North Lanarkshire Council Museums & Heritage
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Governing body:
North Lanarkshire Council
Institution type:
Library
Museum
Archive
Museum
Archive
Institution type:
Local Authority
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Local Access Conditions:
ENTRY TO ALL BUILDINGS IS FREE OF CHARGE:
see www.northlan.gov.uk for details
Building Description:
Summerlee Museum, which reopened in September 2008 after a £10million redevelopment, contains indoor and outdoor displays, including a drift mine with 1810 beam engine, reconstructed miners rows, Scotland’s only working tramway and the remains of Summerlee Ironworks, a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The main exhibition hall is situated in the former premises of the Hydrocon crane works and the museum also includes a building from the Summerlee Ironworks, which closed in 1932. There is a café, education suite, temporary exhibition space and conference facilities.
Motherwell Heritage Centre, which opened in 1996, houses a Local Studies Library and permanent displays, a temporary exhibition gallery, education room and viewing tower.
Collections Overview:
The North Lanarkshire Council Museums and Heritage service looks after and promotes the cultural heritage of the area through our museums collections.
The service is responsible for the operation of 6 registered museums, the archives and records centre, local history, museums outreach services, and corporate records management.
Highlights of the institution:
The coal-mining related museum collections include an electric winding engine from Cardowan Colliery, now restored to motion in the exhibition hall, a Newcomen beam engine from Farme Colliery (on loan from Culture and Sport Glasgow), an 1898 0-4-0 Gibb and Hogg tank engine (the last surviving North Lanarkshire-built locomotive), which worked at several Lanarkshire collieries and a 1909 0-6-0 shunting locomotive, used at Bedlay Colliery until 1981.
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