Car museums & collections in USA

Museum on the ground floor of the Bellflower Mayne Events Center preserving historic LA County Fire Department apparatus and memorabilia.

Housed at historic Fire Station No. 27 in Hollywood; free museum with 30+ pieces of motorized firefighting apparatus plus horse-drawn equipment dating to the 1880s.

Nonprofit museum displaying a premier private collection of limited-production, high-performance, and exotic automobiles.

A general pioneer-history museum in Lynden built around the Polinder Buggy Collection - one of the largest horse-drawn-vehicle collections west of the Mississippi - which also includes about eight antique automobiles, an old Army truck, and a tank.

Guided-tour museum tracing the history of Mack Trucks from early workhorses to modern heavy trucks, run by a nonprofit affiliated with Mack.

Small free/interactive museum in Rapid City featuring cars from the 1950s-1980s, including Cadillacs and retired race cars.

A museum displaying show-condition American and imported classics primarily from the 1940s-1970s, plus automotive memorabilia such as gas pumps, signage, license plates and advertising.

Private collection of auto dealer and entrepreneur Malcolm Pray spanning over 100 years of automotive history, displayed across two garages and used for educational programming for students.

Located within Marathon Village, a restored early-1900s factory complex in Nashville that manufactured the Marathon automobile from 1909-1914, this small museum displays several of the roughly nine known surviving Marathon cars.

Nonprofit Tustin museum with 100+ vehicles, heavy on Ferraris, Lamborghinis, race cars, and muscle cars; proceeds benefit children's charities.

Free racing museum attached to Mark Martin Ford dealership in Batesville, housing NASCAR memorabilia, trophies, and race vehicles from Arkansas native and NASCAR Hall of Famer Mark Martin's career.

Housed on the grounds of the 1897 Auburn Heights mansion in Yorklyn, Delaware, this museum displays the collection built by T. Clarence Marshall beginning in 1947, anchored by the world's largest operating collection of Stanley steam cars.

Privately founded non-profit displaying a broad multi-marque collection of 170+ vehicles including classics, hot rods, customs and imports, plus one of the largest displays of auto memorabilia, antique gas pumps and signage.

Privately owned non-profit automobile museum in Glendale housing over 170-200 vehicles spanning more than 100 years of automotive history, plus an extensive collection of automobilia, antique gas pumps, and neon signage.

Private Arvada-area collection of sports/vintage racing cars (historically up to 15 McLarens), roughly 15 Corvettes, and motorcycles, built by the Mathews family since around 1970.

A private, personally curated collection of sports cars accumulated over 50 years by an individual Maui-based owner/enthusiast, showcased via a personal website.

A Burlington museum founded by Mike McCandless honoring his father Herb McCandless ('Mr. 4 Speed'), a legendary drag racer, focusing on Forward Look-era Mopar/Chrysler vehicles, drag racing history, and automobilia.

A small antique museum adjacent to the McLeod Farms roadside market and peach farm in McBee, displaying over 20 antique cars alongside vintage farm equipment.

Private steam/gas tractor collection near Great Falls/Belt started in the late 1940s by Walter Mehmke; includes antique automobiles alongside roughly 20 steam tractors and 12 gas tractors.

Opened July 24, 1948 by singer/collector James Melton on Route 7 in Norwalk, a 20,000 sq ft museum with 55+ antique cars, bicycles, and music boxes.

A small museum in Cottondale (near Northport/Tuscaloosa) specializing in classic American cars from the 1940s through the 1970s.

A private collection museum in Young Harris, GA overlooking Lake Chatuge, assembled by Jerry and June Smith, spanning nine decades of cars, trucks, and motorcycles, many offered for sale.

A large private collection in Mooresville ('Race City USA') centered on NASCAR and vintage race cars plus movie cars, pedal cars, antique toys, motorcycles and tractors.

Private collection in Mooresville featuring over 150 vehicles, described by Super Ford Magazine as the largest private collection of retired NASCAR and vintage race cars on public display. Cars once driven by Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt, Rusty Wallace, and Jeff Gordon are included.

Mercedes-Benz USA-operated restoration, parts, and sales facility in Irvine with a showroom displaying historic vehicles, some on loan from the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Germany.

Houses what is described as the world's largest collection of automobile sales literature, manuals, and parts books from the 1800s to present, plus a small collection of restored antique automobiles, in Alda.

A former automotive museum in North Miami, FL displaying the Dezer family's extensive car and pop-culture collection before it closed and relocated to become the Orlando Auto Museum at Dezerland Park.

Housed in a restored Ypsilanti firehouse, with antique fire trucks/apparatus and firefighting exhibits across three floors, plus the largest U.S. collection of fire truck bells.

Volunteer-run museum near South Haven focused on antique gas/steam engines and tractors, an approximately 80-acre living-history site with an annual Antique Engine & Tractor Show.

State-run museum near Negaunee about Michigan's iron industry, which occasionally shows automotive artifacts tied to the iron-auto link and hosts an annual antique car show.

Organization founded 1980/incorporated 1982, distinct from the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America, with no standalone museum building yet; displays items at partner speedways.

Volunteer-run nonprofit, established 1973, in the 1859 Grand Trunk Western depot in Mount Clemens, primarily focused on rail/transit history with an on-site train ride.

The only microcar museum in the Caribbean, with ~30 microcars and bubblecars from England, France, Italy, Germany, China, Japan, the US and Puerto Rico.

Primarily an aviation museum at Sioux Gateway Airport, also displaying classic cars, a 1917 Sioux City-built Hawkeye truck, and retired emergency vehicles.

A nonprofit museum and event venue displaying 65+ rotating vehicles from 1907 to the present, including custom, muscle, exotic and classic cars. Grew from the Morgan family collection and opened to the public in 2019.

Small museum in Mazomanie devoted to microcars, mopeds, bikes, and other unusual small vehicles, run by the Krause family.

Agricultural/rural heritage complex in Mount Pleasant with traction steam engines, antique tractors, antique cars and trucks, gas engines, a historic mill, and a 1915 farmhouse.

Museum in Inola with 19 well-preserved vehicles (1917-1953) plus an extensive collection of gas station memorabilia (145 gas pump globes, 8 pumps, signage, oil cans).

A nonprofit, co-op style 'living' museum inside the Old Clarkesville Mill, averaging 125+ full-size vehicles plus 5,000+ model cars, memorabilia, signage and art. Community-owned displays change frequently.

Formerly the world's largest private collection of tanks and combat vehicles (300+), assembled by Jacques Littlefield in Portola Valley.

Museum opened May 2024 with roughly 90-105 American vehicles from the 1950s-70s, including 17 trucks.

Was an antique auto museum in Elkhart with a reported Studebaker display.

A private collector's museum in the Lake Chelan Valley built by Leo and Polly Miller, showing a range of classic automobiles and automobilia.

Private collection in Willard assembled by owner Jack Smith, comprising roughly 50 restored classic cars plus about 50 additional unrestored vehicles.

St. Paul rail-heritage museum in a restored 1907 Great Northern Railway roundhouse; historically included a bus collection of mostly GMC buses that replaced Twin Cities streetcars.

Eclectic Americana/pioneer-village museum in Polson with 40+ buildings and 300,000+ artifacts, including substantial antique vehicle, motorcycle, and snowmobile holdings.

A Jackson-based organization presenting itself as a museum of automotive history, but which primarily operates as a restoration shop, custom build service, and vintage car rental/event venue with a large VIP lounge.

A transportation and vehicle-restoration museum.

A 501(c)(3) educational foundation dedicated to preserving Model A Fords. Its actual Model A Ford Museum is located on the Gilmore Car Museum campus in Hickory Corners, Michigan (opened 2013).

Gilmore partner museum and the largest public museum dedicated to the Model A Ford, run by the Model A Ford Foundation Inc.

Official museum of the Model T Ford Club of America, in two buildings in Richmond's Historic Depot District with 40+ Model Ts plus a working machine shop and vintage garage.

General automobile collection of 150-200+ vehicles (1890s-1980s) housed within the Old Montana Prison Museum complex; one admission covers all five museums.

Volunteer-run military history museum at Fort William Henry Harrison near Helena, including restored military vehicles.

Private motorcycle museum in Tecumseh built by Bill and Carla Montz, showcasing 105+ years of motorcycle history.

An 18,000-square-foot museum in Concord (formerly 'Backing Up Classics Auto Museum') displaying more than 50 antique, classic, and muscle cars, affiliated with the Morrison Motor Cars dealership.

Antique and classic car/motorcycle museum in Rapid City built from Bill and Peggy Napoli's personal restorations since they married in 1969; also functions as a classic-vehicle sales lot.

Nonprofit motorcycle museum in Carmel Valley displaying 170+ motorcycles from 17 countries, founded by Robb Talbott.

Planned 100,000-sq-ft museum as part of the "Motor City TEXAS" motortainment complex in North Texas, dedicated to auto and motorcycle racing heritage.

Volunteer-run nonprofit museum in rural Campo (San Diego County backcountry) with 200+ vintage trucks, buses, RVs, and cars in varying restoration states; founded 1986 by collector Carl Calvert.

An approximately 5-acre indoor/outdoor museum in Aniwa with 400+ vehicles organized by theme (race room, bike barn, boneyard, exotics, military), including a large vintage Alfa Romeo display.

Entity found only with a Facebook page presence; no confirmed physical address, website, or operating status.

85,000 sq ft museum with over 600 mostly American motorcycles from the first half of the 20th century, emphasizing Indian and Harley-Davidson models, plus two operational "Wall of Death" motordromes.

A hall of fame and 20,000-sq-ft museum at Daytona International Speedway honoring US motorsports across open wheel, stock cars, drag racing, motorcycles, sports cars, powerboats, aviation and off-road.

National motorsports hall of fame formerly located in Novi, MI (1994-2010) then the Detroit Science Center (2010-2015).

A free family-founded non-profit displaying 25+ historic automobiles from the 1910s-1960s integrated with antique agricultural equipment reflecting the valley's farming heritage.

By-appointment Oxnard museum focused on French Art Deco-era automobiles and coachbuilding (Bugatti, Delahaye, Talbot-Lago), founded by collector Peter Mullin; occupied the former Otis Chandler museum building.

A former 60,000 sq ft muscle car museum in Punta Gorda, FL founded by Rick Treworgy, once home to 200+ American muscle cars.

A Wasilla museum covering Alaska's transportation and industrial history, with vehicle, aircraft, and heavy-equipment exhibits illustrating the state's development.

A museum (founded by Speedway Motors' 'Speedy' Bill and Joyce Smith) dedicated to American hot rod and racing history, with race cars, hot rods and an unrivaled collection of racing engines and speed equipment.

Historic non-profit museum atop Petit Jean Mountain, opened 1964 by future Arkansas Governor Winthrop Rockefeller. Displays ~50 vehicles from 1904-1981 including several of Rockefeller's personal cars.

A museum/collection related to automotive history.

Founded in 1994, this historic bus fleet of 40+ buses (some over 100 years old) rented exhibit space at the AACA Museum from 2003.

A nonprofit museum documenting the history of four-wheel-drive and off-highway travel, displaying off-road vehicles, components and memorabilia from early days to modern machines.

A nonprofit celebrating the pre-1916 Brass Era automobile, displaying early cars in the Steam Barn on the Gilmore campus and telling the story of the birth of the auto industry.

A museum in Odenville dedicated entirely to the Ford Mustang, displaying over 120 Mustangs covering nearly every model year and generation, including the largest collection of Highway Patrol/SSP (Special Service Package) Mustangs in the U.S.

A museum in Concord dedicated exclusively to the Ford Mustang, displaying vehicles spanning multiple generations of the model.

Corvette-focused museum/retail store in Effingham, operated by Corvette-parts retailer Mid America Motorworks since 1995.

Dealership heritage collection inside Napoleon Harley-Davidson, showcasing nine 1962 Harleys restored by dealership staff.

An interactive entertainment attraction and hall of fame in Uptown Charlotte honoring the history and heritage of NASCAR racing.

A museum built around the collection of casino magnate William F. Harrah, displaying 200+ historic cars across four themed galleries with period street-scene settings, from Brass Era through postwar classics.

Located in original Auburn Automobile factory buildings, NATMUS displays hundreds of historic cars and trucks (antique through concept), plus 4,000+ die-cast models and a large petroliana collection.

Located in original Auburn Automobile Company factory buildings, a National Historic Landmark restored in 2005, covering broader auto/truck history distinct from the adjacent ACD Museum.

Operated by the Corvair Preservation Foundation on historic Route 66, this is the only museum dedicated solely to the Chevrolet Corvair, displaying cars, trucks, powertrain displays and memorabilia.

A museum dedicated solely to the Chevrolet Corvette, adjacent to the GM Bowling Green Assembly Plant. Its 115,000-sq-ft campus displays 80+ Corvettes among 100+ significant cars and 50,000 artifacts.

Racing hall of fame located on the grounds of Florence Speedway in Walton, honoring drivers and history of dirt late model stock car racing.

Formerly housed 500+ motorcycles, a bicycle collection, and thousands of pieces of memorabilia; named Iowa Tourism Attraction of the Year in 2001.

Large private museum near Dubois with one of the world's largest private display collections of U.S. military vehicles, in a 160,000-sq-ft facility.

One of the largest transportation vehicle collections in the world per the Smithsonian, covering rail, road, and other transport, in St. Louis.

Located in Warren, OH (Packard's birthplace), presenting rotating displays of Packard automobiles with documents, engines, tools and artifacts, plus an annual motorcycle exhibit.

A private collection of 100+ low-mileage original classic cars maintained by National Parts Depot founder Rick Schmidt in Ocala, FL, viewable by appointment.

Founded 1995 by custom-car builder Darryl Starbird, this 40,000-sq-ft museum housed 50+ one-of-a-kind hot rods and customs, including 25 of Starbird's own creations plus builds by Barris, Ed Roth and others.

Museum complex in Elk City including the National Route 66 Museum, a National Transportation Museum, Old Town Museum, Farm & Ranch Museum, and Blacksmith Museum, with outdoor vehicle displays.

The only museum in the world dedicated to sprint car racing history, located next to Knoxville Raceway, the "Sprint Car Capital of the World."

A private collection focused on famous vehicles from movies and TV, including James Bond's Aston Martin, Magnum P.I.'s Ferrari 308, the Smokey and the Bandit Trans Am, and Evel Knievel's jump bike.

Formerly a free car/motorcycle and celebrity-memorabilia exhibit inside the Celebrity Hotel & Casino in downtown Deadwood.

Renowned Sylmar collection of 250+ American and European automobiles (1898-1997), including many Pebble Beach Concours winners, split between a free Museum building and an appointment-only Collection Hall with guided tours.

A 501(c)(3) (founded 2007) to celebrate the automobile and especially Connecticut-made cars. Currently in the development/fundraising stage, hosting car shows and events rather than a permanent exhibition.

Nonprofit founded in 2007 to build a museum celebrating the automobile with special focus on Connecticut-made cars; has selected Granby, CT as a future site but is not yet a visitable physical museum.

Located in the restored 200-year-old Hockanum Mill, features 100+ vintage motorcycles, memorabilia, and a motorcycle research library, founded by Ken Kaplan and opened in 2018.

10,000 sq ft museum of New England motorsports history located at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, featuring race cars and motorcycles from all disciplines, trophies, and driver helmets.