List of transport museums - Definition and Overview

This is a list of transport museums throughout the world. Old transportation systems don't disappear, they often become the park and recreational facilities of future generations. Parts of many dismantled trolley systems in the United States for instance, have become trolley museums.

Australia

• Archer Park Railway Station, Rockhampton, Queensland - [1] (http://steamtram.rockhampton.qld.gov.au/)
• Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney, New South Wales - [2] (http://www.anmm.gov.au)
• Ballarat Tramway Museum, 2 hours west of Melbourne, Victoria - [3] (http://www.btm.org.au)
• Bendigo Tram Museum, two hours north of Melbourne, Victoria - [4] (http://www.bendigotramways.com)
• Brisbane Tramway Museum, Ferny Grove, Brisbane, Queensland - [5] (http://www.brisbanelivingheritage.com/02_locations/tramway_museum/02_a_tramway.htm)
• Glenreagh Mountain Railway, Glenreagh, near Coffs Harbour, New South Wales - [6] (http://www.gmr.org.au)
• National Holden Motor Museum, Echuca, Victoria,
• Qantas Founders Outback Museum, Longreach, Queensland - [7] (http://www.qfom.com.au)
• Sydney Tramway Museum, Loftus, Sydney, New South Wales - [8] (http://www.sydneytramwaymuseum.com.au)
• Tasmanian Transport Museum, Glenorchy, Hobart, Tasmania - [9] (http://www.railtasmania.com/ttms/)
• Tramway Museum Society of Victoria, Bylands, Victoria - [10] (http://www.tmsv.org.au)
• Western Australian Maritime Museum, Fremantle, Western Australia - [11] (http://www.mm.wa.gov.au)
• Western Australia's Heritage Tramway, Whiteman Park, Western Australia - [12] (http://www.pets.org.au)

Austria

• TMB's Innsbruck Tramway Museum, Innsbruck - [13] (http://www.tmb.at)

Bermuda

• Railway Museum and Curiosity Shop, Hamilton

Canada

• Alberta Railway Museum, Edmonton, Alberta - [14] (http://railwaymuseum.ab.ca/home.html)
• Canadian Railway Museum, Saint-Constant, Québec - [15] (http://www.exporail.org/musee/musee_crm.htm)
• Halton County Radial Railway, Milton, Ontario - [16] (http://www.hcry.org)
• Marine Museum of the Great Lakes, Kingston, Ontario - [17] (http://www.marmus.ca)
• Muskoka Marine Museum, Huntsville, Ontario - [18] (http://www.mmm.vianet.ca/)

Denmark

• Danish Railway Museum, Odense - [19] (http://www.jernbanemuseum.dk/GB/index_gb.html)

Estonia

• Estonian Railway Museum, Haapsalu - [20] (http://jaam.ee/eng/)

Finland

• Finnish Railway Museum, Hyvinkää - [21] (http://www.rautatie.org/en/default.asp)

Hong Kong

• Hong Kong Railway Museum, Taipo, New Territories - [22] (http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/Museum/Monument/en/monuments_29.php),[23] (http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/specials/floral/en/otherview.html)

Japan

• Museum of Railway, Saitama, Saitama - [24] (http://www.kouhaku.or.jp/english/index.html)
• Modern Transportation Museum, Osaka, Osaka - [25] (http://www.mtm.or.jp/eng/index.html)

Latvia

• Latvian Railway History Museum, Riga - [26] (http://www.railwaymuseum.lv/riga_eng.htm)

Lithuania

• Lithuanian Railway Museum, Vilnius - [27] (http://www.railwaymuseum.lv/riga_eng.htm)

New Zealand

• Southward Car Museum, Kapiti Coast

Norway

• Gamle Vossebanen Railway Museum, Bergen
• Trondheim Tramway Museum, Trondheim
• Krøderbanen Railway Museum, Krøderen - [28] (http://www.kroderbanen.museum.no/)
• Norwegian Railway Museum, Hamar - [29] (http://www.norsk-jernbanemuseum.no/)
• Setesdalsbanen Railway Museum, Vennesla - [30] (http://www.setesdalsbanen.no/)
• Oslo Transport Museum, Oslo - [31] (http://www.sporveismuseet.no/)

Portugal

• Museu Nacional Ferroviário, Entrocamento - [32] (http://museu.cp.pt/)

Russia

• Oktyabrskaya Railway Museum, Saint Petersburg - [33] (http://eng.gov.spb.ru/culture/museums/railway)

Serbia

• Muzej Vazduhoplovstva
• Zeleznicki Muzej

Switzerland

• Swiss Transport Museum, Lucerne

United Kingdom

• National Tramway Museum or Crich Tramway Village, near Matlock, Derbyshire - [34] (http://www.tramway.co.uk/)
• National Railway Museum, York - [35] (http://www.nrm.org.uk/html/home_pb/menu.asp)
• National Motor Museum
• London Canal Museum, [36] (http://www.canalmuseum.org.uk/)
• National Waterways Museum, Gloucester - [37] (http://www.nwm.org.uk/)
• Museum of Transport, Glasgow
• London's Transport Museum
• Imperial War Museum, Duxford, near Cambridge (airplane museum, civilian as well as military)

United States

• Air Zoo, Portage, Michigan
• Automotive Hall of Fame, Dearborn, Michigan
• Arizona Street Railway Museum, Phoenix, Arizona - [38] (http://www.phoenixtrolley.com/)
• Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum, Auburn, Indiana
• Brooklyn Trolley Museum, Brooklyn - [39] (http://www.brooklynrail.com/)
• California State Railroad Museum, Sacramento, California (located in Old Sacramento)
• Connecticut Trolley Museum, East Windsor, Connecticut - [40] (http://www.ct-trolley.org/)
• Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, Durango, Colorado
• East Troy Electric Railroad Museum, Wisconsin
• Flying Heritage Collection, Arlington, Washington - [41] (http://www.flyingheritage.com/)
• Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan
• Forney Transportation Museum, Denver, Colorado - website (http://www.forneymuseum.com)
• Illinois Railway Museum, Union, Illinois - [42] (http://www.irm.org/)
• Indiana Railway Museum, French Lick, Indiana - [43] (http://www.indianarailwaymuseum.org/)
• Kentucky Railway Museum, New Haven, Kentucky - [44] (http://www.kyrail.org/)
• Midland Railway, Baldwin City, Kansas - [45] (http://www.midland-ry.org)
• Minnesota Transportation Museum, Saint Paul, Minnesota - [46] (http://www.mtmuseum.org)
• National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC - [47] (http://www.nasm.si.edu/)
• National Capital Trolley Museum, Montgomery County, Maryland - [48] (http://www.dctrolley.org)
• National Railroad Museum, Green Bay, Wisconsin - [49] (http://www.nationalrrmuseum.org/)
• Northwest Railway Museum, Snoqualmie, Washington - [50] (http://www.trainmuseum.org/)
• R.E. Olds Transportation Museum, Lansing, Michigan
• Seashore Trolley Museum, Kennebunkport, Maine
• Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum, Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts - [51] (http://www.sftm.org/)
• Shore Line Trolley Museum, East Haven, Connecticut - [52] (http://www.bera.org/)
• Tennessee Central Railway Museum, Nashville, Tennessee - [53] (http://www.tcry.org/)
• Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum, Chattanooga, Tennessee - [54] (http://www.tvrail.com/)
• Volo Auto Museum, Volo, Illinois - [55] (http://www.volocars.com/)
• Walter P. Chrysler Museum, Auburn Hills, Michigan
• Yankee Air Museum, Belleville, Michigan

See also

• List of British railway museums
• List of heritage railways
• List of museum ships