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An idea from the car clubs
The museum was conceived in 1983 by the Combined Car Clubs Association of Western Australia, led by Maurice Brockwell, with Walter Hunter as project architect. It opened to the public in Whiteman Park on 21 December 1994 and was formally opened by Richard Lewis MLA on 2 April 1995.


A trust and its volunteers
The museum became a trust in 1998 and an incorporated company in 2015. It is a not-for-profit, largely self-funded through admissions, donations and sponsorship, and more than 70 volunteers help run it.
Ricciardo Hall and the collection
In 2017 Ricciardo Hall, a 2,000-square-metre extension, gave the collection more room. The museum now holds more than 200 vehicles, over 15,000 scale model cars and over 2,000 hubcaps, with a reference library of almost 30,000 publications and 20,000 historic images.



