Virtual Museum: The Magnificent Machines of Milwaukee
The upcoming presentation will provide stories of engineering innovation and enterprise creation in Milwaukee, focusing on Allis-Chalmers and Pawling & Harnischfeger. These two Milwaukee companies, along with seventy others, are chronicled in the Magnificent Machines of Milwaukee, a recent book that explores industrial Milwaukee during the Century of Progress—the hundred years following the US Civil […]
Virtual Museum: What’s up there? NMIH’s P&H Overhead Crane
This presentation will describe the artifact every visitor to the Museum walks under, the massive P&H overhead crane in the lobby.
Virtual Museum: Meet the Volunteers
NMIH’s volunteers are vital to the success of the museum. From helping educate youth to restoring massive industrial machinery, the museum wouldn’t be what it is without our wonderful crew of dedicated volunteers. Join several of our longtime volunteers in a casual Q&A to find out what they do at the museum, what projects they’ve […]
Virtual Museum: Artist Talk with Christopher Bathgate
Coinciding with the exhibit extension of his gorgeous works of precisely machined sculptures, Baltimore-based self-trained machinist and sculptor Chris Bathgate will virtually present on his work and process on Monday, August 10th at 2pm and free to view live via the museum’s Facebook page or afterwards on our Facebook or YouTube pages. Mr. Bathgate utilizes […]
Passport to History: The Corliss Comes Alive
Celebrate Lehigh Valley Passport to History weekend with the National Museum of Industrial History by watching a massive 115-ton steam engine come to life!
Virtual 2020 Annual Gala
Join us for a week of fun, educational virtual programs, and events that celebrate America’s rich industrial past, present and future.
NMIH Virtual Gala Lecture: Tesla – Inventor of the Electrical Age
Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the twentieth century. His inventions, patents, and theoretical work formed the basis of modern AC electricity, and contributed to the development of radio and television. Like his competitor Thomas Edison, Tesla was one of America’s first celebrity […]
NMIH Virtual Gala Lecture: Prohibition in the Industrial Age
Historian Garrett Peck will trace the history of alcohol in America through the industrial age, including prohibition and the effects it had on the country's relationship with alcohol. Garrett Peck is an author, public historian and tour guide in the nation's capital. He leads tours through The Smithsonian Associates, and his Temperance Tour of Prohibition-related […]
Steel Weekend – Saturday
he National Museum of Industrial History is hosting a special weekend of programming in celebration of Steel Day on Saturday, September 26th and Sunday, September 27th.
Steel Weekend – Sunday
The National Museum of Industrial History is hosting a special weekend of programming in celebration of Steel Day on Saturday, September 26th and Sunday, September 27th.