Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust
- Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust
The Ironbridge Gorge Museums are Industrial Heritage museums based in the Ironbridge Gorge at Ironbridge, Coalbrookdale and Broseley on the River Severn in Shropshire, England, widely considered as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. The location is a World Heritage Site and an anchor point of the European Route of Industrial Heritage (ERIH).
The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust was established in 1967 to preserve and interpret the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution in the Ironbridge Gorge. It is an independent educational charity. The museum staff manage 35 historic sites within the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site, including ten museums. The sites also include archaeological sites, two chapels, housing, two Quaker burial grounds, a research library, a tourist information centre, woodland, and two youth hostels.
The ten museum sites run by the Trust are:
# Blists Hill Victorian Town, including the Hay Inclined Plane
# Broseley Pipeworks
# Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron
# Coalport China Museum
# Coalport Tar Tunnel
# Darby Houses
# Enginuity
# Iron Bridge and Tollhouse
# Jackfield Tile Museum
# Museum of the Gorge
The museum also has a wide-ranging and innovative [http://www.ironbridge.org.uk/about_us/ironbridge_archaeology/ archaeology unit] which undertakes archaeological work within the Ironbridge Gorge and throughout the country. The Trust also runs the Ironbridge Institute, a centre offering postgraduate and professional courses in heritage, in partnership with the University of Birmingham.
External links
* [http://www.ironbridge.org.uk/ Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust website] including [http://www.ironbridge.org.uk/our_attractions/ museum information] and information about the Museum's [http://www.ironbridge.org.uk/collections/our_collections/ collections] .
* [http://www.youricons.macrojuice.com/content/blogcategory/16/131/ Your Icons ] Highlights from the Ironbridge Gorge Museum collection
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