Markfield Beam Engine & Museum

Our first Autumn Watch entry has hit our online gallery! You can enter your autumn photos today and be in with a chance to win a £30 GO Outdoors voucher 💜🍂 📷Caroline Fotheringham-Matt ow.ly/ygXw30srjPs

Volunteering is a great way to make friends while doing things that make a difference 🤝🏻 See our different volunteering opportunities in the park here ow.ly/zs3A30sqSxi 💚

We're open 4, 5 & 12 September for #openhouse @openhouselondon We're steaming, 4 & 5 September, and open 11am - 5pm all three days. It's free entry 🙂 Beautiful engineering, architecture and fascinating history all under one roof!

We're steaming for #bankholidaymonday 😀 The engine will be in action all day - 11am to 5pm, Monday 30 August!

We're steaming Sunday 25 July! Open 11am, steaming demonstrations from 12.30. It'll be the first steaming open day since 2019 and we're very excited! Free entry 🙂 More info: mbeam.org/visit

Step right up! Our next open days are Sunday 20 June & Sunday 27 June. 11am - 5pm. Free entry, kids activities and guided tours of the wider site. Come day hello

Great to welcome you all to the museum, thanks so much for stopping by 🙂

@EdmondsonMary So glad you enjoyed your visit Mary 🙂

First open day of 2021 done 💪 We're open again next Sunday 11am - 5pm so come day hello! Absolutely lovely to be able to to welcome visitors again 😊

We're open Monday 31 May, 11am - 5pm! We're doing excited to be open for the first time in 2021 🎉 More details on our new website 👉mbeam.org #whatsonlondon #museumsunlocked

#Leominster is part 3 of ⁦@WaterworkMuseum⁩ series on historic water supplies to #Herefordshire market towns. As we can’t open this Easter we’ve published information on our web site instead. #LocalHistory #HeritageLearning - see below to learn more waterworksmuseum.org.uk/discover/histo…

@VerdantWorks @pumphousemuseum Well hello! What a lovely sunny morning you had 🌞

@Markfieldbeam @pumphousemuseum Good morning from our 1802 Boulton and Watt engine @VerdantWorks #Steam #industrialheritage

A glimpse of our beautiful engine captured by obvsldn on Instagram! 😍 instagram.com/p/CMUEGYxnMaU/…

Happy birthday #JamesWatt! His improvements to Newcomen's steam engine helped bring about the Industrial Revolution. #bornonthisday in 1736

Whilst we can't open we've been doing a spot of #lockdownDIY Volunteers have been working hard on our exhibition spaces, painting and installing new lighting. Great job 👌 We're very much looking forward to the point when we can share it with visitors!

Hand sanitizer at the ready for today's open day! Come say hello 11am to dusk 🙂

Next Sunday, 13 Dec, we are OPEN! 11am to dusk | Free entry What could be more festive than a engine of red, green & gold🎄

Steaming today for the first time in many moths! Earlier this year the fire that destroyed the @MarkfieldProj Project Adventure playground also damaged our fuel lines. After repair works led by our volunteers it's back in action 🔧⚙️ 🤞For steaming open days again next year

Today we are shut, but we'll be open just as soon as we safely can be 🙂 #Lockdown2

The museum is OPEN and well ventilated today! Last chance for a while, as we review the safety of staying open. Here till 4pm and excited to share this masterpiece of Victorian engineering.