Our Collection

Our Library

The object of the AMHF is to advance culture, including by recording and cataloguing the heritage and history of the use of the motor for transportation and mobility (the Heritage) and collecting, preserving and exhibiting items of significance to the Heritage for the benefit of the community.

Put another way, to “detect, collect, select and protect” our heritage materials and items of motoring in Australia – by gathering in the scattered collections, organising the records and the making it all accessible for research, for displays and education, for informed discussion and the better pursuit of leisure and good human relationships in the clubs, in academia, in schools and universities, and in the big sporting arenas like Sydney Motorsport Park.

In order to achieve those objects, the AMHF has established a substantial library of more than 4,700 books, thousands of ‘primary resource items’ including promotional releases, brochures, race programs and results, contemporary media reviews, photographs, film, oral history, as well as about 14,000 magazines.

Our Collection Committee is responsible for and overseas the collection, together with some hard-working and enthusiastic volunteer curators.

Archive Database

The Archive Database is a list of the items and property held in the AMHF Collection. Ultimately, the searchable database will include digital copies of items donated to, and acquired by, the AMHF.

Available to researchers is the archive’s extensive collection of items that are of interest to those researching Australia’s motoring history. Our collection includes books, bookets and magazines, and other archival material.