Top 40 Greatest Automobile Museums In The World

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• Britain's biggest 457 classic cars collection for sale for £100m - Daily Mail.
• Car collection of the 29th Sultan of Brunei - "The largest private car collection in the world, consisting of approximately 7,000 cars which have an estimated combined value over $5 Billion USD."
• Check out the Petersen Automotive Museum’s fantastic exhibit of sci-fi cars - "The exhibit includes more than 50 vehicles from science fiction’s history."
• Floyd Mayweather’s Car Collection Packs A Massive Punch - "Boxing icon Floyd Mayweather has earned a lot of dough off his time in the ring. He also happens to have exceptional tastes in cars. Combine those factors, and you’re going to come up with a really cool car collection. Here are some of the highlights from Floyd Mayweather’s car collection."
• List of automobile museums - Wikipedia.
• Michael Schumacher’s private F1 collection to go on permanent display - Formula One.
• V&A car exhibition to mark 'most important 20th century object' - "Museum will feature 15 vehicles from the Ford Model T to the Patent-Motorwagen No 3."

Top 40 Greatest Automobile Museums

• AALHOLM AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM - Aalholm Castle, Nysted, Denmark. Contained one of Europe’s largest collections of antique cars. Closed in 2008. The cars were sold at auction August 12, 2012.
• ALFA ROMEO MUSEUM - Arese, Italy.
• AUDI MUSEUM MOBILE - Audi Forum, Ettinger Straße, Ingolstadt, Germany. Combines historic exhibits with modern presentation forms to produce an exciting symbiosis, making the journey through the past an equally informative and interesting experience.
• Auto & Technik MUSEUM SINSHEIM - Germany. The largest permanent Formula One collection in Europe along with Ferrari’s motorcycles, land speed record holders and classic cars. The largest privately-owned museum in Europe. "We have two fully accessible supersonic jets for you, the Concorde and Tupolev TU-144, located on the museum roof. There is something for everyone to discover in the exhibition halls, hundreds of classic cars and motorcycles from all eras, huge steam engines, formula 1 legends, classy sports cars and record-breaking vehicles."
• AUTOSTADT - Stadtbrücke, Wolfsburg, Germany. A visitor attraction adjacent to the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, Germany, with a prime focus on automobiles. It features a museum, feature pavilions for the principal automobile brands in the Volkswagen Group, a customer centre where German customers can pick up new cars, and take a tour through the enormous factory.
• BMW MUSEUM - Am Olympiapark 2, Munich, Germany. "Nine decades of automobile history."
• Brooklands Museum - since 1907. "The Birthplace of British Motorsport and Aviation, Home of Concorde." Weybridge, Surrey, England, U.K.
• California Automobile Museum - Sacramento, California, U.S.A.
• CANADIAN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM - Oshawa, Ontario, Canada.
• CitÉ de l'Automobile - 192, avenue de Colmar, Schlumpf Collection, Mulhouse, Alsace, France. The most prestigious car collection in the world. This is demonstrated by the two Bugatti Royales, including the famous Coupé Napoléon, the 150 Bugatti, Hispano-Suiza, Ferrari, Rolls-Royce, Maserati, Maybach, Mercedes models, etc. 437 cars belonging to 97 different brands.
• EGESKOV CASTLE VETERAN CAR MUSEUM - 5772 Kværndrup, Denmark.
• FERRARI MUSEUM | Museo Galleria Ferrari - Maranello, Italy. The official Ferrari museum.
• FERRARI THEME PARK - Yas Island, Abu Dhabi.
• FERRUCCIO LAMBORGHINI MUSEUM - Dosso (Ferrara), Italy.
• Gilmore Car Museum - "America's Signature Collection." On a 90-acre historic campus midway between Detroit and Chicago is the Gilmore Car Museum, U.S.A.
• HENRY FORD MUSEUM - 20900 Oakwood Blvd., Dearborn, MI, U.S.A. "America's Greatest History Destination."
• HERITAGE MOTOR CENTRE - Gaydon, Warwickshire, U.K. "Best of British Motoring."
• JAY LENO'S GARAGE - Jay Leno's car collection.
• LAMBORGHINI MUSEUM - Sant'Agata Bolognese, Italy.
• LEMAY MUSEUM - Tacoma, WA, U.S.A. "America's Car Museum."
• MARANELLO ROSSO COLLECTION - Falciano, Italy. Ferrari museum.
• MASERATI MUSEUM - Cittanova, Modena, Italy.
• MAZDA MUSEUM - Hiroshima, Japan.
• MERCEDES-BENZ MUSEUM - Mercedesstrasse 100, Stuttgart, Germany.
• Monaco Top Cars Collection - (or the Exhibition of HSH The Prince of Monaco's Vintage Car Collection). Automobile museum. Approximately 100 vehicules are on show in a 4000 sq m area: De Dion Bouton 1903, Renault 12cv 4 cylindres Torpedo 1911, Panhard Levassor 1913, Ford T 1924, Peugeot Quadrilette 1921, Lincoln 1928, Citroën Kégresse, Ford A 1930, Hispano Suiza 1928, Delage 1934, Packard 1935, Cadillac 1653, Chrysler Imperial 1956, and some of the most prestigious models from Maserati, Jaguar, Mercedes and Rolls Royce. Les Terrasses de Fontvieille, MC 98000 Monaco.
• Museo Galleria Ferrari | FERRARI MUSEUM - Maranello, Italy. The official Ferrari museum.
• MUSEO JUAN MANUEL FANGIO - Balcarce, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• MUSEO NICOLIS - Villafranca di Verona, Italy.
• MUSEO DELL'AUTOMOBILE BONFANTI - VIMAR - Romano d'Ezzelino, Italy.
• Museum of Historical Maybach Vehicles - Holzgartenstraße 8, 92318 Neumarkt, Germany.
• National Automobile Museum | MUSEO DELL'AUTOMOBILE - Torino. Italy's car museum. The collection has almost 200 cars among eighty automobile brands representing eight countries (Italy, France, Great Britain, Germany, Holland, Spain, United States of America, Poland).
• National Corvette Museum - since 1994. 350 Corvette Drive, Bowling Green, Kentucky, U.S.A. Since 1953 the Corvette has been America's Sports Car. The National Corvette Museum was established as a 501(c)3 not-for-profit foundation with a mission of celebrating the invention of the Corvette; preserving its past, present and future; and educating the public about Corvette. Corvette enthusiasts from all over the world kindly and lovingly refer to the NCM as their home ... Their Mecca.
• National Motor Museum - founded in 1952. Beaulieu, Hampshire, England, U.K.
• panini motor museum - Modena, Italy. Showcasing one of the finest Maserati cars collection.
• PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM - since 1994. 6060 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A. "The Petersen Automotive Museum is America's premier automotive museum."
• PEUGEOT MUSEUM of Adventure - Carrefour de l’Europe, Sochaux, France. "It's more than a museum, it's an adventure."
• PININFARINA COLLECTION - Cambiano, Torino, Italy.
• PORSCHE MUSEUM - Porscheplatz 1, Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen, Germany.
• RIGA MOTORMUSEUM - S. Eizensteina Street 6, Riga LV-1079, Latvia.
• SAAB CAR MUSEUM - Åkerssjövägen 10, Trollhättan, Sweden.
• SAABMUSEUM.COM - "Online since June 2000, Saabmuseum.com is the most comprehensive history of the Saab marque that is currently available, in one place, on the internet."
• STRØJER COLLECTION - Assens, Denmark. Unique collection of 70+ famous racing, Le Mans, Grand Prix & royal cars and historic automobiles, such as Rolls-Royce & Bugatti.
• Southward Car Museum - Otaihanga,just north of Paraparaumu on the Kapiti Coast of New Zealand's North Island. Automobile museum housing a collection of over 250 vehicles, as well as three aircraft. The museum's collection includes Marlene Dietrich's Cadillac cabriolet, a 1915 Stutz Indianapolis race car, gull-winged Mercedes-Benz, a 1950 Cadillac "gangster special" that belonged to gangster Mickey Cohen, and an 1895 Benz Velo, imported to New Zealand in 1900.
• The Auto Collections - "The World's Largest & Finest Classic Car Showroom." At The Quad Resort & Casino, 3535 Las Vegas Blvd South, Las Vegas, NV 89109, U.S.A.
• THE GALLERY BRUMMEN - Brummen, The Netherlands. A unique collection of 250 classics and sports cars.
• THE MULLIN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM - Oxnard, CA, U.S.A. "Celebrating The Art Deco Movement."
• The Nethercutt Collection - 15151 Bledsoe St., Sylmar, CA 91342, U.S.A. Over 250 American and European automobiles dating from 1898 to 1997.