Museums in United States

We are the museum that moves you! This family-friendly place is a 60-acre site filled with interesting exhibits and special events. Four large exhibit buildings represent the remaining structures of the historic Spencer Shops, once Southern Railroad's largest steam locomotive repair facility on the east coast. The Bob Julian Roundhouse, the largest remaining operational roundhouse in North America, is filled with locomotives and rail cars of the past. The Bumper to Bumper exhibit in the Flue Shop houses vintage and antique vehicles from the early 1900s to the 1960s.

Located in Uptown Charlotte, N.C., the NASCAR Hall of Fame is an interactive, entertainment attraction honoring the history and heritage of NASCAR. The high-tech venue, designed to educate and entertain race fans and non-fans alike, opened May 11, 2010 and includes artifacts, interactive exhibits, and a 278-person state-of-the-art theater.

The National Automobile Museum (The Harrah Collection) has a “Wow!” factor you don’t often find in a museum. You’ll see more than 200 eye-popping cars with authentic street scenes and sounds. The facades bring displays to life; a hardware store here, a movie theatre there which accompany artifacts from each era.

The National Automotive and Truck Museum each year welcomes thousands of visitors from all parts of the world.

National Corvette Museum was established as a not-for-profit foundation with a mission of celebrating the invention of the Corvette and preserving its past, present and future. This 115,000 sq. ft. showcase to America's sports car features over 80 cars displayed in periodic settings including a mid-century barbershop, service station and historic race track! See classics in mint condition, one-of-a-kind prototypes that never went into production and modern-day wonders of engineering and design.

The National Packard Museum opened on July 4, 1999. Our 23,000 square foot complex is located next to the W.D. Packard Music Hall and Packard Park in Warren, Ohio's historic district. The museum houses a rotating display of original and restored Packard automobiles as well as original documents, photographs, artifacts, and interpretive materials that chronicle the illustrious history of the Packard family, the Packard Motor Car Company, and the Packard Electric Company.

The only museum in the world dedicated to the history of sprint car racing, next to one of the country's most historic dirt tracks.

The Nebraska firefighters Museum & Education Center is dedicated to the courageous firefighters of our state – – past, present and future.

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.