Motorcycle Museums of the World
- Allen Vintage Motorcycle Museum is a private museum specializing in classic racing and touring motorcycles. Includes a virtual tour and bike photos.
- The AMA Motorcycle Museum.
- American Historic Racing Motorcycle Association sanctions vintage racing events.
- Antique Motorcycle Club of America has a display in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
- Barber Motorsports Museum has one of the largest collections in the U.S.A.
- Indian Motorcycle Museum; covers this marque and a history of the bike.
- Kansas Motorcycle Museum in Marquette is “home to over 100 vintage and rare motorcycles of all various makes and models.”
- Moto History by Ed Youngblood is an online museum and history of motorcycling.
- National Motorcycle Museum in Anamosa, Iowa.
- Pioneers of American Motorcycle Racing online museum.
- Rocky Mountain Motorcycle Museum in Marquette is “home to over 100 vintage and rare motorcycles of all various makes and models.”
- The Shop Motorcycle Museum has mostly vintage Harleys.
- The Smithsonian National Museum of American History has an interesting (and growing) “America on the Move” transportation collection which includes motorcycles and two-wheeled vehicles; one of them is the earliest American motorcycle, a Smithsonian staff member’s daily commuter dating back to 1913.
- Solvang Motorcycle Museum in California.
- The Wheels Through Time motorcycle museum in North Carolina.
U.K. Motorcycle Museums
- The National Motorcycle Museum of the U.K.
- British Motorcycle Trust; preserving and restoring Britain’s motorcycle heritage.
- London Motorcycle Museum has many different British motorcycles and more.
- Sammy Miller Museum is an Isle of Wight museum, described as “a motorcycle shrine with some priceless exhibits” with photos.
- Sand Speed features historic motorcycle racing in Wales.
- Silver Dragons archives of British Mainland TT racing in the 1940’s to 1950’s.
Canada Motorcycle Museums
- Dreamcycle Motorcycle Museum in BC Canada has a great private collection of over 100 bikes from 1911 onwards with some limited production and rare bikes.
- Canadian Vintage Motorcycle Museum focuses on motorcycles with a Canadian history.
- L’Épopée de la moto in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Canada.
Australia Motorcycle Museums
- The National Motorcycle Museum of Australia.
- Motorcycling Australia Virtual Museum has plenty of nice photos of rare motorcycles, most with detailed descriptions, history and background information.
France Motorcycle Museums
- Le Musée de la Moto d’Entrevaux is in the medieval village of Entrevaux.
- Here is a list of motorcycle museums in France.
Italy Motorcycle Museums
- Ducati Museum in Italy.
- Museo Piaggio (read the webBikeWorld report “A Visit to the Piaggio Museum“).
Online Motorcycle Museums
- The Ducati Museum is available online.
- The Honda Collection Hall features famous restored Honda motorcycles.
- The Virtual Motorcycle Museum is an online museum feature of Motorcycle Online featuring exhibits covering racing, restoration and motorcycle history.
More Motorcycle Museums
The Motorcycle Museum of Vransko, Slovenia: Here’s a note from Janez Grom, the Director:”I have just seen your nice web page on the internet. I must say it is very nicely designed.
I have seen that you have a list of motorcycle museums with links. I kindly invite you to visit the website of our private museum.It holds the biggest collection of racing TOMOS 50cc bikes in the world dating from 1961 to 1982.
We have one of the largest European collections of Puch motorcycles before 1914.Because of our geographic position we have decided to make and present to the public a fusion of eastern and western motorcycle history.Therefore we have in our collection both American, Italian, English, French, German, as well as motorcycles from Poland, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Litva, Estonia, USSR.All these machines are pre-WWII.
Here is a short list of the most important motorcycles that we have:
ROAD MOTORCYCLES
Indian 4 1937
Indian Prince OHV
Indian Scout 1924
H-D JD with sidecar 1929
Ner-a-Car 1924
Ariel 4V
Puch “N” 1912 (two existing)
Puch “D” 1906 (only one existing)
Puch Zweizylinder 1904 (the oldest two cylinder Puch still existing)
Majestic 1931 (7 existing) – the Bugatti of the motorcycles
Frera 1915
Frera two cylinder 1924
Motosacoche 350 1932
Gilera VTGSL
Triumph Bonneville T120 1960
Sokol 1000 1927 (polish copy of the H-D)
PMZ 1935 (Russian copy of the Indian engine installed in a copy of a steel pressed BMW frame)
JAWA 500 OHC
ABC 1919
RACING BIKES
Velocette KTT 1928 (two existing)
MV Agusta 125 OHC 1953 (one of four in original conditions still existing)
Matchless G50
Yamaha TD3 1973
TOMOS D5 (works racer – 4 ever made)
TOMOS D5I
TOMOS D5II
TOMOS D6S (12 made)
TOMOS GP71 (prototype made for Gilberto Parlotti)
TOMOS GP72 (prototype made for Gilberto Parlotti)
TOMOS DM GP (European champion of 1982)
MILITARY MOTORCYCLES
Zundapp KS750
KETTENKRAFTRAD HK-101
H-D WLA
Villiers Wellbike
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From “P.P.” (June 2012): “I was just looking through your “Museums” page and thought I should suggest another: The Glenn Curtiss Aviation Museum in Hammonsport, New York.
While the museum is more aviation oriented than motorcycles, there is a lot to see, including about fifteen antique bikes.
The collection runs from a 1903 Curtiss to a 1936 Indian with sidecar, with a 1924 Ner-A-Car and 1915 Williams Clady rotary engined machine.
The aviation displays are extensive and you can watch the craftsmen at work restoring various projects. Glenn Curtiss was one of the very early motorcycle and aircraft pioneers, competing with the Wright brothers and eventually being forced to collaborate with them in World War One, forming Curtiss-Wright Company.
Hammonsport (Bing Map) is located in the Finger Lakes district of upper New York State, a wonderful place to ride, and not far from the legendary Watkins Glen racetrack. Great roads, lots to see.”
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