List of transport museums

This is a list of transport museums throughout the world. Old transportation systems do not always disappear; sometimes they become the park and recreational facilities of future generations. Parts of many dismantled trolley systems in the United States for instance, have become trolley museums.

Australia

• Archer Park Railway Station, Rockhampton, Queensland;
• Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney, New South Wales
• Australian Railway Historical Society Rail Transport Museum, Bassendean, Western Australia
• Ballarat Tramway Museum, Ballarat, Victoria – Tram
• Bendigo Tram Museum, near Melbourne, Victoria – Tram
• Brisbane Tramway Museum, Ferny Grove, Brisbane, Queensland
• Glenreagh Mountain Railway, Glenreagh, near Coffs Harbour, New South Wales
• Pichi Richi Railway – Quorn to Port Augusta
• National Railway Museum – Port Adelaide
• National Road Transport Hall of Fame, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
• New South Wales Rail Transport Museum, Thirlmere, New South Wales
• Old Ghan Heritage Railway and Museum, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
• Puffing Billy Railway, Belgrave, Victoria
• Qantas Founders Outback Museum, Longreach, Queensland
• Sydney Bus Museum, Leichhardt, Sydney, New South Wales
• Sydney Tramway Museum, Loftus, Sydney, New South Wales
• St Kilda Tram Museum – Adelaide – [1]
• Tasmanian Transport Museum, Glenorchy, Hobart, Tasmania – [2]
• Tramway Museum Society of Victoria, Bylands, Victoria – [3]
• Valley Heights Locomotive Depot Heritage Museum, Valley Heights, New South Wales – [4]
• Valley Heights Steam Tramway, Valley Heights, New South Wales – [5]
• Western Australia's Heritage Tramway, Whiteman Park, Western Australia – [6]
• Western Australian Maritime Museum, Fremantle, Western Australia
• Zig Zag Railway, near Lithgow; 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)

Austria

• TMB's Innsbruck Tramway Museum, Innsbruck – [7]
• Tramway Museum Graz, Graz – [8]
• SKGLB-Museum, Mondsee

Belgium

• • MTUB (fr) / MSVB (nl), Brussels, [9] (Sint-Pieters-Woluwe) – streetcar/tram/trolleybus
  • Trammuseum van Schepdaal, (Schepdaal) – streetcar/tram
  • Centre de découverte du Vicinal, Trammuseum of the ASVi, (Thuin) – interurban and rural streetcar/tram
  • Vlaams Tram- en Autobusmuseum (VlaTAM), (Antwerp), (Berchem) – streetcar/tram/bus

Bermuda

• Railway Museum and Curiosity Shop, Hamilton

Brazil

• Museu Aeronáutico de Guarulhos, Guarulhos
• Museu Asas de um Sonho, São Carlos
• Museu do Automóvel de São Paulo, São Paulo
• Museu dos Transportes Públicos "Gaetano Ferolla", São Paulo
• Museu Ferroviário Barão de Mauá, Jundiaí, – Railways (Avenida União dos Ferroviários)
• Museu Ferroviário de Bauru, Bauru
• Museu Ferroviário de Campinas, Campinas
• Museu Tecnológico Ferroviário, Santo André

Bulgaria

• National Transport Museum, Rousse

Canada

• Alberta Railway Museum, Edmonton, Alberta – [10]
• Canadian Railway Museum, Saint-Constant, Québec
• Canadian Transportation Museum & Heritage Village, Essex, Ontario – [11]
• Edmonton Radial Railway Society, Edmonton, Alberta
• Halton County Radial Railway, Rockwood, Ontario
• Marine Museum of the Great Lakes, Kingston, Ontario – [12]
• Muskoka Marine Museum, Huntsville, Ontario – [13]
• Railway Coastal Museum, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador – [14]
• Reynolds-Alberta Museum, Wetaskiwin, Alberta, automobiles
• Saskatchewan Railway Museum, Saskatoon Saskatchewan
• Western Canada Aviation Museum, Winnipeg, Manitoba
• Winnipeg Railway Museum, Winnipeg, Manitoba

China

• China Aviation Museum, Changping – (200 airplanes)
• China Railway Museum, Beijing
• Hong Kong Railway Museum, Tai Po District, Hong Kong

Czech Republic

• Muzeum městské hromadné dopravy v Praze (Praha Střešovice)
• Železniční muzeum ČD (Lužná u Rakovníka)
• Železniční muzeum Zlonice
• Zubrnická museální železnice
• Muzeum těžby a dopravy vápence v Českém Krasu – Skanzen Solvayovy lomy
• Muzeum Pošumavských železnic Nové Údolí
• Muzeum koněspřežné železnice České Budějovice
• výtopna Jaroměř
• Muzeum průmyslových železnic Mladějov

Denmark

• Bornholm Automobilmuseum, Bornholm, Region Hovedstaden – [15]
• Danish Railway Museum, Odense – [16]
• Danish Tramway Museum, Skjoldenæsholm, near Ringsted – [17]
• Dansk Veteranflysamling, Skjern, Midtsjælland – Scandinavian airplanes
• Vikingeskibsmuseet, Roskilde, Midtsjælland – Viking ships

Estonia

• Estonian Railway Museum, Haapsalu [18]

Finland

• Finnish Railway Museum, Hyvinkää [19]
• Aviation Museum of Central Finland, Tikkakoski, Central Finland
• Finnish Aviation Museum, Vantaa, near Helsinki's international airport
• Kotka Maritime Center

France

• Cité de l'Automobile, Mulhouse : car museum
• Musée Français du Chemin de Fer : train museum
• Musée Maurice Dufresne
• Musée de l'Aventure Peugeot, Sochaux, Kanton Sochaux-Grand-Charmont – Peugeot-Automobile – [20]
• Musée des 24 Heures du Mans

Germany

• Museum für Antike Schifffahrt in Mainz
• Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum in Bremerhaven
• Otto-Lilienthal-Museum
• Eisenbahnmuseum Bochum, Bochum in the suburb Dahlhausen at the river Ruhr
• Eisenbahnmuseum Neustadt (Weinstrasse) Neustadt (Weinstrasse) in central Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz)
• Auto & Technik Museum, Sinsheim
• Hannoversches Straßenbahn-Museum, Sehnde near Hannover
• Deutsches Museum Verkehrszentrum, Munich
• Deutsches Museum Flugwerft, Oberschleißheim, Bavaria
• Deutsches Dampflokomotiv-Museum Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg in northern Bavaria
• Rosso Bianco Collection, Aschaffenburg
• Schifffahrtsmuseum Flensburg in Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein
• Verkehrsmuseum Dresden, Dresden, Sachsen
• Verein Historische Straßenbahn in Köln [21]
• Nuremberg Transport Museum, Nuremberg

Greece

• Greek Railway Museum, Athens
• Phaethon Museum of Technology (cars), Oropos

Hungary

• Budapest Railway Museum, Budapest – Railways
• Budapest Transport Museum, City Park, Budapest – [22]

Ireland

• Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Belfast
• National Maritime Museum of Ireland, Dublin – Ships [23]
• National Transport Museum of Ireland, (Iarsmalann Náisiunta Iompair na hÉireann), Howth, Fingal [24]
• Foynes Flying Boat Museum, Foynes – Flugboote

Israel

• Israel Railway Museum, Haifa – [25]

Italy

• Museo nazionale della scienza e della tecnologia, Milan [26]
• Museo Nazionale dei Trasporti, La Spezia – [27]
• Museo Ferroviario Piemontese, Savigliano, Turin - [28]
• Museo Europeo dei Trasporti Ogliari, Ranco, Varese - [29]
• Museo Ferroviario di Trieste Campo Marzio, Trieste [30]
• Museo Nazionale Ferroviario di Pietrarsa, Naples

Japan

• Hiroshima City Transportation Museum, Hiroshima – Tramways [31]
• Matsuda Collection, Gotemba, Shizuoka - automobiles
• Modern Transportation Museum, Osaka, Osaka –Railways [32]
• Nagahama Railroad Square, Nagahama, Shiga
• Ōme Railway Park, Tokyo [33]
• Railway Museum, Saitama, Saitama – Railway
• Tobu Museum, Tokyo [34]
• Tokyo Subway Museum, Tokyo [35]
• Tōkyū Transportation Museum, Tokyo [36]
• Umekōji Steam Locomotive Museum, Kyoto – Steam locomotives [37]
• Yokohama Municipal Tramway Museum, Yokohama [38]
• Toyota Automobile Museum, Nukata District, Aichi – Automobiles (also other brands) [39]

Latvia

• Latvian Railway History Museum, Riga – [40]
• Riga Motor Museum, Riga – [41]

Lithuania

• Lithuanian Railway Museum, Vilnius – [42]

Luxembourg

• Luxembourg's tram and bus museum, Luxembourg City – [43]

Mexico

• Ferrocarril Interoceanico heritage railway & museum. Cuautla, Morelos – [44]
• Museo de los Ferrocarriles de Yucatán, Mérida, Yucatán, [45]
• Museo Nacional de los Ferrocarriles Mexicanos, Puebla, Puebla [46]
• Museo Tecnológico de la Comisión Federal de Electricidad (MUTEC), Mexico City [47]
• Museo del Transporte, Xalapa, Veracruz
• Museo del Ferrocarril de Torreón, Torreón, Coahuila [48]

Netherlands

• Aviodrome, Lelystad, Flevoland – Aviation
• Elekrische Museumtramlijn, Amsterdam - Noord-Holland - Tramway
• Louwman Museum - The Hague (Den Haag) – Automobile
• Marinemuseum Den Helder, Den Helder, Noordholland – Ships (Koninklijke Marine)
• National Carriage Museum, Leek – Carriages
• Dutch Railway Museum, Utrecht (city) – Railways
• Stoomtram Hoorn-Medemblik, Hoorn - Steamtram
• Stoom Stichting Nederland, Rotterdam – Steamlocomotives
• Veluwsche Stoomtrein Maatschappij, Beekbergen, Gelderland – Railways
• Haags Openbaar Vervoer Museum, The Hague, [49] Zuid Holland – Streetcars/tram

New Zealand

• List of New Zealand railway museums and heritage lines
• Christchurch City Tramway
• Ferrymead Heritage Park, Christchurch, [50]
• Foxton Trolleybus Museum, Horowhenua
• Museum of Transport and Technology, Auckland, [51]
• National Maritime Museum, New Zealand, Auckland, [52]
• Otago Settlers Museum, Dunedin, [53]
• Southward Car Museum, Kapiti Coast, [54]
• Wellington Tramway Museum, Kapiti Coast, [55]

Norway

• Gamle Vossebanen Railway Museum, Bergen [56]
• Krøderbanen Railway Museum, Krøderen – [57]
• Norwegian Railway Museum, Hamar, [58]
• Norwegian Aviation Museum, Bodø, [59]
• Setesdalsbanen Railway Museum, Vennesla, [60]
• Sporveismuseet Vognhall 5, Oslo – Tramway [61]
• Trondheim Tramway Museum, Trondheim – [62]
• Viking Ship Museum (Oslo), Oslo http://www.ukm.uio.no/vikingskipshuset/index_eng.html

Pakistan

• PAF Museum, Karachi
• Pakistan Maritime Museum, Karachi
• Pakistan Railways Heritage Museum, near Islamabad

Poland

Polish Aviation Museum in Krakow

• Warszawa Railway Museum, Warsaw – Railways
• Polish Aviation Museum, Krakow, – Aviation, http://www.muzeumlotnictwa.pl/
• Narrow Gauge Railway Museum in Gryfice, Gryfice, Woiwodschaft Westpommern – Railways
• Narrow Gauge Railway Museum in Wenecja, Wenecja, Woiwodschaft Kujawien-Pommern – Railways http://www.paluki.pl/mzp/kolejka.php
• Skansen Parowozownia Kościerzyna, Kościerzyna, Pomeranian Voivodeship, – Railways
• Museum of city transport, Poznań
• Bydbus Zabytkowe Autobusy, Bydgoszcz, Woiwodschaft Kujawien-Pommern http://zabytkowe-autobusy.pl/ http://bydbus.cba.pl

Portugal

• Museu Nacional Ferroviário, Entroncamento – [63]
• Museu do Carro Eléctrico, Porto - [64]

Russia

• Central Railway Museum, Saint Petersburg – [65]
• Museum of electrical transport, Saint Petersburg (see in Russian)
• Moscow Metro Museum, Moscow – [66]
• Oktyabrskaya Railway Museum, Saint Petersburg – [67]
• Pereslavl Narrow Gauge Railway Museum, Pereslavl-Zalessky – [68]
• Museum of Carriages and Autocars, Moscow – [69]
• Vadim Zadorozhny's Technical Museum, Moscow – [70]
• Museum of Retro Cars, Moscow – [71]
• Museum of Urban Transport, Moscow – unofficial site
• Monino Air Force Museum, Moscow

Saudi Arabia

• Hejaz Railway Museum in Medina
• The Hejaz railway train station at Mada'in Saleh

Serbia

• Muzej Vazduhoplovstva
• Zeleznicki Muzej

Slovenia

• Slovenian Railway Museum, Ljubljana

South Africa

• James Hall museum of Transport, Johannesburg

Spain

• Castillo Concejuelo, Biscay

Sweden

• Nynäshamns Järnvägsmuseum, Nynäshamn – [72]
• Nässjö Järnvägsmuseum, Nässjö – [73]
• Stockholms Spårvägsmuseum, Stockholm – [74]
• Sveriges Järnvägsmusem, Gävle – [75]
• Marcus Wallenberg-hallen (Scania)

Switzerland

• Heritage Railway Blonay-Chamby, Blonay, Waadt; Heritage Railway including a museum
• Bahnmuseum Kerzers/Kallnach, Kerzers, FR und Kallnach, BE; Railways
• EUROVAPOR (Railway Society)
• Fliegermuseum Dübendorf, Dübendorf, ZH, – Aviation
• Swiss Transport Museum, Lucerne; Large Museum exhibiting all forms of transport.
• Zurich Tram Museum, Zurich

Turkey

• Rahmi M. Koç Museum, Istanbul

United Arab Emirates

• Emirates National Auto Museum, Abu Dhabi

United Kingdom

• List of British railway museums

England

• Beamish Museum, Durham, – Locomotives, Trams, Trolleys, Motor Buses
• Black Country Living Museum, Dudley, West Midlands – trams and motor buses
• Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey – Automobiles, Aircraft
• Coventry Transport Museum, Coventry – Automobiles
• Cotswold Motoring Museum and Toy Collection, Bourton on the Water, Gloucestershire – Automobiles and nostalgia
• Donington Grand Prix Collection, Leicestershire – Motor Racing Cars
• East Anglia Transport Museum, Suffolk – Trams, Trolleys, Motor Buses
• Ensignbus transport museum, Essex – Motor Buses
• Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton, Somerset – Air Planes
• Greater Manchester's Museum of Transport, Manchester – Buses, [76]
• Haynes Motor Museum, Somerset – Automobiles, Motorcycles
• Heritage Motor Centre, Warwickshire – Automobiles
• Hopetown Carriage Works, Darlington, Durham
• Imperial War Museum Duxford Airfield, near Cambridge – Military Planes, Tanks
• Ingrow Railway Centre, Keighley, West Yorkshire – Steam Locomotives
• Ipswich Transport Museum – Trams, Trolleys, Motor Buses
• London Canal Museum, London – Canal
• London Motorcycle Museum – Motorcycles
• London Transport Museum, London – Rail Rolling Stock, Trams, Trolleys, Motor Buses
• Midland Air Museum, near Coventry, Warwickshire. – Airplanes
• Museum of Transport in Manchester – Buses, (Trolleys), some train ephemera.
• National Maritime Museum, Greenwich and Falmouth – Maritime
• National Motor Museum, Beaulieu, Hampshire – Cars, Motorcycles
• National Motorcycle Museum, Solihull, West Midlands
• National Railway Museum, York – Locomotives
• National Tramway Museum, near Matlock, Derbyshire – Trams
• National Waterways Museum, Gloucester – Inland waterways collection
• Newark Air Museum, Nottinghamshire – Airplanes
• Nottingham Transport Heritage Centre, Nottinghamshire, – mainly railways, buses, cars
• Oxford Bus Museum, Long Hanborough – Buses
• Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon, London – Airplanes
• Royal Air Force Museum, Cosford, Shropshire – Airplanes
• Shildon Locomotion Museum, Durham – Locomotives
• Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden, Bedfordshire – Airplanes
• Solent Sky, Southampton, Hampshire – Aircraft
• Southampton Maritime Museum, Southampton, Hampshire – Maritime
• Swindon Steam Railway Museum – Railway
• The Transport Museum, Wythall, Worcestershire – Buses and electric cars
• Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft, Lincolnshire – Trolleys
• Yorkshire Air Museum – Aircraft

Northern Ireland

• Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Belfast – all kinds of transport

Scotland

• Glasgow Museum of Transport (now closed)
• Museum of Flight, East Lothian Aerospace
• Riverside Museum, Glasgow (the city's new transport museum, opening in 2011)

Wales

• Pembrokeshire Motor Museum – cars
• Pendine Museum of Speed – cars
• Swansea Bus Museum - buses

United States

• Aerospace Museum of California, McClellan Air Force Base, northeast of Sacramento, California
• Air Zoo, Portage, Michigan
• American Airpower Heritage Museum, Midland, Texas
• Automotive Hall of Fame, Dearborn, Michigan
• Arizona Street Railway Museum, Phoenix, Arizona – [77]
• Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum, Auburn, Indiana
• B&O Railroad Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, located at Mount Clare Station, the birthplace of American railroading
• Bandana Square, Saint Paul, Minnesota, home of Twin Cities Model Railroad Club and old Northern Pacific Como shops.
• Brooklyn Trolley Museum, Brooklyn
• Cable Car Museum, San Francisco, California
• California Automobile Museum, Sacramento, California
• California State Railroad Museum, Sacramento, California (located in Old Sacramento)
• Carona Train Museum, Carona, Kansas
• Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park from Georgetown, Washington, D.C. to Cumberland, Maryland
• Champlain Valley Transportation Museum, Plattsburgh, New York
• Colorado Railroad Museum, Golden, Colorado
• Columbia River Maritime Museum, Astoria, Oregon
• Commonwealth Coach & Trolley Museum, Roanoke, Virginia – [78]
• Connecticut Trolley Museum, East Windsor, Connecticut
• Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, Durango, Colorado
• East Troy Electric Railroad Museum, Wisconsin
• Edaville Railroad, South Carver, Massachusetts
• Evergreen Aviation Museum, McMinnville, Oregon – LAviation,. Hughes H-4, Boeing B-17 und Supermarine Spitfire
• Flying Heritage Collection, Arlington, Washington
• Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan
• Forney Transportation Museum, Denver, Colorado – [79]
• Gilmore Car Museum, Kalamazoo area, MI - [80]
• Gold Coast Railroad Museum, Florida
• Golden Gate Railroad Museum, formerly San Francisco, California – relocated to Niles Canyon Railway in Sunol, California
• Golden Oldy Cyclery, The Sustainable Museum of Sustainable Transportation, Golden, Colorado, Pre-1900 Bicycles and Tricycles & 21st Century Electric Cars in a Carbon Negative Museum
• Great Plains Transportation Museum, Wichita, Kansas
• Grissom Air Museum, Grissom Air Reserve Base, Peru, Indiana
• Hiller Aviation Museum, San Carlos, California
• Herreshoff Marine Museum, Bristol, Rhode Island
• Huntsville Depot, Huntsville, Alabama
• Illinois Railway Museum, Union, Illinois
• Indiana Aviation Museum, Valparaiso, Indiana
• Indiana Railway Museum, French Lick, Indiana
• Indiana Transportation Museum, Noblesville, Indiana
• Kentucky Railway Museum, New Haven, Kentucky
• Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Virginia [81]
• Midland Railway, Baldwin City, Kansas
• Minnesota Transportation Museum, Saint Paul, Minnesota
• Montana Auto Museum, Deer Lodge, Montana [82]
• Monticello Railway Museum, Monticello, Illinois [83]
• Museum of Flight, Seattle, Washington
• Museum of Transportation, St. Louis, Missouri – [84]
• National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC
• National Capital Trolley Museum, Montgomery County, Maryland – [85]
• National Museum of the United States Air Force, formerly the US Air Force Museum, in Dayton, Ohio
• National Railroad Museum, Green Bay, Wisconsin
• Naval Undersea Museum, Keyport, Washington – U-Boote [86]
• Nevada Northern Railway Museum, Ely, Nevada
• New York Transit Museum, Brooklyn, New York
• Norfolk Southern Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
• North Alabama Railroad Museum, Huntsville, Alabama
• North Carolina Transportation Museum, Spencer, North Carolina
• Northwest Railway Museum, Snoqualmie, Washington
• Oakland Aviation Museum, Oakland, California
• Ohio Railway Museum, Worthington, Ohio – [87]
• Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, Rhinebeck, New York
• Orange Empire Railway Museum, Perris, California
• Oregon Electric Railway Museum, Brooks, Oregon
• Owls Head Transportation Museum, Owls Head, Maine
• Pacific Coast Air Museum, Santa Rosa, California
• Pennsylvania Trolley Museum, Washington, Pennsylvania
• Petersen Automotive Museum, Los Angeles, California
• Railroad Museum of the Niagara Frontier
• Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
• R.E. Olds Transportation Museum, Lansing, Michigan
• San Diego Air & Space Museum, San Diego, California
  

  

  San Diego Air & Space Museum
• San Francisco Maritime Museum, San Francisco, California
• San Francisco Railway Museum, San Francisco, California
• San Diego Model Railroad Museum, San Diego, California
• Seashore Trolley Museum, Kennebunkport, Maine
• Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum, Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts
• Shore Line Trolley Museum, East Haven, Connecticut – [88]
• South Coast Railroad Museum, Goleta, California – [89]
• Southern Arizona Transportation Museum, Tucson, Arizona
• Steamtown National Historic Site, Scranton, Pennsylvania
• Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center (Part of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum), Fairfax County, Virginia – Airplanes (Boeing B-29 „Enola Gay“) and Space Shuttle Enterprise
• Tallahassee Automobile Museum, Tallahassee, Florida
• Tennessee Central Railway Museum, Nashville, Tennessee
• Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum, Chattanooga, Tennessee
• Texas Museum of Automotive History, Dallas, Texas
• Travel Town Museum, Los Angeles, California
• Trolley Museum of New York, Kingston, New York – [90]
• Virginia Museum of Transportation, Roanoke, Virginia [91]
• Volo Auto Museum, Volo, Illinois
• Walter P. Chrysler Museum, Auburn Hills, Michigan
• Western Pacific Railroad Museum, Portola, California
• Western Railway Museum, Rio Vista, California
• White Pass and Yukon Route from Skagway, Alaska to Whitehorse, Yukon
• Wyoming Transportation Museum, Cheyenne, Wyoming – [92]
• Yankee Air Museum, Belleville, Michigan

Vatican City

• Padiglione delle Carozze (Museo Storico, Vatican Museums)

Venezuela

• Guillermo José Schael Transport Museum, Caracas, Venezuela

See also

• List of heritage railways
• List of museum ships
• List of railway museums
• List of British railway museums
• List of New Zealand railway museums and heritage lines

External links

• MEXLIST List of Mexican rail and transport museums