Map with dynamic links to all the musuems.

“Give me a museum and I’ll fill it.” – Pablo Picasso

150 “must-see” car museums in America
Compiled by West Peterson, Editor, Antique Automobile*

This is a comprehensive list of “open-to-the-public” museums. Before setting out to visit any of them, it is very important that you call to understand their hours of operation and the days in which they are open. Many are closed on certain days of the week and some are closed during certain times of the year.

*
Antique Automobile Club of America
America’s oldest and largest old car society – established in 1935
501 W. Governor Road
PO Box 417
Hershey PA 17033-0417
717-534-1910

ALABAMA

Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum
6030 Barber Motorsports Parkway
Birmingham AL 35094 (205) 699-7275
International Motorsports Hall of Fame
PO Box 1018
Talladega AL 35160 (256)362-5002

Mercedes-Benz
1 Mercedes Drive
Tuscaloosa AL 35490 (205) 507-2252

ALASKA

Historical & Transportation Museum
Mile 47 Parks Highway
Wasilla AK 99687 (907) 376-1211

ARIZONA

Franklin Automobile Museum
1405 E. Kleindale Road
Tucson AZ 85719 (520) 326-8038

Penske Racing Museum
7125 E. Chaucey Lane
Phoenix, AZ (480) 538-4444

ARKANSAS

Museum of Automobiles
8 Jones Lane, Petit Jean Mt.
Morrilton AR 72110 (501) 727-5427

Vintage Motorcar Museum
301 W. Main Street
Hardy AR 72542 (870) 856-4884

CALIFORNIA

Blackhawk Museum
3700 Blackhawk Plaza Circle
Danville CA 94506 (925) 736-2280

Deer Park Auto Museum
29013 Champagne Blvd.
Escondido, CA 92026 (619) 749-1666

Hays Antique Truck Museum
1962 Hays Lane
Woodland CA (530) 666-1044

J.A. Cooley Museum
4233 Park Blvd.
San Diego CA 92103 (619) 296-3112

Justice Bros. Racing Museum
2734 E. Huntington Road
Duarte CA 91010 (626) 359-9174

Lucas Automotive Museum
2850 Temple Avenue
Long Beach CA 90806 (800) 952-4333

Marconi Automotive Museum for Kids
1302 Industrial Dr.
Tustin CA 92680 (714) 258-3001

Murphy Auto Museum
2340 Palma Drive, Suite 104
Ventura CA 93003 (805) 654-0731

Motor Transport Museum
31949 Highway 94
Campo CA 91906 (619) 478-2492

Nethercutt Collection/San Sylmar
15180 Bledsoe Street
Sylmar, CA 91342 (818) 367-2251

NHRA Motorsports Museum
1101 W. McKinley Ave.
Pomona CA 91768 (909) 622-2133

Petersen Automotive Museum
6060 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90036 (323) 930-2277

San Diego Automotive Museum
2080 Pan American Plaza
San Diego CA 92101 (619) 231-2886

Towe Auto Museum
2200 Front Street
Sacramento CA 95818 (916) 442-6802

Toyota USA Automobile Museum
19001 S. Western Ave. #A-404
Torrance CA 90509 (310) 468-4728

Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum
1101 W McKinley Ave
Pomona CA 91768 (909) 622-2133

COLORADO

Cussler Museum
14959 West 69th Avenue
Arvada CO 80007 (303) 420-2795

Dougherty Museum
8306 US Highway 287
Longmont CO 80501 (303) 776-2520

Pikes Peak Auto Hill Climb Museum
1135 Manitou Blvd.
Manitour Springs CO 80829
(719) 685-5996

Forney Transportation Museum
4303 Brighton Blvd.
Denver CO 80216 (303) 297-1113

Shelby American Collection
5020 Chaparral Court
Boulder CO 80308 (303) 516-9565

Stanley Museum/Stanley Hotel
Estes Park CO 80517 (970) 577-1903

CONNECTICUT

Golden Age of Trucking Museum
1101 Southford Road
Middlebury CT 06762 (203) 577-2181

DELAWARE

Friends of Auburn Heights Preserve
3000 Creek Road
Yorklyn DE 19726 (302) 239-2385

FLORIDA

Don Garlits Museum
13700 SW 16th Ave.
Ocala FL 34473
(352) 245-8661

Elliott Museum
825 NE Ocean Blvd.
Stuart FL 34996
(772) 225-1961

Ft. Lauderdale Car Museum
1527 SW First Avenue
Ft. Lauderdale FL 33315
(954) 779-7300

Sarasota Classic Car Museum
5500 N. Tamiami Tr.
Sarasota, FL 34243 (941) 355-6228

Silver Springs Antique Car Collection
State Road 40
Ocala, FL 32670 (904) 236-2121

Tallahassee Antique Car Museum
3550A Mahan Drive
Tallahassee, FL 32308 (850) 942-0137

Tampa Bay Automobile Museum
3301 Gateway Center Blvd.
Pinellas Park FL 33782 (727) 579-8226

Wings, Wheels & Keels Museum
222 Steedly Avenue Lake
Wales FL 33853 (863) 676-0166

GEORGIA

Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum
2950 Eaton Road
Madison GA 30650 (706) 343-9937

Stone Mtn. Car & Treasure Museum, Robert E Lee Blvd.
Stone Mountain GA 30083
(770) 413-5229
IDAHO

Idaho State Historical Society
Transportation Museum
Boise, ID 83707 (208) 334-2844

Vintage Wheel Museum
218 Cedar St.
Sandpoint, ID (208) 263-7173

IOWA

National Sprint Car Hall of Fame
1 Sprint Capital Place
Knoxville IA 50138 (641) 842-6176

ILLINOIS

Beller Museum
340 Burlington Avenue
Downers Grove IL 60515
(630) 653-2277

Corvair Preservation Foundation
13523 S. Red Coat Drive
Lemont IL 60439 (630) 257-6530

Hartung’s Automotive Museum
3623 W Lake Ave
Glenview IL 60025 (312) 724-4354

Hieronymus Mueller Museum
61 S Country Club Rd
Decatur IL 62521 (217) 423-6161

Museum of Science and Industry
57th Street and Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL 60637 (773) 684-1414

MY Garage Museum (Mid America)
17082 N US Highway 45
Effingham IL 62401 (217) 540-4200

Volo Auto Museum
27582 Volo Village Road
Volo IL 60073 (815) 385-3644

Wayne County Historical Museum
1150 North A St.
Richmond IN 47374 (765) 962-5756

Wheels O’ Time Museum
11923 N. Knoxville Ave.
Peoria IL 61612 (309) 243-9020

INDIANA

Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum
1600 South Wayne Street
Auburn IN 46706 (260) 925-1444

Automotive Heritage Museum
1500 N. Reed Road US 31
Kokomo IN 46901 (765) 454-9999

Collectible Classics Car Museums
403 East Main Street
Hagerstown IN 47346 (765) 489-5598

Door Prairie Auto Museum
2405 Indiana Ave.
LaPorte IN 46352 (219) 326-1337

Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum
4790 West 16th St.
Indianapolis IN 46224 (317) 492-6784

Kruse Auto & Carriage Museum
5634 County Road 11-A
Auburn IN 46706 (260) 927-9144

National Auto & Truck Museum – NATMUS
US 1000 Gordon M. Buehrig Place
Auburn IN 46706 (260) 925-9100

Ragtops Auto Museum
209 West Michigan Blvd.
Michigan City IN 46360
(219) 878-1514

Studebaker National Museum
201 S. Chapin St.
South Bend IN 46601 (574) 235-9714

KANSAS

Scotty’s Classic Cars
302 North 9th Street
Arma KS 66712 (620) 347-8387

KENTUCKY

National Corvette Museum
350 Corvette Drive
Bowling Green KY 42101
(270) 781-7973

Swope’s Cars of Yesteryear Museum
1100 North Dixie Highway
Elizabethtown KY 42701
(270) 765-2181

MAINE

Boothbay Railway Village Car Museum
Rd. 27
Boothbay ME 04537 (207) 633-4727

Cole Land Transportation Museum
405 Perry Road
Bangor ME 04401 (207) 990-3600

Owls Head Transportation Museum
117 Museum St.
Owls Head ME 04854 (207) 594-4418

Seal Cove Auto Museum
20 Mechanic St.
Camden ME 04843 (207) 244-9242

Stanley Museum
PO Box 280
Kingfield ME 04947 (207) 265-2729

MARYLAND

Wheels of Yesterday
12708 Ocean Gateway
Ocean City MD 21842 (410) 213-7329

MASSACHUSETTS

Larz Anderson Auto Museum
15 Newton Street
Brookline MA 02445 (617) 522-6547

Heritage Museum and Gardens
67 Grove Street
Sandwich MA 02563 (508) 888-3300

MICHIGAN

Alfred P. Sloan Museum
1221 E. Kearsley St.
Flint MI 48503 (810) 237-3453

Detroit Historical Society
5401 Woodward Ave.
Detroit, MI (313) 833-7935

Model T Auto Heritage Complex
411 Piquette Avenue
Detroit MI 48202 (313) 872-8759

Gilmore Car Museum
6865 Hickory Road
Hickory Corners MI 49060
(269) 671-5089

Henry Ford Museum
20900 Oakwood Blvd.
Dearborn MI 48121 (313) 271-1620

Novi Motorsports Hall of Fame
26200 Town Center Dr #100
Novi MI 48050 (248) 349-7223

R.E.Olds Transportation Museum
240 Museum Drive
Lansing, MI 48933 (517) 372-0529

Walter P. Chrysler Museum
One Chrysler Drive
Auburn Hills MI 48326 (248) 944-0001

Wills Sainte Claire Auto Museum
3546 Conger Street
Port Huron MI 48060 (810) 987-2854

Ypsilanti Auto Heritage Museum
100 East Cross Street
Yspilanti MI 48198 (734) 482-5200

MINNESOTA

Ellingson Car Museum
20950 Rogers Drive
Rogers MN 55374 (763) 428-7337

MISSISSIPPI

Tupelo Automobile Museum
1 Otis Blvd.
Tupelo MS 38804 (662) 842-4242

MISSOURI

‘57 Heaven
1600 W. Hwy. 76
Branson MO (417) 332-1957

AutoWorld Museum
1920 N. Bluff Street
Fulton MO 65251 (573) 642-2080

Memoryville USA
2220 North Bishop Avenue
Rolla MO 65401 (573) 364-1810

National Museum of Transportation
3015 Barrett Station Rd
Saint Louis MO 63122 (314) 965-7998

Patee House Museum
1202 Penn Street Street
Joseph MO 64502 (816) 232-8206

MONTANA

Miracle of America Museum
36094 Memory Lane
Polson MT 59860 (406) 883-6804

Missoula Trans. & Rest. Museum
1001 E. Broadway
Misoula MT 59802 (406) 370-4365

Montana Auto Museum
1106 Main Street
Deer Lodge, MT 59722
(406) 846-3111

NEBRASKA

Chevyland USA
Rt. 2, Elm Creek NE (308) 856-4208

Hastings Museum
1330 N Burlington Ave.
Hastings NE 68902 (402) 461-4629

Merrick Auto Museum
Apollo Ave. Door 8
Alda NE 68810 (308) 384-1780

Sawyer’s Sandhills Museum
440 N Valentine Street
Valentine NE 69201 (402) 376-3293

Stuhr Museum of the Prairie
3133 W US Highway 34
Grand Island NE 68801
(308) 381-5316

Warp’s Pioneer Village
138 East Highway 6, PO Box 68
Minden, NE 68959 (800) 445-4447

NEW JERSEY

Mayor Gary’s Garage
300 Sooys Landing Rd.
Port Republic NJ 08241
(609) 652-7664

Vintage Auto Museum of New Jersey (under construction)
Beachwood NJ 08722 (732) 797-1456

NEW MEXICO

J & R Vintage Auto Museum
3650 NM Highway 528
Rio Rancho NM (702) 298-2535

NEVADA

Don Laughlin’s Classic Car Collection
1650 Casino Dr.
Laughlin, NV (702) 298-2535

Goldfield Firehouse Museum Highway
95 Goldfield NV 89013 (775) 485-6313


Imperial Palace Auto Collection
3535 Las Vegas Blvd. So.
Las Vegas NV 89109 (702) 794-3174

National Automobile Museum/Harrah
10 Lake Street S.
Reno NV 89501 (775) 333-9300

St. Jude’s Ranch Antique Car Museum
Highway 93
Boulder City NV 89006 (702) 294-7100

NEW YORK

Buffalo Transportation Museum
263 Michigan Avenue
Buffalo NY 14203 (716) 853-0084.

Champlain Valley Trans. Museum
101 Lighthouse Road
Plattsburg NY 12901 (518) 566-7575

Museum of Automobile Art & Design
6710 Brooklawn Pkwy.
Syracuse NY 13211 (315) 432-8282

Niagara Motorsports Museum
1008 Buffalo Avenue
Niagara Falls NY 14303
(716) 284-1705

Northeast Classic Car Museum
24 Rexford Street
Norwich NY 13815 (607) 334-2886

Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome
2 Stone Church Rd
Rhinebeck NY 12572 (914) 758-8610

Saratoga Automobile Museum
110 Avenue of the Pines
Saratoga Springs NY 12866
(518) 587-1935

Watkins Glen Museum/Hall of Fame
110 North Franklin St.
Watkins Glen, NY (607) 535-2779

NORTH CAROLINA

Backing Up Classics
4545 Highway 29 N
Concord NC 28027 (704) 788-9500

C. Grier Beam Truck Museum
111 North Mountain Street
Cherryville NC 28021 (704) 435-3072

North Carolina Transportation Museum
411 South Salisbury Avenue
Spencer NC 28159 (704) 636-2889

Richard Petty Museum
Branson Hill Road
Randleman NC (919) 495-1143

Wheels Through Time Museum
62 Vintage Lane
Maggie Valley NC 28751 (828) 926-6266

NORTH DAKOTA

Bonanzaville USA
1351 Main Avenue W.
West Fargo, ND 58078 (701) 282-2822

OHIO

Citizen’s Motorcar Co. (Packard)
420 South Ludlow Street
Dayton OH 45402 (937) 226-1710

Carllion Historical Park
1000 Carillon Blvd
Dayton OH 45409 (937) 293-2841

Canton Classic Car Museum
612 Market Ave. So.
Canton OH 44702 (330) 455-3666

Crawford Auto/Aviation Museum
10825 East Blvd.
Cleveland OH 44106 (216) 721-5722

National Packard Museum
1899 Mahoning Ave. NW
Warren OH 44483 (330) 394-1899

Snook’s Dream Cars
13920 County Home Road
Bowling Green OH 43402 (419) 353-8338

OKLAHOMA

Antique Auto Museum
18th & Chickasha
Chickasha OK 73023 (405) 224-2049

Georges Antique Auto Museum
508 S Grand, Enid OK 73701 (580) 242-6815


Antiques Car Museum
2215 W Shawnee St
Muskogee OK 74401 (918) 687-4447

OREGON

Northwest Vintage Car Museum
(under construction)
Salem OR 97308 (503) 399-0647

PENNSYLVANIA

AACA Antique Auto Museum
161 Museum Drive
Hershey PA 17033 (717) 566-7100

America on Wheels
(under construction)
5 North Front Street
Allentown PA 18105 (610) 432-4200

Boyertown Museum of Hist. Vehicles
28 Warwick St
Boyertown PA 19512 (610) 367-2090

Frick Art & Historical Center

(The) Car & Carriage Museum
7227 Reynolds St
Pittsburgh, PA 15208 (412) 371-0600

Rolls-Royce Foundation
3908 Col. Ellis Ave.
Mechanicsburg PA (717) 932-9900


William E. Swigart, Jr. Auto Museum
Route 22
Huntingdon PA 16652 (814) 643-0885

SOUTH DAKOTA

Pioneer Auto Show & Antique Town
503 E. 5th Street
Murdo, SD 57559 (605) 669-2691

Telstar Mustang-Shelby-Cobra Museum
1300 South Kimball St.
Mitchell, SD 57301 (605) 996-6550

TENNESSEE

Dixie Gun Works Old Car Museum
1200 N Highway 51 S
Union City TN 38261 (731) 885-0700

Floyd Garrett Musclecar Museum
320 Winfield Dunn Pkwy.
Sevierville TN 37876 (865) 908-0882

Hofstetter Car Museum
3331 Highway 231 N.
Shelbyville TN 37160 (931) 437-2573

Lane Motor Museum
702 Murfreesboro Pike
Nashville TN 37210 (615) 742 7445

TEXAS

Central Texas Museum of Automotive History
2502 Highway 304
Rosanky TX 78953 (512) 237-2635

Classic Showcase
418 Coronado Dr
Kerrville TX 78028 (512) 895-5655

Pate Museum of Transportation
18501 Hwy 377 S.
Ft. Worth, TX (817) 396-4305

Petroleum Museum/Chaparral Cars
1500 I-20 West
Midland TX 79701 (432) 683-4403
UTAH

Bonneville Speedway Museum
1000 Wendover Blvd
Wendover UT 84083 (435) 655-7721

Classic Cars International Auto Museum
355 W 700 S
Salt Lake City UT 84101
(801) 322-5186

VIRGINIA

Car & Carriage Caravan Museum
970 Highway 211 West
Luray Caverns VA 22835
(540) 743-6551

WASHINGTON

LeMay Museum/America’s Car Museum
325 152nd St. E.
Tacoma, WA 98445 (253) 536-2885

Lynden Pioneer Museum
217 Front Street
Lynden, WA 98264 (360) 354-3675

WEST VIRGINIA

West Virginia Auto Museum
1215 20th Street
Vienna WV 26105 (304)295-6113

WISCONSIN

David V. Uihlein
Antique Racing Car Museum
268 Green Bay Rd
Cedarburg WI 53012 (414) 253-2661

Dells Auto Museum
591 Wisconsin Dells
Wisconsin Dells WI 53965
(608) 254-2008

Wisconsin Automotive Museum
147 N Rural Street
Hartford WI 53027 (262) 673-7999

CANADA

Canadian Automotive
99 Simcoe St. S., Oshawa, Ontario (905) 576-1222

Domain Museum Foundation
1555 Principale, Pohenegamook
Quebec (418) 859-3535

Reynolds-Alberta
Highway 13
Wetaskiwin, Alberta (780) 361-1351




Map with dynamic links to all the musuems.

West sent me this - posting it in the forum until I can find a better place for it on the website. If you have additions or edits please post them here.

Thanks,

Peter

Good stuff Peter, thanks - we're vacationing in Florida this March / April and it looks like I'm not too far from a couple of them that I haven't seen already.

We visited Don Garlits' museum a couple of vacations ago - well worth the visit, and it was on this visit we discovered the American term "down a ways". We'd got lost and asked at a gas station for directions, where we eventually discovered "down a ways" means in this part of Florida nearly 50 miles! I'd hate to find out what you folks call a long way away!

Argyll.

Coming soon to Springfield Ma.
History of Springfield Museum.


They have been donated the entire collection of the Indian Motor Cycle Museum and The proto #4 Indian automobile. Also a Springfield Rolls Royce, A replicate of a Duryea, a Knox Fire engine and many more coming.



Opening planned for Oct. 2008

One Ohio auto you missed is Oberhaus Cars and Collectables in Archbold. Better hurry though because Ed and Alyce are selling everything this spring. Here is the website: http://www.bright.net/~oberhausenterprises/id21.htm

I'd add this one in Colorado:

http://www.gatewaycanyons.com/museum.php

Dave

The truely GREAT collections are the ones put together by one man with a passion for what he collects, Bill Smith's Speedway Motors in Lincoln Nebraska,is on my short list of Top Six collections to see.http://www.museumofamericanspeed.com/

The one in Deer Lodge Mt. has a superior 1950's and before collection, that I have ever seen! they have many teen and 20's cars. Definetly on par with or better than the one in Reno, because you can get close and see in the windows,etc.

You can add this one to the Virginia list:

Guy Eavers Museum, Mint Spring, VA (540-337-1126)

Petie Eavers was a race car driver. There are some race cars and lots of 50s and 60 cars there.

I have converted the museum list to a Point Of Interest file for my TomTom GPS. If anyone wants it here is a pointer to the file. The icon could be better, but it is recognizable. This is for the latest versions of TomTom that uses the .ov2 files

If anyone with a different GPS wants a POI file I will attempt to convert the data with some software I have, just ask.

There's a new Hudson museum at:

Hostetter's Hudson Auto Museum
760 South Van Buren St.
Shipshewana, IN 46565

260-768-3021

nice compilation mate...
have been to the MB museum in Alaska but never knew there can be a hundred n a half of such museums...

Here's an interesting museum. On Sundays they apparently give rides in some of the cars in their collection.

Automobile Driving Museum
610 Lairport Street in
El Segundo, California 90245

www.automobiledrivingmuseum.org/

Photographs from the museums I have visited:

Automobile Driving Museum - http://rides.webshots.com/album/562407002coBSKN

Murphy Auto Museum - http://rides.webshots.com/album/562407174TniCjt

San Diego Automotive Museum - http://rides.webshots.com/album/562407171pbyNja

Peterson Museum - http://rides.webshots.com/album/561867279UUMwUv

NHRA Museum - http://rides.webshots.com/album/561866687SAsJGq

NHRA Museum - http://rides.webshots.com/album/557284293evVADv

Eavers Museum - http://rides.webshots.com/album/556874885rCKJOR

wow! thanks for that list! i definitely wanna see all the cars at those museums...


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I got an email today about a new museum being built in Alaska. It's the Fountainhead Antique Auto Collection in Fairbanks, Alaska

Not open yet, but apparently under construction with opening planned for 2009.

Here's a link to the web page. Fountainhead Antique Auto Collection

Peter, I don't know how old the information is on this, but Branson Hill Road, Randleman North Carolina may not be the correct address.

Branson Hill Road is where Lee Petty's house, and the original home of Petty Enterprises is, and that is actually in Level Cross, North Carolina. Back when Lee Petty was alive, the Museum was at the family compound in Level Cross. As recent as four years ago, they had moved the Museum into a building in downtown Randleman, North Carolina.

With the Petty's moving the shop to Charlotte, the museum may have been moved back into Petty Enterprises on Branson Hill Road. Level Cross is where the shop actually is, but if there isn't a post office in Level Cross, then Randleman may be the correct address.

In either case, I'm not trying to put anyone in a spot, but if the Museum is still in Randleman, and a person goes to Branson Hill Road, you'll be putting people off the path by about 5-10 miles.

Another museum that is well worth the mention is Richard Childress Racing Museum in Welcome, North Carolina. After Dale Earnhardt was killed, they basically closed the entire shop and turned it into a museum. They left toolboxes, race cars, engine dynos, engines, hauler, etc. in the building. Even if you were never a Dale Earnhardt fan (I wasn't), this museum is very well done. The curator of the museum is Danny "Chocolate" Myers who was Earnhardt's longtime gas man. Another interesting point is that they have all of the animals that Dale Earnhart and Richard Childress had shot on their various hunting trips mounted.

Peter, I think the Gateway Museum in Colorado deserves to be in the list. They have that 3 million plust Olds F88 there. Very high class museum.

http://www.gatewayautomuseum.com/