercial vehicle manufacturer, maintained by the Albion Vehicle Preservation Trust and Biggar Albion Foundation.

Independent volunteer-run museum (formerly Aston Manor Road Transport Museum) displaying buses, coaches, commercial vehicles and private cars all with a West Midlands manufacturing connection.