World Engineering Museums
World Engineering Museums
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Here are some sites from Portugal. I invite other Forum posters to give links from your own countries.
Cheers
Luis Marques
http://www.esab.ipbeja.pt/museu/news.htm
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http://www.museu-caramulo.net/uk/estrada.shtml
http://www1.fis.uc.pt/museu/indexi.htm
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Chicago, Illinois
“The Museum of Science and Industry's mission is to inspire the inventive genius in everyone by presenting captivating and compelling experiences that are real and educational. -- Science discerns the laws of nature. Industry applies them to the needs of man." http://www.msichicago.org/
Baltimore, Maryland
“The mission of the Baltimore Museum of Industry is to collect, preserve, and interpret the industrial and technological heritage of the Baltimore region for the public, by presenting educational programs and exhibits that explore the stories of Maryland's industries and the people who created and worked in them.” http://www.thebmi.org/
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Discovery World “Where science, discovery, creativity, ingenuity, adventure & technology inspire visitors to turn their dreams into reality.” http://www.discoveryworld.org/
Dearborn, Michigan
The Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village.
“Mission: The Henry Ford provides unique educational experiences based on authentic objects, stories, and lives from America's traditions of ingenuity, resourcefulness and innovation. Our purpose is to inspire people to learn from these traditions to help shape a better future.” http://www.hfmgv.org/
San Jose, California
“The Tech Museum of Innovation engages people of all ages and backgrounds in exploring and experiencing the technologies affecting their lives, and aims to inspire the innovator in everyone.” http://www.thetech.org/
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cragside
Plenty of Victorian engineering, and some rather nice Morris wallpaper.
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planes and trains
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Museum_(London)
A good way to spend a day
Cheers
Greg Locock
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I went to the Science Museum in London when I worked down there. Cragside is an interesting place for an engineer to look around too. Never been to the Manchester one - worth a visit? Manchester isn't high on my list of favourite cities but my wife originally comes from Manchester so if I'm ever forced to go I now have a hidey-hole.
Ever visited Beamish?
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http://www.deutsches-museum.de/en
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Saugus Iron Works: http://www.nps.gov/sair/
Plastics Museum:(Leominster)http://www.plasticsmuseum.org/
Battleship Cove: (Fall River) http://www.battleshipcove.org/
Shipbuilding Museum (Quincy) http://www.uss-salem.org/
MIT Museums:(Cambridge) http://web.mit.edu/museum/
Transportation Museum (Brookline) http://www.mot.org/index_flash.html
American Precision Museum (Windsor VT): http://www.americanprecision.org/
New England Air Museum (outside Hartford CT): http://www.neam.org/
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http://www.tekniskmuseum.dk/
Best egards
Morten
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I liked this one in Delft (Holland) which is much smaller but has an interesting collection of e.g. primitive calculators and computers:
http://www.museum.tudelft.nl/informatie/index.html
(Sorry the site is not very informative and not in English)
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http://www.museum.tudelft.nl/informatie/index.html
again not in English, I don't believe it! see also...
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http://www.arts-et-metiers.net/
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Auto & Technik Muesuem (Sinsheim, DE)
In English
http://www.technik-museum.de/uk/sinsheim/
Oder Deutsch
http://www.museum-sinsheim.de/
Highlights include:
Concorde F-BVFB
Tupolev TU-144
largest permanent formula-1 exhibition in Europe
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Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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I think the first train ever built is there, or will be arriving shortly...
corus
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it is just up from the famous Ironbridge (the worlds first cast-iron bridge built in 1779, and still standing!).
If you have ever heard the phrase "it's like Bedlam in here.." then this also comes from the original blast furnaces that were at the heart of this area and one of the furnaces was called "Bedlam". The working environment in the 1700's was pretty horrific (noisy, hot, smelly...) and thus the term "like Bedlam" was used.
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It may be pushing the definition of Engineering Museum but as it's in my home town I thought I'd put it. It's built on part of the Old Thornycroft site (or just next to it actually) and I believe has a theme based on that.
I thought bedlam came from the bethlem hospital.
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www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/
Here is a quote from the Museum: "The museum has more than 300 aircraft and missiles on display in its galleries. The galleries are set up in chronological order, beginning with the 1909 Wright Flyer through today's stealth
aircraft."
This is next to Wright-Patternson Air Force base. Prepare to spend the day if this is your thing. A great gift shop.
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It would appear that there are two Bedlams (http://www
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For those who come to Portugal between 8 February – 29 April, 2007, I invite you to see “Ingenuity – Photography and Engineering, 1846-2006” in Caloust Gulbenkian Foundation at Lisbon.
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Regards
luis
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So, we are very grateful for the Iron Bridge tips. We will certainly go there! In the meantime, do visit the Granbergsdal site ht
Gunnar Englund
www.gke.org
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{PS. another second for Ironbridge - awesome)
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Since it's now a world herritage site...
There ought to be a museum of copper smelting in Swansea since at one time 75% or more of world copper production came from there.
But there isn't.