National Motor Racing Museum — Attraction in Mount Panorama

The National Motor Racing Museum celebrates the history, personalities and achievements of Australian Motor Sports. While Mount Panorama and the Bathurst 1000 is at the heart of our displays, we look across the spectrum of Australian Motor Racing. The history of speedway, solar, drag, Rallying, open wheeler, sports car as well as touring cars is told.

The history of Motorbike racing in particular is given great attention.

The museum regularly takes to the track and has recently participated in events such as the Goodwood Festival of speed, Gold Coast and Sydney V8 Supercar events, Tweed on Speed, Muscle Car Masters and Golden era Auto Racing events

The museum is extremely grateful to the lenders who have kindly lent their cars, bikes, trophies and photographs. Without them the Museum could not operate. Apart from the dozens of private individuals, commercial groups such as The Peter Brock Foundation, Triple Eight Race engineering, Bowden's, ARDC, Suzuki Australia, HONDA MPE, Holden Motor sport, Mazda Racing and Volvo Australia have all contributed.

These loans range from recent Bathurst winning cars to Peter Brocks personal collection of...

The NMRM is located at the entrance to the great Mt Panorama race track. It looks like a small building from the front, but has a treasure trove or racing memories and history inside. Whether it's motorbikes (racing since 1938!) or cars (since 1963), there's something here for you. As someone who has watched the Bathurst 1000 since the early 70s, this was a real trip down memory lane. It also provided a few surprises looking at the winners of the first seven or eight years of car racing. All the major winning vehicles are on display (either replicas or restorations) and it's amazing to think about some of the early winners and they cars they drove. There are also some cars that have participated in the 12hr and 6hr events, as well as many of the major motorcycle races over the years. If you're a speedway fan, there are even some of those on display! Even if you're not a motor racing fan, this will still be of interest just from a local...

While I can appreciate that the museum may be interesting for people who have an affinity for automobiles, for a layperson like myself, I feel that the museum was not very accessible. Especially for the price we paid, I felt that the information on the placards was niche and called for an existing knowledge in cars and racing. I also felt that it was not very interactive. I wish there were some cars that we could touch/get into. I understand this may be difficult for historical exhibits, but for the many newer cars in the museum, this would be a great element to introduce. The one interactive exhibit (the projection room) was lacking any sort of context/information and was just a mashup of drone footage and track footage on loop. Wasn't very meaningful, and frankly, a bit disappointing for what could be a very cool museum...