The most important exhibits of the collection are stationary steam engines. For decades, they have delivered - directly or by transmitting - energy for a variety of tools, generators and pumps in craft and industrial producers. While steamboats and steam locomotives are still known to many contemporaries of regular and special trips, stationary machines from commercial and industrial companies have already largely disappeared from historical awareness. In the Swiss Steam Centre they are still there and show the great importance of the collection for the industrial and Swiss history.