Museums in United Kingdom

Transport museum containing more than 50 vehicles, from bicycles to buses.

The Dundee Museum of Transport was opened in April 2014. It is a lively and active local transport museum with a changing collection of cars, public service, and commercial vehicles including memorabilia.

Here you can see a unique project; the creation of a museum of street transport designed to show the development of mechanical transport over the best part of a century. The essence of transport is movement, so we are building a living museum where vehicles of yesteryear can be seen in action, where half-forgotten sounds of the past are brought back to life and where visitors can journey back in time by travelling on a few of the exhibits along the Museum's streets. The museum has a diverse and ever expanding collection of historic and interesting vehicles.

Filching Manor is part of the Campbell Circuit. The collection contains the very rare 1898 Orient Express (one of only two left working in the world), a 1907 Corbin Racer, several Bugatti cars, a fantastic 1904 chain driven Mercedes racing car and many, many more. The Filching Manor collection is also unique because it one of very few motor museums that has most of its collection in working order. The Foulkes Halbard collection is based around the record breaking Campbell family's many achievements.

The Glasgow Vintage Vehicle Trust was formed at the end of 2002. The garage is now well established as a heritage center for buses and commercial vehicles. There are over 100 buses, coaches, commercial vehicles and fire appliances in the collection. Vehicles are usually owned by individuals or small groups and range from hulks rescued from scrap yards and awaiting restoration to fully restored and active examples.

The Grampian Transport Museum is a living museum that probes the past, present and even the future. The museum owns various historically important local vehicles, including the Craigievar Express, a steam powered tricycle built in 1895, the Sentinel Steam Waggon of 1914, the Albion Fire Engine, and the beautifully restored Cruden Bay Tram. Many can be climbed aboard and DVD displays provide further interest and enable you to see many of the vehicles in action. Our exhibitions and vehicles change every season so there are always new things to see!

The Great British Car Journey features more than 150 British cars from the Austin Seven to the latest McLaren.

According to the official blurb: "Using our handheld audiovisual tablet, you’ll be guided round the experience fwhich tells the untold story of a century of the British car industry.

You will meet the key characters who built this great industry, including Herbert Austin and William Morris whose vast Midlands factories produced millions of cars sold all over the world.

Set up by a local classic car association this exhibition features:
• Superb exhibition of motoring – vintage and classic cars, motorcycles, bicycles, books, memorabilia. A truly wonderful collection in the Far North. A ‘hands-on’ experience - sit in the cars, take photos, make memories!
• Heritage Room packed with artefacts giving a taste of bygone life in the Highlands.
• Reading Room full of local interest books and documents – treasure for the family historian!
• Exhibition Room – themed annually.
• Postcards, books and hot beverages for sale.

Hawkins Motor Group is a local dealer with a history going back to the 1930s. The motorcycle museum opened its collection of bikes to the public below Hawkins Peugeot St Stephen in 2002. The Hawkins collection features of over 40 classic British motorcycles, many of them were either supplied new by Hawkins, or part exchanged in over the years and many have been subjected to painstaking restorations. The bikes range from the early 1900’s to the late 1960’s. 

The prestigious Haynes International Motor Museum, at Sparkford in Somerset is the UK's largest exhibition of the greatest cars from around the world. A living and working museum, with over 400 amazing cars and bikes from nostalgic classics of the 50s and 60s, glorious Bentleys and Rolls Royces to exciting super cars of today, like the Jaguar XJ220 and the Ferrari 360.