THE BRICKWORKS MUSEUM

Head out to explore The Brickworks Museum in Southampton, which is one of the only surviving monuments from the city’s rich industrial past. Walk into the footsteps of the brick workers, learn about the factory’s rich past, and marvel at what is known as the largest collection of bricks in the entire region.

Popular for being the only remaining steam-driven brickworks in the entire country, the Brickworks Museum was also awarded the prestigious Engineering Heritage Award in the year 2011. It is also one of the very rare remnants of Southampton’s past as an industrial city, where you can see how brick-making, as an industry, garnered popularity.

The museum boasts of all the working machinery which was used in the times gone by, and is also steamed up once every month to be displayed as a working exhibit for visitors. The Brickworks Museum also boasts of having the largest collection of bricks in Hampshire, in addition to a huge selection of bricks as well as artifacts used for brickmaking. You can also find machinery like a brick-making machine, a steam engine, barrows, shovels as well as wagons used in the past in this museum, along with numerous wooden brick molds in different shapes and sizes.

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Highlights

• Also known as the Bursledon Brickworks Industrial Museum, the Brickworks Museum is one of the most unique museums and tourist places to visit in Southampton
• It is also regarded as the only remaining steam-driven brickworks in the whole country, where you can learn how bricks are made and produced
• Learn the history of industrial-era brickworks, while also marveling at the age-old working machinery that is put up for display here
• Don’t forget to see the displays and exhibits that showcase how the technology of brick and tile making has developed over the last 200 years