The museum began with a series of studies on ways to preserve Nova Scotia's industrial heritage beginning in 1974.

[3] The museum occupies a site beside the Trans Canada Highway which includes some of the oldest industrial sites in Nova Scotia including the Foord Pit, once the deepest coal mine in the world and the Albion Railway, the first passenger and freight railway in Canada.

Notable artifacts include the Albion Railway's Samson locomotive, the oldest railway locomotive in Canada and the Victorian, a horseless carriage, the first gasoline powered car built in the Maritimes.

The museum has extensive interactive galleries that explore the evolution of industry and work in Nova Scotia.

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