National Motor Museum | Birdwood
Located in the Adelaide Hills, the National Motor Museum in Birdwood tells Australia’s social history through motoring.
The National Motor Museum collection spans from early vehicles like the 1896 Shearer Steam Engine to modern innovations, highlighting the stories, engineering and journeys that connected communities across the country. Popular exhibitions include Holden Heroes, The Chamberlain 8, Game Engine – Digital Legends and Alice Anderson’s Motor Service. The museum is also close to many of South Australia’s top food, wine and tourism experiences.
Discover how motor vehicles have opened up our country, linking some of the most isolated communities in the world. From the stately to the absurd, from the hand-built to the mass-produced, see the vehicles people loved and loathed, thrashed and pampered, in the pursuit of their motoring dreams.
As an international centre for the collection, research, preservation, education and display of Australian road transport history, the National Motor Museum in Birdwood is much more than a collection of vehicles. It is a social history of the way we were, the way we are now and the way of the future.
The Museum’s contemporary exhibition halls explore the stories of people and vehicles that have shaped Australia’s motoring history.
The National Motor Museum is open daily 10am – 5pm (Closed Christmas Day and days of catastrophic fire danger.).
For more information, admission prices and all enquiries please visit the National Motor Museum website.
What: National Motor Museum
When: Open Daily 10am – 5pm
Where: Shannon St, Birdwood
Who: Everyone
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