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.

Motorcycle museum inside an 1881 feed mill in downtown Ravenna, showcasing rare Harleys, Indians, and movie bikes.

A Forest City museum named 'Best Museum in the Nation' by the Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA), featuring more than 70 antique and classic vehicles.

General art/history museum whose permanent collection includes the 1924 Martin Wasp Touring Car, the only automobile ever manufactured in Vermont, displayed within its "Gilded Age Vermont" exhibit.

The private automotive collection of longtime Greer car dealer Jim Benson (Benson Automotive), on display since 2005, featuring cars mostly from the 1950s along with bikes, pedal cars, and dealership memorabilia.

Former small nonprofit museum, opened January 2011, documenting Route 66 history and co-sponsoring the annual Historic Route 66 Car Show.

Private classic car museum with 100+ vintage, custom, and hot rod vehicles spanning the 1920s-2010s.

50,000 sq ft motorcycle and Americana museum opened by William Morris in 1998, with nearly 200 vintage motorcycles plus "Billville," a recreated indoor street of period storefronts.

A Smithsonian-affiliate museum (founded 1988) whose signature Automotive Gallery presents 55+ vintage, classic and sports cars emphasizing design and coachbuilding. Four other galleries cover non-automotive themes.

Private collection owned by Finley Ledbetter housed in a former car dealer's showroom, focused on 1971 Ford Mustangs and Boss models - one of the largest such collections in the country.

BMW's manufacturer-owned visitor center and museum adjacent to its Spartanburg-area (Greer) manufacturing plant, showcasing BMW brand history and vehicles.

The Eugene Dahl Car Museum is one building within the larger Bonanzaville pioneer village complex operated by the Cass County Historical Society in West Fargo, housing 60+ vehicles from the earliest automobile era to more modern vehicles.

A planned physical museum commemorating land-speed-record history near the Bonneville Salt Flats near Wendover; a "Bonneville Virtual Museum" website currently exists online in advance of a planned brick-and-mortar facility.

Primarily a narrow-gauge railroad heritage village that also features an Antique Automobile Exhibit with 60+ vehicles dated 1902-1962.

Founded 1965 in the former Boyertown Auto Body Works, preserving PA transportation history with 90+ vehicles (carriages, bicycles, cars, trucks) almost all built in Pennsylvania, plus period displays.

Over 150 collectible, classic, and muscle cars alongside farm exhibits, steam engines, 150+ tractors, and harvesting equipment; inventory changes as vehicles are bought/sold.

Classic car dealership/museum with 125+ vehicles and a one-mile track where visitors can ride along or drive classic/muscle cars, including drift experiences.

A volunteer-run nonprofit dedicated to British-built vehicles used in the US, featuring 40+ British cars from the 1930s-1990s (MG, Triumph, Austin, Jaguar).

Small classic car museum within the Ogden Union Station Museums complex, displaying 13 classic American automobiles built between 1901 and 1937.

A private collection housed in the historic 1911 Beverley Garage Building in downtown Staunton, Virginia, displaying an ever-changing selection of vehicles from the dawn of motoring through the muscle-car era.

Motorcycle museum housed inside the Buddy Stubbs Harley-Davidson dealership in Phoenix, showcasing 130+ rare motorcycles from 37 manufacturers spanning over 110 years.

Documents the automotive history of Western New York, especially Buffalo-built Pierce-Arrow and Thomas vehicles, displaying antique automobiles, motorcycles and bicycles plus factory artifacts.

A nonprofit preserving Buick history, primarily as a research archive of digitized Buick literature, catalogs, brochures, manuals and memorabilia; it also preserves a few historically important Buick automobiles.

A private collection of over 50 vintage motorcycles located above Vintage Motorcycles Northwest, a repair/restoration shop in Spanaway founded by the late Johnnie Burgin.

A free classic car, motorcycle, and boat museum in Gulfport founded by collector John Hans, notable for a rare 1987 De Tomaso Pantera GT5-S among other vintage vehicles.

Founded in 1982 by Carolina Freight Carriers Corporation for its 50th anniversary, this Cherryville museum documents the early history of the trucking industry.

Gilmore campus partner museum modeled after a 1940s Cadillac dealership, opened September 2014 and run by the Cadillac & LaSalle Club.

A single-marque museum on the Gilmore campus displaying Cadillac and LaSalle automobiles in a building replicating a 1948 GM dealership, with artifacts, engines and memorabilia.

A large Sacramento museum (72,000 sq ft) with 150+ classic, race, muscle and early cars representing the whole history of the automobile, with changing 'rolling exhibits' and free docent tours.

Museum in Old Town Victorville dedicated to Route 66's California history, housed in the former Red Rooster Cafe, with displays including a Ford Model T and a VW bus.

A free, self-guided outdoor museum along Highway 26 near Elsie/Seaside preserving Oregon's timber heritage, including a notable collection of vintage logging trucks and a steam logging locomotive.

Private motorsports museum operated by collector-car dealer/restorer Bruce Canepa in Scotts Valley (Santa Cruz Mountains), showcasing significant race cars and motorcycles spanning Can-Am, NASCAR, Indy, Le Mans, and Pikes Peak history.

Opened 1978 in a 1914 Ford dealership, displaying 40+ antique and collectible cars alongside thousands of pieces of memorabilia.

A transportation museum adjoining Luray Caverns in the Shenandoah Valley, displaying over 140 items spanning horse-drawn wagons and carriages to early 20th-century luxury automobiles.

Roadside land-art replica of Stonehenge near Alliance, built in 1987 from 38 gray-painted, American-made junk cars, some buried nose-down, others welded into arches; interpreted by the Nebraska State Historical Society.

65-acre general history museum with a transportation center displaying vintage vehicles alongside trains and aircraft.

Restored 1934 Kan-O-Tex gas station turned cafe/gift shop on Route 66 in Galena, home to the rusty International Harvester tow truck said to have inspired Pixar's "Tow Mater."

An invitation-only vault of design studies and pre-production prototypes never shown publicly.

A 100+ vehicle collection in Branson featuring celebrity-owned cars, movie/TV vehicles, and exotic cars, opened 2012.

Firefighting history museum in a restored 1908 Columbus fire engine house.

Museum in Rosanky founded 1980 by Dick Burdick; at its peak held 130+ cars of varied vintages plus automotive memorabilia.

Private muscle-car museum owned by Peter Fink, CEO of Certified Transmission, in northwest Omaha; one of the largest independent American muscle car collections in the U.S.

Founded in 2000, originally focused on Lozier Motors, now covering regional land and water transportation history on the grounds of the former Plattsburgh Air Force Base.

A Newberg showroom functioning as both a classic-car dealership and a standing personal collection of roughly 60 collector automobiles (1911-1968), with a strong Packard emphasis.

Private museum in Decatur displaying Chevrolet cars and dealership/brand memorabilia from the 1920s to present.

History museum affiliated with Cheyenne Frontier Days rodeo; holds one of the largest collections of horse-drawn carriages/wagons west of the Mississippi plus early motorized vehicles used in CFD parades.

Founded in 2009 by Kent Bewley in a former 1940s-1970s Dodge-Plymouth dealership building in Greeneville, this museum displays a diverse collection of about 40 cars ranging from a 1914 Ford Model T to a DeLorean.

Motorcycle museum begun in 1998 by Dave Mungenast Sr. in Villa Ridge, now housing about 150 motorcycles from a 1914 Indian board-track racer through the 1980s.

A for-profit classic-car sales, restoration, and storage facility in Fredericksburg, Virginia that also maintains a large, constantly rotating public showroom display functioning much like a living museum.

Original Gilmore partner museum in a relocated 1890s barn ("Barrett Barn," 1987), displaying 40+ CCCA "Full Classics" from 1915-1948.

A museum on the Gilmore campus displaying automobiles recognized by the CCCA as 'Full Classics' (the pinnacle luxury/design cars of ~1915-1948) from marques such as Auburn, Duesenberg, Packard, Pierce-Arrow and Stutz.

A large showroom-style museum displaying vintage and classic American automobiles from the early 1900s to the modern era, drawn largely from the Taulborg family collection.

A 30,000 sq ft museum, event space, and classic car storage facility in St. Augustine, FL displaying classic and collector automobiles.