Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust

The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust is an industrial heritage organisation which runs ten museums and manages multiple historic sites within the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site in Shropshire, England, widely considered as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. The Gorge includes a number of settlements important to industrial history and with heritage assets, including Ironbridge, Coalport and Jackfield along the River Severn, and also Coalbrookdale and Broseley. The area was among the first sites in the United Kingdom to be declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986. In 1977, the Ironbridge Gorge Museum was awarded National Heritage Museum of the Year. Museums The ten museum sites run by the Trust, collectively known as The Ironbridge Gorge Museums are: Blists Hill Victorian Town, including the Hay Inclined Plane Broseley Pipeworks Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron Coalport China Museum Tar Tunnel Darby Houses Enginuity Iron Bridge and Tollhouse Jackfield Tile Museum Museum of the Gorge