Museum of Industrial History, Industrial history museum in Petrozavodsk, Russia

The Museum of Industrial History houses machinery, tools, and production equipment that display how manufacturing evolved across different time periods. The collection shows the technological changes that happened in industrial work and equipment design.

The museum began in 1838 as the Mining Museum at the Alexander Cannon Foundry, led by mining chief Roman Armstrong. Its collections formed the basis of the Olonets Natural-Industrial and Historical-Ethnographic Museum in 1871. Revived in 1967 as the Onega Tractor Plant history museum, it reopened in 2003 in a former plant clinic built in 1949, and since 2011 has been called the Museum of Industrial History.

The gallery's name changed in 2016: federal law barred non-state bodies from using the word "museum", so the Museum of Industrial History became the Gallery of Industrial History. Its displays draw on the collections of the Onega Tractor Plant museum and the Avangard shipyard museum, and the interactive hall invites visitors to touch working models of production mechanisms.

The gallery occupies the former factory clinic, a 1949 building on Kalinina Street inside the Onega Tractor Plant grounds. Fragments of Russia's first railway, built in 1788, stand on the platform in front of the entrance. Inside, the interactive hall is hands-on: exhibits simulating production mechanisms are meant to be touched.

Fragments of Russia's first railway, built in 1788, stand on the platform outside the entrance. Inside, the historical hall holds working scale models of the workshops of the Petrovsky and Alexandrovsky plants, alongside cast-iron cannonballs and artistic castings found during reconstruction of the Onega Tractor Plant.