martes, enero 06, 2009

Museos y Sitios Industriales

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 - Poland


Sitios 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






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