Summer Special: great car museums to visit

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What better way to celebrate a return to near-normality this summer than to visit a great car museum? Here’s our pick of the best...
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2022-08-28T07:04:00Z
Here’s our guide to the greatest car collections in the world, Consider this a collection of automotive bucket-list locations that you have to visit, one day. And who knows – we reckon it will be a great thing to do now things are slowly getting back to normal. And after a horrendous period, they...
British Motor Museum (UK), Based in Gaydon in Warwickshire and rebranded as the British Motor Museum in 2016, this 300-strong collection of cars is run by the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust.
British Motor Museum, The collection charts the history of Britain’s car industry and includes a vast array of unique vehicles including many firsts and lasts, prototypes and concepts. In this line for example are the world’s oldest surviving MG, Land Rover and Mini.
British Motor Museum, Britain has produced some incredible sporting machines over the decades and the displays reflect this with single-seaters rubbing shoulders with rally cars, the latter including a pair of ex-Monte Carlo Minis along with a Metro 6R4.
Beaulieu (UK), Founded by Lord Montagu in 1952, The National Motor Museum in Hampshire started out with a five-strong collection of cars; in the intervening years it’s grown to over 250. It’s a family-friendly destination with loads going on to keep everyone amused all year round. More at...
Beaulieu, Among the exhibits are several land speed record holders including Donald Campbell’s Bluebird-Proteus CN7 (pictured). Designed to break the 500mph barrier, the 4,450bhp car managed just over 440mph in 1964.
Beaulieu, Opened in 1972, the main museum building features a monorail, the inclusion of which was inspired by the light railway that ran through the US Pavilion during the Montreal World Fair in 1967.
Brooklands (UK), Too many car museums are located in anonymous-looking blocks, but not Brooklands, with its series of listed buildings that date back to the dawn of motorsport in the UK. Brooklands opened in 1907 and while much of the original track has now disappeared, sections of it remain.
With its rich motorsport history, unsurprisingly, pretty much everything that’s on display at Brooklands is a racer of one sort or another. One of the most impressive machines is the 1933 24-litre Napier-Railton that averaged 150.6mph over 24 hours in 1936.
You couldn’t really call Brooklands a sterile museum – it’s crammed with automobilia and collectibles too. As well as dozens of cars (many of them with incredible histories), there are also motorbikes and stored outside are loads of historic aircraft too, including a Concorde.
Lakeland (UK), Originally set up as a visitor attraction for nearby Holker Hall, the Lakeland Motor Museum is now located in Backbarrow, in Cumbria. With more than 30,000 exhibits on show including 140 classic cars and motorbikes there’s plenty to see; it’s detailed on its website.
Lakeland, Among the cars are plenty of familiar classics such as a Capri 2.8i, Escort Mexico and Jaguar XK140. If you’re a TVR fan you’ll be able to see the oldest surviving example of the marque (the second car built, dating from 1952) and the only Cerbera Speed 12 ever made. Plus a stack of...
Lakeland, Donald Campbell died on nearby Lake Coniston in 1967, attempting the world water speed record. His Bentley 4 ¼-litre saloon is on show and there’s a complete building dedicated to him and his father, Malcolm. On show are full-sized replicas of the 1935 Blue Bird, 1939 Blue Bird Boat K4...
Haynes (UK), John Haynes - who died in February 2019 - made his fortune from publishing workshop manuals and as his car collection grew he decided it made sense to put everything into one building on public display. The result was the Haynes Motor Museum, opened in 1985. There are now over 400...
Haynes, Cars are grouped by theme. Those in the previous slide were the Memory Lane selection while this is American Dreams. Other collections include Mini & Micros, Great British Marques, the Red Room and the Morris Story.
Haynes, Although road cars are the focus of the collection, there’s also a library, a display of classic motorcycles from around the world and one of the most popular halls is this one dedicated to motorsport.
If you make the pilgrimage to Somerset, where the Haynes Museum is based, don’t forget to have a good gawp at the Supercar Century display with its Porsche 911 2.7 Carrera RS, Jaguar XJ220 and Lamborghini Countach.So that’s the UK – what about the international museums?
Beijing (China), China’s automotive industry isn’t very well documented and as a result it’

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