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Car museums of the world.

Wherever the trip lands, the car-related things to do — every automotive museum in the Parclines directory, by country. From the Schlumpf collection and the Petersen to Birdwood and Bathurst in Australia, Invercargill in New Zealand, and Oshawa in Canada.

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69 museums

USA · 15

Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum

Auburn
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Art-Deco Classics in the original ACD factory

Audrain Automobile Museum

Newport
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Rotating all-era collector-car exhibits

Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum

Birmingham
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World's largest motorcycle collection

Blackhawk Museum

Danville
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Classic European rolling sculpture

Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum

Cleveland
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Western Reserve Historical Society collection — ~170 cars incl. early Cleveland-built marques

Gilmore Car Museum

Hickory Corners
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America's largest auto museum campus

Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum

Indianapolis
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Indy 500 and motorsports heritage

LeMay — America's Car Museum

Tacoma
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Broad American automotive culture

National Corvette Museum

Bowling Green
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Complete Corvette history at the factory town

Nethercutt Collection

Sylmar
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Pre-war Full Classics and mechanical music

Petersen Automotive Museum

Los Angeles
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Broad automotive history & Hollywood cars

Revs Institute

Naples
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Miles Collier sports & racing cars and research library

Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum

Philadelphia
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World-class racing and competition sports cars, run and demonstrated

The Henry Ford

Dearborn
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American innovation and presidential vehicles

Wisconsin Automotive Museum

Hartford
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Wisconsin's largest — home of the Hartford-built Kissel; 120+ vehicles

Germany · 9

Audi museum mobile

Ingolstadt
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Auto Union and four-rings heritage

August Horch Museum

Zwickau
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Horch, Audi and Trabant on the original Audi site

Automuseum Prototyp

Hamburg
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Postwar German prototypes and racing sports cars

BMW Museum

Munich
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BMW brand history and motorsport in the bowl

EFA Museum für Deutsche Automobilgeschichte

Amerang
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German automobile history, DKW and Auto Union

Mercedes-Benz Museum

Stuttgart
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130+ years of the world's oldest carmaker

Porsche Museum

Stuttgart
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Porsche's own sports and racing car history

PS.Speicher

Einbeck
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A vast mobility collection in a grain silo

ZeitHaus Autostadt

Wolfsburg
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Multi-brand automotive history at VW's Autostadt

Italy · 9

Collezione Panini (Maserati)

Modena
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A rescued historic Maserati collection on a working farm

Museo Automobili Lamborghini

Sant'Agata Bolognese
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Lamborghini supercars and motorsport at the factory

Museo Ducati

Bologna
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Ducati racing-motorcycle heritage at Borgo Panigale

Museo Enzo Ferrari

Modena
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Enzo Ferrari's birthplace house and engine hall

Museo Ferrari

Maranello
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Ferrari road and F1 cars beside the factory

Museo Mille Miglia

Brescia
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The cars and history of the Mille Miglia road race

Museo Nazionale dell'Automobile (MAUTO)

Turin
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One of the world's oldest auto museums — the story of the car

Museo Nicolis

Villafranca di Verona
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Eclectic private collection of cars, bikes and objects

Museo Storico Alfa Romeo

Arese
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The official Alfa Romeo history collection

Japan · 7

Honda Collection Hall

Motegi
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Honda race and road machines at Motegi

Mazda Museum

Hiroshima
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The rotary-engine legacy on Mazda's home campus

Mitsubishi Auto Gallery

Okazaki
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Mitsubishi Motors heritage at the Okazaki plant

Nissan Heritage Collection

Zama
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300+ running Nissan and Datsun heritage cars

Suzuki Plaza

Hamamatsu
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Suzuki loom-to-Kei-car history

Toyota Automobile Museum

Nagakute
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Chronological world car history, 160+ vehicles

Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology

Nagoya
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Toyota's loom-to-car industrial origins

Australia · 6

Fox Classic Car Collection

Melbourne

Lindsay Fox's collection in the historic Queen's Warehouse, Docklands

Motor Museum of Western Australia

Whiteman (Perth)

200+ vehicles at Whiteman Park, incl. an F1 race winner

Museum of Vehicle Evolution (MOVE)

Shepparton

Cars, trucks and transport heritage in regional Victoria

National Automobile Museum of Tasmania

Launceston

Rotating car & motorcycle displays in northern Tasmania

National Motor Museum, Birdwood

Birdwood
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Australia's largest motoring collection

National Motor Racing Museum

Bathurst

Australian motorsport history at Mount Panorama

France · 5

Cité de l'Automobile — Collection Schlumpf

Mulhouse
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The world's largest car collection and Bugatti hoard

Manoir de l'Automobile

Lohéac
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A large private Breton collection

Musée Automobile de Vendée

Talmont-Saint-Hilaire
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Vintage and classic cars on the Côte des Lumières

Musée de l'Aventure Peugeot

Sochaux
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Two centuries of Peugeot at the factory doorstep

Musée Matra

Romorantin-Lanthenay
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Matra sports, racing and Formula 1 cars

United Kingdom · 5

British Motor Museum

Gaydon
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The world's largest collection of historic British cars

Brooklands Museum

Weybridge
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The world's first purpose-built race circuit

Coventry Transport Museum

Coventry
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The largest publicly owned British road-vehicle collection

Haynes Motor Museum

Sparkford
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400+ cars and bikes incl. the Red Room

National Motor Museum, Beaulieu

Beaulieu
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Britain's national motoring collection

New Zealand · 3

Bill Richardson Transport World

Invercargill

The world's largest private automotive museum of its type — 300+ vehicles

Nelson Classic Car Museum

Nelson

150+ cars across a century of motoring

Southward Car Museum

Paraparaumu

Large vintage & classic collection north of Wellington

Canada · 2

Canadian Automotive Museum

Oshawa
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Canada's automotive history in a 1920s Oshawa dealership building

Reynolds-Alberta Museum

Wetaskiwin

Transport, aviation, industry & agriculture heritage of Alberta

Netherlands · 2

DAF Museum

Eindhoven
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The heritage of Dutch marque DAF

Louwman Museum

The Hague
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275+ cars, one of the world's oldest private collections

Sweden · 2

Saab Car Museum

Trollhättan
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120 Saabs — prototypes, concepts and production cars in Saab's home town

World of Volvo

Gothenburg
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Volvo's history & experience centre (opened 2024; successor to the Volvo Museum)

Belgium · 1

Autoworld

Brussels
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300+ vehicles in the Cinquantenaire hall

Latvia · 1

Riga Motor Museum

Riga
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The largest Baltic antique collection

South Africa · 1

Franschhoek Motor Museum

Franschhoek
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80+ rotating classics on a Cape winelands estate

Switzerland · 1

Swiss Museum of Transport

Lucerne
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Switzerland's most-visited museum