Summerlee, Museum of Scottish Industrial Life 5.09

Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life, formerly known as Summerlee Heritage Park, is an industrial museum in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It was built on the site of the Victorian Summerlee Iron Works and incorporated the main workshop of the former Hydrocon Crane factory. The museum is managed by CultureNL Ltd.It temporarily closed in 2006, but reopened on 26 September 2008 following a £10m refurbishment (pictured right).The former main hall was completely redesigned by North Lanarkshire Council's in-house Design Team and now includes a stainless steel café pod and futuristic viewing pavilion. The museum aims to show Lanarkshire's contribution to engineering, and incorporates interactive displays and a temporary exhibition space.The museum also incorporates several railway steam locomotives, preserved carriages from a 1960s era Glasgow Class 311 and has a short working tram line.The museumThis contains... the main exhibition hall the Scheduled Ancient Monument of the remains of Summerlee iron works the Scheduled Ancient Monument of Gartsherrie cut of Monkland Canal and Howe's basin the railway the sawmill and Foster engine the miners' row and gardens the Summerlee Sweetie Shop the exhibition of Vulcan: Scotland's first iron boat contained within a replica of the original barge the tramway and depot the replica mine and surface buildings 22 acres of space including an award-winning play area