Calendar of Events

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 […]

By the 1880s, the United States was emerging as a huge world economic power. But its Navy, with a fleet of outmoded wooden hulled vessels, was one of the worlds' most inferior. Learn how the Bethlehem Iron Company transformed and rebuilt the American Navy and changed the course of 20th century. About the Speaker - […]

Visitors enjoy free admission and special programming on April 23rd

A virtual conversation with Ocean Spray Lehigh Valley Plant Manager Chad Hammerly

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 […]

Join us for Family Sunday at the Museum and learn about Fritz Medal recipient Herbert Hoover and the Hoover Dam. We will read a story about the Hoover Dam, learn how Herbert Hoover won the Fritz Medal, and do a hands-on S.T.E.A.M. dam building activity.

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 […]