Are there any machinery museums?
There are several museums that deal in some way with metalworking. Basically, if it has something to do with big machinery or manufacturing, it’s a candidate for this list. This includes transportation museums because they often have interesting machinery like locomotives. This list is organized by geographic areas. U.S.A. Maine Owls Head Transportation Museum, just South of Rockland, Maine (about midway up the Maine coast). Many airplanes, but also bicycles, static and cutaway aircraft engines, automobiles, and early steam and gasoline engines. In summertime they do car shows and regular weekend flying shows, and run some of the other equipment such as a Buffalo Springfield steam roller and a one-cylinder Mogul tractor. Occasionally have auctions of engines, model and full-size, and other mechanical stuff; these are consignment auctions that benefit the museum, not “overstock” of the museum itself. Phone (207) 594-4418. http://www.midcoast.
