Progress Travel Guide
What would a Travel Guide for Progress look like? Surely it would include Britain for the technological progress of the Industrial Revolution (more specifically, Manchester for textiles or the first iron bridge in Shropshire)
Progress may also include arts (Florence and the Renaissance), government (Philadelphia, Athens), architecture and materials (the Pantheon with its use of Roman concrete), amongst other categories
What/where else?
Not sure if this is quite what you are looking for, but I’ve been keeping a list of progress-related museums that I have visited or want to visit, large or small, including:
Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum in Vista, CA
Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation in Waltham, MA
Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI
Davistown Museum in Maine
Museum of Craft & Design in San Francisco
History of Science museum in Harvard (one room)
Jenner Museum, Gloucestershire; also a statue of Edward Jenner in Kensington Gardens?
Bibliotheque de la Faculte de Medecine in Paris, which houses The Jubilee of Louis Pasteur, by Jean-André Rixens
Fleming’s original Petri dish in the British Museum
Institute of Making, part of University College London