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12/3/2024
The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust has 20 charity places available for runners who would like to run and raise funds on its behalf at the Ironbridge Half Marathon 2025.
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10/28/2024
The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust is pleased to announce that its Sunflower Room project has been chosen by Co-op as one of the causes its members will support in the year to October 2025.
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9/26/2024
Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron and Enginuity will be closed on Friday 27 September 2024 due to flooding.
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9/24/2024
This Halloween the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust is hosting a series of themed talks and workshops for curious and creative adults.
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9/20/2024
Until Sunday 29 September the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust is offering a 30% discount on its annual PASS to people with a local postcode.
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9/18/2024
On Friday 20 and Saturday 21 September, the Engine Shop in Coalbrookdale is welcoming back the Coalbrookdale Beer Festival.
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9/16/2024
Tickets are now on sale for Christmas celebrations at Blists Hill Victorian Town. From carolling and panto-style entertainment to period festive food and drink, and, of course, the chance to meet Father Christmas, there will be a range of festive events for all the family. Plus, for the first time in 2024, there will be a special grotto for visitors with SEND and dementia.
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9/3/2024
The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust is calling for volunteers to help it complete the second phase of a project to conserve two Sentinel locomotives from its Arts Council Designated Collections.
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9/2/2024
To mark the 2024 Heritage Open Days and celebrate the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Festival, on Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 September the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust is opening the doors of its Coalbrookdale sites for free.
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8/29/2024
On Thursday 26 September, the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust is hosting a fashion-themed afternoon tea event to raise money to give local children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) the chance to have a magical experience this Christmas.
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8/28/2024
This summer holidays, the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust is partnering with Happy Health Active Holidays, a Telford & Wrekin Council programme to run holidays clubs during school holidays, and welcoming school children to Blists Hill Victorian Town.
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8/20/2024
Tickets are now on sale for two of Ironbridge’s biggest seasonal events, Blists Hill Victorian Town’s scary Halloween evenings and spectacular Fireworks Night.
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8/12/2024
In August and September the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust is partnering with local community groups to host a series of events at the Museum of the Gorge in Ironbridge. The series launched on Monday 12 August with an event hosted by the Shrewsbury and Newport Canals Trust.
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8/8/2024
On Saturday, 10 August, at its annual Steam Gala event, the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust will launch a new £100,000 fundraising appeal, Get Us Winding Again, to raise funds to repair the winding engine at Blists Hill Victorian Town.
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7/29/2024
This Disability Pride Month, the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust (IGMT) is celebrating its relationship with local charity Parents Open Doors (PODS).
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7/24/2024
The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust has received a gift of original saggars and pipes that will go on display at the Broseley Pipeworks when it reopens for the summer season on Thursday 25 July 2024.
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7/17/2024
On the morning of Monday 22 July, curators from the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust will celebrate the summer opening of the Darby Houses by showing visitors three unique objects that are not usually on display.
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7/16/2024
On Saturday 27 July Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron is joining museums and heritage organisations around the country and taking part in the national Festival of Archaeology.
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7/8/2024
From today, 8 July, an advert for the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust is running on Sky TV to promote its ten museums for the summer holidays.
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7/8/2024
Following its success in 2023, the Victorian Seaside Experience is returning to Blists Hill Victorian Town for a second year.
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7/3/2024
The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust is delighted to announce it has received its first gift towards its new Gift a Day fundraising initiative.
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7/1/2024
On Saturday 22 June, Windrush Day 2024, the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust hosted a special event to honour a Caribbean member of the local community who has contributed to the development of Telford and Shropshire.
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6/25/2024
The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust has launched a new Gift a Day fundraising initiative.
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6/4/2024
On Friday 21 and Saturday 22 June 2024, the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust will host its second annual fashion show, taking fashionistas and historical costume fans on a 500-year journey through fashion history.
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5/13/2024
The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust is delighted to announce that His Majesty The King has chosen to continue his Royal Patronage of the Trust.
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4/24/2024
From 24 April until 1 December 2024, the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust will host a new free temporary exhibition exploring the science of iron. ‘From Stars to Cells: The Life of Iron’, curated by the heritage conservation and education charity in partnership with Keele University, and supported by ACE, will take visitors on a journey from iron’s origins in space billions of years ago through to its use by humankind and in the Ironbridge Gorge. A highlight will be a decorative bead from ancient Egypt, on loan from University College London and exhibited outside London for the very first time.
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3/18/2024
Association of Leading Visitor Attractions announces annual visitor figures to UK attractions
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2/29/2024
The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust and Keele University, in partnership with the University of Manchester, are pleased to announce a new PhD studentship funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The PhD will explore the identity of Telford and the Ironbridge Gorge from the new town’s launch in 1968 up to the present day.
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2/21/2024
Historic England has awarded funding to the Industrial Heritage Support Officer for England (IHSO) project to commission a new survey of the circa 600 industrial heritage sites in England that are open to the public. Applications are now open for consultants to apply to carry out the survey.
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2/19/2024
IGMT celebrates 150th anniversary of Craven Dunnill tile factory
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2/14/2024
This February half term Jackfield Tile Museum is launching a new free visitor guide created in partnership with Bloomberg Connects.
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2/7/2024
To mark the 50th anniversary of the death of the writer and biographer LTC Rolt, the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust has partnered with academics from Keele University to organise a conference on 10 May 2024 to celebrate his life and the continuing legacy of his work. This follows the completion, in August 2023, of the cataloguing and digitisation of the Rolt Collection of manuscripts and working papers. The conference programme has now been announced.
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1/31/2024
The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust is pleased to announce that the Museum of the Gorge in Ironbridge is now open following essential conservation work. Visitors to the museum, a former warehouse used…
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10/23/2023
To mark the 50th anniversary of the death of the writer and biographer LTC Rolt, the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust has partnered with academics from Keele University to organise a conference on 10…
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10/2/2023
During October, for Black History Month, the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust has collaborated with Windrush Generation Telford & Wrekin…
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9/1/2023
On 14 September, from 2pm-6pm, the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust is opening the Museum of the Gorge for an afternoon and inviting the public to share their…
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5/26/2023
The Severn Art exhibition returns for it's 8th year.
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5/6/2023
Trustees, staff and volunteers of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust send their best wishes to King Charles III who is crowned today.
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4/5/2023
Advanced notice of disruption at Blists Hill Victorian Town
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3/3/2023
Coal fires for heat and oil lamps for lighting meant that spring cleaning was a necessity for the house-proud Victorians.
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2/23/2023
The historic Ironbridge Gorge was the star of the small screen tonight as contestants from the latest episode of hit BBC One show The Apprentice headed to Blists Hill Victorian Town.
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1/24/2023
The popular 'Horrible Histories - Barmy Britain!' stage show is set to visit Enginuity this summer, on Thursday 3rd and Friday 4th August.
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1/10/2023
THE IRONBRIDGE GORGE GOES INTERGALACTIC THIS FEBRUARY HALF TERM From star-gazing in Coalbrookdale to a trip to the moon, Victorian style, visitors to the Ironbridge Gorge are in for an out of this…
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12/1/2022
The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust is trialling cutting edge energy saving equipment at it's Coalbrookdale Headquarters, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, which will reduce the site's…
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11/23/2022
Work has begun on the digitisation of historically significant 'The Peskin Diaries'.
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11/10/2022
This time last year we were marvelling at the freshly conserved painted facade at Jackfield Tile Museum; this year we're admiring our new gates!
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11/4/2022
The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust will receive £2.2 million in funding over the next three years following an announcement by Arts Council England today.
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10/21/2022
The landmark restoration of Coalbrookdale's famous Boy & Swan Fountain is progressing, under the leadership of specialist metalwork conservator, Peter Meehan.Peter is the owner of the Much Wenlock…
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10/21/2022
Applications to take part in a unique fully-funded PhD research project to examine the links between art and industry in the West Midlands have opened this week with applications being welcomed from…
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10/6/2022
Blists Hill Victorian Town has today been named as one of the UKs best open air museums by The Times and The Sunday Times.
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10/3/2022
Coalbrookdale's iconic Boy & Swan fountain has been temporarily relocated to a workshop within Engniuity, where it will be conserved by specialists over the next two weeks.
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9/20/2022
Younger visitors to Blists Hill Victorian Town & Coalbrookdale can eat for free next month as the museum launches its ‘Kids Eat Free’ scheme ahead of the October half term.
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9/12/2022
This October Half Term we're embracing everything spooky about Ironbridge Valley of Invention. With Halloween themed events spanning all of our museums, there'll be something for everyone to get involved in between 22 - 30 October.
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9/8/2022
Trustees, staff & volunteers at The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust are saddened to learn of the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
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8/29/2022
The Secret Severn Art Exhibition returns to Jackfield Tile Museum; showcasing work from local artists and creatives.
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8/25/2022
Have-a-go on us! As the summer holidays draw to a close we're giving everyone visiting Blists Hill Victorian Town a little treat - enjoy a free activity each time you visit before 4 September. What…
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8/15/2022
Two Pit Ponies will be visiting Blists Hill Victorian Town on selected days over the Summer.
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7/27/2022
24 year old Oliver Meeson will be demonstrating his heritage craft skills at Broseley Pipeworks this summer.
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7/25/2022
The former homes of Coalbrookdale's Quaker Ironmasters have reopened to the public today (Monday 25th July).
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7/14/2022
We're pleased to announce that the popular Gallopers will be returning to Blists Hill Victorian Town, until Sunday 4th September.
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7/5/2022
We're thrilled to welcome the Queen's Baton Relay to Blists Hill Victorian Town as part of its epic journey across the Commonwealth.
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6/27/2022
Plan your year of days out with our newly announced summer events programme for Blists Hill Victorian Town!
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6/27/2022
We’re delighted to announce the launch of two new ticketing options.
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5/31/2022
The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust would like to express it's gratitude to the volunteers who make a valuable contribution to the Trust, this Volunteers Week.
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5/11/2022
The Costume Project's team of talented costume interpreters deliver new costumes for the National Trust's Lanhydrock Estate.
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4/18/2022
Today, Monday 18 April, is the 50th anniversary of the first UNESCO World Heritage Sites. We're marking this occasion with a family-friendly trail around some of the key monuments in the Ironbridge…
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5/15/2017
Discover more about your favourite heroes of history, engineering and sport during the spring half term, 27 May – 4 June
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