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Newport Car Museum, Portsmouth, RI

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Newport Car Museum

A privately owned Rhode Island museum showing more than 100 cars, presented as rolling art from roughly the 1950s onward.

1947 West Main Road, Portsmouth, Rhode Island 02871 · Portsmouth, RI

About Newport Car Museum

The Newport Car Museum is a private collection of over one hundred automobiles on West Main Road in Portsmouth. Its exhibits trace several decades of modern car design and treat the vehicles as artwork. Themed galleries cover Ford and Shelby cars, Corvettes, international cars, Porsches, tail-fin designs, American muscle cars, and Chrysler Mopars, with a rotating Car of the Month feature. Visitors can buy tickets online or at the door, and no reservation is needed.

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