50 Most reviewed Rail museums in the world

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Mundo a Vapor

Theme park

Quirky spot for steam power exhibits, with mini replicas of trains, riverboats & other machines.

4.60 (29.1K reviews)

National Railway Museum York

Rail museum

Railway history & artefacts, with 300 vehicles including steam world record holder, the Mallard.

4.70 (25.5K reviews)

National Rail Museum

Rail museum

Indian railway museum featuring historical exhibits & artefacts, including a 1855 steam locomotive.

4.40 (23.5K reviews)

Railway Museum

Rail museum

Museum of railway history in grand former station, with carriages & locomotives, library & archives.

4.50 (15.5K reviews)

Kyoto Railway Museum

Rail museum

Contemporary space with exhibits on the railway & an array of locomotives & trains on display.

4.50 (15.2K reviews)

The Railway Museum

Rail museum

Modern, interactive museum focusing on the history of railway development in Japan & abroad.

4.40 (14.5K reviews)

Museum Kereta Api Ambarawa

Rail museum

Old locomotives are on display at this informative rail museum in a station dating back to 1873.

4.60 (14K reviews)

Spoorwegmuseum

Rail museum

Interactive museum set in a restored 19th-century station, tracing the history of rail travel.

4.50 (12.9K reviews)

MYSURU RAILWAY MUSEUM

Rail museum

Museum with old train cars & exhibits on the history of India's rail system, plus a mini train ride.

4.40 (11.2K reviews)

London Transport Museum

Museum

World's leading museum of urban transport with galleries of vintage London trams, trains & buses.

4.50 (10.1K reviews)

Hungarian Railway Museum

Rail museum

Guests can drive a steam engine, ride a rail car or operate a hand car at this railway museum.

4.70 (10.1K reviews)

Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum

Rail museum

Attraction tells the history of regional rail travel with a collection of locomotives & railcars.

4.80 (9.2K reviews)

Luís Carlos Train Station

Rail museum

👍👍 Lovely place! At weekends it is the favorite spot of bikers and motorcycle riders, since the road to the station is very pleasant. You may want to take a spin in a historically important train known as "Velha Senhora", the Old Lady, and feel what it was like to travel via railroads back in the 20's....

4.70 (9K reviews)

Museo Nazionale Ferroviario di Pietrarsa

Rail museum

Spacious museum dedicated to the charming retired stock of the Italian national railway networks.

4.70 (8.9K reviews)

SCMaglev and Railway Park

Rail museum

This museum displays 35+ railway vehicles, including steam locomotives & bullet-train cars.

4.40 (8.9K reviews)

Cincinnati Museum Center

Museum

Children explore arts, books, culture & science through interactive exhibits & educational programs.

4.60 (7.1K reviews)

Rail Museum

Rail museum

Vintage locomotives & displays on the history of regional railways, plus mini-train rides for kids.

4.10 (6.7K reviews)

Chennai Rail Museum

Rail museum

Indoor/outdoor museum with displays of vintage engines & coaches, plus miniature train rides.

4.40 (6.2K reviews)

Garibaldi Railway Station

Rail museum

4.70 (6.1K reviews)

Cité du Train

Rail museum

Modern museum on the history of trains & railways, with rolling stock & audiovisual exhibitions.

4.60 (5.8K reviews)

Train World

Rail museum

Museum in Schaarbeek station featuring 20+ locomotives & exhibits on Belgian railroad history.

4.60 (5.5K reviews)

Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad

Museum

Restored steam train that offers scenic, seasonal rides & ends at a museum displaying machinery.

4.70 (5.5K reviews)

Conway Scenic Railroad

Tourist attraction

Nostalgic 19th-century train station offering rides on restored locomotives with dining cars.

4.30 (5.1K reviews)

Království Železnic

Rail museum

Family-friendly model railway museum, with extensive, interactive & digitally-operated exhibits.

4.50 (5.1K reviews)

Crich Tramway Village

Rail museum

Restored period village with historic facades and the National Tram Museum's collection of vehicles.

4.70 (5K reviews)

Yamanashi Prefectural Maglev Exhibition Center

Rail museum

👍 Ideally a visit here will include a ride on the Maglev train. However, if that is not possible and you don't speak Japanese than an hour will be more than enough to see the museum. There are exhibits explaining the science behind magnetic levitation, but there is no English. The rest of the exhib...

4.20 (5K reviews)

San Francisco Cable Car Museum

Rail museum

👍👍 A must for anyone who is a fan of history or just wanting to get the full SF experience. It was neat taking the cable car, thinking of all the different people over the decades that had been sitting there just as you were. The museum was free, and you can stroll around for as little or long as you...

4.70 (5K reviews)

New York Transit Museum

Museum

Housed in a 1936 subway station, this museum features interactive exhibits like vintage trains.

$$ $$

4.60 (4.8K reviews)

National Taiwan Museum Railway Department Park

Rail museum

👍👍 Recommend to pop by when the sky is blue, if you live nearby, and if you’d like to be away from the usual museum bustle. Amazing historical architecture for those who loves old buildings and of course trains.

4.60 (4.5K reviews)

Isle of Wight Steam Railway - (Havenstreet,Station)

Heritage railroad

Outfit preserving railway history via exhibits, train stations & rides on steam-powered locomotives.

4.70 (4.2K reviews)

Museu Ferroviário

Rail museum

4.60 (4.2K reviews)

California State Railroad Museum

Rail museum

Colorful museum documenting railroad history via vintage locomotives, exhibits & rides.

4.80 (4.1K reviews)

Rudy narrow-gauge railway

Rail museum

👍 The Historic Narrow-Gauge Railway Station is a good place for families with little children. You can have a short journey in an old-fashioned train fueled by coal/steam, try VR googles or just learn something about rail history in Poland. I don’t recommend it for teenagers, it isn’t interesting enou...

4.70 (4.1K reviews)

Rio Tinto Mining Park

Tourist attraction

👍 Website offers very little information other than ticket availability and price. Visit instructions and protocol not very clear even once on site. However, the train ride, the mine visit and the museum are very interesting and the staff are friendly and helpful

4.50 (4.1K reviews)

The Postal Museum

Museum

👍👍 My recent visit was during the 151 years of the British Postcard Exhibition. A very nice, but small museum housing various collections of Postal History from uniforms and vehicles to Britain's famous curbside Postboxes. Interactive activities for children and a small cinema/theatre showing postal a...

4.60 (4.1K reviews)

Warsaw Railway Museum

Rail museum

Railway museum opened in 1931, with steam locomotives, military trains, exhibits & film screenings.

4.60 (4.1K reviews)

Kyushu Railway History Museum

Rail museum

Rail museum featuring steam engines, sleeping carriages & an early electric train designed in 1942.

4.30 (4.1K reviews)

N.C. Transportation Museum

History museum

Engines, antique autos, a roundhouse & other displays at a 57-acre site with seasonal train rides.

4.70 (3.7K reviews)

Emílio Ribas Station

Tourist attraction

Landmark station offering a small history museum & short train rides through the bush & mountains.

4.50 (3.5K reviews)

Skansen Taboru Kolejowego w Chabówce

History museum

Locomotives, passenger carriages & steam-train rides in an outdoor museum at a former railway depot.

4.60 (3.5K reviews)

Hűvösvölgy, Children's Railway

Railway services

This was not my first trip on the railway but I returned after many years. Our son is now one of the children on the line and we decided to take a trip to see him in action. At the first station we were greated by a couple of the children using very polite English. We bought a family ticket so we co...

4.80 (3.4K reviews)

Railway Museum in Kościerzyna

Rail museum

👍👍 We took the kids here for a day out - the eldest is a fan of trains (he's 3) - and we were all in our element. The trains were great to look at and, in some instances, get into. The information boards were detailed and interesting - in Polish and in English - and the miniature train ride, though s...

4.60 (3.2K reviews)