Calendar of Events

Join us for an author talk and book signing with St. Francis University Communications Professor Pat Farabaugh as he discusses his new book on the three major floods in Johnstown and the region’s long history as a leader in the nation’s steel industry.

Santa, S.T.E.A.M., and sweet treats! Get into the holiday spirit at the National Museum of Industrial History as we dedicate the all-new Air Products Pavilion in Foundry Park, the latest community gathering space on the SteelStacks campus. Visitors will enjoy free Museum admission from 9am to 11am with complimentary cocoa and cookies, family-friendly S.T.E.A.M. activities, […]

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 […]

A rare piece of Lehigh Valley railroading history is back in town thanks to two historical non-profits.

Learn how the late Lance Metz, long-time historian for the National Canal Museum, had the foresight to foster a relationship with the great grandniece of Ellen and John Fritz, the history behind the Kemerer Museum/National Canal Museum exhibit in the 1980s, and the 200th anniversary exhibit today jointly brought to you by NMIH and the […]

Work in the steel industry has greatly evolved in the 100+ years since the death of John Fritz. What would Fritz have thought about the transitions facing steelworkers in the 20th century? Veteran Steelworker, Historian, and Author Donald S. Young explores the dynamic changes that steelworkers faced and continue to experience in the American Steel […]

The Corliss engine will run at 11:30am and 2:30pm. Please note date change due to inclement weather to 3/19. 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 […]

Did you ever wonder what it would take to create a brand-new human powered rail car or revive a rusty railroad "speeder" with a gas engine over 80 years old?  Learn from the people who have done just that and see the rail cars in person.

The National Museum of Industrial History is excited to offer a hands-on train engineer experience on its newly-restored narrow gauge locomotive! Situated in the museum’s park area, the 1941 Whitcomb diesel-electric locomotive was used at Bethlehem Steel in the Electric Furnace Melt Shop where it moved charging buggies filled with scrap metal. Restored by museum […]