Museums in United States

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.

"The NHRA Motorsports Museum, presented by the Automobile Club of Southern California, long a dream of NHRA founder Wally Parks, opened to the public April 4, 1998, after years of planning and months of hard work cataloging and arranging the exhibit. Housed in a 28,500-square-foot building on the edge of the historic Los Angeles County Fairplex, the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum's mission is to celebrate the impact of motorsports on our culture.

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

Founded in 1967, the Oklahoma State Firefighters museum is home to many exhibits of the Oklahoma Fire Service, artifacts from the London Fire Brigade, a dozen restored fire trucks - with the oldest dating from the very early 1900's, and artifacts from the 18th Century through the 20th Century

Toby Shine's collection of about 70 vehicles are featured  in two massive showrooms, with hand-painted with murals added to recreate downtown Spencer, Iowa, from a time when America first sent astronauts to the moon. There are old-fashioned shop windows and signs.