Motala Motor Museum, Motor museum in Motala harbour, Sweden

Motala Motor Museum occupies a 2,000 m² exhibition hall in Motala harbour, filled with cars, motorcycles, mopeds, machines, radios and televisions. The displays focus on the 1950s and 1960s and include built-up environments. Around 250 vehicles and some 300 radios are shown, and a photo museum is housed in the same building.

The museum opened in 1995 and preserves a complete auto repair shop from the 1920s and 1930s that shows how vehicle work was done in that era. The shop demonstrates the tools, methods, and technical knowledge that mechanics used long ago.

The museum's name comes from Motala, the harbour town on Lake Vättern where it stands. Its founder, Jan-Ove Boll, built the exhibits around his own private collection, and the displays concentrate on the 1950s and 1960s, with reconstructed settings that recreate everyday life of those decades. A photo museum is housed in the same building.

The museum spreads across two floors and has facilities designed for visitors with disabilities to move around comfortably. There is an on-site restaurant where you can have breakfast and lunch during your visit.

Among the vehicles are Kar de Mumma's Rolls-Royce, Karl Gerhard's Daimler, King Carl XVI Gustaf's Puch Florida moped and Verner von Heidenstam's Chrysler Imperial. There is also a prototype of the Swedish Koenigsegg sports car and vehicles and trophies belonging to racing driver Reine Wisell, a Motala native.