Coventry Transport Museum
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| Location | Coventry, England |
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| Coordinates | 52°24′39″N 1°30′33″W / 52.4108°N 1.5092°W |
| Type | Transport museum |
| Director | Gary Hall |
| Curator | Steve Bagley |
| Public transit access | Coventry railway station (London Euston to Birmingham line) 15 minutes walk or most buses serving the city centre stop near the museum. |
| Website | www |
Coventry Transport Museum (formerly known as the Museum of British Road Transport) is a motor museum, located in Coventry city centre, England. It houses a collection of British-made road transport. It is located in Coventry because the city was previously the centre of the British car industry. There are more than 240 cars and commercial vehicles, 100 motorcycles, 200 bicycles.
Admission to the museum is free. It has a full-time archive department, which deals with an array of historical items, and offers a public enquiry service answering questions and finding items and information.
In March 2014 it was announced that a £8.5 million redevelopment would begin on 31 March 2014 and include the restoration of the nearby Old Grammar School to be used as an exhibit, education and event space.
Notable exhibits in the museum are Thrust2 and ThrustSSC, the British jet cars which broke the land speed record in 1983 and 1997, respectively, and some of the Royal cars - Queen Mary's and King George V's State limousines.
Many "conventional" cars are in the collection, including an Austin Allegro, an Austin Metro previously owned by Lady Diana Spencer, a Ford Escort MK2, Hillman Imp, Triumph Acclaim, Talbot Sunbeam, Talbot Horizon, Peugeot 206, Peugeot 405 and a DeLorean DMC-12 car made famous by the Back to the Future films. A Humber staff car used by General Montgomery during the Second World War is also on display.
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