Para quien quiera ir preparando sus vacaciones, aquí recogemos una serie de propuestas para visitar museos y lugares de interés "industrial", principalmente en Gran Bretaña.
Hemos enlazado a la fuente original para que aquellos interesados en hacerlo, puedan mantenerse al corriente de sus actualizaciones.
En todo caso, los más relevates los iremos recogiendo también en nuestra sección de mapas
Fuente original actualizada en IA. Recordings
Abbey Pumping Station, Leicester Amberley Museum (Amberley Chalk Pits Museum) Arbetets museum (Museum of Work), Sweden Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. Inc. Danzey Green Windmill, etc.. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum - Birth place of american railroading(!) reputed to have the Stourbridge Lion Beamish Open Air Museum- Official Site Bergwerksmuseum Grube Samson, Sankt Andreasberg, Harz (German): Includes underground reversing waterwheel & man engine Big Pit Museum Birmingham & Midland Museum of Transport, Wythall Birmingham City Council: Soho House Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery: Soho House, Jewellery Quarter, Science Museum Black Country Museum ~ Blackgang Sawmill & St. Catherine's Quay, Ventor, Isle of Wight Brierfield Ironworks Historical State Park, Brierfield, Alabama British Engineerium Cambridge Museum of Technology- preserved Victorian Pumping Station and Working Museum Chatterley Whitfield Mining Museum - Friends web site Clearwell Caves - Ancient iron mines + Combe Mill Society, Blenheim Palace Sawmill Coors Visitor Centre & Museum of Brewing (formerly The Bass Museum), Burton-on-Trent Cruquius beam engine, Holland (Enthusiasts website - excellent 3d animations of worlds largest steam pumping engine) Cruquius beam engine, Holland (Official Musuem website) + De Havilland Heritage Museum (Mosquito Aircraft Museum) De Havilland Heritage Museum (Mosquito Aircraft Museum) - Unofficial guide ~ Derby Industrial Museum Deustches Museum, Munich - (Science & technology- including textiles) Deutsches Bergbau-Museum, Bochum (now also in English) Dock Road Edwardian Pumping Station- Unique Grade 2 listed restored gas fired engines & pumps Dolaucothi Gold mines museum Drake Well Museum, Titusville, Pennsylvania, USA - 1st modern oil well Dunaskin Open Air Museum, Scotland (formerly Dalmellington Iron Works) [Sadly Closed] Durham Mining Museum ~ Earby Museum in Jorbons Souterrain pages ~ East Carlton Countryside Park (includes East Carlton Steel heritage Centre) Ecomuseum and Archives of the Boom Brickworks, Holland Ehrenfriedersdorf Mining Museum, Germany, with virtual tour & Mineral Museum Elsecar - follow the History, Heritage Centre link for brief info on the Newcomen Engine. Florence Ironstone Mine- The last underground iron ore mine in the UK Folldal Mines, Norway (Copper mining museum) Forge Mill Needle Museum, Redditch, Worcestershire. Water powered needle scouring & polishing mill. Foxton Canal Museum Gower Mill and Heritage Centre, South Wales - one of the oldest welsh "Toll" mills. Great Orme Ancient Copper Mines museum Guerra-Gregorj Kiln, Italy Haig Colliery Mining Museum, Cumbria - preserving a pair of magnificent steam winders + Heights of Abraham mine museum + Helmshore Mills Textile Museum, Rosendale, Lancashire Henry Ford Museum Ironbridge Gorge Museum Kennet & Avon Canal Museum Kew Bridge Steam Museum, London ~ Killhope Lead Mining Centre L’Argentière - France (Mining heritage site) Lancaster Quilt & Textile Museum, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA Langton Matravers Museum & Local History Society (formerly the Coachouse Museum, Purbeck stone industry) Le Roi Gold Mine, Rossland Museum , B.C., Canada Lewarde Historical Mining Centre, Northern France Lion Salt Works Trust, Northwich, Cheshire LKAB -worlds largest underground iron ore mine & musuem, Kiruna, Northern Sweden London Canal Museum London Transport Museum Manchester Museum of Science & Industry Medway Industrial Archaeology Group (MIAG), Chatham, Kent - Brook Pumping Station Merseyside Maritime Museum + Middleton Top Engine and Leawood Pump Group Mildenberg brickworks museum, Germany. Also has old steam engines & railways. (Website in German.) Milestones- Hampshire's Living History Museum (transport, technology etc.) + Mineral Museums of Finland Mineral Tramways Discovery Centre- covers the tramways and mines around Redruth, Cornwall ~ Morwellham - Quay, Museum and Visitor centre Municipality of Fundão - Portugal (Minining Heritage sites) Museum of English Rural Life, Reading Museum of Flight + Museum of Industrial Archaeology & Textile (MIAT), Ghent, Belgium Museum of Lead Mining, Wanlockhead, Scotland ~ Museum of Scottish lead mining in Jorbons Souterrain pages Museum of the Chemical Industry, Liverpool National Coal Mining Museum for England at Caphouse Colliery, Wakefield National Media Museum (formerly the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television) National Railway Museum York Netherlands Textile Museum (Nederlands Textielmuseum), Tilburg, Netherlands + New Lanark, cotton mill village and World Heritage Site Norfolk Windmills Trust North Pennines Heritage Trust - Nenthead mines and much more Poldark Mine and Museum, Wendron, Cornwall Potteries Museum & Art Gallery (plus Gladstone Pottery & Etruria Industrial Museums) Powerhouse Museum, Sydney- has a working 1784 Boulton & Watt engine + Prestongrange Industrial Museum (has a cornish beam engine - only one left in Scotland) ~ Prestongrange Industrial Museum in Jorbons Souterrain pages Prickwillow Drainage Engine Museum, Ely, Cambridgeshire + Queen Street Mill Textile Museum, Harle Syke, Burnley, Lancashire RAF Museums - Cosford Aerospace & Hendon Rammelsberger Bergbaumuseum, Goslar, Germany (UNESCO Site) Risca Industrial History Museum in S.Wales Rüdersdorf: Limekilns and limestone quarrying; industrial monuments in a parkland setting. Ryhope Engines Museum near Sunderland Salt Museum, Germany Salt Museum, Northwich Science Museum, London Scopriminiera (Ecomuseo delle Miniere) - Italy Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network - some material on New Lanark. ~ Scottish Mining Museum in Jorbons Souterrain pages Scottish Mining Museum, Lady Victoria Colliery Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust - Kelham Island, Shepherd Wheel & Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet Show caves of the world - covers caves, mines and any underground sites open to the public - well worth browsing. Sir Richard Arkwright's, Masson Mills, Derbyshire, Working Textile Museum Somerset Brick & Tile Museum, East Quay, Bridgwater, Somerset Spotswood Pumping Station, Melbourne, Australia Steam Museum, Ireland - in impressive buildings & grounds near Dublin Sygun Copper Mine, Beddgelert, North Wales Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. Iron & steel musuem, grist mill etc.. ~ Tar Tunnel, Coalport in Jorbons Souterrain pages + Tees Cottage Pumping Station, Darlington Tetley's Brewery Wharf Museum (and conference centre) + Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, Ontario Textile Museum, Washington D.C., USA The 24 hour Museum - details of UK Museums, Galleries and Heritage sites The Wandle Industrial Museum - established in 1983 to preserve the industrial history of the Wandle Valley and its heritage. ThinkTank, the Birmingham Museum of Science & Discovery - trivial dumbed-down website Threlkeld Quarry and Mining Museum Timeworks - History of Sheffield & Abbeydale Industrial hamlet + Tom Leonard Mining Museum (Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum) Tytyri Mining Museum, Finland- a former iron mine UK Museums & Galleries A-Z Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Holywood, Belfast Virtual Libray Museums Page Virtuelles Museum für Industriekultur Walsall Leather Museum + Waterworks Museum - Hereford Weald & Downland Open Air Museum Wheal Martyn China Clay Museum Willenhall Lock Museum (The Locksmiths House) Wolverhampton History and Heritage Society - an excellent website with a virtual museum and detailed information on local IA Wortley Top Forge - An excellent iron forge museum including waterwheel-powered tilt hammers Zloty Stok Gold Mine and Museum - PolandSitios Industriales
Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet, Sheffield Alcester & District Local History Society - useful gazeteers Alderley Edge Copper Mines (Part of Derbyshire Caving Club's site) Alte Völklinger Eisenhütte - Völklinger Ironworks, Germany (UNESCO Site) Arcadia Mill Site, USA- First & largest early American water-powered industrial complex in Florida. Atlas Coal Mine, Canada (run by the A.C.M.Historical Society) Bath Stone Mines around Corsham (Brian Gibbs) + Berwyn Slate Quarry ~ Blackgang Sawmill & St. Catherine's Quay, Ventor, Isle of Wight ? Boughey's Mill- a water-powered corn mill in Staffordshire Burlesdon Brickworks, Hampshire Burton 2000 - The webpage of Burton upon Trent (Brewing etc..) + Colectivo Proyecto Arrayanes (conserving the mining heritage of Linares, Spain) Cumbria- Industrial History Sites Das Ruhrgebiet - industrial pictures of the Ruhr covering the past 50 years Delabole slate quarry, Cornwall Eli Whitney Armory site, USA English China Clay International well-illustrated information on China Clay production Guerra-Gregorj Kiln, Italy Haig Colliery Mining Museum, Cumbria - preserving a pair of magnificent steam winders Industrial Buildings in Tampere City, Finland Kelly Shiny Ore Mine and Kelly Mine Preeservation Society, Devon. Leawood Pump, Cromford, Derbyshire Llechwedd Slate Caverns Lost Labours - Images of our post industrial landscape. Includes Leominster canal & "In search of Agenoria" Lower Kem Mill Bleaching & Printing Works, Clayton-le-Woods, Chorley, Lancashire Meadowfoot Smelter, Wanlockhead, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ~ Middleton Top Engine House, Derbyshire Municipality of Fundão - Portugal (Minining Heritage sites) North Pennines Heritage Trust - Nenthead mines and much more Palmerston North Electric Power Station, New Zealand - a 1924 power station Pilchard Works, Newlyn- Britain's last salt pilchard factory + Politiko Phorades - excavations of a bronze age smetling site, Cyprus + Prestongrange Industrial Museum (has a cornish beam engine - only one left in Scotland) Rhiwbach slate quarry and its tramway Route of Industrial Heritage at the Ruhr, 400km with over 500 places to visit ~ Salts Mill, Bradford (single page) Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust - Kelham Island, Shepherd Wheel & Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet Skerries Mills, Ireland: 2 restored windmills, restored watermill & old bakery building. Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. Iron & steel musuem, grist mill etc.. Threlkeld Quarry and Mining Museum Timeworks - History of Sheffield & Abbeydale Industrial hamlet Urban Exploration, Australia- features derelict & abandoned industrial buildings Walkley Clog Mill, Hebden Bridge- last surviving UK clog makers ? Willlesborough Windmill, Kent- and other windmill information Wortley Top Forge - An excellent iron forge museum including waterwheel-powered tilt hammers- Consultar enlaces de interés sobre "patrimonio industrial y arqueología industrial"
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