The Hoogovensmuseum is a museum located on the northern side of the North Sea Canal

North Sea Canal

The North Sea Canal 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...

 sluice gates at IJmuiden, in the former "buizengieterij" (pipe making factory) of Hoogovens on the Buizenweg in Velsen-Noord

Velsen-Noord

Velsen-Noord is a town in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Velsen, and lies about 10 km north of Haarlem.The village Velsen-Noord has a population of around 4960....

. 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

Tata Steel is a multinational steel company headquartered in Jamshedpur, India and part of Tata Group. It is the world's seventh-largest steel company, with an annual crude steel capacity of 31 million tonnes, and the largest private-sector steel company in India measured by domestic production...

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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 2 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.

External links

• Hoogovensmuseum Website (in Dutch)
• Corus Steam IJmuiden (in Dutch)