The Southward Car Museum is an automobile museum, housing a collection of over 250 vehicles, as well as three aircrafts. The museum is run by a charitable trust, incorporated in 1972. The museum is located on Otaihanga Road, Otaihanga, just north of Paraparaumu on the Kapiti Coast of New Zealand's North Island. It is approximately an hour's drive from downtown Wellington and is situated between the North Island Main Trunk Railway to the west and State Highway 1 to the east.