The Hoogovensmuseum is a museum located on the northern side of the

North Sea Canal The North Sea Canal ( nl, Noordzeekanaal) is a Dutch ship canal from Amsterdam to the North Sea at IJmuiden, constructed between 1865 and 1876 to enable seafaring vessels to reach the port of Amsterdam. This man-made channel terminates at Amsterd ...

sluice gates at

IJmuiden IJ_(digraph).html" ;"title="n IJ (digraph)">n IJ (digraph) and that should remain the only places where they are used. > IJmuiden () is a port city in the Netherlands, Dutch province of North Holland. It is the main town in the municipality ...

, in the former "buizengieterij" (pipe making factory) of

Koninklijke Hoogovens Koninklijke Hoogovens known as Koninklijke Nederlandse Hoogovens en Staalfabrieken (KNHS) until 1996 or informally Hoogovens. was a Dutch steel producer founded in 1918. Since 2010, the plant is named Tata Steel IJmuiden. The IJmuiden steelwor ...

, now Tata Steel IJmuiden, on the Buizenweg in

Velsen-Noord Velsen-Noord is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Velsen, and lies about 10 km north of Haarlem. From 1865 on, when the construction on the North Sea Canal began, the town of Velsen, which ...

. It overlooks the binnenkanaal where water was pumped up to use for cooling. The former cooling bath house has been converted to an exhibition space.

History

The museum was opened in 2009 by the Stichting Industrieel Erfgoed Hoogovens (SIEHO) in order to preserve the industrial heritage of this historic steel producing site. The museum is sponsored by the current owner,

Tata Steel Tata Steel Limited is an Indian multinational steel-making company, based in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand and headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It is a part of the Tata Group. Formerly known as Tata Iron and Steel Company Limited (TISCO), Tata ...

.website
of the Federatie Industrieel Erfgoed Nederland (FIEN) The museum is open Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:00 to 16:00. It is also open whenever the Corus Steam train is running. Admission is 5 euros (children under 16 free). Group tours can be booked on request. Parking is available in front of the museum, but it is also listed on the "Holland Route", a bicycling tour of Industrial monuments in the greater Amsterdam area.Holland Route website
of the

European Route of Industrial Heritage The European Route of Industrial Heritage (ERIH) is a tourist route of the most important industrial heritage sites in Europe. This is a tourism industry information initiative to present a network of industrial heritage sites across Europe. The a ...

(ERIH)

References

External links

Hoogovensmuseum Website
(in Dutch)
Corus Steam IJmuiden
(in Dutch) {{coord, 52, 28, 19, N, 4, 37, 25, E, display=title, region:NL_type:landmark_source:nlwiki Museums in North Holland Industry museums in the Netherlands Science museums in the Netherlands