Calendar of Events

Join us on the third Sunday of each month for this drop-in style family program to engage in S.T.E.A.M. concepts like building, engineering, and strategic thinking. As part of our Free Family Sundays program, all youth 12 and under receive free admission when accompanied by an adult.

Join us on the third Sunday of each month for a drop-in style family program to engage in S.T.E.A.M. concepts like building, engineering, and strategic thinking. As part of our Free Family Sundays program, all youth 12 and under receive free admission when accompanied by an adult. 

Science, art, and manufacturing come together in these hands-on, kid friendly, demonstrations where participants learn how to prepare sand molds to receive molten tin and create a product to take home.

Metal Melting for Kids is part of our Free Family Sundays initiative. Each Sunday, youth 12 and under receive free admission when accompanied by an adult.

In 1872, one of the world’s largest stationary engines was put into operation just south of Bethlehem, PA at the Friedensville Zinc Mines. Today, the massive stone Cornish engine house still remains. Mark Connar will tell us how he dove into the President Pump’s history and is working with the township, property owner, and a larger coalition to preserve the site and its industrial heritage.

Science, art, and manufacturing come together in these hands-on, kid friendly, demonstrations where participants learn how to prepare sand molds to receive molten tin and create a product to take home.

NMIH is excited to be an exhibitor during Young at Art - a free event encouraging youth to explore the arts and ignite their creative passions.

The Corliss engine will run at 11:30am and 2:30pm. For more than a decade the museum’s staff, volunteers, and community partners worked to restore our massive 115-ton Corliss steam engine to working order, 105 years after being built by the Snow Steam Pump Works in Buffalo, N.Y. The engine was used by the York Water […]

Join us on the third Sunday of each month for a drop-in style family program to engage in S.T.E.A.M. concepts like building, engineering, and strategic thinking. As part of our Free Family Sundays program, all youth 12 and under receive free admission when accompanied by an adult.

Science, art, and manufacturing come together in these hands-on, kid friendly, demonstrations where participants learn how to prepare sand molds to receive molten tin and create a product to take home. Metal Melting for Kids is part of our Free Family Sundays initiative. Each Sunday, youth 12 and under receive free admission when accompanied by an adult. Metal Melting for Kids occurs on the First and Third Sundays of the months of February through April from 12-3pm.

In the mid-twentieth century, the Lehigh Valley had a thriving needle trade and textile industry. The business owners were the largest employer of women in the area and many were pillars of the local Jewish community. The stories of the owners, their families, and their businesses have not been told.