Nottingham Industrial Museum

Basford Beam Engine

The Nottingham Industrial Museum is a volunteer-run museum situated in part of the 17th-century stables block of Wollaton Hall, located in a suburb of the city of Nottingham.[1] The museum won the Nottinghamshire Heritage Site of the Year Award 2012, a local accolade issued by Experience Nottinghamshire.[2] The Museum collection closed in 2009 after Nottingham City Council withdrew funding, but has since reopened at weekends and bank holidays, helped by a £91,000 government grant,[3][4] and run by volunteers. [a] The museum contains a display of local textiles machinery, transport, telecommunications, mining and engineering technology. There is a display of cycles, motorcycles, and motor cars. There are examples of significant lace-making machinery. It also houses an operational beam engine, from the Basford, Nottingham pumping station.

  1. ^ "Nottingham Industrial Museum".
  2. ^ "2012 Nottinghamshire Heritage Awards".
  3. ^ Nottingham Industrial Museum reopens after three years, BBC News, Nottingham, 17 March 2012. Retrieved 7 April 2017
  4. ^ Nottingham Industrial Museum, events calendar 2017, Retrieved 7 April 2017


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