The museum makes a exquisite family time out and has Scotland's simplest operational background tramway, in addition to a recreated mine with guided excursions, miners' cottages, an exhibition hall with operating equipment, a play park, a cafe and a shop. Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life, previously referred to as Summerlee Heritage Park, is an industrial & social history museum in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, and Scotland. It is situated on the web site of the Victorian Summerlee Iron Works and the previous Hydrocon Crane manufacturing unit. The primary Hydrocon factory building became the museum’s exhibition corridor however it's been appreciably modified and adapted considering the fact that. The museum aims to reveal Lanarkshire's contribution to engineering, mining, metallic operating, weav. Summerlee changed into one in all Scotland's most essential ironworks. Opened in 1836, it closed in 1926. The remains of its blast furnaces and different systems may be visible from the view pod and parapet on the north-east facet of the main exhibition hall. Admission to Summerlee is unfastened; but tickets have to be booked earlier. Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life gives free entry and is open Monday - Sunday, 10am - 4pm.