Museums in United Kingdom

M Shed museum tells the story of Bristol and its unique place in the world. Exhibits include a 1966 Bristol Lodekka Bus, a locally built Bristol car and several motorcycles.

Milestones is Hampshire’s Living History Museum – an exciting adventure for all those who step in to this time capsule of social history. The dedicated team of costumed interpreters guide visitors as they journey back to Hampshire’s past. Milestones is packed full of the things that ordinary people used in the past. Those people had to go to work, wash their clothes, eat, sleep, and have fun exactly as we do today - but the things they used were sometimes very different from what we use now. Milestones gives us an idea of what it might have been like to live in the past.

Set in the beautiful parish of Lezayre, Milntown is the Island's only Historical Estate and boasts 15 acres of beautiful gardens and woodland which surround the magnificent mansion and café at its heart. The Milntown Estate is owned by the Milntown Trust established under the terms of the Will of its previous owner and benefactor - Sir Clive Edwards. When shown you can see some very exceptional cars and motorcycles like 1900 New Orleans, 1921 ABC Car, 1910 Delage, 1913 A.B.C. Motorcycle, 1923 Douglas RA Model and many more. For detailed list please see the Official Vehicle List.

Based in the centre of Elgin (the capital of Morayshire, close to the Cooper Park), Moray Motor Museum is housed in a light and airy old mill building, part of which dates back to the era of the Cathedral when the Bishops of Moray ruled Moravia, and was used by them as a grain mill. The Moray Motor Museum houses a superb collection of veteran, vintage, classic cars and motorbikes.

Moretonhampstead Motor Museum is home to a collection of over 135 vintage and classic vehicles, including pre-1920s to the 1990s. Run by local motoring enthusiast Frank Loft, the museum is housed in a newly refurbished bus depot in Moretonhampstead, Devon. The collection is complemented by motoring artefacts and automobilia - you can also visit the viewable restoration workshop.

Following an extensive overhaul, The Morgan Experience Centre reopened its door in 2020. A bit later the new factory museum, called The Archive Room has also been made available to visitors who can book their experience through a factory tour.

The small, beautiful Welsh village of Pendine has truly been at the heart of world records and innovation in the motoring world for a century.  The sands have a nearly 100-year history of setting land speed records; beginning in the 1920s with Sir Malcom Campbell and his car ‘Blue Bird’ to more recently the actor Idris Elba taking on Campbell's 'Flying Mile' record in a Bentley Continental GT Speed in 2015.

If you fancy a really interesting, unusual and enjoyable day out, why not pay a visit to Greater Manchester’s Museum of Transport? It is just like taking a trip back in time as you wander through one of Britain’s biggest collection of restored trams, buses and coaches. Your amazing time-travelling journey will take you all the way from an elaborately painted Victorian open-top horse drawn tram, to the streamlined prototype of Manchester’s Metrolink tram.

Myreton Motor Museum was founded by Willie Dale in 1966 and has a large collection exhibits such as cars, bicycles, motor cycles and commercial vehicles dating from 1899. There is also an interesting assortment of period advertising, posters, enamel signs, and toy vehicles.

For a very different kind of visit, the National Collections Centre in Nantgarw stores thousands of fascinating objects that are not on display. The Collections Centre is not open to the general public, but they offer exclusive access to groups.