Calendar of Events

The Dent Hardware Company from Fullerton, PA was the nation’s leading manufacturer of refrigerator hardware and one of the largest producers of cast iron toys in the state! To coincide with NMIH's holiday cast iron toy display, brothers Peter Dent and Charlie Dent will share the story of their family’s innovative spirit and legacy. From […]

Get into the holiday spirit and exercise your creativity, problem solving and critical thinking skills as you design your tasty constructions!  GingerBuilding supplies will be provided for each family unit to build and work together in creating their ginger structure.  All participants will receive the Architect Award pin for completing their GingerBuilding. NMIH hosts the […]

Following its extremely successful debut earlier this year, NMIH is hosting an encore demonstration of its massive 115-ton Corliss water pumping engine. For more than a decade the museum’s staff, volunteers, and community partners worked to restore the engine to working order, 105 years after being built by the Snow Steam Pump Works in Buffalo, […]

Coinciding with NMIH’s holiday cast iron toy exhibit is a special “How It Works” presentation with NMIH Historian Mike Piersa on the process of casting toys and other products. Created by skilled workers using a foundry method called sand casting, the toys became popular in the latter half of the 19th century as they used […]