Haags Openbaar Vervoer Museum
224 Parallelweg, 2525 NL Den Haag, Netherlands	Phone: 070 445 1559 Fax: 070 445 0472

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
298 Buck Road East Wilmington, DE 19807-0630	Fax: 302 658 2230

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.

Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Duke University Durham, NC 27708-0185	Phone: 919 660 5827 Fax: 919 660 5934

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.

Harvard University Library
Wadsworth House 1341 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138	Phone: 617 495 3650 Fax: 617 495 0370

"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.

Henry Ford Museum
20900 Oakwood Blvd. Dearborn, MI 48124-5029	Tel: (313) 982 6001 Infoline: (313) 271 1620

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.

Hershey Story
111 West Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, PA 17033	Tel: (717) 520 5596

The Hershey Story invites visitors to experience the stories of Hershey in an educational, fun-filled, imaginative, and immersive environment focused on audience, active learning, and engagement with and between objects and ideas.

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IndustrieViertelMuseum
Anna Rieger-Gasse 4 2700 Wiener Neustadt	Telefax: 02622 26015

The Museum und Archiv für Arbeit und Industrie im Viertel unter dem Wienerwald features old handicraft devices, machines and pictures.

Industrion
Museumplein 2, 6461 MA Kerkrade, Postbus 164, 6461 AD Kerkrade	Phone: +31 (0)45-5670809 Fax: +31 (0)45-5463848

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.

International Council of Museums
Maison de l'UNESCO 1 rue Miollis, 75732 Paris cedex 15, France	Phone: 331 4734 0500 Fax: 331 4306 7862

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.

International Women's Air & Space Museum
Burke Lakefront Airport, Room 165 1501 North Marginal Road Cleveland, OH 44114	Tel: 1 216 623 1111 Fax: 1 216 623 1113

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.

Ironbridge Gorge Museum
Coach Road Coalbrookdale, Telford TF8 7DQ	Phone: 01952 884391 Fax: 01952 435999

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 Historic Site
8334 S. Clinton St. Grand Detour Dixon, IL 61021-9406	Phone: 815 652 4551

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.

John Deere World Headquarters
One John Deere Place Moline, IL 61265	Phone: 309 765 8000

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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Kansas Oil & Gas Museum
383 East Central Ave El Dorado, KS 67042	Phone: 316 321 9333

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.

Koninklijk Penningkabinet
Rapenburg 28, Leiden 2311	Phone: +31 71 5120748

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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Landesmuseum für Technik und Arbeit
Museumsstraße 1 D-68165 Mannheim	Phone: 49 621 4298 9 Fax: 49 621 4298 754

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.

Library of Congress Guide to Business History Resources
Science, Technology & Business Division Business Reference Services Washington, DC 20540-4754	Fax: 202-707-1925

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.

Lowell National Historical Park
67 Kirk Street Lowell, MA 01852	Phone: 978 970 5000 Fax: 978 275 1762

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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Maison de la Métallurgie
Boulevard Raymond Poincare 17 à 4020 Liege	Phone: 32 0 4342 6563 Fax: 32 0 4344 7023

Showcases old and modern metallurgy.

Money Museum
Hadlaubstrasse 106 CH-8006 Zürich	Phone: 41 44 350 7380 Fax: 41 44 242 7686
In the Museum Baerengasse: Baerengasse 20/22 CH-8001 Zürich	Phone: 41 44 211 1716
In the Swiss National Museum: Museumsstrasse 2 CH-8023 Zürich	Phone: 41 44 218 6511 Fax: 41 44 211 2949

Museums dedicated to the history of money.

Musée des Arts et Métiers
60 rue Réaumur 75003 Paris	Phone: 33 1 5301 8200 Fax: 33 1 5301 8201

The Musée des Arts et Métiers features scientific and technical collections from all over France and the world.

Museo della Plastica
Via Guglielmo Marconi 30 10085 Pont Canavese	Phone: 39 0124 862222

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.

Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation
Leipziger Straße 16, 10117 Berlin-Mitte	Phone: +49 30 202 94 0 Fax: +49 30 202 94 111

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.

Museum of American Finance
48 Wall Street, New York, NY 10005	Phone: 212 908 4110 Fax: 212 908 4601

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.

Museum of Anthracite Mining
17th and Pine Streets Ashland, PA 17921	Phone: 570 875 4708

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.

Museum of Broadcast Communications
676 North LaSalle St., Suite 424, Chicago, IL 60654	Phone: 312 245 8200 (312) 245-8207

The mission of the Museum of Broadcast Communications (MBC) is to collect, preserve, and present historic and contemporary radio and television content as well as educate, inform, and entertain the public through its archives, public programs, screenings, exhibits, publications and online access to its resources.

The MBC is an Illinois non-profit corporation that owns and manages two subsidiaries, Museum.TV and the National Radio Hall of Fame (NRHOF) and its website adiohof.org.

Museum of English Rural Life
University of Reading, Redlands Road, Reading RG1 5EX	Phone: 44 118 378 8660

The Museum of English Rural Life was founded by the University of Reading in 1951 to reflect and record the changing face of farming and the countryside. It houses Designated collections of national importance that span the full range of objects, archives, photographs, film and books. It forms part of the University's Museums and Collections Service.

Museum of Science & Industry in Manchester
Liverpool Road Castlefield, Manchester M3 4FP	Phone: 44 161 832 2244 Fax: 44 161 833 1471

Situated in the oldest passenger railway buildings in the world, the Museum tells the story of the history, science and industry of Manchester - the world's first industrial city.

Museum of Science and Industry
57th Street and Lake Shore Drive Chicago, IL 60637	Phone: 773 684 1414

The Museum of Science and Industry, one of the most beloved and visited museums in the world, has origins that are tied to two great World's Fairs and to civic spirit and imagination of Chicago businessman Julius Rosenwald. Rosenwald, inspired by a 1911 visit with his son to the Deutches Museum in Munich, returned to Chicago determined to create America's first center for "industrial enlightenment," a vehicle for public science education.

With the help of other Midwest business leaders, Rosenwald restored and converted the Palace of Fine Arts, the last remaining major structure from the 1893 World's Fair, into a new type of American museum - where visitors could interact with the exhibits, not just view displays and artifacts. In 1933, the Museum of Science and Industry opened to the public, at the same time as the Century of Progress Exposition. It is the oldest and one of the most popular science museums in the world.

Museum voor Communicatie
Zeestraat 82, 2518 AD Den Haag	Phone: 070 330 7500 Fax: 070 360 8926

The Museum for Communication houses communication-related displays over time. A treat for all the senses!

Museum voor Industriële Archeologie en Textiel
Minnemeers 9 B-9000 Gent	Phone: 09 269 4200 Fax: 09 233 0739

Showcases the evolution of the industrial society and in particular with the technical revolution.

Museumserver Dutch
Zeestraat 82 Den Haag	Phone: 020 531 8496 Fax: 020 531 8498

The Museumserver is a platform for Dutch museums on the Internet. More than 400 Dutch museum sites are included in the Museumserver, providing a fabulous show of art, culture, history and science from the Netherlands.

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National Building Museum
401 F Street NW Washington, DC 20001	Phone: 202 272 2448 Fax: 202 272 2564

Created by an act of Congress in 1980, the National Building Museum is America's premier cultural institution dedicated to exploring and celebrating architecture, design, engineering, construction, and urban planning. Since opening its doors in 1985, the Museum has become a vital forum for exchanging ideas and information about such topical issues as managing suburban growth, preserving landmarks and communities, and revitalizing urban centers. The Museum's engaging exhibitions and education programs - including innovative curricula for school children and stimulating programs for adults - annually attract more than 400,000 people.

National Canal Museum
30 Centre Square Easton, PA 18042	Phone: 610 559 6613

Discover America's canal heritage at the National Canal Museum. Take a journey back in time to the early 1800's and experience what the world was like before railroads, highways and airplanes. Interactive exhibits build ideas and inspire exploration on your journey into the past. See how canals helped create the anthracite coal and iron industry. Learn how canals are still relevant.

National Coal Mining Museum
Caphouse Colliery New Road, Overton Wakefield WF4 4RH	Phone: 01924 848806 Fax: 01924 840694

In 1988 the Yorkshire Mining Museum opened at Caphouse. The Museum was granted National status in 1995. Following this the Department of Culture, Media and Sport carried out a detailed study into the Museum, and provided funding which secured its long term future. In 2001 the Museum received a Heritage Lottery Grant of just over £4.5 million. The Museum raised just under £2 million to complement the grant. Work carried out using this money included restoring buildings, new gallery areas and the store for large machinery.

The National Coal Mining Museum for England is a registered charity administered by a Board of Trustees. It was established with funding from West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire Metropolitan County Councils, Wakefield and Kirklees Metropolitan District Councils and technical support and assistance from British Coal.

National Inventors Hall of Fame
520 South Main Street, Suite 2423, Akron, Ohio 44311	Phone: 330 762 4463 Fax: 330 849 6735

The National Inventors Hall of Fame honors the women and men responsible for the great technological advances that make human, social and economic progress possible.

National Maritime Museum
Parkrow Greenwich London SE10 9NF	Tel: 44 20 8858 4422

The National Maritime Museum (NMM) works to illustrate the importance of the sea, ships, time and the stars and their relationship with people. The Museum was formally established by Act of Parliament in 1934 and opened to the public by King George VI on April 27, 1937. It includes the 17th-century Queen's House and, from the 1950s, the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. There is also a small museum at Cotehele Quay on the Tamar, Cornwall, with the NMM / National Trust sailing barge Shamrock, and the Valhalla ships' figurehead collection on Tresco, Isles of Scilly. The collections comprise about 2.48 million items, many on loan to museums elsewhere in Britain. The public galleries at Greenwich display a thematically arranged selection and the remainder are accessible for public interest and research in various ways. From December 2002 the majority of the NMM small-boat collection will be on display at the new National Maritime Museum, Cornwall, at Falmouth.

National Media Museum
Bradford, West Yorkshire BD1 1NQ	Phone: 44 870 701 0200

The National Media Museum is part of the NMSI Museums Group (National Museum of Science and Industry) which also includes the Science Museum (based in London, and at Wroughton in Wiltshire) and the National Railway Museum (based in York, and at Shildon in County Durham).

National Museum of Science and Technology
P.O. Box 9724, Station T Ottawa, ON K1G 5A3	Phone: 613 991 6090 Fax: 613 990 3636

As a national institution within the Canadian Heritage Portfolio, the Canada Science and Technology Museum Corporation is responsible for preserving and protecting Canada's scientific and technological heritage and promoting and sharing knowledge about that heritage. The Corporation and the three Museums it operates - the Canada Agriculture Museum, the Canada Aviation Museum, and the Canada Science and Technology Museum - tell the stories of Canadian ingenuity and achievement in science and technology, and demonstrate how these accomplishments have contributed to the building of the country.

The Corporation is the only comprehensive science and technology collecting institution in Canada, and focuses on the following major subject areas: aviation, communications, manufacturing, natural resources, renewable resources including agriculture, scientific instrumentation, and transportation. The Corporation's three Museums each undertake curatorial work and set their own public programming activities and strategies in recognition of the different markets and clientele they serve. The Museums operate under a common set of corporate policies. Support services such as human resources, finance and facilities management are provided centrally.

National Railway Museum
Leeman Road York YO26 4XJ	Phone: 44 8448 153139 Infoline: 44 1904 686286 Fax: 44 1904 611112

The National Railway Museum in York, England is the largest railway museum in the world, responsible for the conservation and interpretation of the British national collection of historically significant railway vehicles and other artefacts. The Museum contains an unrivalled collection of locomotives, rolling stock, railway equipment, documents and records.

Nederlands Textielmuseum
Goirkestraat 96 5046 GN Tilburg	Phone: 013 5367 475 Infoline: 013 5494 564 Fax: 013 5363 240

The Dutch textile museum, established in a former textile factory, lies in the heart of Brabant. It features functional textile machines, both old and state-of-the-art.

Nederlandsch Economisch-Historisch Archief
Cruquiusweg 31 1019 AT Amsterdam	Phone: 31 20 668 5866 Fax: 31 20 665 4181

Nederlandsch Economisch-Historisch Archief (Netherlands Economic History Archive), established in 1914, has as its objective the collection, preservation, ordering and processing of source material of importance for economic history in the broadest sense. Besides a large number of business archives, which have been deposited at municipal or state repositories since the 1970s, and an important collection of memorabilia, manuscripts and documents, the NEHA has a major book collection, the Economic History Library. The NEHA maintains the Economic and Business History section of the World-Wide Web Virtual Library.

The Noel Butlin Archives Center (NBAC) collects, provides access to and preserves the records of federally registered industrial organizations, nationally significant businesses, professional associations, industry bodies and the labor movement in Australia. It also develops general guidelines and provides a professional consultancy service for Australian businesses, trade unions, professional associations and industry bodies to assist them in the creation and management of those records. The NBAC holds the historical records of many major Australian firms, including Adsteam, Goldsborough Mort, CSR, Elders, Arnotts, Hume's, Australian Agricultural Company, Australian Mercantile, Burns Philp, and Tooth's breweries.

Nova Scotia Museum of Industry
147 North Foord Street Stellarton, NS B0K 1S0 Canada	Phone: 902 755 5425 Fax: 902 755 7045

The Museum of Industry in Stellarton, Nova Scotia is Atlantic Canada's largest museum. Experience the fascinating story of Nova Scotia's industrial workers, including unique machines, technology, and stories of sweat, grit, tears, tragedies and triumphs. Have hands-on fun, find innovative ideas and electrifying exhibits. Punch your time card and work your way from the Industrial Revolution to the Age of Computers, exploring mines, factories, railroads, home-based industries and more.

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Powerhouse Museum
P.O. Box K346 Haymarket, NSW 1238 Australia	Phone: 61 2 9217 0111

The Powerhouse Museum, Australia's largest and most popular museum, is located in Darling Harbour, Sydney. Its unique and diverse collection of 385,000 objects spans history, science, technology, design, industry, decorative arts, music, transport and space exploration.

The Museum has an ever-changing program of exhibitions covering approximately 20,000 square metres (equivalent to three international competition soccer fields). It presents 22 permanent exhibitions and several temporary exhibitions, complemented by more than 250 interactives.

Prickwillow Drainage Engine Museum
Main Street, Prickwillow Ely, Cambridgeshire CB7 4UN	Phone: 44 1353 688 360

The Museum was originally set up in 1982 by a band of enthusiasts who formed a Trust whose aim was to save, restore and preserve this vital piece of our Industrial heritage. "The Friends of the Engine," a group of working volunteers have over the years restored and rebuilt the original 1929 Mirrlees, Bickerton and Day Diesel 5 cylinder engine, together with the second largest engine, a Vickers Petter. Also on show are a single cylinder Ruston and a three cylinder Allen which form part of a unique collection of rescued diesel engines from pumping stations in the district. An impressive display of the engineering achievements of a bygone age. 

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A group of six industrial museums in the Rheinland.

Robert C. Williams American Museum of Papermaking
Georgia Institute of Technology 500 10th Street NW Atlanta, GA 30332-0620	Phone: 404 894 7840 Fax: 404 894 4778

The Robert C. Williams American Museum of Papermaking is an internationally renowned resource on the history of paper and paper technology. In addition to more than 2,000 books, the Museum features a remarkable collection of over 10,000 watermarks, papers, tools, machines, and manuscripts.

Rochester Museum and Science Center
657 East Avenue Rochester, NY 14607	Phone: 585 271 4320 Infoline: 585 271 1880

The Rochester Museum & Science Center creates inspiring, entertaining and educational experiences enabling visitors to explore science and technology, the natural environment and the region's cultural heritage.

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St. Louis Mercantile Library
Thomas Jefferson Library Building One University Blvd. St. Louis, MO 63121-4400	Phone: 314 516 7240 314 516 7247 Fax: 314 516 7241

The St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri-St. Louis is a treasury of history and thought serving the community since 1846. Formed and nurtured by such civically motivated business leaders as James Yeatman, Henry Bacon, John Tevis, and Robert Brookings, the Library invited others to join from all walks of life. On April 19, 1846, the Library opened in the Exchange Building at Main and Pine Streets. There were only three cases of books and a few newspapers, originally. By the close of the first year, 1,600 volumes were on the shelves and 283 members were reading them.

Science Museum
Exhibition Road South Kensington, London SW7 2DD United Kingdom	Phone: 44 870 870 4868

The origins of the Science Museum lie in the 19th-century movement to improve scientific and technical education. From a number of developments during and after this period, the Government set up a Science & Art Department which established the South Kensington Museum in 1857, from which the Science Museum and Victoria & Albert Museum have developed.

The objects on display in the South Kensington Museum were drawn from various sources including the Great Exhibition. These included 'science collections', which comprised of models, apparatus, examples of materials, books and educational resources. These collections were continually boosted over the years.

In 1976 the Science Museum acquired the valuable Wellcome Collection of over 125,000 objects. The Collection spans the history and practice of medicine from the ancient Greeks to present-day techniques, and is continually updated to map developments in biochemistry and genetics.

A period of rapid expansion followed the 1984 transfer from a government department to a Board of Trustees with members appointed by the Prime Minister. New interactive galleries, such as Launch Pad and Flight Lab, were opened, supplementary exhibitions were initiated and the Museum developed a busy programme of activities and events. New Galleries in 1996 included the imaginative "Secret Life of the Home" and extensive new hands-on education facilities.

Seattle's Museum of History and Industry
McCurdy Park 2700 24th Ave East Seattle, WA 98112-2099	Phone: 206 324 1126 Fax: 206 324 1346

Seattle's Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI) makes the past a brand new experience. It has special hands-on activities, thought-provoking exhibits, and 1.5 million historic photos. MOHAI is the definitive place for everyone with a passion, curiosity, or question about the history of Seattle and King County since 1850.

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
6th & Independence Ave, SW Washington, DC 20560	Phone: 202 633 1000

The Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum (NASM) maintains the largest collection of historic air and spacecraft in the world. It is also a vital center for research into the history, science, and technology of aviation and space flight. Located on the National Mall in Washington, DC, the Museum has hundreds of artifacts on display including the original Wright 1903 Flyer, the Spirit of St. Louis, the Apollo 11 command module, and a Lunar rock sample that visitors can touch. The museum continues to develop new exhibits to examine the impact of air and space technology on science and society.

The museum on the National Mall features 22 exhibition galleries, the Lockheed Martin IMAX® theater, Albert Einstein Planetarium, flight simulators, a three level Museum Shop and food court style restaurant. Docent tours, daily free educational programs, and school group tours and activities are available.

The museum expanded with the opening of the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center on December 15, 2003. While this will eventually become the museum's primary restoration facility, artifacts are currently restored at the Museum's Paul E. Garber Preservation, Restoration, and Storage Facility in Suitland, MD.

Staff House Mining & Smelting Museum
820 McKinley Avenue Kellogg, ID 83837	Phone: 208 786 4141

The Shoshone County Mining & Smelting Museum, Inc. has a historic collection from the Bunker Hill Mining and Smelting Company and the surrounding Silver Valley. Bunker Hill was one of the oldest and largest mining companies in the Coeur d'Alene area of North Idaho. Rock and mineral displays, mining history and equipment displays, local history exhibits, and an art gallery.

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Texas Energy Museum
600 Main Street Beaumont, TX 77701	Phone: 409 833 5100

The Texas Energy Museum offers educational programs to public and private school groups. Programs focus on the science and history of petroleum energy and are available at no charge with advance reservations. 

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Virtuelles Museum für Industriekultur
Zitterhuck 21a, D-47608 Geldern	Phone: +49 (0)02835 444681 Fax: 49 303 426 481

Maintained by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Industriekultur (Duisburg). Discussion list, extensive German and international links to heritage sites.

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Werkbundarchiv - Museum der Dinge
Oranienstraße 25, D-10999 Berlin	Phone: +49 (0)30 / 92 10 63 –11 Fax: +49 (0)30 / 92 10 63 –12

Records of the Deutscher Werkbund founded in 1907.

Wells Fargo History Museums
420 Montgomery Street San Francisco, CA 94163	Phone: 415 396 2619

On the site where Wells Fargo first opened for business in 1852, this museum features a Wells Fargo stagecoach that carried passengers and gold across the western plains, an impressive display of gold dust and ore from California's Gold Country, and a special collection of Gold Rush letters carried by hundreds of express companies.

Wells Fargo's history gives it the opportunity and privilege of presenting free museums at eight other locations: Los Angeles, Sacramento, Old Sacramento, San Diego, Minneapolis, Portland, Anchorage, and Phoenix. Each museum presents Wells Fargo's role in the growth of America and its area.

Free tours are available for all ages, with emphasis complementing state primary and secondary American history curriculums. The museums also tailor tours for senior groups, college students and business professionals.

Western Railway Museum
5848 State Highway 12 Suisun, CA 94585	Phone: 707 374 2978

The Western Railway Museum gives visitors the opportunity to ride historic streetcars and interurban electric trains from all over California and other western states. Streetcars loop the shaded picnic grounds. Interurban cars run over the restored main line of the old Sacramento Northern Railway. With over 50 historic cars on display, railway exhibits, the Museum Bookstore and Gift Shop and the large, shaded picnic grounds, the Western Railway Museum is ideal for family and group outings.

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Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor
P.O. Box 533 Youngstown, OH 44501	Phone: 330 743 5934 Toll free: 1 800 262 6137

The Center of Industry and Labor is located at 151 West Wood Street in Youngstown, in Mahoning County. Wood Street is off of Market Street two blocks north of downtown.

The Youngstown Historical Center of Industry & Labor provides a dramatic overview of the impact of the iron and steel industry on Youngstown and other Mahoning Valley communities. The building, designed by renowned architect Michael Graves in 1986, houses the museum's permanent exhibit By the Sweat of Their Brow: Forging the Steel Valley, which explores labor, immigration and urban history, using videos, artifacts, photographs, and reconstructed scenes.

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Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen
Seestraße 22, 88045 Friedrichshafen Germany	Phone: 49 7541 3801 0 Fax: 49 7541 3801 81

With 43,000 sq. ft. of exhibition area, the Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen presents the world's greatest repository of objects on the history of airship flight and technology, ranging from its very beginning up to the Zeppelin NT.