Museums in Austria

The first private Porsche museum in Europe was opened by Helmut Pfeifhofer in 1982 at the city of Gmünd, where the first Porsche cars were built in 1948.

This museum celebrates one of the best known Austrian automobile and motorcycle brands: Puch. There are cars, motorcycles and more.

A private collection of over 70 motorcycles - 40 of them Puch.

This exhibition on the premises of the company mainly deals with vehicles for which RBO supplies parts for restoration - i.e. Puch motorcycles, mopeds and scooters. Lohner vehicles and several interesting BMW motorcycles are also shown.

TEMPORARILY CLOSED in 2022.

Franz Vonier's private collection is the biggest Rolls-Royce museum in the world. It is operated with authorization from the factory itself!

This museum was set up by Peter Malek in 1986. He was a local collector who assembled a very nice and interesting collection of cars and motorcycles, including a 1939 Steyr 220 Spezialroadster by Gläser, an Austro-Daimler bodied by Alexis Kellner and more. He died in 2014 and now his son is the caretaker of the collection. 

The Museum is also the home of the "Österr. Siegfried Marcus Research Society ”- Member of the VWGÖ (Association of Austrian Scientific Societies), which deals with Austrian vehicle history.

As part of its attractions, this castle boasts a collection of classic cars, including a nice collection of Steyr cars.

A local fire museum which shows a lot of fire engines

The TAF-TIMER Museum in Villach features more than 250 cars an motorcycles, from a Mercedes Evo2, a Chevrolet C10 to rare vintage cars.

Oskar Pitsch (1918-2008) was a collegaue of Hans Ledvinka, the legendary Tatra designer. After the 2nd World War he had to fled from Czechoslovakia and he found his new home at Steinabrückl, 40 km from Vienna. His collection of Tatra cars is now being looked after by the Oldtimer Club Niederösterreich.

In 2023 the museum was moved to a new home in Theresienfeld.