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Greenfield Village in Detroit has an excellent museum, featuring mainly transportation, but including all sorts of "modern" inventions from throughout the 20th century.
 
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“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."
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.”
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Discovery World “Where science, discovery, creativity, ingenuity, adventure & technology inspire visitors to turn their dreams into reality.”
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.”
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.”
 
A fascinating way to spend an afternoon in Newcastle while the girls are in the shops!



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Thanks Greg

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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"Wicked Cool" Engineering Museums Around Massachusetts & New England: (good for scout trips!)

Saugus Iron Works:
Plastics Museum:(Leominster)
Battleship Cove: (Fall River)
Shipbuilding Museum (Quincy)
MIT Museums:(Cambridge)
Transportation Museum (Brookline)
American Precision Museum (Windsor VT):
New England Air Museum (outside Hartford CT):
 
The technical museum in Helsigør is OK - especially its collection of aeroplanes. It lacks a little in infortainment - but the heart is in the right place:


Best egards

Morten
 
I guess the London science museum is one of the greatest engineering museums in the world.

I liked this one in Delft (Holland) which is much smaller but has an interesting collection of e.g. primitive calculators and computers:
(Sorry the site is not very informative and not in English)
 
The Newcastle site doesn't do justice to "Turbinia", which has been covered on PBS, and which I'd love to see someday.



Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
 
Seeing Turbinia up close for real is amazing. It looks fast standing still - it is hard to imagine what it must have been like at the Fleet Review when it raced down the massed lines of the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet. Our navy seems to have lost it's way since those days, or rather the politicians in charge have. If you're ever in the North of England it is highly recommended - I'll even get the beers in!


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A few miles down the River Severn from me is the Blist Hill Museum in Shropshire. It is a re-creation of an old Victorian town that includes a working blast furnace, wrought iron factory, foundry etc:
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.
 
I'll second sed2developer's recommendation for Ironbridge. I spent a day and a half there with the kids last summer, and could very easily have stayed as long again without either they or my getting bored with it.

A.
 
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