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The Advertising Icon Museum has a collection of original items through which many advertising icons were first introduced. The museum has been featured in some of the United States' top media outlets.
The American Labor Museum is housed in the Botto House National Landmark, a 1908 Victorian home which belonged to silk mill worker Pietro Botto and his wife Maria. It was the meeting place for over 20,000 silk mill workers during the 1913 Paterson Silk Strike. The museum has restored period rooms, a labor and immigrant library (including books, audio and video cassettes), Old World Gardens (including a bocce court, grape arbor, root cellar and chicken coop), and changing exhibit.
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McDade Park
Scranton, PA 18504
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Phone: 570 963 4804
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The Anthracite Heritage Museum tells the story of the people who came from Europe to work in the anthracite mining and textiles industries. The diverse collection highlights life in the mines, mills and factories. The Museum is one of the sites that make up the Anthracite Museum Complex, which also includes the Museum of Anthracite Mining.
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P.O. Box K346
Haymarket, NSW 1238
Australia
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Phone: 61 2 9217 0469
Fax: 61 2 92170616
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Australian Museums and Galleries Online (AMOL) is a comprehensive Internet site designed to help Australian Collecting Institutions make information about their collections available to a world-wide audience. It is also the principal gateway to the Australian Collections Sector for professionals and volunteers, community users and researchers.
AMOL is a collaborative project bringing together Australian, State and Territory Governments and the cultural sector to focus on the task of increasing access to Australia's heritage collections and sharing information. AMOL is an initiative of the Cultural Ministers Council.
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The Baltimore Museum of Industry (BMI) was founded in 1977 as a project of the Mayor's Office of the City of Baltimore to preserve the City's rapidly disappearing industrial heritage. In 1981, it incorporated as a private non-profit educational institution. In May of that year, the BMI moved into the historic Platt Oyster Cannery building (c.1870) in South Baltimore. The Museum launched its first capital campaign in 1989 towards the renovation of the facility to enhance its appearance and create first-rate gallery space for its exhibits.
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Threadneedle Street
London
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Phone: 44 20 7601 5491
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The Bank of England Museum tells the story of the Bank of England from its foundation in 1694 as a chartered joint-stock company to its role as the United Kingdom's central bank. The historical displays include material drawn from the Bank's own collections of books, documents, silver, prints, paintings, banknotes, coin, photographs. There is a display of gold, including Roman and modern gold bars, alongside pikes and muskets once used to defend the Bank. Computer technology and audio visual displays are used to illustrates the institution's present day responsibilities and how it fulfils them.
Known as The Money Museum, with over 2,700 money boxes on display along with gems, minerals, fossils, meteorites and special ultraviolet displays; rooms wallpapered with sheets of uncut notes, and printing errors; medals, tokens, shipwreck coins, Roman coins and lots of banking memorabilia and machines, it is the only museum of its type in Australia, if not the world.
In the Tax & Customs Museum you can look back on the broad panorama of twenty centuries of Dutch tax history, including the tax conditions enjoyed by our ancestors in the not-so distant past: when they wore a wig or took a ride on a bicycle.
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Prof. Dr. Kahler-Platz 1
A-9020 Klagenfurt
Österreich, Austria
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Phone: 43 463 511252
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Located in one of the former air protection lugs in the state capital, this is the oldest mining industry museum in the area. Displays include locomotives, machines, tools, pit lamps, ore samples from historical pits.
The Museum occupies a 26-acre urban heritage park in the shadow of Dudley Castle in the centre of the Black Country conurbation of two million people. Historic buildings from all around the Black Country have been moved and authentically rebuilt at the Museum to create a tribute to the traditional skills and enterprise of the people that once lived in the heart of industrial Britain. Electric tramcars and trolleybuses transport visitors back in time from the modern exhibition halls to the canal-side village. Where costumed demonstrators and working craftsmen bring the buildings to life with their local knowledge, practical skills and unique Black Country Humour.
The scene of a major mining catastrophe, the Bois du Cazier colliery in Marcinelle, to the south of Charleroi, again opened its gates, which were thought to have been closed for ever. Two areas, one devoted to the memory of 8th August 1956, and the other dedicated to the history of a region born of the Industrial Revolution, are the framework of a place appropriate for contemplation at the foot of the pithead frame. A third area, the 'forum,' hosts cultural demonstrations and temporary exhibitions.
A collection of digital ephemera from the Dot Com era, the Business Plan Archive includes material from several thousand Dot Com era companies. These materials are organized by company with modest capabilities for search and public access.
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Established in 1996, the Computer History Museum is a public benefit organization dedicated to the preservation and celebration of computing history. It is home to one of the largest collections of computing artifacts in the world, a collection comprising over 4,000 artifacts, 10,000 images, 4,000 linear feet of cataloged documentation and gigabytes of software.
The National Currency Collection contains some 100,000 items consisting of coins, tokens and paper money in the custody of, or owned by, the Bank of Canada. It includes a relatively complete collection of the coins, tokens and of paper money that were used or are currently used in Canada. The purpose of the collection is to portray the development of money through the ages with particular emphasis on the history of Canada's currency.
The Currency Museum displays a considerable portion of the collection in its eight galleries. Six galleries describe the development of money through the past 2,500 years, each gallery focusing on a different phase. Gallery seven displays special exhibits. Gallery eight is the Collector's Corner - the most comprehensive display of Canadian numismatic material in existence. The museum, which opened on December 5, 1980, is housed in the centre block of the Bank of Canada.
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The D'Arcy Collection of the Communications Library of the University of Illinois is composed of almost two million original advertisements published between 1890 and 1970. The collection, which was donated by the D'Arcy, MacManus & Masius advertising agency (now D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles) in 1983, is a rich source of research information on products advertised by many agencies in newspapers, magazines and trade journals, brochures, signs, and programs. The clippings advertise standard consumer products, as well as obsolete items such as spats, bathing shoes, and Prohibition.
Since 1982, a far-reaching technology museum of international repute has been developed in Berlin's old and new centre: the Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin (formerly Museum für Verkehr und Technik - Museum for Transport and Technology).
A cultural history of technology in historical buildings, the museum continues the tradition of the reputable museums of technology to which Berlin had been home until World War II. The Gleisdreieck location is also of historical importance: this is where Anhalter freight station, the rail depot with two circular locomotive sheds and the factory buildings of a company specialising in markets and cold stores were located. This historical ensemble of buildings is also the most valuable "object" of the museum. On completion of all development phases (planning), the building will cover an exhibition area of over 50,000 square metres and will be one of the largest technical museums in the world.
Fourteen departments currently exhibit just one quarter of their treasures on 14,000 square metres: old-timers, locomotives and planes, models of ships and hydraulic structures, looms, household appliances and machine tools, computers, radios and cameras, diesel engines, steam engines, scientific instruments, paper machines, printing presses and much more.
Dunaskin Open Air Museum is set in a 110 acre site amidst the picturesque scenery of the Doon Valley. The site was originally an ironworks, built around 1850, and it tells the story of the ironworks, coal mining and brickworks at Dunaskin through the eyes of the people who lived and worked there.
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As the preeminent international museum of photography and film, George Eastman House cares for and interprets hundreds of thousands of photographs encompassing the history of this medium.
The EDF Electropolis Museum is the largest museum in Europe dedicated to electrical energy. With an exhibition area of 4,000 square meters, a futuristic architectural setting and a dynamic scenography, the EDF Electropolis Museum displays objects and models, holds audio-visual projections and events which retrace the fascinating saga of electricity.
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The Museum of Transport, Manchester has one of the largest collections of its kind in the country. It is run by the volunteers of the Greater Manchester Transport Society (GMTS) but the Museum is owned by the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive.
As part of its duty to promote interest in passenger transport in Greater Manchester, the Executive has worked with the GMTS and a museum has been established at Boyle Street, Cheetham, Manchester since 1979.
The collection of vehicles in the Museum is constantly growing as new acquisitions are made, and some of the Museum vehicles featured on this website may be away from display in storage or under restoration. During the summer months, vehicles from the Museum regularly attend vintage gatherings and other events.
The Museum project is still developing and restoration work can be seen by visitors giving the display a lively, working atmosphere. In the future, the collection of vehicles and other artefacts relating to the roads of Greater Manchester will continue to expand and the Museum will further develop its facilities as well as restoring items which have already been received but which remain in derelict condition. With the assistance of the Passenger Transport Authority and Executive, the Museum of Transport will continue to be a focal point of local transport history and one of the premier attractions of its kind in Great Britain.
Gympie is known as "the Town that saved Queensland from Bankruptcy". At the Museum you can find out just how Gympie saved Queensland, and much more of its past and present. The Museum houses a collection of documentation, artifacts and photographs from the discovery of gold in 1867 by James Nash to the current operations of the Gympie Eldorado Goldmine, which is the eighth greatest gold producing mine in Australia.
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The Hague Public Transport Museum shows the history of the public transport in the Hague and its surroundings. The museum is housed in an old tramdepot named Remise Frans Halsstraat. This depot was built in 1906 and is included in the national list of historical buildings.
Hagley Museum and Library collects, preserves, and interprets the unfolding history of American enterprise. Located on 235 acres along the banks of the Brandywine River, Hagley is the site of the gunpowder works founded by E. I. du Pont in 1802. This example of early American industry includes restored mills, a workers' community, and the ancestral home and gardens of the du Pont family. Hagley's library furthers the study of business and technology in America, especially the Middle Atlantic region. The collections include individuals' papers and companies' records ranging from eighteenth-century merchants to modern telecommunications and illustrate the impact of the business system on society. The Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society organizes and administers the Hagley Museum and Library's interaction with the world of scholarship. It brings attention to Hagley's research collections and generates intellectual dialogue at Hagley.
Through its collections of textual and multimedia resources that are available to students, scholars, and businesses around the world, the John W. Hartman Center promotes understanding of the social, cultural, and historical impact of advertising, marketing, and sales.
Ad*Access, a special Web project of the Hartman Center, is an image database of over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.
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Wadsworth House
1341 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
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Phone: 617 495 3650
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"Women Working, 1870-1930" (Open Collections Program, Harvard University Library) provides free access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections that explore women's roles in the US economy between the Civil War and the Great Depression.
The Henry Ford is a history destination that brings the American Experience to life with five distinct attractions that celebrate yesterday's traditions as well as current innovations.
Spread over more than 90 acres, Greenfield Village comes alive with unforgettable sights, sounds and settings of America's past.
Housing one of the largest collections of its kind ever assembled, Henry Ford Museum showcases the people and ideas that have fired our imaginations and changed our lives.
At the site where automobile manufacturing as we know it came of age - and continues to define the state-of-the-art - the Ford Rouge Factory Tour is a firsthand journey into the genius of American manufacturing.
Behind the scenes, the Benson Ford Research Center uses the unique artifacts and resources of The Henry Ford to deepen understanding of American people, places and things.
And on the bigger-than-big screen, the IMAX Theater presents current releases, cinema classics and feature-length documentaries that showcase American popular culture and the American experience in superb, sense-surrounding detail.
The Hershey Museum is a non-profit educational institution founded in 1933 by Milton S. Hershey, who believed in providing educational and cultural opportunities for the people of Hershey and the Central Pennsylvania region. In keeping with Mr. Hershey's philosophy, the Museum is dedicated to helping people of all ages understand and enjoy many aspects of history.
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The Museum und Archiv für Arbeit und Industrie im Viertel unter dem Wienerwald features old handicraft devices, machines and pictures.
Industrion, museum for industry and society at Kerkrade, tells the tale of 150 years of work and life -- the tale of men, women and children in factories, at home.
The International Council of Museums (ICOM) is an international organisation of museums and museum professionals which is committed to the conservation, continuation and communication to society of the world's natural and cultural heritage, present and future, tangible and intangible.
The International Women's Air & Space Museum Inc., opened in March 1986 in Centerville, a suburb of Dayton, Ohio with memorabilia and historical artifacts preserving the history of women in aviation. Since that time the museum has grown and expanded and was welcomed by the City of Cleveland, Ohio, where one will find the Burke Lakefront Airport. The exhibits are in the lobby at Burke, as well as the west concourse, and are accessible seven days a week.
Once described as "the most extraordinary district in the world," the Ironbridge Gorge is still a remarkable, and beautiful, place to visit. A huge amount of early industry survives as furnaces, factories, workshops, canals and the settlements of Coalbrookdale, Ironbridge, Jackfield and Coalport.
There are ten award-winning Museums spread along the valley beside the wild River Severn - still spanned by the world's first Iron Bridge.
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John Deere converted an old building into a large display center that displays the past, present and future of American agriculture. The section on the past features John Deere's own company history, but also highlights of the history of agriculture generally. In the section on the present day, there are tractors and combines that the visitor can climb into and appreciate how agriculture is using computers, GPS, television, etc. to increase production. The section on the future looks at predictions about what agriculture will be like in 50 years or so.
This John Deere attraction is located in Grand Detour, Illinois near Dixon, about 50 miles or so east/northeast of Moline. Here they have recreated a small village that shows where Deere invented the steel plow and changed agriculture forever.
In addition to the Collectors Center and the Historical Center, at the Deere & Company administrative headquarters building on the outskirts of Moline there is also an impressive "history wall" - the display floor features a three-dimensional mural by Alexander Girard. The mural contains 2200 authentic pieces of memorabilia dating from 1837 to 1918, spanning the company's first 75 years of operation.
The Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen designed the building.
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The Kansas Oil Museum is the leading museum dedicated to the discovery and development of the oil industry in Kansas. Enjoy indoor exhibits on farming, ranching and oil; a hands-on children's area, Texaco Theater and Kansas Oil Hall of Fame. The ten acres of outdoor exhibits include over 20 pieces of oil field equipment that range in age from the 1920's to the 1950's. In addition, eight historic buildings are incorporated to interpret the social history of Butler county and Kansas oil.
Offers the most complete overview of Dutch coins, paper money and tender in the world and a collection of other objects.
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The museum's unique style of modern architecture represents an exhibition that shows the history of technology, and its social aspects in a new and unconventional way. The visitor can experience sixteen stages of the technical and social development of the last two and a half centuries by passing from top to bottom through six floors (A-F).
The themes of the exhibition are reflected by examples which show the important events and the different phases of the industrial revolution of the region. They explain how technical innovations changed working and living conditions. Travelling through space and time the visitor looks at historical figures, buildings and landscapes, i. e. figured aspects of special historical situations and events like the French revolution or the First World War etc.
A further point of the concept is the introduction of a "working museum". Traditional and modern procedures of fabrication are shown to the visitors by working implements. Demonstrators explain the production procedures and the operation of machines, as well as the economic and social implications. A special experience for many, especially the young visitors is a trip with the historic steam railway through the halls and the open-air tract of the museum.
The Library of Congress Guide to Business History Resources, produced under the auspices of the Bibliographic Enrichment Advisory Team of the Library of Congress, is revised from Chapter 13 of A Guide to Finding Business Information at the Library of Congress, compiled by Richard F. Sharp.
The history of America's Industrial Revolution is commemorated in Lowell, Massachusetts. The Boott Cotton Mills Museum with its operating weave room of 88 power looms, "mill girl" boardinghouses, the Suffolk Mill Turbine Exhibit and guided tours tell the story of the transition from farm to factory, chronicle immigrant and labor history and trace industrial technology. The park includes textile mills, worker housing, 5.6 miles of canals, and 19th-century commercial buildings.
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Showcases old and modern metallurgy.
Museums dedicated to the history of money.
The Musée des Arts et Métiers features scientific and technical collections from all over France and the world.
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Via Guglielmo Marconi 30
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Close to the strictly-technological contribution given by Sandretto in the past 50 years to the development of plastics material processing, the Company promoted a series of cultural activities to provide the general public with wider and deeper information on this important segment of the industry. The most relevant achievement is the Plastics Museum of Pont Canavese, close to Turin, in northern Italy. This is the first Italian Museum of Plastics, and one of the main ones on a worldwide basis. The collection was initiated in 1985 and grew with the years, counting more than 2500 catalogued pieces. Since the opening day in June 1995, tens of thousands of visitors have enjoyed the rooms of Sandretto's Plastics Museum.
The Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation (Museum Foundation for Posts and Telecommunications) was founded in 1995 during the federal postal reform. It operates Communication Museums - Museum für Kommunikation - in Berlin, Frankfurt, Nurnberg and Hamburg and the Philatelic Archive in Bonn.
The museums are open to a wide audience, offering permanent and special exhibitions as well as lectures, guided tours, films, workshops, children's workshops and museum festivals.
The purpose of the Foundation is to collect, display and make accessible the entire history of message transmission in the postal and telecommunications world.
The Museum of American Financial History is the nation's only independent public museum dedicated to celebrating the spirit of entrepreneurship and the democratic free market tradition which has made New York City the financial capital of the world.
Founded in 1988, the Museum was chartered as an educational institution. Fifteen years later, financial education is at the core of the Museum's mission and its public programs and services.
An active national-level advocate on behalf of the growing financial literacy movement, the Museum is committed to helping all Americans look to the lessons of financial history, while taking charge of their own financial lives.
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17th and Pine Streets
Ashland, PA 17921
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Phone: 570 875 4708
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The Museum of Anthracite Mining focuses on the history of anthracite coal mining industries and technology. It features a diverse collection of tools, machinery and photographs that depict the mining of hard coal. The Museum is one of four sites that make up the Anthracite Museum Complex.
The Museum of Broadcast Communications (MBC) in Chicago was temporarily closed to the public but re-opened in the spring of 2006 in its new home on State Street at Kinzie, next door to Harry Caray's restaurant and the House of Blues hotel |
