Help make a difference
As an Educational Charity, completely independent of Government, the Ironbridge Gorge Museum relies on the generosity of all its supporters to carry out its work. Through income from tickets, donations and revenue raised from our commercial operations, the Museum is able to conserve, maintain and interpret the remarkable monuments to Britain’s industrial history that survive in the scenic Ironbridge Gorge.
We protect, manage and open to the public ten sites spread over six square miles. They embrace over thirty eight monuments, factories or structures, of which thirty are Listed or Scheduled, and around one hundred acres of woodland in the World Heritage Site. They contain within them over one hundred and fifty thousand objects spanning ‘The Great Age of Industry’.
Inside our doors you will find National collections of Decorative Arts - from Caughley and Coalport porcelain, Tiles and Architectural Ceramics to Decorative Metalwork and Art on industrial subjects - as well as pre-eminent social history and engineering collections, the largest source of archive and illustrative material outside London relating to the life and works of Thomas Telford, together with a complete working Foundry, a recreated Victorian Town, thousands of shards and the only Wrought Ironworks in the world.
An extensive programme of building conservation, demonstrations, publications, lectures, exhibitions and information services underpins the Museum’s continued commitment to education. We look forward to working with all our partners and supporters to continue our work and raise the extra funds needed to realise projects planned for the Twenty First Century.
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