Industrial heritage Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/industrial-heritage/ Mechanically-minded travel Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:15:47 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 The London Museum – Docklands https://mechtraveller.com/2026/04/the-london-museum-docklands/ https://mechtraveller.com/2026/04/the-london-museum-docklands/#respond Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:33:33 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=12973 The London Museum Docklands is a ‘must-see’ museum that tells the history of the River Thames and the growth of London’s huge port system from the first Roman settlements to the modern-day regeneration of the Canary Wharf area. It is housed, appropriately, right at the heart of docklands in the ‘No. 1 Warehouse’ at West […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2026/04/the-london-museum-docklands/feed/ 0 200 Years of Railway Heritage celebrated at the Vienna Museum of Science and Technology https://mechtraveller.com/2025/12/200-years-of-railway-heritage-celebrated-at-the-vienna-museum-of-science-and-technology/ https://mechtraveller.com/2025/12/200-years-of-railway-heritage-celebrated-at-the-vienna-museum-of-science-and-technology/#respond Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:21:20 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=12541 The Museum of Science and Technology in Vienna (Technisches Museum Wien) is, like us in the UK, celebrating 200 years of technical and social advances brought about by the railway. Their temporary exhibition Under the Spell of the Railway – 200 Years of Rail Transport, opened in October and uses impressive models, historical objects, and […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2025/12/200-years-of-railway-heritage-celebrated-at-the-vienna-museum-of-science-and-technology/feed/ 0 The Chimney Lift at Battersea Power Station https://mechtraveller.com/2025/12/the-chimney-lift-at-battersea-power-station/ https://mechtraveller.com/2025/12/the-chimney-lift-at-battersea-power-station/#respond Wed, 03 Dec 2025 17:40:48 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=12510 The Chimney Lift at London’s Battersea Power Station (BPS) has reopened with a new interactive experience area designed to engage and inform visitors about the huge and historic former electricity generating plant. What is the Chimney Lift? It’s a glass enclosed lift that rises up through one of the power station’s four iconic chimneys and […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2025/12/the-chimney-lift-at-battersea-power-station/feed/ 0 London Canal Museum https://mechtraveller.com/2025/05/london-canal-museum/ https://mechtraveller.com/2025/05/london-canal-museum/#respond Wed, 28 May 2025 17:17:15 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=11726 The London Canal Museum (LCM) is housed in an historic canal warehouse, just north of King’s Cross. It has displays and artefacts on two floors, telling the story of canals, and London’s canals in particular, from their construction, the goods and industries that relied on them for transport, the lock keepers, boatmen and their families […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2025/05/london-canal-museum/feed/ 0 Industrial Heritage on the Union Canal, and how to explore it https://mechtraveller.com/2024/12/industrial-heritage-on-the-union-canal-and-how-to-explore-it/ https://mechtraveller.com/2024/12/industrial-heritage-on-the-union-canal-and-how-to-explore-it/#respond Sat, 07 Dec 2024 14:24:31 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=11120 The truth is, all of Britain’s canals are ‘industrial heritage’ in their own right, but they all have some unique pieces of engineering & architecture that stand out. The Union Canal, running between Falkirk and Edinburgh, is no exception. I took a narrowboat on a short trip along half of it to see its key […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2024/12/industrial-heritage-on-the-union-canal-and-how-to-explore-it/feed/ 0 A new home for part of the Science Museum Group Collection opens near Swindon https://mechtraveller.com/2024/10/a-new-home-for-part-of-the-science-museum-group-collection-opens-near-swindon/ https://mechtraveller.com/2024/10/a-new-home-for-part-of-the-science-museum-group-collection-opens-near-swindon/#respond Fri, 11 Oct 2024 07:04:40 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=10574 Over 300,000 historic items from the Science Museum Group* collection have been carefully moved into a new facility at the National Collections Centre in the Science and Innovation Park near Swindon in Wiltshire. The new Hawking Building, named after Prof. Stephen Hawking, is not a museum. It is a storage and research facility. However, as […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2024/10/a-new-home-for-part-of-the-science-museum-group-collection-opens-near-swindon/feed/ 0 The Fontinettes Boat Lift, Arques, Pas-de-Calais https://mechtraveller.com/2024/07/the-fontinettes-boat-lift-arques-pas-de-calais/ https://mechtraveller.com/2024/07/the-fontinettes-boat-lift-arques-pas-de-calais/#respond Mon, 01 Jul 2024 10:44:19 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=10291 The Fontinettes Boat Lift (Ascenseur à bateaux des Fontinettes) in Arques, Pas-de-Calais. is a magnificent piece of 19th century engineering and architecture. It was built in the late 19th century at Fontinettes* to replace a set of five locks on the Neuffossé canal which linked/s the canalised rivers Lys and Aa**. This was an important […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2024/07/the-fontinettes-boat-lift-arques-pas-de-calais/feed/ 0 National Slate Museum hopes to become a world-class visitor attraction https://mechtraveller.com/2024/05/national-slate-museum-hopes-to-become-a-world-class-visitor-attraction/ https://mechtraveller.com/2024/05/national-slate-museum-hopes-to-become-a-world-class-visitor-attraction/#respond Sat, 04 May 2024 07:33:05 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=9992 Welsh Culture Secretary Lesley Griffiths visited the National Slate Museum in Llanberis this week to see how redevelopment work is progressing. Welsh Government funding of more than £1m has already helped progress the redevelopment, including maximising museum space for collections and activities and ensuring there is appropriate office space for employees. The Museum has also […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2024/05/national-slate-museum-hopes-to-become-a-world-class-visitor-attraction/feed/ 0 Écomusée – Industrial Heritage Museum of Saint-Nazaire https://mechtraveller.com/2022/10/ecomusee-industrial-heritage-museum-of-saint-nazaire/ https://mechtraveller.com/2022/10/ecomusee-industrial-heritage-museum-of-saint-nazaire/#comments Wed, 26 Oct 2022 15:12:03 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=8178 The Écomusée in the old port area of Saint-Nazaire focuses on the port’s historic, industrial and maritime heritage. Who knew!? Most Anglophones, me included, think the “Éco Museum” is something to do with the environment, and probably linked to the EOL-Wind Turbine experience nearby. I wouldn’t have gone there if we hadn’t been walking literally […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2022/10/ecomusee-industrial-heritage-museum-of-saint-nazaire/feed/ 1 The Dutch Mining Museum is now housed in a former department store https://mechtraveller.com/2022/07/the-dutch-mining-museum-is-now-housed-in-a-former-department-store/ https://mechtraveller.com/2022/07/the-dutch-mining-museum-is-now-housed-in-a-former-department-store/#respond Thu, 28 Jul 2022 13:11:04 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=7713 The Dutch Mining Museum (Nederlands Mijnmuseum) re-opened in May this year (2022) in the old Kneepkens department store in Heerlen, south Netherlands. Heerlen is in that panhandle that extends south to Maastricht along the Meuse between Belgium and Germany, and includes the Limburg region, famous for its coal industry in all three countries. The coal […]

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