The Museum of the Gorge was originally built as a warehouse for the Coalbrookdale Company in 1838 in a picturesque gothic style and was linked by horse-drawn plateway to the furnaces up the valley in Coalbrookdale. Iron products were stored here prior to shipment down the River Severn and onto the markets of the world. It later became a mineral water bottling plant and then a garage.

The building was purchased by the Museum Trust in 1977 for £500 and opened that year as the Severn Warehouse, a visitor centre for the Museums in the Gorge. It has been re-displayed twice since then and now serves as an introduction to the Gorge and its conservation.