Grubby Finger's Museum Guide
Museums
Looking for an Air Museum, Transport Museum or Technical Museum in Australia or around the world?
Here is a list of air museums, military museums, naval museums, transport museums, car museums and other technical museums that I have been fortunate enough to visit. The Australian entries are organised by State, and the international listings are organised by country, so you can find something near where you are, or where you are going.
Click on any of the museum names and you’ll be taken to a page with their contact details, a location map and a summary of what to expect. There is also a link to their official website and contact details when available so you can see what they have to say about themselves too.
If it's a museum I've visited personally, there may also be a linked photo gallery of my own pics. At most of the museums I've visited I have taken copious photographs of the machines on display and I will have created individual Walkaround Galleries of many that are accessible through the Walkarounds section of this website.
Enjoy!
As I do with the local establishments, I take a set of general photos of the overseas museum along with detailed walkarounds of subjects of particular interest to me. These walkarounds are available as separate galleries in the walkarounds section of this site.
Australian Museums
Natinoal
Aviation Historical Society of Australia
Australian Capital Territory
Australian War Memorial Canberra
New South Wales
Australian Aviation Museum, Bankstown, 2014 (CLOSED PERMANENTLY)
Australian National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour, 2004
Australian Motorlife Museum, Wollongong, 2014
Camden Museum of Aviation, Camden, 2014
Chrysties Museum, Tocumwal, 2014
Evans Head Heritage Aviation Museum, Evans Head, 2014
Fighter World Aviation Museum, Williamtown, 2014
Finley & District Historical Museum and Log Cabin, 2014
Historical Aircraft Restoration Society - HARS, 2014
Jervis Bay Maritime Museum, Jervis Bay, 2020
Junee Roundhouse Museum, Junee, 2014
Museum of Fire, Penrith, 2014
Lithgow Small Arms Factory Museum, Lithgow, 2014
National Motor Racing Museum, Mount Panorama, 2014
Powerhouse Museum, Darling Harbour, 2014
QANTAS Heritage Collection, Sydney Airport, 2011
RAAF Wagga Heritage Centre, Wagga Wagga, 2014
RAN Fleet Air Arm Museum, Nowra, 2014
Temora Aviation Museum, Temora, 2014
Tocumwal Historic Aerodrome Museum, Tocumwal, 2014
Northern Territory
Australian Aviation Heritage Centre, Darwin, 2014
Central Australian Aviation Museum, Alice Springs, 1991
Queensland
Archer Park Rail Museum, Rockhamton, 2017
The Australian Army Flying Museum, Oakey
Australian Armour and Artillery Museum, Cairns
The Beaufort Restoration Group, Caboolture
The Beck Museum, Mareeba(CLOSED PERMANENTLY)
Caboolture Warplane Museum, Caboolture
Gold Coast Motor Museum, Upper Coomera, 2024
Gold Coast War Museum, 2022
The Hinkler Memorial Museum, Bundaberg, 2014
Ilfracombe Mile of Machinery Museum - Ilfracombe - 2023
Milne Bay Military Museum, Toowoomba, 2014
QANTAS Founders Museum, Longreach, 2023
Queensland Air Museum, Caloundra
RAAF Amberley Aviation Heritage Centre, Amberley, 2014
RAAF Museum, Townsville, 2014
Winton's Diamantina Heritage Truck and Machinery Museum, Winton, 2023
South Australia
Classic Jets Fighter Museum, Parafield Airport
National Military Vehicle Museum, Edinburgh, 2016
National Motor Museum, Birdwood, 2016
National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide, 2016
Peterborough Motorcycle Museum, Peterborough, 2016
South Australian Aviation Museum, Port Adelaide
Lincoln Nitschke Aviation Collection, Greenock
Woomera Rocket Range Museums, Woomera
Victoria
Airways Museum, Essendon Airport
Ambulance Victoria Museum, Bayswater, 2021
Ansett Museum, Hamilton
Australian Army Museum, Bandiana
Australian Gliding Museum
Australian National Aviation Museum (Moorabbin Air Museum), Moorabbin Airport
B-24 Memorial Restoration Fund, Werribee
Ballarat Aviation Museum, Ballarat
Ballarat Tramways Museum, Ballarat
Bendigo Tramways Museum, Bendigo
Friends of the Anson Museum, Ballarat Airfield
Gippsland Armed Forces Museum, East sale
Lake Boga Flying Boat Museum, Lake Boga
Melbourne Museum, Melbourne
Melbourne Tram Museum, Hawthorn
National Vietnam Veterans Museum, Phillip island
Nhill Aviation Heritage Centre, Nhill
Shepparton Motor Museum
The Old Aeroplane Company, Tyabb
RAAF Museum, Point Cook
RAAC Memorial and Tank Museum, Puckapunyal
TAA Museum, Airport West
Western Australia
Aviation Heritage Museum of WA, Bull Creek
Beverley Aeronautical Museum, Beverley
International Museums (outside Australia)
A list of Air Museums, Transport Museums Technical Museums, and Military Museums I have visited outside Australia
I occasionally get to visit museums overseas from Australia. When I do I try and take as many photos as I can to share here on my website.
Belgium: Atlantic Wall Museum, Oostende, 2015
Belgium: Military Museum, Brussels, 2015
Canada: Canada Air and Space Museum, Ottawa, 2016
Canada: Halifax Citadel Museum, Halifax, 2016
Canada: Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, Halifax, 2016
Canada: Shearwater Aviation Museum, Halifax, 2016
Czech Republic: National Technical Museum, Prague
France: Le Bourget Air & Space Museum, Paris, 2011
France: Lyon-Corbas Aviation Museum, Lyon-Corbas, France, 2022
France: Museum of Agricultural Machinery and Automobiles, Salviac, 2022
Germany: AUDI Museum, Ingolstadt
Germany: Deustches Museum, Munich
Greece: Athens War Museum, Athens
Iceland: Icelandic Aviation Museum, Arkeyri
Iceland: Motorcycle Museum of Iceland, Arkeyri
Malaysia: Malaysian Navy Museum, Malacca, 2019
Malta: Malta Aviation Museum, Attar, 2022
Netherlands: Natinaal Militair Museum, 2015
New Zealand: Classic Flyers Museum, Tauranga 2020
Singapore: Republic of Singapore Air Force Museum
Slovenia: Ljubljana Railway Museum
Slovenia: Slovenian Museum of Technology, 2017
Switzerland: Flieger Flab Museum, Swiss Air Force Museum, Dübendorf, 2015
Switzerland: Pantheon Motor Museum, Basel, 2015
UK: HMS Caroline, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2017
UK: Ulster Aviation Society, Maze Long Kesh, Northern Ireland, 2017
USA: Flying Leatherneck Museum, San Diego
USA: Palm Springs Air Museum, California
USA: San Diego Air and Space Museum, California
USA: San Francisco Maritime Museum, California
USA: USS Intrepid Museum, New York
USA: USS Midway Museum, San Diego
USA: Wings and Rotors Air Museum, Murrieta, California
