National Waterways Museum

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The National Waterways Museum holds the inland waterways collection at three museum sites in England: Gloucester, Ellesmere Port, and Stoke Bruerne.

The museum is operated by The Waterways Trust and receives sponsorship from British Waterways. It is concerned with Britain's navigable inland waterways, including rivers and canals. It is an Anchor Point of ERIH, The European Route of Industrial Heritage.

The original National Waterways Museum at Gloucester is housed in a Victorian warehouse at Gloucester Docks, in the city of Gloucester. It has a collection of boats including narrowboats, river barges, canal and river tugs, and a steam powered dredger. There is also a steam crane and heavy oil engine in the setting of a canal repair yard, complete with working machine shop, forge and weighbridge. The museum uses modern interactive techniques and hands on exhibits.

The Boat Museum, South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, and the Canal Museum (Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum), Stoke Bruerne, Towcester, Northamptonshire have been incorporated into the National Waterways Museum.

[edit] See also

• National Maritime Museum – England's national museum of ocean going transport, which is at Greenwich in London.

[edit] References

• The Waterways Trust's campaign to obtain government funding

[edit] External links

• Official site