Calendar of Events

The National Museum of Industrial History will celebrate First Friday with the SouthSide Arts District by offering reduced $5 admission from 4pm to 8pm and a special slideshow (free to the public without museum admission) with hundreds of rare photos from the construction and subsequent years of Martin Tower titled “Building an Icon.” Celebrating nearly […]

NMIH is excited to host Gordon Baker, a retired licensed professional engineer and Civil Engineering graduate from Lehigh University has a unique history with Martin Tower. Assigned to Bethlehem Steel’s Fabricated Steel Construction (FSC) division, a sector of the company known throughout the industry as the place to go for major steel structures, he helped […]

Join NMIH for a fun-filled Community Appreciation Day brought to you by Moravian Village of Bethlehem.  Guests can enjoy free admission, youth coloring activities, and raffle prizes throughout the day.  Additionally, the following activities are scheduled during the day and are free admission: • Special screening of 'Men At Lunch' documentary at 10:30am • Special […]

For over a decade the National Museum of Industrial History has been working with staff and volunteers to restore a massive 115-ton stationary steam engine to working order.  Now, with the contributions of local companies and thousands of volunteer manhours, the museum’s Corliss water pumping engine runs again, 105 years after being built by the […]

For over a decade the National Museum of Industrial History has been working with staff and volunteers to restore a massive 115-ton stationary steam engine to working order.  Now, with the contributions of local companies and thousands of volunteer manhours, the museum’s Corliss water pumping engine runs again, 105 years after being built by the […]

For over a decade the National Museum of Industrial History has been working with staff and volunteers to restore a massive 115-ton stationary steam engine to working order. Now, with the contributions of local companies and thousands of volunteer manhours, the museum’s Corliss water pumping engine runs again, 105 years after being built by the […]

For over a decade the National Museum of Industrial History has been working with staff and volunteers to restore a massive 115-ton stationary steam engine to working order. Now, with the contributions of local companies and thousands of volunteer manhours, the museum’s Corliss water pumping engine runs again, 105 years after being built by the […]

Join us this Saturday as we welcome WDIY 88.1 FM's own Greg Capogna as he looks at the history and evolution of radio, from the science of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz and Guglielmo Marconi, to the emotional trust bond created by the portable transistor radio, and the impact that audio has on your life. Greg began […]

Following its extremely successful debut weekend earlier this month, NMIH is hosting an encore demonstration of its massive 115-ton Corliss water pumping engine on Father’s Day, June 16th at 12pm and 3pm. The museum is also offering half off admission to all dads on Father’s Day with another youth or adult admission.  Regular admission to […]

For June's special How It Works tour Mike Helbing will lead a talk and tour about New Jersey's Morris Canal. The waterway was built in the 1820s and 1830s, eventually connecting the Lehigh Valley to the New York Harbor. Anthracite coal, iron, and other goods shipped on the canal spurred industrial development. The afternoon will […]