List of transport museums

August 11th, 2008

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.

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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
  • 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 -
  • Tasmanian Transport Museum, Glenorchy, Hobart, Tasmania -
  • Tramway Museum Society of Victoria, Bylands, Victoria -
  • Valley Heights Locomotive Depot Heritage Museum, Valley Heights, New South Wales -
  • Western Australia’s Heritage Tramway, Whiteman Park, Western Australia -
  • Western Australian Maritime Museum, Fremantle, Western Australia

Austria

  • TMB’s Innsbruck Tramway Museum, Innsbruck -
  • Tramway Museum Graz, Graz -
  • SKGLB-Museum, Mondsee

Bermuda

  • Railway Museum and Curiosity Shop, Hamilton

Brazil

  • Museu Ferroviário de Bauru, Bauru
  • Museu Ferroviário de Campinas, Campinas
  • Museu Aeronáutico de Guarulhos, Guarulhos
  • Museu Tecnológico Ferroviário, Santo André
  • Museu Asas de um Sonho, São Carlos
  • Museu do Automóvel de São Paulo, São Paulo
  • Museu dos Transportes Públicos “Gaetano Ferolla”, São Paulo

Bulgaria

  • National Transport Museum, Rousse

Canada

  • Alberta Railway Museum, Edmonton, Alberta -
  • Canadian Railway Museum, Saint-Constant, Québec
  • Canadian Transportation Museum & Heritage Village, Essex, Ontario -
  • Halton County Radial Railway, Rockwood, Ontario
  • Marine Museum of the Great Lakes, Kingston, Ontario -
  • Muskoka Marine Museum, Huntsville, Ontario -
  • Railway Coastal Museum, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador -
  • Saskatchewan Railway Museum, Saskatoon Saskatchewan
  • Western Canada Aviation Museum, Winnipeg, Manitoba
  • Winnipeg Railway Museum, Winnipeg, Manitoba

People’s Republic of China

  • 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 -
  • Danish Railway Museum, Odense -
  • Danish Tramway Museum, Ringsted, near Copenhagen -

Estonia

  • Estonian Railway Museum, Haapsalu

Finland

  • Finnish Railway Museum, Hyvinkää

France

  • Musée Français du Chemin de Fer : train museum
  • Musée Maurice Dufresne
  • Cité de l’Automobile, Mulhouse : car museum

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

Greece

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

Hungary

  • Budapest Transport Museum, City Park, Budapest -

Ireland

  • National Transport Museum of Ireland, Dublin
  • Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Belfast
  • National Maritime Museum of Ireland, Dublin

Israel

  • Israel Railway Museum, Haifa -

Italy

  • Museo Nazionale dei Trasporti, La Spezia -

Japan

  • Hiroshima City Transportation Museum
  • Modern Transportation Museum, Osaka, Osaka
  • Railway Museum, Saitama, Saitama
  • Umekoji Steam Locomotive Museum. Kyoto

Latvia

  • Latvian Railway History Museum, Riga -
  • Riga Motor Museum, Riga -

Lithuania

  • Lithuanian Railway Museum, Vilnius -

Mexico

  • Ferrocarril Interoceanico heritage railway & museum. Cuautla, Morelos -
  • Museo de los Ferrocarriles de Yucatán, Mérida, Yucatán,
  • Museo Nacional de los Ferrocarriles Mexicanos, Puebla, Puebla
  • Museo Tecnológico de la Comisión Federal de Electricidad (MUTEC), Mexico City
  • Museo del Ferrocarril de Torreón, Torreón, Coahuila

Netherlands

  • Dutch Railway Museum, Utrecht (city)

New Zealand

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

Norway

  • Gamle Vossebanen Railway Museum, Bergen
  • Trondheim Tramway Museum, Trondheim -
  • Krøderbanen Railway Museum, Krøderen -
  • Norwegian Railway Museum, Hamar
  • Setesdalsbanen Railway Museum, Vennesla
  • Oslo Transport Museum, Oslo -
  • Norwegian Aviation Museum, Bodø

Pakistan

  • PAF Museum, Karachi
  • Pakistan Maritime Museum, Karachi

Poland

  • Skansen Parowozownia Kościerzyna, Kościerzyna, Pomeranian Voivodeship

Portugal

  • Museu Nacional Ferroviário, Entrocamento -

Russia

  • Central Railway Museum, Saint Petersburg -
  • Museum of electrical transport, Saint Petersburg (see in Russian)
  • Moscow Metro Museum, Moscow -
  • Oktyabrskaya Railway Museum, Saint Petersburg -
  • Pereslavl Narrow Gauge Railway Museum, Pereslavl-Zalessky -
  • Museum of Carriages and Autocars, Moscow -
  • Vadim Zadorozhny’s Technical Museum, Moscow -
  • Museum of Retro Cars, Moscow -
  • 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 -
  • Nässjö Järnvägsmuseum, Nässjö -
  • Stockholms Spårvägsmuseum, Stockholm -
  • Sveriges Järnvägsmusem, Gävle -

Switzerland

  • Swiss Transport Museum, Lucerne

Turkey

  • Rahmi M. Koç Museum, Istanbul

United Kingdom

  • List of British railway museums

England

  • Coventry Transport Museum, Coventry
  • Donington Grand Prix Collection, Leicestershire
  • East Anglia Transport Museum, Suffolk
  • Ensignbus transport museum, Essex
  • Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton, Somerset
  • Haynes Motor Museum, Somerset
  • Heritage Motor Centre, Warwickshire
  • Imperial War Museum Duxford Airfield, near Cambridge
  • Ingrow Railway Centre, Keighley, West Yorkshire
  • Ipswich Transport Museum
  • London Canal Museum, London
  • London Motorcycle Museum
  • London’s Transport Museum, London
  • Midland Air Museum, near Coventry, Warwickshire.
  • Museum of Transport in Manchester
  • National Maritime Museum, Greenwich and Falmouth
  • National Motor Museum, Beaulieu, Hampshire
  • National Motorcycle Museum, Solihull, West Midlands
  • National Railway Museum, York
  • National Tramway Museum, near Matlock, Derbyshire
  • National Waterways Museum, Gloucester
  • Newark Air Museum, Nottinghamshire
  • Nottingham Transport Heritage Centre, Nottinghamshire]
  • Oxford Bus Museum, Long Hanborough
  • Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon, London
  • Royal Air Force Museum, Cosford, Shropshire
  • Swindon Railway Village Museum
  • Swindon Steam Railway Museum
  • The Transport Museum, Wythall, Worcestershire
  • Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft, Lincolnshire
  • Yorkshire Air Museum

Northern Ireland

  • Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Belfast

Scotland

  • Museum of Flight, East Lothian
  • Museum of Transport, Glasgow

United Arab Emirates

  • Emirates National Auto Museum, Abu Dhabi

United States

  • Air Zoo, Portage, Michigan
  • Automotive Hall of Fame, Dearborn, Michigan
  • Arizona Street Railway Museum, Phoenix, Arizona -
  • 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
  • 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
  • Flying Heritage Collection, Arlington, Washington
  • Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan
  • Forney Transportation Museum, Denver, Colorado -
  • Golden Gate Railway Museum, San Francisco, California -
  • Great Plains Transportation Museum, Wichita, Kansas
  • Illinois Railway Museum, Union, Illinois
  • Indiana Railway Museum, French Lick, Indiana
  • Indiana Transportation Museum, Noblesville, Indiana
  • Kentucky Railway Museum, New Haven, Kentucky
  • Midland Railway, Baldwin City, Kansas
  • Minnesota Transportation Museum, Saint Paul, Minnesota
  • Montana Auto Museum, Deer Lodge, Montana
  • Monticello Railway Museum, Monticello, Illinois
  • Museum of Flight, Seattle, Washington
  • Museum of Transportation, St. Louis, Missouri -
  • National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC
  • National Capital Trolley Museum, Montgomery County, Maryland -
  • National Museum of the United States Air Force, formerly the US Air Force Museum, in Dayton, Ohio
  • National Railroad Museum, Green Bay, Wisconsin
  • 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 -
  • 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 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 -
  • South Coast Railroad Museum, Goleta, California -
  • Southern Arizona Transportation Museum, Tucson, Arizona
  • Steamtown National Historic Site, Scranton, Pennsylvania
  • 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 -
  • Valley Railroad Company, Essex, Connecticut
  • Virginia Museum of Transportation, Roanoke, Virginia
  • Volo Auto Museum, Volo, Illinois
  • Walter P. Chrysler Museum, Auburn Hills, Michigan
  • Western Railway Museum, Rio Vista, California
  • Yankee Air Museum, Belleville, Michigan
  • White Pass and Yukon Route from Skagway, Alaska to Whitehorse, Yukon
  • Wyoming Transportation Museum, Cheyenne, Wyoming -

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

Retrieved from “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transport_museums”
Categories: Lists of museums | Transport museums | Transportation lists


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