The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust is offering free admission to its Coalbrookdale sites on September 7th and 8th to celebrate Heritage Open Days and the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Festival.
2 Sept 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.
13 Aug 2024
The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust is today launching a new £100,000 fundraising appeal, 'Get Us Winding Again', to raise funds to repair the winding engine at Blists Hill Victorian Town.
10 Aug 2024
The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust is turning back the clock to 1973 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Blists Hill Victorian Town with a 70s Summer Party.
28 Jul 2023
A major appeal to help fund the long-term conservation of some of Shropshire’s beloved heritage, including listed buildings and monuments, has just under a quarter remaining to raise to reach its goal by March 2023.
31 Aug 2022
With over 25 years of combined experience in the cultural sector, The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust is set to welcome two new members to its senior leadership team in early 2022.
7 Jan 2022
A new low-emission, lightweight train is being demonstrated in Ironbridge, with the hope of reopening disused railway lines and extending existing networks.
26 Oct 2021
The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust is more than halfway to its fundraising target to repair a replica of the world’s first steam locomotive.
11 Oct 2021
Ironbridge has changed dramatically since the Industrial Revolution, its landscape altered again on Friday with the demolition of a 204-metre chimney, at Ironbridge Power Station.
6 Sept 2021
A 20-year masterplan has been put in place at Blists Hill Victorian Town to enhance and protect 0.2 hectares of woodland and its wildlife.
25 Aug 2021
Funding of £2,617,499 has been awarded through the Arts Council to support 26 organisations in Shropshire as part of today’s announcement of further funding through the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund.
2 Apr 2021
The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust chief executive, Nick Ralls, today welcomed the Chancellor's expected £408m support package for the arts sector.
2 Mar 2021
A major new research project has been launched by The Ironbridge Gorge Museums Trust to uncover the overlooked histories of the area – and it wants the public to get involved too.
24 Feb 2021
The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust has been awarded £1.86 million from the Government's Culture Recovery Fund to help its long-term recovery from the coronavirus lockdown.
24 Oct 2020
A huge public thank you to the region’s NHS, care and emergency workers by the Ironbridge Gorge Museums has been hailed a resounding success.
7 Aug 2020
NHS, care and emergency workers and their families are to be given free entry to the Ironbridge Gorge museums as a special thank you for their work during the coronavirus lockdown.
14 Jul 2020
The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust has been awarded £500,000 by Arts Council England to help it recover from the coronavirus lockdown.
8 Jul 2020
Nick Ralls the general manager of the Severn Valley Railway is leaving the organisation later this year to join the Ironbridge Gorge Museums Trust as chief executive.
25 Jun 2019
The race is on for the people to get behind a £1m fundraising campaign to ensure historic buildings and monuments in the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site are secured for future generations.
20 Jul 2018
Bedlam Furnaces, one of the most important industrial monuments in the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site, has been taken off Historic England’s Heritage at Risk Register.
31 Oct 2017
