Museums in United Kingdom

The world renowned National Motor Museum at Beaulieu has over 250 vehicles from every motoring era. Exhibits include some of the earliest examples of motoring to legendary World Record Breakers like Bluebird, ‘TV Star’ cars like Del Boy’s Reliant Regal and rare oddities like the giant orange on wheels.

The collections of the National Museum of Scotland reveal Scotland's culture and history up to the present day, including a few locally made cars, such as an Argyll and a Formula 1 racer.

Norfolk Motorcycle Museum displays over 160 classic motorcycles from the 1920’s to 80’s from Great Britain, Europe, USA and Japan.

The North East Land Sea & Air Museum - NELSAM - sits on the former RAF Usworth and Sunderland airport site, next to the Sunderland Nissan factory. Since 2023 it includes a display of locally made cars, such as the Clan Crusader and several Nissan models.

Though this museum mainly displays buses, but there are also a number of cars and vans owned by members of the St Helens Classic Car Association

The Industrial Museum is situated in the stable block and courtyard buildings of the magnificent Wollaton Hall, offering an insight into the Cityʼs rich industrial heritage. See the miniature fairground, a telephone exchange of the 1940s, ploughing engine and threshing machine, a working blacksmith and a collection of vintage working radios. In the Transport Gallery you can find locally produced bicycles, motorcycles and a couple of cars, including the sole surviving Celer.

At the Oxford Bus Museum we tell the story of bus and coach travel around Oxfordshire over the last 130 years. Our exhibits include a historic preserved horse-drawn tram, motor buses, coaches and a wide selection of artefacts - including bus stops, ticket machines, timetables, posters and staff uniforms. We also have lots of fantastic photos illustrating our diverse public transport history through the ages. Since 2004 we have also been home to the Morris Motors Museum, which charts the story of how these classic British cars and commercial vehicles were produced at Cowley, in Oxford.

So, whatever the weather, we invite you to take a step back in time and enjoy at your leisure the vast and varied collection of steam locos and engines, vintage, commercial, military and classic vehicles, bicycles and toys, tractors, barn engines, agricultural implements and other machinery, nostalgic photographs including the Jersey railways, Jersey Road Races and transport history, paraffin lamps and domestic items, a variety of organs, including a pipe church and Compton theatre organ and numerous items of memorabilia all housed within the absorbing Museum which has seating if you want a

The Corps of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers was formed on the 1st October 1942. By May 1945, REME had proved to be indispensable and had expanded in response to the scale, variety and deployment of the weapons and equipment in service. When the Army Air Corps (AAC) was formed in 1958, it also became the task of REME to provide the field repair support for all aircraft used (previously done by the Royal Air Force).

The Riverside Museum (formerly the Glasgow Transport Museum) displays Glasgow’s rich industrial heritage, which stems from the River Clyde. The museum uses its collections of vehicles and models to tell the story of transport by land and sea, with a unique Glaswegian flavour. Here you will find the oldest surviving pedal cycle and the finest collection in the world of Scottish-built cars. They include such world-famous makes as Argyll, Arrol Johnston and Albion.