Car museums & collections in USA

An online-only resource (not a physical museum) functioning as a historical encyclopedia of antique steam automobiles, with a database of known steam car manufacturers.

Family-owned museum (since 1960) and active collector-car dealership on 35 acres in Volo with 300+ cars plus the largest collection of Hollywood movie/TV vehicles in the country.

Free small private museum with a rotating display of about 28 vintage cars plus memorabilia, gas station signs, and license plates.

Former Chrysler corporate museum at Chrysler World Headquarters, open 1999-2012, briefly reopened, then permanently closed.

Local history museum documenting Waltham's industrial past, including the Metz/Waltham Manufacturing Company's early automobile and motorcycle production from 1895 to 1931; holds a restored 1911 Metz Plan Car and hosts an annual "Metz Day" car show.

Primarily a WWII/military aviation museum in Nampa that also displays restored antique/classic automobiles and a WWII halftrack.

A three-building rural-life museum complex in Boonsboro, Maryland; its Early Roads Transportation Museum wing (opened 2013) displays cars, trucks, bicycles, carriages, and sleighs used on Washington County roads prior to 1940.

General local-history museum with a dedicated "Car Wing" representing locally-manufactured Richmond, Indiana automobiles (9 of 14 historical marques represented).

Founded by Tim and Pam Wellborn, this museum in Alexander City displays a rotating collection of more than 85 fully restored 1968-1971 muscle cars, with the nation's largest high-performance Dodge/Mopar collection alongside Fords, GMs, and Buicks.

Long-running roadside museum of antique automobiles, bicycles, and nostalgic Americana.

A large Hood River museum pairing still-flying antique aircraft with still-driving antique automobiles and motorcycles, one of the largest such combined collections in the country.

Rural heritage center in Tracy combining historic buildings with a "car barn" of antique vehicles, farm-equipment wheels, and a steam engine.

Nonprofit transportation-history museum in the Albuquerque Rail Yards covering rail, auto, wagon, and other transportation history.

A volunteer-run museum (founded 1977) displaying ~47 antique/collector cars (1910s-1980s) alongside fire trucks, Caterpillar equipment, aircraft, tractors and a 1910 steam locomotive.

Nonprofit museum (started 2014) sharing antique cars and Cincinnati-area collectibles, housed in the historic Becker House.

A private vintage and muscle car museum in Myrtle Beach opened in 2009 by collectors Paul and Carol Cummings, featuring over 100 cars.

Opened 1957, preserving American automobile history with ~150 cars (30-35 rotated on display) plus carriages dating from 1896. The only museum where two Tuckers can be seen side by side.

Oldest antique automobile museum in the country, dating back to 1920s collecting activity, rotating roughly 35 of about 150 owned cars, plus one of the largest license plate and car badge collections anywhere.

A single-marque museum devoted to the Wills Sainte Claire luxury car built by C. Harold Wills in Marysville, MI (1921-1926), with associated documents and memorabilia.

Museum dedicated to C. Harold Wills and the Wills Sainte Claire automobile, built in Marysville from 1921-1927; the largest Wills collection in the world.

Wisconsin's largest auto museum, in Hartford (original home of Kissel cars). Holds the world's largest Kissel collection plus ~120+ vehicles overall (Nash, Pontiac, Studebaker, Chevrolet, Kaiser, Ford).

A museum in Stuart, Virginia honoring Wood Brothers Racing, the longest continuously operating team in NASCAR Cup Series history (fielding Ford entries since 1950), holding a Guinness World Record for team longevity.

Automotive museum on the grounds of the Estrella Warbirds Museum at Paso Robles Municipal Airport, founded by vintner Dick Woodland; focused on NASCAR Sprint, Modified, Super Modified, and Midget race cars plus classic cars and motorcycles.

Housed in Hopkinsville's old Central Fire Station, this museum (operated by Museums of Historic Hopkinsville-Christian County) displays fire trucks, antique automobiles, wagons, buggies, a sleigh, and license plates.

A 22,000 sq ft museum combining classic American cars with baseball memorabilia, in a replica filling station.

Mining heritage museum in Butte on the historic Orphan Girl Mine site with a recreated mining town; holds antique cars and wagons alongside steam locomotives.

Formerly an educational motorsports museum in Wilsonville covering drag racing, land-speed records, road racing, and NASCAR through historic cars, boats, and motorcycles.

WWII home-front museum with a collection of roughly 40 operational U.S. military vehicles including tanks, half-tracks, jeeps, and motorcycles.

Private museum built by auto dealer Jeff Wyler, designed to resemble downtown Batavia, Ohio in 1973.

Private collection of roughly 150 vehicles (automobiles, motorcycles, vintage fire trucks) in a Boise industrial park, built by the late Ron Yanke and his wife Linda.

Small museum in Spring Arbor (Jackson County) focused on Jackson-made automobiles, with about 60 cars including 16 built in Jackson.

A 150,000+ sq ft facility begun by the Vander Haag family truck-parts business (since 1939), displaying classic cars, 250+ trucks including 81 fire trucks, farm machinery, and petroleum memorabilia.

A by-appointment-only classic car museum in Williamston featuring a collection of lovingly restored vintage cars, often opened during Williamston special events.

Housed in a former prewar Hudson dealership, with about 30 cars tied to Ypsilanti/Willow Run history including Corvair, Tucker, Hudson, Kaiser-Frazer, and GM Hydra-Matic.

A private collection displayed at Apple Island Resort, focused largely on commercially available sports cars from the 1960s to the present, chosen for styling and engineering. A small weekly-rotating sampling is shown.

Free public car museum at Apple Island Resort showcasing a rotating selection of commercially available sports cars from the 1960s to present.