Rolls-Royce Museum, Automobile museum in Dornbirn, Austria

The Rolls-Royce Museum is an automobile museum in the Gütle area of Dornbirn, Vorarlberg, Austria. Its collection of around 70 cars and over 1,000 objects centres on Rolls-Royce models built between 1925 and 1939, when each vehicle was a one-off. The smaller building at the entrance to the Gütle industrial estate was renovated to convey the style of the 1920s and 1930s, and the cars are displayed without barriers.

Franz Vonier, born in St. Gallenkirch, and his wife Hilde opened a Rolls-Royce repair workshop in Klaus in 1968 and built a collection of cars from 1923 to 1939. Their sons Ferdinand, Johannes and Bernhard helped expand it, and in 1999 the family opened the museum in the Gütle district of Dornbirn, housed over three floors of a spinning mill built in 1862 and shut down in 1992. After Franz Vonier died in May 2017, two exhibitions briefly ran in the Gütle; the smaller one closed and its exhibits went to the Flieger- und Fahrzeugmuseum Altenrhein. The Rolls-Royce Automobilmuseum closed in October 2024 for economic reasons.

Many of the cars on display once belonged to kings, heads of state, or film stars, showing how closely this brand was tied to power and public status. Walking through the gallery, visitors can read the story of each era through details like interior trim, paint choices, and personal customizations.

The museum is in Dornbirn's Gütle district, at the foot of the Karren, near the entrance to the Rappenlochschlucht gorge. The smaller building stands as the first house at the entrance to the Gütle industrial area. The cars are displayed without barriers, so they can be viewed and photographed up close.

One of the most talked-about pieces in the collection is a 1927 Phantom I that appeared in the film Lawrence of Arabia, driven on screen by Peter O'Toole. This car connects automobile history directly to one of the most celebrated films of the 20th century.