Museums in United States

The nearly 10,000 square foot building in Loudon, NH houses a broad variety of race cars and motorcycles, all with a New England heritage. Included is a 1915 Duesenberg that raced on the one mile dirt oval in Boston; the King & Marshall front engine NHRA dragster that was so successful; the car in which Joey Logano won his first Cup race (and the trophy he won that day); open wheel cars driven by Joe Sostillio and Johnny Thomson in the 1950s; the motorcycle Eddie "The Savage" Sarno built and drag raced with a huge Buick engine. 

The New York State Museum, located in the capital city of Albany, New York, is a major research and educational institution. It is a research museum, one of a select and vital group of institutions charged by our society with both preserving and investigating the material record of our past. It is the only such institution which takes New York State, its natural and cultural heritage, as its mandate.

The Newport Car Museum opened in mid-2017 in a former missile manufacturing facility situated on seven acres of land in Portsmouth, R.I. The private collection of some 75+ automobiles at the Newport Car Museum focuses on seven decades of modern industrial automotive design and celebrates cars as works of art. From the 1950s to the present, separate exhibits of Ford/Shelby Cars, Corvettes, World Cars, Fin Cars and Mopars and American Muscle: “Then & Now” have been carefully curated to appeal not just to grandfathers, fathers and teenage sons but to men and women of all ages.

Founded by Wally Parks (1913-2007) and an independent nonprofit since 1998, the Museum is the only NHRA (National Hot Rod Association) motorsports museum in the country.  It celebrates the impact of motorsports on American culture. The Museum collects, preserves, exhibits, and interprets the vehicles, stories, and artifacts that represent America’s affection for, and the influence of, automotive speed and style in all its forms.

The North Carolina Auto Racing Hall of Fame is dedicated to all types of racing—from drag racing to stock cars, the museum houses more than 35 cars that represent and help relive some of racing’s greatest moments. Numerous racing displays and showcases are continually rotated in an effort to promote North Carolina’s motorsports heritage.

The Northeast Classic Car Museum is an educational facility that collects, preserves, interprets and exhibits vehicles related to the evolution of transportation, with particular emphasis on the role of the automobile and its impact on American Culture. The Museum opened on Memorial Day weekend 1997 with one building and just over 50 vehicles on display. Currently, over 100 vehicles are on display in 3 connected buildings.

The Northeast Dirt Modified Museum and Hall of Fame was established in 1992, to showcase the rich and storied history of Modified stock car competition on the Northeastern oval dirt tracks — the cars, drivers, owners, mechanics, builders, promoters, media members and memorabilia of the sport.

The mission of the NWVCM Museum is to educate the general public about the heritage, history, and evolution of the automobile and motorcycle older than 25 years. The museum consists of a 1930s era Texaco station, which houses several cars, motorcycles, and memorabilia from that era.

The Nostalgia Street Rods Museum can be traced back decades ago when Art Goldstrom bought his first Ford at 15 years old. That car was the beginning of a lifelong love affair culminating some 65 years later into the museum’s 180 car classic collection. 

Inside the Ohio History Center, the Ohio Historical Society offers visitors a rewarding museum experience of Ohio’s past and an Archives/Library that provides rich resources for genealogists and other researchers. The Center serves as the headquarters for the Ohio Historical Society and is the flagship museum of the Society’s network of over 50 historic sites and museums. The Museum features a real rarity: a locally-built Seneca automobile. Photo courtesy of Travis Stephenson