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post updated 10 January 2026
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We’ve selected what we feel are the key examples of Car Museum Architecture around the world. We aim to include good quality, interesting buildings for vehicles.
We cover completed car-related buildings, new building designs, architectural exhibitions and architecture competitions globally.
Latest Car Museum Building Designs
25 Sep 2018
The new Ferrari Centro Stile, Maranello, Italy
Architects: Design International and Planning
image Courtesy architecture office
Ferrari Centro Stile Building
This new building design was unveiled alongside the launch of two new Ferrari car models produced in strictly limited edition: the Ferrari Monza Sp1 and Sp2.
30 Aug 2016
Iran Historical Car Museum, 20km west of Tehran, Iran
Design: RMJM Arta-Tehran
image Courtesy architectural studio
26 Aug 2016
Grey. Container LP Auto Gallery, Guangdong, southeast China
Architects: C.DD
photograph : OUYANG Yun
Auto Gallery Guangdong
LP Auto Gallery is co-founded by an outstanding young entrepreneur (L) and a professional racing driver (P). The Gallery focuses on redefining the artistic integration of supercars and refitted vehicles.
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Automotive Architecture up to 2013
23 June 2020 + 15 Feb 2013
Porsche Pavilion, Wolfsburg, Germany
Design: Henn Architekten
photograph : HG Esch
Porsche Pavilion in Wolfsburg
For the first time since its opening in 2000, the Autostadt in Wolfsburg received another building structure in the form of the new Porsche Pavilion. The organically shaped building is sitting at the central axis of the theme park and offers 400 m² of space for exhibitions and presentations.
14 Mar 2012
Museo Casa Enzo Ferrari, Modena, Italy
Design: Future Systems
photograph © Studio cento29
Museo Casa Enzo Ferrari
The Enzo Ferrari Museum in Modena was designed by Jan Kaplický at Future Systems.
In 2004 Future Systems won an international competition to design a new museum in Modena, Italy. Dedicated to motor racing legend and entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari (1898 – 1988), the museum comprises exhibition spaces within the early nineteenth century house where the motor racing giant was born and raised, and its adjoining workshop, as well as a separate, newly constructed exhibition building.
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Car Museum Building – Featured Designs
Porsche Museum, Stuttgart, Germany
Date built: 2009
Design: Delugan Meissl
photo © Hertha Hurnaus
Porsche Museum Building
The new Porsche Museum will express the company’s self-confident stance and high standards in architectural terms, while at the same time conveying the firm’s dynamism and vitality. The Porsche Museum was conceived as a gravity-defying, dynamically formed monolithic structure that seems to hover above the folded topography of the ground and the first-floor levels.
Mercedes-Benz Museum, Stuttgart, south west Germany
Date built: 2006
Design: UN Studio Architects
photo : Christian Richters
Mercedes Museum Stuttgart
“The Mercedes-Benz Museum makes everyone forget that they are in a museum. None of the problems that make the traditional museum less and less sustainable occur. The works around you belong to no other culture than your own. They are much closer to you and speak more clearly to you than most of today’s art.”
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Car Museum Architecture
Major Car Building Projects, alphabetical:
BMW Welt building, Munich, southern Germany
Date built: 2007
Design: Coop Himmelb(l)au
image from ketchum
As a building and an institution, the BMW Welt is a significant interface between the Company, the brand, the products, and the surrounding world. This is indeed the only place able to offer an overall, all-round experience of the past, present and future of the Company, the brand, and the wide range of BMW Products.
Daimler Headquarters Building : Architecture Competition Entry, Stuttgart, Germany
Date: 2009-
Architect: 3XN
image from architect
The overall design of the building obviously has connotations to the automobile world. Our main architectural approach has been to translate the concept of roads and speed into the shape of a wheel or the circle around the Mercedes star.
Die Gläserne Manufaktur – Dresden Volkswagen building, southeastern Germany
Design: Henn Architekten
photo : H.G.Esch
With its Gläserne Manufaktur, Volkswagen became the first manufacturer to realise a production concept linking processes of classical industrial automobile production and fine craftsmanship: the result is the VW luxury class limo Phaeton manufactured in handwork.
Ferrari World Abu Dhabi Building, UAE
2009
Design: Benoy
image from architect practice
The park features 20 rides and attractions designed to bring to life the Ferrari story as well as six food and beverage outlets presided over by four Michelin starred chefs. It is the world’s largest indoor theme park and the only attraction of its kind in the Middle East.
National Automobile Museum Turin – renovation + extension, Piedmont, northwest Italy
2011
Design: Cino Zucchi Architetti with RecchiEngineering and Proger
image : Cino Zucchi
The current museum complex, designed by Amedeo Albertini in 1958-60, is comprised of various bodies, the main section of which, a convex 114 meter façade faces onto the Po river and Corso Unità d’Italia. The architectural competition brief stipulated the addition of a new wing on Via Richelmy and the reorganization of pedestrian and vehicular access, keeping in line with the latest developments of museums in Europe.
Porsche Museum Stuttgart, southwest Germany
2009
Design: Delugan Meissl
picture © Delugan Meissl Associated Architects
The new Porsche Museum will express the company’s self-confident stance and high standards in architectural terms, while at the same time conveying the firm’s dynamism and vitality.
More Car Museum Buildings online soon.
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Architectural Designs
Porsche Design Towers Dubai, Dubai, UAE
Design: OMA with Porsche Design Studio
picture from architect
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