Museums with Wind Exhibits

Museums often have extensive permanent collections and only display a small portion at any one time. Museums frequently change their exhibits and that is the case below. The museums noted here have all changed their exhibits since I last visited. Some have created “virtual” exhibits, and these I’ve noted.

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York County Heritage Trust, York, Pennsylvania contains a collection of shop models, photos, log books, and other records of the Smith-Putnam turbine. Tour their virtual exhibit Energy Awaits: The Smith-Putnam Wind Turbine and the Beginning of Modern Wind Energy in America.
Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin–held a superb exhibit on wind, meteorology, and early wind energy technology “WindStärken” that ran through October 2013.
Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia “Leonardo da Vinci”–The Milan technical museum had an exhibit of a 5 kW Riva Calzoni one-bladed wind turbine in the basement in the 1990s. . .
Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum on the campus of Texas A&M University in Canyon, Texas. At one time they featured the “Capture the Wind” exhibit. In 2023 they had a virtual exhibit titled simply Windmills. They also have an extensive literature archive collected by T. Lindsay Baker.