Car museums & collections in USA

A small storefront museum in downtown Trussville displaying classic cars alongside vintage gas, oil, and Coca-Cola memorabilia; much of the collection can be viewed through large glass windows even when closed.

Antique/classic auto museum in Salt Lake City's Granary/Ballpark district housing 100+ classic and antique vehicles; admission proceeds reportedly benefit a boys' ranch charity.

A 'living' museum with a rotating display of pre- and post-WWII classic cars, mid-century muscle cars, vintage trucks, motorcycles and even farm tractors. The lineup changes regularly.

A 13,000-square-foot museum in Harrisville housed in a recreated WWII-era car dealership/repair shop, holding one of the largest automobile memorabilia collections in the region, including the most complete known collection of West Virginia license plates.

A 22,000 sq ft museum with 35 classic cars from the 1940s-1980s (Corvettes, T-Birds, Buicks, Chryslers) plus an attached fine art/artifact gallery.

Three co-located museums in Cortland, NY: the Brockway Truck Museum covering the history of the Cortland-based Brockway Motor Company, the Homeville Museum (military/local history), and Tractors of Yesteryear.

Displays over 200 vehicles illustrating Maine's land transportation history, including antique cars, trucks, snow plows, fire trucks, and farm equipment, plus veterans' memorials.

Private vintage car collection in Erlanger opened to the public in 2022, featuring roughly 200-250 vehicles spanning from a 1903 Oldsmobile curved-dash to a 1980s DeLorean; 100% of visitor donations benefit Housing Opportunities of Northern Kentucky (HONK).

Combined automotive museum and sales showroom in Oyster Bay featuring 70 years of Porsche history plus a vintage BMW 507, Mercedes 300SL, VW Bus, and over 1,000 vintage signs, gas pumps, and Americana.

Nonprofit educational foundation headquartered at a private airfield in Stow, with a car collection of 60+ American-built vehicles from the first half of the 20th century, including brass-era cars and vintage racecars.

Nonprofit honoring contributors to Colorado motorsports via annual induction ceremonies; no confirmed permanent walk-in exhibit space.

Housed in a former car dealership in downtown Conrad; traces regional transportation history with a dedicated antique auto exhibit.

Small nonprofit museum in Hastings dedicated to the Chevrolet Corvair, currently sharing space with Shade's Classic Corvairs, the only operating Corvair dealership in the world.

Large classic-car sales lot on Route 66 in Staunton with hundreds of vehicles from Model Ts to 70s-80s muscle cars.

Part of the Western Reserve Historical Society's Cleveland History Center, depicting stages of automobile development alongside aviation.

Deliberately low-profile private museum in Dwight in a former 1970s furniture store, exhibiting ordinary 1970s-late-80s daily-driver sedans/compacts.

Crowley's City Hall occupies a restored historic Ford Motor Company dealership/assembly building (Ford purchased and restored by the city, reopened 2006), housing several small museums including a Ford Automotive Museum displaying Model T and Model A cars of the type once assembled there.

Historic working rice farm and heritage site near Crowley founded by Sol (Salmon) Wright, developer of the Blue Rose rice variety; the property includes 'Salmon's Classic Car Garage,' displaying roughly 25 classic/vintage automobiles, alongside an 1848 Acadian cottage and the Blue Rose Museum.

A small 501(c)(3) museum founded by author/collector Chad Culver, focused on the auto-racing history of Delaware and America, with ~15 race cars (vintage Modifieds and sprint cars) plus artifacts.

A seasonal museum displaying the classic-car collection of thriller author Clive Cussler, many appearing in his Dirk Pitt novels. 100+ rare/vintage cars with ~60 on display (Rolls-Royce, Bentley, Bugatti, Packard, Cadillac).

Motorcycle museum inside a working motorcycle shop in Interlochen, with walls of vintage bikes, memorabilia, and photos, combined with a campground business.

Traces five generations of Dahl Automotive's Ford dealership history since 1911, with about 20-25 antique/classic cars and trucks organized by decade.

Volunteer-run pioneer/farm-equipment museum on a hilltop site near Wolford with an immense collection of antique tractors, steam engines, threshers, autos, and early transportation.

A 38,000-square-foot museum in Maggie Valley founded by Dale Walksler in 1993, primarily focused on rare American motorcycles but also displaying unique one-off early automobiles.

20-acre pioneer village near Scobey with 35 restored buildings; collection includes antique cars, tractors, and farm machinery.

A museum at Darlington Raceway housing the National Motorsports Press Association (NMPA) Hall of Fame, tracing stock car racing history from vintage to modern NASCAR.

Former museum of custom car builder Darryl Starbird in Afton, once displaying 50+ one-of-a-kind customs from builders like Barris, Titus, Roth, and Starbird himself.

A free-admission museum in Sunrise, FL displaying a Belgian collector's lifetime collection of thousands of automotive and vintage gas-station items, including immersive period recreations like a 1934 Texaco station and a drive-in movie scene.

Volunteer-staffed nonprofit preserving Dayton-area automotive history with no fixed public hours.

Family-owned Escondido winery/vineyard that also houses a large collection (100+ cars across three buildings) billed as the world's largest collection of convertibles and Americana.

Former longtime Wisconsin Dells roadside attraction of rare antique/classic cars, run for 29 years by owner Dick Tarnutzer.

Small, little-known private museum dedicated to the DeLorean, featuring a showroom-ready car plus a "barn find" DeLorean, factory artifacts, and an architect's model of the Belfast factory.

Private collection of 110+ Chevrolet convertibles from 1912-1975, one of every model year, plus Corvette convertibles from 1953-1975, owned by businessman Dennis Albaugh.

Detroit Historical Society's permanent "America's Motor City" gallery, with an operating assembly line salvaged from a GM Cadillac plant, and a rotating "Automotive Showplace."

Large collection of 200+ classic, muscle, exotic, and custom cars alongside 3,000+ vintage toys.

Automobile museum in San Marcos founded 2009 by collector Dick Burdick.

Adjoining the well-known Dixie Gun Works antique firearms retailer in Union City, this museum displays 36 fully restored antique automobiles from 1900-1940, plus vintage farm engines and mechanical devices.

Free museum attached to Doc's Harley-Davidson dealership in Bonduel, featuring classic/muscle cars alongside motorcycles.

A museum in Ocala, FL founded by drag racing pioneer "Big Daddy" Don Garlits, home to the International Drag Racing Hall of Fame plus original and replica dragsters, hot rods, and antique automobiles.

Car collection inside Don Laughlin's Riverside Resort Hotel & Casino, built by the casino founder (namesake of the town of Laughlin), displaying 70+ classic, rare, and unique automobiles, trucks, and motorcycles.

Boulder County collection near Longmont of 40+ fully operable antique cars (steam, electric, early gasoline) plus tractors and buggies, founded in 1977 by Ray Dougherty.

One of the oldest continually operating antique, classic, and vintage car dealers in the world, offering tours of its 66,000 sq ft showroom and restoration facility to prospective buyers and sellers.

Private 260-acre complex in Colorado Springs with roughly 100 operational military vehicles plus a large secondary hot rod/muscle car collection.

Was a museum founded by dealer Larry Bennett in 2015 at his former dealership, showcasing classic, muscle, exotic, and movie-associated vehicles plus vintage gas pumps and neon signage.

A combination museum, dealership, and restoration shop in Corinth founded by Terry Rider, displaying roughly 82 of a 200+ vehicle collection spanning the 1920s to present, including muscle cars, exotics, and motorcycles.

Roadside attraction/museum in Maricopa built by Ernie Adams, featuring hand-built, fully functional 11/16-scale "dwarf car" replicas of classic American automobiles.

Showcases 75+ American cars and trucks from the 1950s-60s, including a "Class of '69" section of ten Chevy Camaros and a set of "woodie" station wagons.

Sister museum to the Eagles Mere Auto Museum, located near Eagles Mere/Laporte, focused on vintage motorcycles.

A museum run by the Early Ford V-8 Foundation displaying 65+ flathead V-8 Ford vehicles from 1932-1953. Exhibits include a recreated 1936 Ford dealership with a stainless-steel sedan and a 1940s service garage.

A 38,000 sq ft facility near Elkader tracing the history of earthmoving equipment from the 1880s-1940s, focused primarily on the evolution of the Caterpillar Company.

Nonprofit historical society preserving and restoring notable eastern regional racing memorabilia and vintage race cars, maintaining a growing showroom.

Museum overlooking the historic Latimore Valley Fairgrounds and Racetrack, covering sprint cars, midgets, stock cars, Indy cars, NASCAR, drag racing, and motorcycles.

Community-run virtual archive documenting GM's Norwood Assembly plant in a Cincinnati suburb, which built Chevrolets, Camaros, Novas, and Firebirds from 1923-1987.

Opened in 2019 in Memphis's Edge District inside a historic 1920s Cherokee Motors showroom/assembly building, its inaugural 'American Speed' exhibit tracks the rise and fall of the American sports car from post-WWII through the 1970s with over a dozen iconic examples.

Historic winter estates and museum of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford in Fort Myers, FL, whose museum wing displays several of Ford's and Edison's early automobiles, with a dedicated automotive tour available.

Restored century-old railroad depot chronicling Elkhart Lake's resort/racing history, including race fans and drivers arriving by train in the 1950s.

Primarily web-based archive documenting Road America history and how Elkhart Lake became a road-racing destination via 1950-52 public road races.

Began 30+ years ago as a private car museum in Rogers; shifted to a classic car dealership/showroom model in 2017, dropping formal museum admission.

An art, history and technology museum with ~100 cars and trucks, including one of the world's largest collections of Ford Model A/AA commercial vehicles, shown via a robotic vertical racking system.

Formerly a sprawling private museum (100+ cars, 100+ motorcycles, a huge toy/pedal-car collection) built by the late Elmer Duellman.

Part of the Graceland complex in Memphis, this museum displays more than fifteen of Elvis Presley's personal vehicles, including his famous pink Cadillac, a Ferrari Dino, and a Stutz Blackhawk.

Former mansion of automotive pioneer Elwood Haynes, operating as a museum since 1967.

Planned museum in Española ("Lowrider Capital of the World") to document Northern New Mexico lowriding history and culture, championed by the Española Lowrider Association.

A small museum at Grovewood Village near the Omni Grove Park Inn in Asheville, founded in 1966 by Cadillac-Pontiac dealer Harry D. Blomberg. Houses 19 antique cars, three carriages, and a vintage 1921 Asheville fire truck.

Formerly housed inside Historic Harley-Davidson of Topeka, telling the story of daredevil Evel Knievel.

A small museum in Cockeysville, Maryland founded by James L. Dunbar Sr., founder of Dunbar Armored, chronicling the history of the armored transport industry.

A private collection of 50+ Soviet-era/Eastern Bloc vehicles (Lada, Moskvitch, GAZ, etc.), one of the largest such collections in the Western Hemisphere. Has no permanent exhibition space; runs occasional pop-up expositions in the Sammamish/Issaquah area.

A project of the non-profit C.A.R.E.S. (Classic Automobile Restoration and Education Society) preserving Route 66 automotive culture, emphasizing a restoration garage and youth education programs.

Ford-focused museum in Bigfork founded 1980 by collector Lyle Aklested, roughly 80-120 vehicles, mostly 1932-1971 Fords.

A long-running Sevierville museum that displayed over 90 American muscle cars valued at more than $8 million, alongside a large collectibles gift shop, for 25 years.

Motorcycle museum in Joaquin, self-described as located in "the Motorcycle Capital of Texas."

A museum in the 1904 Ford factory where the Model T was born (a National Historic Landmark), displaying early Ford and other Detroit-area automobiles plus a recreation of the secret experimental room.

Birthplace of the Ford Model T, built starting in 1904; the oldest purpose-built auto factory building open to the public and a National Historic Landmark, museum since 2001.

A multi-modal transportation museum with 800+ artifacts: automobiles, motorcycles, carriages, bicycles, steam locomotives, rail equipment and fire apparatus.

A former museum in Fort Lauderdale, FL dedicated to antique Packard automobiles and trucks.

A "living museum" in Fairbanks with 95+ pre-WWII automobiles (65-75 on display at a time), most operable, alongside a vintage-fashion collection and Alaskan motoring photo archive.

501(c)(3) museum in Texarkana initiated by the Tex-Ark Antique Auto Club in 2004, documenting regional automotive history through antique cars and memorabilia; also hosts car shows.

A museum listed as focused on four-wheel-drive and off-road vehicles.

Part of The Frick Pittsburgh museum complex, showcases the transition from horse-drawn carriages to early automobiles and Pittsburgh's role in the developing auto industry.

13,000-sq-ft museum/antique shop in Gillette in a former 1949 Ford dealership, with recreated "vintage town" rooms displaying classic cars, gas pumps, and signage.

Preserves the history of the Four Wheel Drive Auto Company and Seagrave fire apparatus, both born in Clintonville, with 90+ vehicles (nearly 70 on display).

Billed as the world's first in-dealership underground Porsche exhibit; free display inside the Porsche Santa Clarita dealership showing rare Porsches from 1948 to present.

Replica of a 1934 Sinclair gas station on old Route 66 in Ash Grove, displaying vintage gas pumps, signage, and classic cars.

Private collector Donald Passardi's purpose-built 4,800 sq ft museum holding 10,000+ Ford-related items from 1903-1953, including restored cars, gas pumps, and oil-can displays.

Former 30,000-sq-ft museum at Gateway Canyons Resort displaying the Hendricks Collection - 50+ significant American automobiles assembled by John Hendricks, founder of the Discovery Channel.

Large classic-car sales showroom in O'Fallon, part of a national chain, with rotating inventory displayed museum-style and free admission.

Branch showroom of the national Gateway Classic Cars chain, with browsable inventory of classic, exotic, and collectible cars.

Restored 1939 Texaco station on Route 66 in Galena turned souvenir shop/roadside attraction, featuring a 1951 Hudson Hornet painted to resemble "Doc Hudson" from the movie Cars.

Georgia's official state racing museum in Dawsonville, the "birthplace of stock car racing," honoring 130+ inductees connected to NASCAR and Georgia racing history.

A large automobile museum on a 90-acre campus exhibiting 400+ vintage and collector vehicles and motorcycles from all eras across numerous historic buildings, and hosting several affiliated partner museums.

Museum in Hammondsport, NY dedicated to aviation pioneer and early motorcycle manufacturer Glenn Curtiss, including aircraft, motorcycles, carriages, and some early automobiles.

GM's corporate heritage facility, 81,000 sq ft, with about 165 vehicles and the permanent home of GM's historic literature/artifact archives.

Nonprofit trucking museum founded in 1998 by Richard and Frances Guerrera dedicated to 1950s-era trucking, which opened in a 32,000 sq ft building in 2002.

Former museum in Hardy displaying over 60 rare vintage cars, trucks, motorcycles and bicycles, with an emphasis on 1915-1929 era vehicles including many Model Ts.

A pre-war auto and petroliana museum opened in November 2023 by Brian and Mandy King on their farm near Wesson, showcasing their personal antique car collection, including Model T expertise from associated collector Kirk Hill.

General Americana history museum in Cave Creek founded by Grace Voss Frederick; includes some vintage vehicles among its broader collection of clothing, tools, and memorabilia.

Nonprofit Modesto museum celebrating the "American Graffiti" cruising culture with classic cars, hot rods, and memorabilia in a recreated-storefront setting.

An 8,000 sq ft museum opened April 2021, built around the restored historic "Dean's Service" gas station, showcasing classic cars and local artwork, supported by collector Stephen Tebo.

Free auto museum inside the TerryTown RV Superstore showroom near Grand Rapids, with 100+ rare vehicles.

County-government-operated local history museum in Sheridan with a dedicated antique automobile gallery, displaying cars, delivery trucks, and a 1939 Chevrolet-based fire truck alongside its main local-history collection.