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7-662: 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

14-555: A location's identity as it serves as evidence of progress and landmark achievements. The international organization dedicated to the study and preservation of such is The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage , known as TICCIH. These initiatives are partly driven by an interest in innovation and ingenuity or efforts to compensate for irreparable loss. This history article

21-532: A research library, a tourist information centre, woodland, and two youth hostels . The Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage, formerly the Ironbridge Institute , is a centre for cross-disciplinary research, postgraduate teaching and policy engagement based at the University of Birmingham . Industrial heritage Industrial heritage refers to the physical remains of

28-405: Is also argued that it includes the so-called sociofacts or aspects of social and institutional organizations, and mentifacts that constitute the attitudinal characteristics and value systems industrial heritage sites. The scientific study of industrial remains is called industrial archaeology . The industrial heritage of a region is an aspect of its cultural heritage . It also forms part of

35-705: 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 . The ten museum sites run by the Trust, collectively known as The Ironbridge Gorge Museums are: The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust

42-456: The history of technology and industry , such as manufacturing and mining sites, as well as power and transportation infrastructure. Another definition expands this scope so that the term also covers places used for social activities related to industry such as housing, museums, education or religious worship, among other structures with values from a variety of fields in order to highlight the interdisciplinary character of industrial heritage. It

49-801: Was established in 1968 to preserve and interpret the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution in the Ironbridge Gorge. It is an independent educational charity . From 1970 it absorbed the Coalbrookdale Museum, now the Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron, which had been established in 1959. The museum staff manage 35 historic sites within the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site, including ten museums. The sites also include archaeological sites, two chapels, housing, two Quaker burial grounds,

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