List of transport museums

This is a list of transport museums throughout the world. Old transportation systems don't disappear, they often 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
• Qantas Founders Outback Museum, Longreach, Queensland

• 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]
• Western Australia's Heritage Tramway, Whiteman Park, Western Australia - [5]
• Western Australian Maritime Museum, Fremantle, Western Australia
• Zig Zag Railway, near Lithgow; 1067

Austria

• TMB's Innsbruck Tramway Museum, Innsbruck - [6]
• Tramway Museum Graz, Graz - [7]
• SKGLB-Museum, Mondsee

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 - [8]
• Canadian Railway Museum, Saint-Constant, Québec
• Canadian Transportation Museum & Heritage Village, Essex, Ontario - [9]
• Halton County Radial Railway, Rockwood, Ontario
• Marine Museum of the Great Lakes, Kingston, Ontario - [10]
• Muskoka Marine Museum, Huntsville, Ontario - [11]
• Railway Coastal Museum, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador - [12]
• Saskatchewan Railway Museum, Saskatoon Saskatchewan
• Western Canada Aviation Museum, Winnipeg, Manitoba
• Winnipeg Railway Museum, Winnipeg, Manitoba

People's Republic of 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 - [13]
• Danish Railway Museum, Odense - [14]
• Danish Tramway Museum, Ringsted, near Copenhagen - [15]
• Dansk Veteranflysamling, Skjern, Midtsjælland - Scandinavian airplanes
• Vikingeskibsmuseet, Roskilde, Midtsjælland - Viking ships

Estonia

• Estonian Railway Museum, Haapsalu [16]

Finland

• Finnish Railway Museum, Hyvinkää [17]
• Aviation Museum of Central Finland, Tikkakoski, Central Finland

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

[18]

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
• Schifffahrtsmuseum Flensburg in Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein
• Verein Historische Straßenbahn in Köln [19]

Greece

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

Hungary

• Budapest Railway Museum, Budapest -Railways
• Budapest Transport Museum, City Park, Budapest - [20]

Ireland

• Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Belfast
• National Maritime Museum of Ireland, Dublin – Ships [21]
• National Transport Museum of Ireland, (Iarsmalann Náisiunta Iompair na hÉireann), Howth, County Fingal (Fine Gall) [22]
• Foynes Flying Boat Museum, Foynes - Flugboote

Israel

• Israel Railway Museum, Haifa - [23]

Italy

• Museo Nazionale dei Trasporti, La Spezia -[24]

Japan

• Hiroshima City Transportation Museum, Hiroshima - Tramways [25]
• Modern Transportation Museum, Osaka, Osaka –Railways [26]
• Nagahama Railroad Square, Nagahama, Shiga
• Ōme Railway Park, Tokyo [27]
• Railway Museum, Saitama, Saitama - Railway
• Tōbu Museum of Transport and Culture, Tokyo [28]
• Tokyo Subway Museum, Tokyo [29]
• Tōkyū Transportation Museum, Tokyo [30]
• Umekōji Steam Locomotive Museum, Kyoto - Steam locomotives [31]
• Yokohama Municipal Tramway Museum, Yokohama [32]
• Toyota Automobile Museum, Nukata District, Aichi – Automobiles (also other brands) [33]

Latvia

• Latvian Railway History Museum, Riga - [34]
• Riga Motor Museum, Riga - [35]

Lithuania

• Lithuanian Railway Museum, Vilnius - [36]

Luxembourg

• Luxembourg's tram and bus museum, Luxembourg City - [37]

Mexico

• Ferrocarril Interoceanico heritage railway & museum. Cuautla, Morelos - [38]
• Museo de los Ferrocarriles de Yucatán, Mérida, Yucatán, [39]
• Museo Nacional de los Ferrocarriles Mexicanos, Puebla, Puebla [40]
• Museo Tecnológico de la Comisión Federal de Electricidad (MUTEC), Mexico City [41]
• Museo del Transporte, Xalapa, Veracruz
• Museo del Ferrocarril de Torreón, Torreón, Coahuila [42]

Netherlands

• Aviodrome, Lelystad, Flevoland – Aviation
• Louwman Collection, Geertruidenberg, Nordbrabant - Automobile
• Marinemuseum Den Helder, Den Helder, Noordholland - Ships (Koninklijke Marine)
• Dutch Railway Museum, Utrecht (city)-Railways
• Stoom Stichting Nederland, Rotterdam - Steamlocomitives
• Veluwsche Stoomtrein Maatschappij, Beekbergen, Gelderland - Railways

New Zealand

• List of New Zealand railway museums and heritage lines
• Ferrymead Heritage Park, Christchurch, [43]
• Foxton Trolleybus Museum, Horowhenua
• Museum of Transport and Technology, Auckland, [44]
• National Maritime Museum, New Zealand, Auckland, [45]
• Otago Settlers Museum, Dunedin, [46]
• Southward Car Museum, Kapiti Coast, [47]
• Wellington Tramway Museum, Kapiti Coast, [48]

Norway

• Gamle Vossebanen Railway Museum, Bergen [49]
• Krøderbanen Railway Museum, Krøderen - [50]
• Norwegian Railway Museum, Hamar, [51]
• Norwegian Aviation Museum, Bodø, [52]
• Setesdalsbanen Railway Museum, Vennesla, [53]
• Sporveismuseet Vognhall 5, Oslo -Tramway [54]
• Trondheim Tramway Museum, Trondheim - [55]
• Viking Ship Museum (Oslo), Oslo http://www.ukm.uio.no/vikingskipshuset/index_eng.html

Pakistan

• PAF Museum, Karachi
• Pakistan Maritime Museum, Karachi
• Pakistan Railways Museum, Golra Sharif

Poland

Polish Aviation Museum in Krakow

• Warszawa Railway Museum, Warschau – Railways
• Polish Aviation Museum, Krakau, - 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

Portugal

• Museu Nacional Ferroviário, Entrocamento - [56]

Russia

• Central Railway Museum, Saint Petersburg - [57]
• Museum of electrical transport, Saint Petersburg (see in Russian)
• Moscow Metro Museum, Moscow - [58]
• Oktyabrskaya Railway Museum, Saint Petersburg - [59]
• Pereslavl Narrow Gauge Railway Museum, Pereslavl-Zalessky - [60]
• Museum of Carriages and Autocars, Moscow - [61]
• Vadim Zadorozhny's Technical Museum, Moscow - [62]
• Museum of Retro Cars, Moscow - [63]
• Museum of Urban Transport, Moscow - unofficial site

Serbia

• Muzej Vazduhoplovstva
• Zeleznicki Muzej

Slovenia

• Slovenian Railway Museum, Ljubljana

South Africa

• James Hall museum of Transport, Johannesburg

Sweden

• Nynäshamns Järnvägsmuseum, Nynäshamn - [64]
• Nässjö Järnvägsmuseum, Nässjö - [65]
• Stockholms Spårvägsmuseum, Stockholm - [66]
• Sveriges Järnvägsmusem, Gävle - [67]
• 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

Turkey

• Rahmi M. Koç Museum, Istanbul

United Kingdom

• List of British railway museums

England

• Beamish Museum, Durham, -Locomotives, Trams, Trolleys, Motor Buses
• Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey – Auto-, Motorrad- sowie Luftfahrthistorie, opened 1987
• 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, [68]
• 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)
• National Maritime Museum, Greenwich and Falmouth - Maritimes
• National Motor Museum, Beaulieu, Hampshire- 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
• Swindon Railway Village Museum -Railway
• 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
• Museum of Flight, East Lothian Aerospace

United Arab Emirates

• Emirates National Auto Museum, Abu Dhabi

United States

• Air Zoo, Portage, Michigan

• American Airpower Heritage Museum, Midland, Texas
• Automotive Hall of Fame, Dearborn, Michigan
• Arizona Street Railway Museum, Phoenix, Arizona - [69]
• 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 State Railroad Museum, Sacramento, California (located in Old Sacramento)
• Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park from Georgetown, Washington, D.C. to Cumberland, Maryland
• Colorado Railroad Museum, Golden, Colorado
• Commonwealth Coach & Trolley Museum, Roanoke, Virginia - [70]
• 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 - [71]
• Gold Coast Railroad Museum, Florida
• Golden Gate Railway Museum, San Francisco, California - [72]
• Great Plains Transportation Museum, Wichita, Kansas
• Herreshoff Marine Museum, Bristol, Rhode Island
• Illinois Railway Museum, Union, Illinois
• Indiana Railway Museum, French Lick, Indiana
• Indiana Transportation Museum, Noblesville, Indiana
• Kentucky Railway Museum, New Haven, Kentucky
• Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Virginia [73]
• Midland Railway, Baldwin City, Kansas
• Minnesota Transportation Museum, Saint Paul, Minnesota
• Montana Auto Museum, Deer Lodge, Montana [74]
• Monticello Railway Museum, Monticello, Illinois [75]
• Museum of Flight, Seattle, Washington
• Museum of Transportation, St. Louis, Missouri - [76]
• National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC
• National Capital Trolley Museum, Montgomery County, Maryland - [77]
• 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 [78]
• Nevada Northern Railway Museum, Ely, Nevada
• New York Transit Museum, Brooklyn, New York
• North Carolina Transportation Museum, Spencer, North Carolina
• Northwest Railway Museum, Snoqualmie, Washington
• Ohio Railway Museum, Worthington, Ohio - [79]
• 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, Californien

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 - [80]
• South Coast Railroad Museum, Goleta, California - [81]
• 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
• Travel Town Museum, Los Angeles, California
• Trolley Museum of New York, Kingston, New York - [82]
• Virginia Museum of Transportation, Roanoke, Virginia [83]
• Volo Auto Museum, Volo, Illinois
• Walter P. Chrysler Museum, Auburn Hills, Michigan
• Western Railway Museum, Rio Vista, California
• White Pass and Yukon Route from Skagway, Alaska to Whitehorse, Yukon
• Wyoming Transportation Museum, Cheyenne, Wyoming - [84]
• Yankee Air Museum, Belleville, Michigan

Venezuela

• Guillermo José Schael Transport Museum, Caracas, Venezuela

See also

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

External links

• MEXLIST List of Mexican rail and transport museums