Canadian Automotive Museum, Automotive museum in Oshawa, Canada

The Canadian Automotive Museum occupies a 25,000 sq ft building in downtown Oshawa that served as the Ontario Motor Sales dealership in the 1920s. Its two floors divide the collection by origin: foreign cars on the ground floor and a "Made in Canada" exhibit upstairs. The building keeps its period architecture, including the original elevator that carried cars to the second floor.

The museum was founded in 1962 by a group of Oshawa businessmen through the Oshawa Chamber of Commerce, and Canadian Automotive Museum, Inc. has operated as a charitable corporation since 1963. It is housed in a 25,000 sq ft building in downtown Oshawa that was originally the location of Ontario Motor Sales, a local car dealership, in the 1920s.

The upper floor is devoted to a "Made in Canada" exhibit, while the ground floor holds foreign cars. The museum's ties to Oshawa run through the Oshawa Museum, the Parkwood Estate of Samuel McLaughlin, and the Ontario Regiment's tank museum. Each September it takes part in the Cobble Beach Concours d'Elegance at Cobble Beach Golf Links in Kemble, on Georgian Bay.

The museum occupies a 25,000 sq ft building in downtown Oshawa, with foreign cars on the ground floor and the "Made in Canada" exhibit upstairs. The original elevator that carried cars to the second floor is still in place. Each September the museum takes part in the Cobble Beach Concours d'Elegance & Motoring Festival at Cobble Beach Golf Links in Kemble, on the Bruce Peninsula.

The building preserves its original automobile elevator that once moved vehicles between floors when the space was an active dealership. This working remnant offers visitors a glimpse into how car sales spaces were designed and operated in earlier decades.