A railway museum is a museum that explores the history of all aspects of rail related transportation, including: locomotives (steam, diesel, and electric), railway cars, trams, and railway signalling equipment. They may also operate historic equipment on museum grounds.
Africa
Egypt Egyptian Railway Museum (Cairo)
Kenya Nairobi Railway Museum in Nairobi
Nigeria NRC/Legacy Railway Museum in Lagos
Senegal Musée Régional de Thiès in Thiès (Showroom to the Dakar–Niger Railway line)
Sierra Leone Sierra Leone National Railway Museum in Freetown
South Africa Outeniqua Transport Museum in George, Western Cape. South African National Railway And Steam Museum
Sudan Sudan Railways Museum in Atbarah
Uganda Uganda Railway Museum in Jinja
Zambia Railway Museum in Livingstone
Zimbabwe Bulawayo Railway Museum in Bulawayo.
Asia Armenia Armenian Railways Museum, Yerevan
Azerbaijan Azerbaijan Railway Museum, Baku
China
Chan T'ien-yu Memorial Hall, Badaling, Beijing China Railway Museum, Beijing Da'anbei Railway Station, Da'an, Jilin Province Hong Kong Railway Museum Qingdao-Jinan Railway Museum, Jinan, Shandong Province Shanghai Railway Museum, Shanghai Shenyang Railway Museum, Shenyang, Liaoning Province Wuhan Metro Museum, Wuhan, Hubei Province Yunnan Railway Museum, Kunming, Yunnan Province
India
Coochbehar Railway Museum. Coochbehar, West Bengal Ghum Railway Museum, Ghum, West Bengal Heritage Rail Museum, Bhusawal Rewari Railway Heritage Museum, Rewari, Haryana Joshi's Museum of Miniature Railway, Pune, Maharashtra Kanpur Sangrahalaya, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh Gorakhpur Rail Museum, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, Rail Museum, Howrah, Kolkata, West Bengal Mysore Rail Museum, Mysore, Karnataka Railway Museum, Hubli Junction railway station, Hubballi, Karnataka National Rail Museum, New Delhi
Patel Chowk Metro Museum, Patel Chowk metro station, New Delhi Smaranika Tram Museum, Esplanade, West Bengal Railway Heritage Centre, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu Regional Railway Museum, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Indonesia
Indonesian Railway Museum of Ambarawa, Central Java Bondowoso Rail and Train Museum, Bondowoso Regency, East Java Museum of Transport of Taman Mini Indonesia Indah, Jakarta Sawahlunto Rail and Train Museum, Sawahlunto, West Sumatra
Israel Turkish Railway Station, Beersheba (South) Historic Railway Station, Afula (North) Israel Railway Museum, Haifa (National and North) Jaffa Railway Station, Tel Aviv (Center) Kfar Yehoshua Railway Station (North)
Japan
Katakami Heritage Railway, in Misaki, Okayama Keio Rail-Land, in Hino, Tokyo Kyoto Railway Museum, in Shimogyō-ku, Kyoto Kyushu Railway History Museum, in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Ome Railway Park, in Ome, Tokyo Otaru City General Museum, in Otaru, Hokkaido Railway Museum in Saitama, Saitama Romance Car Museum in Ebina, Kanagawa SCMaglev and Railway Park in Nagoya Shikoku Railway Cultural Center, in Saijō, Ehime Subway Museum, in Edogawa, Tokyo Tobu Museum, in Sumida, Tokyo Tsuyama Railroad Educational Museum, in Tsuyama, Okayama Train and Bus Museum, in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Usui Pass Railway Heritage Park, in Annaka, Gunma Yamanashi Prefectural Maglev Exhibition Center, Tsuru, Yamanashi Yokohama Tram Museum, in Yokohama, Kanagawa
Closed museums Modern Transportation Museum next to Bentencho Station, Minato-ku, Osaka (closed 2014) Sakuma Rail Park, in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka (closed 2009)
Jordan Hedjaz Jordan Railway Museum, Amman
Malaysia Gemas Railway Museum, Negeri Sembilan KTMB Museum, Johor Kuala Lumpur Railway Station North Borneo Railway, Sabah
Mongolia Mongolian Railway History Museum
North Korea Pyongyang Railway Museum
Pakistan Pakistan Railways Heritage Museum
Saudi Arabia Hejaz Railway Museum
Singapore Singapore Railways Museum Rail Corridor Bukit Timah Railway Station Tanjung Pagar Railway Station
South Korea
Korea Railroad Museum Sumjingang Railroad Village in Gokseung County
Sri Lanka National railway museum, Kadugannawa
Taiwan Changhua Roundhouse in Changhua Hamasen Museum of Taiwan Railway in Kaohsiung Miaoli Railway Museum in Miaoli National Railway Museum in Taipei (by reservation or events, major opening in 2024) Taiwan High Speed Rail Museum in Zhongli, Taoyuan Takao Railway Museum in Kaohsiung Railway Department Park Branch, National Taiwan Museum in Taipei
Thailand Railway Outdoor Museum, Bangkok Thailand-Burma Railway Centre, Kanchanaburi Train Cemetery, Bangkok
Turkey
Atatürk's Residence and Railway Museum, Ankara Çamlık Railway Museum, Selçuk, İzmir Province Istanbul Railway Museum, Istanbul İzmir Railway Museum, İzmir Rahmi M. Koç Museum, Istanbul TCDD Open Air Steam Locomotive Museum, Ankara
Uzbekistan Railway Museum
Vietnam Heritage Railway, Da Lat Railway Station
Europe
Austria
Austrian Railway Museum at Vienna Railway and Mining Museum Ampflwang in Upper Austria Railway Museum Sigmundsherberg in Lower Austria Southern Railway Museum in Mürzzuschlag Strasshof Railway Museum in Lower Austria
Belarus Baranovichy Railway Museum Brest Railway Museum
Belgium Chemin de Fer à vapeur des Trois Vallées Dendermonde–Puurs Steam Railway Patrimoine Ferroviaire et Tourisme Stoomcentrum Maldegem Train World
Bulgaria National Transport Museum, Bulgaria
Czech Republic
České dráhy Museum in Lužná National Technical Museum in Prague Railway Museum KHKD in Kněževes Railway Museum Jaroměř in Jaroměř (Železniční muzeum výtopna Jaroměř) Muzeum ozubnicové dráhy in Kořenov
Croatia Croatian Railway Museum, Zagreb, Croatia Coal loading facility and locomotive roundhouse in Karlovac, Croatia Locomotive roundhouse Rijeka, Croatia
Denmark
Bornholm Narrow Gauge Railway Museum Danish Railway Museum Djursland Railway Museum Skjoldenæsholm Tram Museum Struer Railway Museum
Estonia
Estonian Railway Museum
Finland
Finnish Railway Museum Jokioinen Museum Railway Savo Railway Museum
France Cité du Train Musée des tramways à vapeur et des chemins de fer secondaires français
Germany
Augsburg Railway Park, Augsburg, Bavaria Bahnbetriebswerk Hermeskeil, Hermeskeil, Rhineland-Palatinate Bavarian Localbahn Society, Bayerisch Eisenstein, Bavaria Bavarian Railway Museum, Nördlingen, Bavaria Bochum Dahlhausen Railway Museum, Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia Dampfbahn Fränkische Schweiz, Ebermannstadt, Bavaria Darmstadt-Kranichstein Railway Museum, Darmstadt-Kranichstein, Hesse DB Museum, Nuremberg, Bavaria DBK Historic Railway, Crailsheim, Baden-Württemberg Deutscher Eisenbahn-Verein, Bruchhausen-Vilsen, Lower Saxony Deutsches Museum, Munich, Bavaria Dieringhausen Railway Museum, Dieringhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia Dresden Transport Museum, Dresden, Saxony Eisenbahnfreunde Zollernbahn, Rottweil, Baden-Württemberg Franconian Museum Railway, Nuremberg, Bavaria Frankfurt City Junction Line, Frankfurt, Hesse Freilassing Locomotive World, Freilassing, Bavaria German Museum of Technology (Berlin) German Steam Locomotive Museum, Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg, Bavaria Hannoversches Straßenbahn-Museum, Hanover, Lower Saxony Historic Railway, Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Hesse Mellrichstadt-Fladungen railway, Fladungen, Bavaria Munich Steam Locomotive Company, Munich, Bavaria Neustadt/Weinstraße Railway Museum, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Rhineland-Palatinate Nuremberg Transport Museum, Nuremberg, Bavaria Railway Vehicle Preservation Society, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg Rügen Railway & Technology Museum, Prora, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Saxon Railway Museum, Chemnitz, Saxony Selfkantbahn, Gangelt, North Rhine-Westphalia Sinsheim Auto & Technik Museum, Sinsheim, Baden-Württemberg South German Railway Museum, Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg Stuttgart Straßenbahn Museum Zuffenhausen, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg Technik Museum Speyer, Speyer, Rhineland Palatinate Traditionsbetriebswerk Staßfurt, Stassfurt, Saxony-Anhalt Ulmer Eisenbahnfreunde, Ulm, Baden-Württemberg
Greece Railway Museum of Athens Railway Museum of Thessaloniki
Hungary
Hungarian Railway Museum Millennium Underground Museum, Budapest Széchenyi Railway Museum Transport Museum of Budapest
Ireland Castlerea Railway Museum Cavan and Leitrim Railway Donegal Railway Heritage Centre Railway Preservation Society of Ireland
Italy
Costituendo Musero Ferroviario di Primolano, Primolano, Vicenza Museo delle Industrie e del Lavoro del Saronnese, Saronno, Varese Museo Europeo dei Trasporti Ogliari, Ranco, Varese Museo Ferroviario di Trieste Campo Marzio, Trieste Museo Ferroviario Piemontese, Savigliano, Turin Museo Nazionale dei Trasporti, La Spezia Museo Nazionale Ferroviario di Pietrarsa, Naples Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, Milan
Latvia Latvian Railway History Museum
Lithuania
Railway Museum, Vilnius and Šiauliai *Home | Geležinkelių muziejus (ltgmuziejus.lt) Aukštaitija Narrow Gauge Railway, Panevėžys and Anykščia *Aukštaitijos siaurasis geležinkelis - Siaurukas
Luxembourg Train 1900
Netherlands Noord-Nederlands Trein & Tram Museum het Spoorwegmuseum Stoom Stichting Nederland Stoomtrein Goes - Borsele Museumstoomtram Hoorn-Medemblik Stoomtrein Valkenburgse Meer Veluwsche Stoomtrein Maatschappij Zuid-Limburgse Stoomtrein Maatschappij Stichting Stadskanaal Rail Museum Buurtspoorweg
Norway Norwegian Railway Museum, Hamar Oslo Tramway Museum, Oslo Trondheim Tramway Museum
Poland Sochaczew Narrow Gauge Railway Museum Wenecja Narrow Gauge Railway Museum Railway Museum in Chabówka village, near Rabka, Nowy Targ County Kościerzyna Railway Museum, Pomeranian Voivodeship Roundhouse Skierniewice in Skierniewice Silesian Railway Museum (Muzeum Kolejnictwa na Śląsku), Lower Silesian Voivodeship Warsaw Railway Museum (Muzeum Kolejnictwa w Warszawie), Masovian Voivodeship Wolsztyn Steam Locomotive Roundhouse, the only depot in Europe with everyday scheduled passenger trains driven by steam locomotives
Portugal National Railway Museum Foundation, Entroncamento
Museum Branches of FMNF Arco de Baúlhe Bragança Chaves Lousado Macinhata do Vouga Nine Santarém Valença
Disused or Closed Museums Braga Estremoz Lagos
Museological Warehouses Barreiro Estremoz Livração Pampilhosa Peso da Régua Pocinho Sernada do Vouga Tua
Romania Reșița Steam Locomotive Museum Sibiu Steam Locomotives Museum
Russia Museum for Railway Technology Novosibirsk at Seyatel station Museum of the Moscow Railway (Paveletskaya station), Moscow Rizhsky Rail Terminal, Moscow Russian Railway Museum, Saint Petersburg Railway museum at Nizhny Novgorod Railway museum at Pereslavl-Zalessky (narrow gauge) Railway museum at Rostov-on-Don Railway museum at Yekaterinburg
Serbia Narrow Gauge Museum in Pozega Railway Museum in Belgrade
Slovenia Slovenian Railway Museum Museum of Southern Railway in Šentjur, Slovenia Museum park Breda in Ilirska Bistrica, Slovenia
Spain
Basque Railway Museum Gijón Railway Museum (Museo del Ferrocarill de Asturias) Railway Centre and Museum in Móra la Nova (Centre d'Interpretació del Ferrocarril de Móra la Nova) Railway Museum in Ponferrada (Museo del Ferrocarril) Railway Museum in Madrid (Museo del Ferrocarril) Railway Museum in Monforte de Lemos (Museo del Ferrocarril de Galicia) Railway Museum in Vilanova (Museu del Ferrocarril de Vilanova)(Vilanova Railway Museum) Railway Museum in Son Carrió, Mallorca - Museo del Ferrocarril de Mallorca, since Nov. 2025
Sweden Åmål-Årjäng Railway Society, Åmål Anten-Gräfsnäs Narrow-Gauge Steam Railway, Lake Anten Dalara and Western Farmlands Railway, Åmål Eastern Götland Railway Museum, Linköping Eastern Southernlands Railway, Mariefred Gothenburg Nostalgia Tram, Gothenburg Gotland Railway Association, Dalhem Grängesberg Regional Railway Museum, Grängesberg Hagfors Railway Museum, Hagfors Järdaås Pine Forest Railway, Jädraås Kristiantown Regional Museum, Kristianstad Landeryd's Railway Museum, Landeryd Nässjö Railway Museum (in Swedish), Nässjö