Museums in Austria

On the 4500 m² of Ferdinand Porsche Erlebniswelten fahr(T)raum in Mattsee, a world of technology stands right there at your fingertips. Automobiles from past eras invite you to set out on a historical journey of discovery through the life of inventor Ferdinand Porsche. The former shoe factory housing the exhibition lies only 15 km outside of the Town of Salzburg and provides the perfect setting for this collection of historic automobiles. The grandson of tinker and inventor Ferdinand Porsche, Ernst Piëch, presents fully functional vehicles to visitors.

As its name suggests, this museum mostly features tractors and agricultural machines, but a few old cars and motorcycles are also being shown.

A steak restaurant with an adjacent classic car museum, this is what the Fehr family offers to the visitors in Wiener Neustadt. 50-70 vehicles are shown on two floors plus the occasional temporary exhibits.

Local fire museum with a few fire engines from the 1940s and 1950s.

Local fire museum with five fire engines

A fire museum by the local association of firefighters who look after the old fire engines. It displays old fire trucks

Hartwig Kamarad's private collection of over 50 trial motorcycles and memorabilia.

In Blumenthal, Lower Austria, there is the private museum of Friedrich Gepp featuring cars, motorcycles and automobilia. The oldest exhibits are a Puch bicycle, which was manufactured between 1914 and 1920, and a Tatra T12 delivery van from 1926. But on an area of 2000 sqm it is possible to find all kinds of vehicles, scooters, motorcycles, cars and even tractors! There are also pinball machines, jukeboxes etc.

The name of the museum came from Gepp's line of work: "I was a policeman and I was regularly asked for my name. To be sure, I spelled my name using the radio alphabet."

The Hausberger family deals with classic cars - mostly Mercedes-Benz. Additional their private collection of Mercedes-Benz cars, ranging from 1930s to the 1970s is shown in this private museum.

"Immerse yourself in the world of traffic from yesteryear! Pictures from old films come back to life: dream of a romantic excursion for two in the Isetta ("Knutschkugel"), of the first bus excursion in a VW "Sambabus", rediscover Grandpa's first car. Find out which simple devices the fire brigade deployed decades ago, set a railway signal yourself - and play to your heart's content with our model railroad layout! Marvel at Fürst Khevenhüller's flying machine from 1913, which is powered solely by muscle power - an absolutely unique piece of aviation history - and dream of the good old tram.