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Goods for the world. European Theme Route Manufacturing
Domestic handmade textile production was typical for the pre-industrial age. The father sat at the loom and the women of the family were responsible for spinning the yarn. An entrepreneur (in Germany he was called a "Verleger") delivered the raw material and organised sales, often over considerable distances. Textile manufacture was the leading industry in Europe: from the 16th century onwards it was basically organised on such a system. The first types of factories grew up in the 17th century, when larger groups of workers were concentrated in so-called "manufactories".
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Kampen | Gothic House Town Museum |
| 158 Oudestraat | 08161 GR Kampen | Netherlands | |
| Kampen is a port on the banks of the River Ijssel near to its confluence with the Ijsselmeer (formerly the Zuyder Zee). Its narrow streets, lined with warehouses and merchants’ houses of many period... more >> |
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Karlovy Vary | Moser Glass Factory & Museum |
| Kapitan Jaroše 46/19 | 36060 Karlovy Vary | Czech Republic | |
| Karlovy Vary, 120 km west of Prague, is renowned as a spa and for the 19th century ironwork which adorns its buildings. It has also been a centre for the manufacture of high quality glass for which Bo... more >> |
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Karlskrona | Naval Museum |
| Stumholmen | 37132 Karlskrona | Sweden | |
| Karlskrona, on the south coast of Sweden, was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1998 as ‘an exceptionally well-preserved example of a European naval base’. The city was founded in 1680 wh... more >> |
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Kaunas | Museum of Ceramics |
| 15 Rotuses Square | 3000 Kaunas | Lithuania | |
| Lithuania has long traditions of pottery manufacture which are illustrated in the Museum of Ceramics, accessed down steep steps in the vaults of the old town hall of the country’s second largest cit... more >> |
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Keith | Strathisla Distillery |
| Seafield Avenue | AB55 5BS Keith | Great Britain | |
| The Strathisla Distillery comprises one of the most elegant groups of buildings in the Scotch whisky industry. The distillery is the oldest in the Speyside region, having been founded in 1786 by Alexa... more >> |
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Kerkrade | Continium - Discovery Center Kerkrade |
| Museumplein 2 | 6461 MA Kerkrade | Netherlands | |
| Listen to it, look at it, touch it, smell it, try it out!...It’s clear from the start that Industrion in Kerkrade is a very special museum. Here you can discover the exciting and turbulent history o... more >> |
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Keswick | Honister Slate Mine |
| Honister PassBorrowdale | CA12 5XN Keswick | Great Britain | |
| Nestling between the peaks at the head of the Honister Pass in the Lake District, the Buttermere and Westmorland Green Slate Company Limited is England´s only Slate Mine.
Unlike slate taken from... more >> |
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Kettering | Manor House Museum |
| Sheep Street | NN16 0AN Kettering | Great Britain | |
| Kettering grew from a market town with a population of just over 5000 in 1851 to a major centre of shoe manufacturing with nearly 29000 inhabitants in 1901. In the years of its most rapid expansion be... more >> |
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Kilbeggan | Locke’s Distillery Museum |
| Lwr Main Street | Kilbeggan | Ireland | |
| Large-scale commercial distilling of spirits in Ireland is now confined to two plants (see Midleton, Bush Mills) but an outstanding example of an eighteenth century pot still whiskey distillery was pr... more >> |
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Kingswinford | Broadfield House Glass Museum |
| Compton Drive | DY6 9NS Kingswinford | Great Britain | |
| Broadfield Glass Museum houses one of the finest collections of glass in the country, and here you can still see craftspeople demonstrate their skills in the museum’s hot glass studio. The collectio... more >> |
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Köln | Chocolate Museum |
| Am Schokoladenmuseum 1a | 50678 Köln | Germany | |
| The museum of the chocolate industry in Cologne was founded by Dr Hans Imhoff who was born in 1921 within sight and small of Stollwerck, the city’s celebrated chocolate-manufacturing company. After ... more >> |
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Kongens Lyngby | National Open Air Museum |
| Kongevejen 100 | 2800 Kongens Lyngby | Denmark | |
| Molleaen, the 12 km long Mill Stream, north of Copenhagen, powered nine mills, and was for many centuries one of the reasons for the prosperity of the Danish capital. It has been called the Cradle of ... more >> |
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Kongens Lyngby | Brede Works |
| I.C. Modewegsvej | 2800 Kongens Lyngby | Denmark | |
| From the first water-driven factory to modern mass manufacture à la LEGO, the Brede Værk makes 150 years of Danish industrial history so palpably clear, that you might almost think that you had been... more >> |
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Kotka | Sunila pulpmill |
| Kotka | Finland | |
| The Sunila pulpmill at Kotka of 1937-8 was designed by the great Finnish architect Alvar Aalto (1888-1976) and is one of the most notable 20th century industrial buildings in Europe. It remains in pro... more >> |
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Krakow | Museum of Municipal Engineering |
| Ul Swietego Wawzynca 15 | 31060 Krakow | Poland | |
| The Museum of Municipal Engineering in Krakow was established in 1998 in a tram depot, built in 1882 and successively enlarged in 1896, 1900, 1913-4 and 1926-9. It is primarily a museum of public tran... more >> |
