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Bicycle A bicycle, also called a pedal cycle, bike or cycle, is a human-powered or motor-powered assisted, pedal-driven, single-track vehicle, having two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other. A is called a cyclist, or bicyclist. Bic ...
and human powered vehicle museums by country.


Australia

*The Canberra Bicycle Museum – Dickson, Canberra closed in 2010. Much of the collection was purchased by avid collector James Macdonald (dec) of Toowoomba. The collection is now on display at the Highfields Pioneer Village in Highfields QLD.


Austria

*Fahrradmuseum Retz, Retz,
Hollabrunn district Bezirk Hollabrunn is a district of the state of Lower Austria in Austria. Municipalities Towns (''Städte'') are indicated in boldface; market towns (''Marktgemeinden'') in ''italics''; suburbs, hamlets and other subdivisions of a municipality a ...
, Lower Austria


Belgium

* The Wieler Museum Roeselare


Brazil

* The Bicycle Joinville Museum,
Joinville, Santa Catarina Joinville () is the largest city in Santa Catarina, in the Southern Region of Brazil. It is the third largest municipality in the southern region of Brazil, after the much larger state capitals of Curitiba and Porto Alegre. Joinville is also a ...


Canada

*The Bicycle Forest, Waterloo, Ontario * Canada Science and Technology Museum,
Ottawa Ottawa (, ; Canadian French: ) is the capital city of Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River in the southern portion of the province of Ontario. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the core ...
, Ontario * Huron Bicycle Museum,
Kincardine Kincardine may refer to: Places Scotland *Kincardine, Fife, a town on the River Forth, Scotland **Kincardine Bridge, a bridge which spans the Firth of Forth *Kincardineshire, a historic county **Kincardine, Aberdeenshire, now abandoned **Kincardi ...
, Ontario


Denmark

*Danmarks Cykelmuseet


Estonia

*Estonian Bicycle Museum


France

*Musée de la Moto et du Vélo - Collection Maurice Chapleur,
Amnéville Amnéville (; german: Amenweiler, 1940–45: ) is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in northeastern France. The town is an important tourist and thermal spa center in France. Geography Amnéville is located in the Moselle valley, ...
, Lorraine *Musée du Vélo La Belle Echappée, Fresnaye-sur-Chédouet, Sarthe,
Pays de la Loire Pays de la Loire (; ; br, Broioù al Liger) is one of the 18 regions of France, in the west of the mainland. It was created in the 1950s to serve as a zone of influence for its capital, Nantes, one of a handful of "balancing metropolises" (). ...
, a bicycle museum dedicated to competitive cycling and the Tour de France in particular. Bicycles and jerseys of the famous riders, video displays. *Musée du Vélocipède, Cadouin, Dordogne


Germany

*Deutsches Fahrradmuseum Bad Brückenau,
Bad Brückenau Bad Brückenau () is a spa town in Bad Kissingen district in northwestern Bavaria in the Rhön Mountains. Geography Bad Brückenau is in the tree-lined Sinn valley, in the western Rhön Mountains – this river being a tributary of the Main ...
, Bavaria *Fahrradmuseum & Mechanisches Museum,
Plauen Plauen (; Czech language, Czech: ''Plavno'') is, with around 65,000 inhabitants, the fifth-largest city of Saxony, Germany after Leipzig, Dresden, Chemnitz and Zwickau, the second-largest city of the Vogtland after Gera, as well as the larges ...
, Saxony *Fahrradmuseums Hüttenheim,
Willanzheim Willanzheim is a market town in the district of Kitzingen in Bavaria in Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, a ...
, Bavaria *PedalWelt,
Heimbuchenthal Heimbuchenthal is a community in the Aschaffenburg district in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Lower Franconia (''Unterfranken'') in Bavaria, Germany, and the seat of the ''Verwaltungsgemeinschaft'' (Administrative Community) of Mespelbrunn. It is al ...
, Bavaria *Rheinhessischen Fahrradmuseum, Gau-Algesheim, Rhenish Hesse


Japan

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Bicycle Museum Cycle Center A bicycle, also called a pedal cycle, bike or cycle, is a human-powered or motor-powered assisted, pedal-driven, single-track vehicle, having two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other. A is called a cyclist, or bicyclist. Bic ...
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Saikai is a city located in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. As of March 2017, the city has an estimated population of 28,815 and a population density of 4,700 persons per km2. The total area is 242.01 km2. The modern city of Saikai was established on ...
, Osaka * Yagami Bicycle Museum, Nagoya * Yokohama Bicycle Museum, Yokohama


Lithuania

* , Å iauliai


Netherlands

* Velorama (Nationaal Fietsmuseum Velorama),
Nijmegen Nijmegen (;; Spanish and it, Nimega. Nijmeegs: ''Nimwèège'' ) is the largest city in the Dutch province of Gelderland and tenth largest of the Netherlands as a whole, located on the Waal river close to the German border. It is about 6 ...
, Gelderland


Poland

*Muzeum Nietypowych Rowerów,
Gołąb, Puławy County Gołąb is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Puławy, within Puławy County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Puławy and north-west of the regional capital Lublin. As of 2011, the p ...


Portugal

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United Kingdom

*The National Cycle Museum – Llandrindod Wells


United States

* Bicycle Heaven, Pittsburgh, PA *
Bicycle Museum of America The Bicycle Museum of America is a museum in New Bremen, Ohio, USA. The museum is one of the largest private collections of bicycles in the world. History The museum was founded by Jim Dicke II of Crown Equipment Corporation, the internation ...
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New Bremen, Ohio New Bremen () is a village in Auglaize County, Ohio, United States. The population was 2,978 at the 2010 census. It is included in the Wapakoneta, Ohio Micropolitan Statistical Area. The village is adjacent to Minster to the south. The village ...
* Brown Cycles, Grand Junction, Colorado *Golden Oldy Cyclery & Sustainability, Golden, Colorado *Houston Bicycle Museum,
Houston, Texas Houston (; ) is the most populous city in Texas, the most populous city in the Southern United States, the fourth-most populous city in the United States, and the sixth-most populous city in North America, with a population of 2,304,580 in ...
(closed) *Little Congress Bicycle Museums, Cumberland Gap, Tennessee *
Marin Museum of Bicycling The Marin Museum of Bicycling is a bicycle history museum in Fairfax, Marin County, California. It displays bicycles and related items from the 19th century to the present day. The museum grand opening celebration was on June 6, 2015. * * The ...
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Fairfax, California Fairfax is an incorporated town in Marin County, California, United States. Fairfax is located west-northwest of San Rafael, at an elevation of . The population was 7,605 at the 2020 census. History The Coast Miwok Native Americans occupied ...
, includes the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame *The Metz Bicycle Museum,
Freehold, New Jersey Freehold, New Jersey may refer to: * Freehold Borough, New Jersey, the county seat of Monmouth County * Freehold Township, New Jersey Freehold Township is a township in Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The township is both a r ...
(closed) *New England Muscle Bicycle Museum –
Bloomfield, Connecticut Bloomfield is a suburb of Hartford in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. The town's population was 21,535 at the 2020 census. Bloomfield is best known as the headquarters of healthcare services company Cigna. History Originally land ...
(closed) *Old Spokes Home,
Burlington, Vermont Burlington is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Vermont and the seat of Chittenden County. It is located south of the Canada–United States border and south of Montreal. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the population was 44,743. It ...
* Pedaling History Bicycle Museum, Orchard Park (closed) *Three Oaks Bicycle Museum – Three Oaks, Michigan * United States Bicycling Hall of Fame, Davis, California *The Velocipede Museum – Newburgh, New York *Lane Motor Museum Nashville, Tennessee


See also

* Outline of cycling


References

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