Car museums & collections in USA

Not-for-profit historic-vehicle museum housing 100+ vehicles from collector Ross Myers with an emphasis on hot rods and award-winning restorations, in a restored early-20th-century brick factory building.

Combination classic-car storage facility, museum, and diner-themed complex along US 50 in Lawrenceburg featuring an eclectic private collection.

Affiliated with the AACA Museum, holds roughly 3,000,000 items including books, periodicals, photographs, and factory literature related to automotive history.

Affiliated with the Antique Automobile Club of America, displaying 100+ vehicles from horseless carriages to 1970s muscle cars, plus 30+ motorcycles and the largest indoor collection of historic buses in the US.

Professionally staffed collecting institution in Hershey with a rotating collection of over 130 cars, trucks, buses, and motorcycles, including the Cammack Tucker Gallery.

University-owned collection of roughly 170 vintage/classic vehicles displayed at the school's Washington Street facility in San Francisco, including Duesenbergs and a Tucker 48.

A 12,000-sq-ft showroom museum at AER Manufacturing's corporate HQ featuring vintage and custom cars against a 360-degree mural of hot rods and motorcycles.

Privately owned museum in a restored 1930s Eagle D-X filling station on Route 66 in Afton, formerly housing 18 Packards plus other vintage autos and Route 66 memorabilia.

Former Grand Junction museum displaying Tammy Allen's personal classic automobile collection.

Museum of the American Motorcyclist Association with two floors of motorcycles, gear, and memorabilia.

An over-the-road transportation museum (~43,000 sq ft, three galleries) with 75+ cars, trucks, motorcycles and bicycles from the carriage era to present, with regional emphasis on Mack Trucks and early PA automaking.

The largest public collection of Packard cars and artifacts, housed in a restored 1917 Packard dealership. Features Brass Era cars through 1950s Packards.

Housed in a restored 1917 Packard dealership, this museum displays the largest public collection of Packard automobiles and memorabilia, spanning Brass Era cars, 1930s-40s Classics and 1950s Packards.

A privately owned two-level museum in Asheboro housing one of the largest private collections of antique Harley-Davidson motorcycles in the country, plus a gift shop and 1950s-style diner.

Operated by the Collings Foundation, primarily a military vehicle/tank museum built around the Jacques M. Littlefield Collection, with annex buildings also housing a sizable vintage automobile collection.

Privately owned South El Monte museum with over 180 restored military vehicles - tanks, jeeps, trucks, artillery - spanning WWI through the Cold War/Desert Storm era.

A Honolulu attraction billed as a "walking history tour" through 100 years of American automotive development (1900-2000), aimed at families and students.

A private, nonprofit 123,000 sq ft muscle car museum in Melbourne, FL housing Mark Pieloch's collection of 475+ American muscle cars from the 1950s-70s through modern performance models.

Museum dedicated to the history of American police motorcycles, featuring 70+ motorcycles dating to 1912 plus period uniforms.

A museum dedicated to motorsport, with a primary focus on organized drag-racing history.

Museum in Perryville dedicated to celebrating the history of the tractor.

Tram-tour museum in a former B.F. Goodrich tire factory featuring an eclectic Americana collection of classic cars, one of the world's largest private collections of automatic music machines, circus art, dolls, and pop-culture memorabilia.

Nonprofit foundation museum with 90+ ultra-low-mileage, original-condition American cars spanning 100 years, framed against historical events such as the Depression, WWII, and the oil embargo.

Part of the historic town restoration of Granville, this small museum and adjoining vintage service station displays antique automobiles as part of a tour package alongside other Granville Museum sites like Pioneer Village.

Displays 90+ automobiles dating from 1899 to the mid-1970s in a 28,000 sq ft showroom, plus a recreated Skelly gas station.

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.

A long-running roadside motorcycle and auto museum on Highway 101 in Port Orford, built by collector Stan Dishong, featuring 30+ classic and antique motorcycles.

Bay City museum claiming the largest collection of motorized fire trucks in the world (60+), including the FDNY "Super Pumper," plus 12,000+ antique toys.

A 10,000 sq ft building of transportation history artifacts, part of the Heritage Park of North Iowa complex operated by the Winnebago Historical Society.

Former museum in downtown Shreveport housed in a former auto/truck dealership building opened in 1928, which displayed more than 60 vintage cars, fire trucks, motorcycles and bicycles spanning the early 20th century through 1960s-70s muscle cars.

Eclectic private collection in Grandview ranging from a 1910 International to a Ferrari Testarossa, with Studebaker as its signature marque (28 Studebakers on display).

A private institution in Houston dedicated to contemporary "art car" culture, founded by Ann and James Harithas.

Museum in Douglas dedicated to "art cars" - vehicles transformed into rolling works of art. Opened to the public in 2023.

Museum in Salina housing 100+ restored antique trucks, assembled by Art Robinson.

40,000 sq ft mixed art/antiques venue in Rochester housing roughly 500,000 items including about 91 automobiles ranging from 1900-2006, displayed alongside art and memorabilia.

Housed in the Art Deco former Auburn Automobile Company HQ (a National Historic Landmark), displaying 120+ cars across seven galleries, focused on Auburn, Cord and Duesenberg plus Packard, Cadillac and Rolls-Royce.

A rotating-exhibit museum in Newport's 1903 Audrain Building with access to 200+ rare automobiles from the early 20th century to the present. Shows ~15-20 curated cars at a time under themed exhibitions.

A nonprofit museum (est. 2008) showcasing historical race cars, movie/production vehicles, hot rods, and music-related memorabilia.

An 18,000 sq ft facility in Callaway County portraying automotive history through vintage and classic cars, chrome, and street rods.

Hands-on El Segundo museum (visitors could sit in cars; staff drove select vehicles weekly) with roughly 130 vehicles spanning 1886-2000, founded 2002 by Stanley Zimmerman and Earl Rubenstein.

A "premium car museum & club" displaying luxury and collector vehicles owned by local Utah County residents, with locations in Provo, Sandy, and the Utah Motorsports Campus in Erda; combines museum tours with club membership, event space, and car storage.

A hall of fame honoring the people behind the auto industry (engineers, designers, racers, executives) through themed exhibits rather than a large car collection.

Not a vehicle-display museum but a 501(c)(3) automotive research archive (est. 1985) holding 5+ million scanned pages of automotive literature, focused on pre-1942 American automobiles.

Private gallery of 80+ vintage race, show, street, and military vehicles plus memorabilia, open to the public by appointment.

Indoor automotive-themed attraction ("Six Flags AutoWorld") that opened July 4, 1984 in downtown Flint.

Located at Barber Motorsports Park in Leeds (near Birmingham), this is a Guinness World Record holder for the world's largest motorcycle museum, with over 1,600 motorcycles spanning more than 100 years. The museum also displays a growing collection of rare and vintage automobiles, including Lotus race cars, alongside the adjacent 2.38-mile road course.

Legendary Hollywood custom-car builder George Barris's shop/showroom (creator of the Batmobile and Munster Koach) operated in North Hollywood for 60+ years before that location closed in 2021; family stated intent to reopen a public display in the Oxnard-Ventura area.

Antique and muscle-car museum in Lancaster County's Intercourse, PA, displaying roughly 50 cars in four rows, focused on American muscle from the 1950s-70s alongside signage, gas pumps, and motorcycles.