STEAM Museum has announced that they have produced a 360° Virtual Tour for the public to view during the Coronavirus lockdown.
The tour launches at a brilliant time, using new technologies to allow the public to explore many of displays and exhibitions found at the STEAM Museum from the comfort of their homes and free of charge!
STEAM Museum is based former Swindon Works site where the Great Western Railway (GWR) built and maintained their locomotives and rolling stock.
The museum is home to the largest collections of GWR artefacts, which helps visitors relive the history of the GWR from its formation in 1835 to being absorbed into British Railways in 1948.
Click here to view the Virtual Tour.
STEAM's collections include many letters, drawings and photographs, along with historic steam engines (on loan from the National Railway Museum) such as:
- 3700 ‘City' Class No.3440 (3717) “City of Truro” – Unofficially claimed to have achieved 100mph in 1904
- 4073 ‘Castle' Class No.4073 “Caerphilly Castle” – First built engine of the famous ‘Castle' Class and displayed alongside London and North Eastern Railway A1 Class No.4472 “Flying Scotsman” in the 1924 British Empire Exhibition at Wembley Park
- 6000 ‘King' Class No.6000 “King George V” – First built engine of GWR's largest passenger 4-6-0 locomotives and being sent to America to take part in the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company centenary celebrations in 1927
For more information, please visit the STEAM Museum's website here.
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4079 Pendennis Castle was displayed at the British Empire Exhibition in 1924, not Caerphilly Castle.
4079 Pendennis Castle was displayed in the 1924 Wembley British Empire Exhibition.
This is excitingly new … I always knew this Historic (and Intriguing) Railway Transportation Museum would come up with creative ways so’s to allow those to view said STEAM Museum from their homes, let alone for Free.
I must say, (Even though I myself have yet to visit this place ‘in-person’ someday, once the pesky pandemic is/will then be a thing of the past) The GWR STEAM Museum in Swindon, is one of the most interesting ”Eagerly-Must-Visit” Destinations that I’ve ever discovered/come across.
I wonder if the National Railway Museum – York, Along with that also ”Eagerly-Must-Visit” Locomotion Museum – Shildon in County Durham could also do the same like what that GWR Steam Museum in Swindon, Wiltshire are in-between.
If so, It would be very interesting.