Museums with collections that include Tractors & Construction plant, Steam Engines, Steam Lorries, Fair ground rides etc., And Agricultural & Rural life related material.

British MuseumsEdit

• The Science Museum, London. - National collection includes many vehicles.
• Acton Scott Museum of farming and rural life,
• Amberley Museum, Sussex - 'Working museum'
• Anson Engine Museum large collection of early oil and diesel engines, nr Manchester.
• Bradford Industrial Museum, Yorkshire - Steam roller and Jowett vehicles
• Barleylands Farming Museum, Essex - pair of ploughing engines
• Beamish Museum, County Durham - Farm machinery, Steam cranes, and various vehicles in a recreated park of villages, farms and mines.
• Belfast Transport Museum, Northern Ireland - steam tractor
• Bicton Gardens Museum, ?
• Bolton Steam Museum Large collection of Steam 'mill' engines in Bolton, Lancashire.
• The British Commercial Vehicle Museum, Leyland in Lancashire - Largest collection of Commercial Vehicles in Europe.^{[citation (source) needed]}
• Breamore Countryside Museum, Fordingbridge - Burrell traction engine
• Bridewell Museum, Norwich - Tidman Organ engine
• Brighton Engineerium - portable engine
• Burlesdon Brickworks Museum ? - Robey portable
• Chatham Historic Dockyard collection includes a Alberat steam roller and Aveling & Porter shunter loco
• Coalbrookdale Industrial Museum - Industrial heritage, Iron making based, Shropshire.
• Coors Brewery Museum, Borton on Trent - SentinelSteam wagon (museum shut in 2008)
• Country Life Museum Exmouth - Showmans engines
• Glasgow Transport Museum
• Gloucester City Museum, Gloucestershire - a roller by A.W Trotter
• Grampian Transport Museum
• Hampshire CC Museum,
• Hollycombe Steam collection
• Howth Castle National Museum of Transport
• Internal Fire Museum - internal combustion engines
• Kelham Island Museum Sheffield, has 1000 hp steam engine for powering a rolling mill .
• Kew Bridge Steam Museum, London Steam powered pumping station
• Leeds Industrial Museum, Yorkshire
• Leicester Museum of Technology, industrial museum
• Levens Hall Collection, Kendal - steam wagon
• Leyland Museum, Lancashire - steam wagon
• Lincoln Museum of Rural Life, Lincoln. - ploughing engines & steam shovel
• Lincolnshire Road Transport Museum - collection of Buses, Cars & Trucks - one with a Ruston built engine.
• Liverpool City Museum
• Liverpool Transport Museum
• Locomotion (NRM at Shildon), Steam crane, Alvis car and Trains & rail wagons
• Milestones Museum, Basingstoke - W. Tasker & Sons Ltd Portable, roller & wagon
• Museum of East Anglian Life, Stowmarket
• Museum of Power Welsh collection of stationary engines
• Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester (MOSI) - Burrell tractor
• Museum of Science and Industry, Birmingham
• Museum of Science and Technology, Birmingham
• Newcastle Science Museum - portable engine
• National Motor Museum, Beaulieu - Cars and motorcycles
• Norfolk Museum of Rural Life, East Dereham
• Nottingham Industrial Museum, Nottingham - several engines & portables
• Nottingham Transport Museum, collection of Trains, Buses and Miniature railways at Ruddington, Nottingham.
• Pallot Steam Museum, Jersey - 2 Marshall rollers
• Robey Trust Museum, 2 rollers and an engine, + several stationary steam engines.
• Royal Sottish Museum - William Tuxford & Sons portable
• Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden - related to Clayton & Shuttleworth company
• Strumpshaw Hall Steam Museum, collection of steam engines and a narrow gauge railway in Norfolk
• Summerlee Industrial Museum, Coatbridge, Lanarkshire - Varied collection of industrial related exhibits, Steam engines, trains, cars, machine tools, mining & iron works etc
• Swansea Maritime Museum
• The Longshop Museum, Leiston (Garrett Museum) - a collection of Garrett engines
• Threlkeld Mining Museum & Vintage Excavator Trust, Cumbria - Collection of excavators some working.
• Thursford Steam Museum, Norfolk - huge collection of steam engines and Fairground organs
• Ulster Folk Museum, Northern Ireland - Farming Heritage
• Vintage Vehicles Shildon - Commercial vehicle collection (run as a museum)
• The Waterworks Museum - Hereford
• Welsh Industrial and Maritime Museum, Cardiff
• Wortley Top Forge Museum, Barnsley - rare portable engine
• York Castle Museum - Tidman Organ engine

European MuseumsEdit

Denmark

• Andelslandsbyen Nyvang - Experience life on a co-operative farm from the 1870-1950 period in a live museum with people working, activities and exhibition. See the production of butter in the dairy from 1892. Follow every day life and get a cup of coffee at the small farmhouse from 1927. Go shopping in the co-operative store from 1940.
• Hjerl Hede, Vinderup, The museum shows the development of the Danish village from the year 1500 up to about 1900 with among other things a forge, an inn, mills, a school, a vicarage, a dairy, a grocer's shop and farms.and you can see how country people lived and worked in olden days. The old Danish races of livestock graze in the fields in the village.
• Industrimuseet, Horsens
• Sporvejsmuseet - The Danish Tram Museum

Ireland

• The National Transport Museum of Ireland[1] - collection of historical vehicles used in Ireland from the 1890s

Sweden

• Rubens maskinhistoriska samlingar The Rubens Historical Machinery Collection is an extensive private collection of interesting veteran and vintage machinery. The collection contains mostly power producing machinery such as steam engines or internal combustion engines of various kinds. Also associated working equipment, vehicles, vintage tractors, tools and various kinds of road maintenance machinery. The collection mostly covers the period of 1860-1950.
• Volvo Museum - Contains an extensive collection of machinery built by the company and its predecessors.

Norway

Konnerud Hill Mines

Ordinary mining operation was first started in 1729 by the Limited Company "Det jarlsbergske Sølvhaltige Blye- og Kobberværk". (The Jarlsbergske Silver, Lead and Copper Mine). The mining operation has been through several periods of time up to the final closedown in 1913.

The Museum The Museum is based at the lower level of the Mines at "Vaskeriet" and the lower Tunnel called "Kontaktstollen". In the Museum there will be displayed sections of the History from the different periods of mining operation together with mining equipment from other Mining activity in Norway.

Tours in the Mine At the lower entrance, level "Kontaktstollen" it is possible to get 700 meter inside. At this level it is possible to see the operation from the last period 1905 - 1913 with shafts, loadingstations and shafts with ladders. On level "Hovedstollen" (upper level) or "Wedels eies stoll" is it possible to see the operation from 1730 - 1770 with shafts, halls and tunnels made by fire of wood. Guided tours in these areas will contain technical details about the old mining industry and you will be able to experience the working conditions of those who once worked there.

The Mining Parkland at "Vaskeriet" From "Theys stoll" and the Parkingplace the Railway will bring you on to the Mining parkland "Vaskeriet" and futher on 500 meter in to "Konnerudgubbens Hall" at the same track as in 1912. The mining park surrounding the Museum offers all kind of experiences, both historical and geological and public foothpaths in the area, also up to upper level of the mines.

at the museum, we now have 30 locomotives and 110 mine cars of various types and sizes, locomotives from 1927 to 1989 models.

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International MuseumsEdit

• Heidrick Ag History Center (Woodland, California) - Large collection of antique tractors and implements, crawlers plus the Hays Antique Truck Museum antique truck collection.
• Hugh Manning Museum (Australia) - Collection of over 120 Tractors and Machinery exhibits in Western Australia.
• Lester F. Larsen Tractor Museum in Nebraska - the home of tractor performance testing
• Reynolds-Alberta Museum in Canada - Large collection of agricultural artefacts.
• Tracmach Museum in Australia - A large tractor collection in Perth, Australia.

See alsoEdit

• List of transport museums
• Clubs Listing
• Collections
• Organizations
• Shows and Meets

External linksEdit

• National Association of Road Transport Museums list

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