Malta Classic Car Museum

Museum

Museum · St. Paul's Bay, Malta 35.9553°N 14.4206°E

Why you should go

Ninety seconds on Malta Classic Car Museum

Time needed

2 to 3 hoursVisitors' estimate

Best time

Any weatherHot or rainy afternoons

Access

Short walkFrom Bugibba bus terminus

Guide

Not neededArrowed route through the halls

The collection

What is in the Malta Classic Car Museum?

Sports cars and other restored classics, plus motorcycles, scooters and one motorboat. Rooms of period memorabilia surround them, and the museum calls the whole display a living and growing collection.

Opening hours

What are the Malta Classic Car Museum opening hours?

The museum opens seven days a week. As of November 2026, its own website lists 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday, and 9am to 2pm on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays, so a weekend visit has to finish by early afternoon.

Tickets

Does the Malta Classic Car Museum charge for entry?

Yes, entry is ticketed. As of November 2026, the museum's own website lists an adult ticket and a lower rate for children, and its homepage carries a link for buying tickets ahead of a visit.

By bus

How do you get to the Malta Classic Car Museum by bus?

Take a bus to Bugibba bus terminus. The museum is a few minutes' walk from the terminus, on Tourists Street in Qawra, St Paul's Bay, close to Bugibba.

With children

Is the Malta Classic Car Museum good for kids?

Yes, for school-age children: the colourful cars, motorcycles and scooters give families plenty to see together, and the simulator and cinema break up the route.

Classic car ride

Can visitors take a classic car ride from the Malta Classic Car Museum?

Yes. The museum runs a Classic Car Ride Experience, driven by its own drivers, with a choice of six cars. It is booked through the museum's website.

Restored sports cars fill an underground museum in Qawra, beside motorcycles and scooters. You need no knowledge of engines to enjoy the shapes and colours of these cars.

What makes it special

The Malta Classic Car Museum is a private collection of restored classic cars, many of them sports cars, along with motorcycles, scooters and a motorboat. The cars have been restored to pristine condition, as if just off the production line.

The period on show runs through the 1950s, the 1960s and the early 1970s. Marques include the Jaguar E-Type, the Mercedes 190SL, Alfa Romeo and Lotus, so British, Italian and German cars sit side by side.

Many cars stand beside life-size figures in period settings that recall the golden age of motoring. Gramophones, old television sets, jukeboxes and period fashions from the 1940s to the 1960s fill in the years around them.

Visiting

The street door on Tourists Street in Qawra is small and gives little away. Inside, the cars start almost at once, in the basement below it.

Painted arrows on the floor mark a set route through about 3,000 square metres of lit, clean space. The route is self-guided, so you set the pace and stop where you like.

Along the way it passes a workshop window, a small cinema and a racing simulator. It ends in the period memorabilia rooms.

Tips

Take time over the information beside the cars. The museum displays dates, variants and production runs, and for some models a short account of how they joined the collection.

If only one of you follows cars, the stops along the route break the visit up for the other.