• Museums

    • Mystic Seaport
      This shipsmith shop was built at the head of Merrill's Wharf (now Homer's Wharf) in New Bedford, Massachusetts, by James D. Driggs in 1885. It is the only manufactory of ironwork for the whaling industry known to have survived from the nineteenth century.
    • Museum of Making
      In 2001, the Canadian Museum of Making began acquiring machinery and tools that were built and used from 1750 to 1920 in Canada, Britain, and the United States. Our goal is to create and maintain an accurate source of information about machines and their
    • Davistown Museum
      The Davistown Museum is a regional tool, art, and history museum with two physical locations in Maine and an extensive website. The Museum and the website provide detailed information on the history of ferrous metallurgy, edge tool manufacturing, the Woo
    • Saugus Iron Works
      This place is where European iron makers brought their special skills to a young Massachusetts colony. Three hundred year old artifacts, working waterwheels, and mill machinery help to tell the story of a business failure destined to be a National Park.
    • The Blacksmith in Colonial Virginia
      Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library Research Report Series - 0022 Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library Williamsburg, Virginia 1990 Harold B. Gill, Jr October 1965
    • Norway Digital Museum
      Welcome to digital museum! These are the results of a search on smijern or wrought iron
    • Metropolitan Museum
      This searches the Met for their Wrought Iron holdings
    • Old Millstone  Forge
      Old Millstone forge was the oldest continuously operated shop in the U.S. until 1957 when Mr. Wyckoff retired. Now it is being run as a working museum.
    • Metal Museum
      The Metal Museum is the only institution in the United States devoted exclusively to the advancement of the art and craft of fine metalwork