Now Closed for Winter 2024

The museum is now closed for the winter period

It will reopen Easter weekend 2025
Special Events Listing

Entry

Industrial Heritage is particularly important as
we move into the age of technology, it keeps
us in touch with the practical skills that helped form
where we are today.

Internal Fire charts the development of the steam engine through to the most modern internal combustion engines. The continuous development that has shaped modern engine technology is demonstrated by working engines from 1850s steam engines through to modern computer controlled high speed diesels.

Engines run in the museum every day with a variety of sounds and smells that are eye opening to those who don't remember and evocative of a previous life to those who do.

Always Something Running

Daily what is happening

There are always engines running when we are open.
Things need to work to come alive and every day there will be engines running around the museum. At least 8 engines are running at any time and other engines are started and run throughout the day.

Telephone Exchanges

Working electro-mechanical exchange

In the Exchange Rooms are telephones dating back to the 1920s along with working exchanges connected around the museum.

Cafe

Daily coffees, cakes and sandwiches

The cafe does not prepare any hot food but has hot and cold drinks (do a nice cappuccino!) and there is "Parafinalia" our shop to look around.

Internal Fire Museum Of Power