Museums in United States

LeMay – America’s Car Museum is a non-profit organization chartered to preserve and interpret the history and technology of the automobile and its influence on American culture. The Museum is dedicated to securing and interpreting the valuable LeMay Collection and to acquiring, preserving and interpreting additional artifacts that explore broad themes of American mobility and lifestyle in an instructive and entertaining manner. Harold and Nancy LeMay amassed the largest privately owned collection of automobiles, other vehicles and related memorabilia in the world.

There's the "big" LeMay Museum and then there's the slightly smaller, but no less interesting LeMay Family Collection at the Marymount Event Center showcasing over 500 vintage vehicles - primarily American-made cars, trucks, buses, fire engines, motorcycles, and more. The LeMay Family Collection, which was started by Harold & Nancy LeMay, was recognized as the largest privately-held collection of vehicles in the world, and it continues to grow.

Lenny Fiore's private collection of over 30 cars

Archie Lewis' collection of cars, toy trains, trucks and more

The Lincoln Motor Car Heritage Museum is a place of education, fascination and inspiration. The building and adjacent outdoor patio areas are dedicated exclusively to highlighting the American automobile industry with significant examples of Lincoln motor cars as the unifying theme. The museum is a partner of Gilmore Car Museum and is situated on its campus.

The Lions Automobilia Foundation and Museum was founded in December 2019 by Southern California businessman and car enthusiast, Rick Lorenzen. It’s nearly 100,000 sq. ft. facility includes galleries featuring Southern California’s famous car culture and motorsports history. The experience begins as visitors walk in thru a 1960’s speed shop with genuine parts hanging off the walls and then enter the Main Street Gallery lined with classics automobiles parked in front of a 1950’s diner. 

"We display a wonderful collection of machines from around the world dating from the 1910's to modern."

For more than 130 years, Luray Caverns has been renowned as one of the world's most spectacular natural wonders. A subterranean wonderland of magic and majesty, still as marvelously beautiful as described in the newspaper headlines over a century ago. Adjacent, there are a few museums, including the Car and Carriage Caravan Museum. Its exhibit is a tour of milestones in transportation, including authentically restored cars, carriages, coaches and costumes, dating from 1725 to 1941.

The Lyman and Merrie Wood Museum of Springfield History is known for its local history research facilities, its comprehensive program of changing exhibitions, its diverse educational offerings, and it’s wide ranging collections illuminating the history of the Connecticut River Valley. The Indian Motocycle Collection is the largest collection of Indian cycles and memorabilia in the world. The Firearms Collection includes more than 1,600 firearms, with the largest collection of Smith & Wesson guns in the world.

The Lynden Heritage Museum is known internationally for its thoughtful exhibits. It features a life-size replica of Lynden's Historic downtown, a full size farmhouse circa 1900 and more than 60 vintage buggies, cars and tractors that tell the story of getting around in the industrial age.