Streetlife Museum collections

Streetlife Museum collections

Journey through 200 years of transport history with our immersive, interactive collections. Discover personal and public transport of the past, from Boneshaker bicycles to vintage buses. And even take a stroll down a 1940s high street.

Find out more about our unique collections below. Then hop aboard in person!

Horse-drawn carriages

Horse-drawn carriages
A vintage bicycle

Bicycles
A vintage car

Vintage cars
An old wooden tram in a museum

Trams
A Chemist shop in a museum

Chemist Shop

Featured objects

A blue and white vintage bus.

AEC Regal Mark III Bus

  

Handwritten notes in a notebook

Annie Winter’s Notebook

  

A photo of a vintage car on a white background

Gardner-Serpollet Steam Car
A three wheel blue car

Thundersley Invacar
A wooden wheelbarrow made to look like a rhinoceros.

Rhino Wheelbarrow

Search our collections

We’re developing a new Collections database, but in the meantime you can still search on our old site.

Search our collections

What’s on at Streetlife Museum

As well as our permanent collections, we have an exciting programme of exhibitions and events throughout the year.

Explore What’s on at Streetlife Museum
A woman restoring art

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