Charles River Museum 
of Industry and Innovation

The Lowell Institute supports the Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation’s Mill Talks lecture series. A museum of the American Industrial Revolution, the Charles River Museum is located in the last boiler house of the former Boston Manufacturing Company, the first integrated textile mill or factory in the world. 

Commencing operations in 1815, the BMC mill design, organizational structure and management became known as the “Waltham-Lowell” system and was replicated throughout New England during the 18th century, leading the transformation of the United States into an industrial power. Now known as the “Francis Cabot Lowell Mill” in honor of its founder, the Museum’s home is on the National Historic Register, a portion of which has been designated a National Historic Landmark.

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