Car museums & collections in UK

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.

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.

The largest transport and agriculture museum of its kind in Wales, displaying over 100 classic cars, motorcycles, commercial, military and agricultural vehicles from the 1920s onward, set along a recreated 1940s village street.

Museum run by the Aston Martin Heritage Trust in a 14th-century tithe barn, tracing over 110 years of Aston Martin history through cars, archive material and memorabilia.

A small independent motor museum with over 100 exhibits, mostly cars from the 1920s onward, plus motorcycles, mopeds and a reconstructed 1930s garage.

Formerly Cornwall's only significant motor museum, displaying around 50 cars dating from 1904 to the 1960s in a converted 19th-century watermill, with another 50 vehicles in rotating storage.

Former Huddersfield museum that displayed over 100 vintage and classic vehicles alongside motorcycles, bicycles and garage/petrol memorabilia.

A small volunteer-run museum of classic and vintage motorcycles and memorabilia within the Battlesbridge Antique Centre complex.

Open-air "living museum" of North East England recreating 1825 and 1913 life, including a Motor & Cycle Works garage housing a working and static collection of early cars, motorcycles and commercial vehicles.

Bentley Motors' visitor centre at its Crewe factory, offering paid guided tours of CW1 House and the adjoining Lineage heritage exhibition, showcasing important pre-1945 Bentleys and motorsport trophies.

Former motor museum on the Bentley estate near Lewes, displaying privately owned classic vehicles on loan, alongside a wildfowl collection, gardens and miniature railway.

A restored former RAF bomber-training station operating as a business campus for historic motoring and aviation specialists; not a standing museum, but the public can view classic and collector cars during ticketed 'Scramble' open days held roughly three times a year.

Open-air living history museum reconstructing the Black Country's industrial past, including a dedicated vehicle gallery of locally manufactured cars, motorcycles and commercial vehicles from marques such as Sunbeam, Star, Guy, Clyno and Bean.

Independent museum combining classic cars with an extensive James Bond 007 memorabilia collection, including film props and vehicles such as the Lotus Esprit S1 used in 'The Spy Who Loved Me'.

Local-authority museum at Moorside Mills holding what is described as the most comprehensive collection of Jowett cars and vans in the world (Jowett was a Bradford-built marque), plus Scott motorcycles and historic trams/trolleybuses.

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.

Museum dedicated to British commercial road transport history, housed in a former Leyland Motors inspection building, displaying over 60 vintage buses, fire engines, delivery vehicles and other commercial vehicles.

The world's largest collection of historic British cars, with over 400 vehicles on display spanning Austin, Morris, MG, Jaguar, Land Rover, Rover, Triumph, Mini and more, plus a Collections Centre housing an additional ~250 reserve vehicles including prototypes and concept cars.

Museum on the site of the world's first purpose-built motor racing circuit (opened 1907), displaying historic Brooklands-era racing cars and motorcycles alongside a substantial aviation collection including a Concorde.

Private collection specialising in Morgan three-wheeler cars from 1909-1935, entered through the Falstaff Antiques shop, alongside early motorcycles, bicycles and automobilia.

One of the largest privately owned motor collections open to the public in the UK, with over 120 veteran, vintage and classic cars and around 100 motorcycles displayed on the grounds of a 15th-century castle.

Former museum in Keswick dedicated to celebrity film and TV vehicles, including a sister attraction, The Bond Museum, with over 30 original James Bond screen cars.

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.

A motoring and toy museum in a former mill housing 20th-century cars, motorcycles, bicycles and caravans alongside a large vintage toy collection; home to Brum, the BBC children's TV car.

Britain's newest motor museum (opened November 2023) in a former 1836 department store in central Taunton, displaying around 100 cars and 80+ motorcycles focused on the 1950s-1990s.

Houses the largest collection of British-made road transport in public ownership, including around 250 cars and commercial vehicles, 120 motorcycles and 300 cycles, with strong emphasis on Coventry-built marques such as Jaguar, Triumph, Humber, Standard and Riley.

Museum celebrating the career of Formula 1 driver David Coulthard, displaying several of his F1 cars, karts from his early career, trophies, race suits and helmets.

Formerly a private by-appointment museum of world rally cars (Audi Quattro, Ford, Talbot Sunbeam, Lancia and more) assembled by rally team owner David Sutton.

Formerly the world's largest collection of Grand Prix racing cars, housed in five halls at Donington Park circuit, with over 130 exhibits including historic Formula 1 and pre-war racing machinery.

Former private collection of the Earl of Moray, opened to the public in 1970 in converted farm buildings near Doune, featuring around 25-30 rare cars including a 1905 Rolls-Royce, Hispano-Suiza, Bentley and Aston Martin.

Volunteer-run museum with more than 100 historic vehicles across four halls, including cars, buses, motorcycles and commercial vehicles, plus a horse-drawn ambulance and a steam road roller.

Open-air working transport museum where visitors can ride historic trams, trolleybuses and buses, plus a narrow-gauge railway and static displays of vintage cars, lorries, vans and taxis.

Formerly a small private museum of around 10 classic cars and 13 motorcycles on Porlock High Street.

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.

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.

Interactive museum telling the story of British car manufacturing from 1922 to the present through more than 130 British-built cars, plus 'Drive Dad's Car' — the UK's largest classic car driving experience with over 60 drivable classics on-site.

East Midlands heritage motoring hub converted from the former Rolls-Royce Heritage Centre at the historic Victoria Ironworks site, featuring vintage vehicle exhibitions, dehumidified car storage, and rotating displays plus talks with collector-car figures.

One of the largest vintage vehicle collections in South West England, with over 40 cars and commercial vehicles including some used in TV and film productions, housed within a family farm-park attraction; also home to the Reg Imray motorcycle collection.

The UK's largest collection of cars and motorcycles, with over 300 vehicles spanning from the earliest days of motoring to modern supercars, including a dedicated Red Room of sports cars and a Williams Formula 1 exhibition.

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.

Open-air living history museum near Newtonmore with over 10,000 items, including a reconstructed 1928 Kingussie garage with a period petrol pump and a vintage vehicle, plus horse-drawn carts.

Former small private museum in Hull dedicated to Humber-marque motor cars and history.

A large collection of over 100 transport and engineering objects made or used in the Ipswich area, including buses, trams, trolleybuses, commercial vehicles, a police car, fire engines and bicycles.

Large motor museum at the former RAF Jurby airfield with over 500 cars spanning 1902-2005, plus around 300 motorcycles, buses, fire engines and other vehicles.

Educational charity/trust preserving over 100–140 historic Jaguar, Daimler, Lanchester and SS vehicles plus a documentary and photographic archive, historically associated with a small heritage centre at the former Browns Lane plant.

The world's largest dedicated classic-car restoration facility for Jaguar and Land Rover, with 54 workshop bays and a private collection of over 260 historic vehicles including prototypes, concept cars, movie cars and the first Land Rover and Range Rover.

Museum dedicated to double Formula 1 World Champion Jim Clark, displaying trophies, memorabilia, photographs and racing cars connected to his career.