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The National Waterways Museum (NWM) is in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, at the northern end of the Shropshire Union Canal where it meets the Manchester Ship Canal (grid reference). The NWM's collections and archives focus on the Britain's navigable inland waterways, including its rivers and canals , and include canal boats , traditional ...
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National Waterways Museum: Ellesmere Port: Transport: Canal boats, history of the canals [3] Nether Alderley Mill: Nether Alderley: Mill: Victorian water-powered corn mill; operated by the National Trust [31] Norton Priory Museum: Runcorn: Religious: 12–16th-century abbey and 18th-century country house with ruins, archaeological artifacts and ...
In the summer of 2010 the Gloucester site was renamed the Gloucester Waterways Museum, focussing on the local area. This meant that the museum could apply for funding of a different type from the types that were available to national museums. [2] The museum features a collection of boats including narrowboats, river barges, canal and river tugs ...
Through its charitable arm The Waterways Trust, British Waterways maintained a museum of its history at the National Waterways Museum's three sites at Gloucester Docks, Stoke Bruerne and Ellesmere Port. Since the transfer of the assets and responsibilities of British Waterways to the Canal & River Trust, The Waterways Trust in England and Wales ...
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The museum is housed in a restored Grade II listed corn mill at the top of a flight of canal locks, [6] and is one of several museums and attractions operated by the Canal & River Trust, the successor to The Waterways Trust. The museum tells the story of Britain's inland waterways and the people who worked on them.
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, America's first natural history museum There are natural history museums in all 50 of the United States and the District of Columbia . The oldest such museum, the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , was founded in 1812.