Iron Hill Museum

The Iron Hill Museum at 1355 Old Baltimore Place, Newark, Delaware is a place for education and research. The facility works to gain scientific knowledge, while showcasing history and artifacts for visitors. Iron Hill Museum is dedicated to showing the history of the Iron Hill area known as the largest iron mine in Delaware at one time.

Admission into the museum is $2 per person. Seniors and children under six are free. Students are $2 per person. School groups and field trips are subject to different pricing based on size and type of group. Museum hours are Tuesday through Friday 9am to 2pm and Saturday 12pm to 4pm.

One exhibit is the Iron Mining gallery which shows how Iron Hill received its name, what ore looks like before it is melted, and products of the mining process. There is a please touch wall that exhibits a turtle shell, petrified wood, and other items one may never get to touch in nature.

The Lenni Lenape exhibit showcases items found in one's everyday surroundings that early settlers and Native Americans used. It is to show that electricity, telephones and other modern conveniences though important now were not even in focus then.