Calendar of Events

NMIH's annual celebration of all things steel returns this September 25th and 26th!

Join NMIH Historian Mike Piersa and staff photographer Glenn Koehler for a photo workshop that will take you back in time.

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 […]

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 […]

The National Museum of Industrial History will honor those who served with its annual Veterans Day ceremony on Thursday, November 11. The day will begin at 10am with a commemoration ceremony hosted by the Steelworkers Veteran’s Memorial Committee on the Museum’s plaza followed by a special talk on the history behind the construction of the […]

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.