L’ère préindustrielle du textile était caractérisée par la production artisanale à domicile. Le père de famille était assis derrière le métier à tisser, tandis que les femmes se chargeaient de filer le coton. Un entrepreneur leur livrait la matière première et organisait la vente des produits, bien souvent dans des destinations déjà très éloignées. Dès le 16e siècle, la fabrication d’étoffes, la première industrie d’Europe, était généralement organisée selon ce principe.
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GR	Agia Paraskevi \| Museum of Industrial Olive Oil Production in Lesvos
	811 02 Agia Paraskevi \| Greece
	The museum in Agia Paraskevi on the island of Lesvos is located in a former communal oil mill, in which both architectural features and the machines have been restored to their original condition. The... plus >>

P	Alcobaca \| National Museum of Wine
	Rua de LeirieOlival Fechado \| 2460 Alcobaca \| Portugal
	Alcobac, 95 km north of Lisbon, is well known for its Cistercian abbey of Santa Maria, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and has a huge kitchen with a pyramid-shaped chimney of circa 1750 resting... plus >>

D	Alfeld an der Leine \| Fagus Factory
	Hannoversche Strasse 58 \| 31061 Alfeld an der Leine \| Germany
	Alfeld is a small town that once belonged to the Hanseatic League, on the River Leine, 60 km south of Hanover. It has many ancient timber-framed houses, but its most celebrated building is the Fagus s... plus >>

NL	Alkmaar \| The Holland Cheese Museum
	Waagplein 2 \| 1871JP Alkmaar \| Netherlands
	The city of Alkmaar in the province of Noord Holland is the principal centre of the cheese trade in Holland. Dealing in cheese now takes place at an exchange, but every Friday in the summer visitors c... plus >>

B	Alsemberg \| Papermill Museum Herisem
	Fabriekstraat 20 \| 1652 Alsemberg \| Belgium
	The museum at Alsemberg, in the Molembeek Valley, 12 km south of Brussels, consists of an ancient farmstead, which incorporates a corn mill, a paper mill with 16th century origins and a building of 17... plus >>

I	Amalfi \| Paper Museum
	Via delle Cartiere \| Amalfi \| Italy
	Amalfi is an ancient town of arcaded houses situated on one of Europe’s most beautiful coastlines. In the early middle ages its traders had influence in most parts of the Mediterranean, and it was o... plus >>

B	Amay \| Les Maitres du Feu - Route du Feu
	Rue de Bende 5 \| B-4540 Amay \| Belgium
	Les contrastes ne pourraient pas être plus grands: Dans la vallée de la Meuse se blottit, rêveuse, la petite ville d’Amay avec son centre historique, ses ruelles étroites, ses châteaux et ses a... plus >>

GB	Amberley \| Amberley Working Museum
	BN18 9LT Amberley \| Great Britain
	The museum at Amberley illustrates the history of industries of many kinds from south-east England, but it is particularly important for the evidence it provides of lime production, road transport and... plus >>

NL	Amsterdam \| Heineken Experience - Brasserie Heineken
	Stadhouderskade 78 \| 1072 AE Amsterdam \| Netherlands
	Quatre énormes silos forment la haie dans le hall. C’est ici que le cœur de Heineken, la fameuse brasserie amstellodamoise, battait jusqu’en 1988. Cette entreprise internationale se sert aujourd... plus >>

NL	Amsterdam \| Chantier naval NDSM
	tt Neveritaweg 15 \| 1030 BH Amsterdam \| Netherlands

B	Antwerp \| Plantin-Moretus Museum
	Vrijdagmarkt 22 \| 2000 Antwerp \| Belgium
	Christopher Plantin (?1520-89) moved to Antwerp in 1549 from Tourcoing and became one of the foremost printers of Renaissance Europe whose products can be found in almost every library that has collec... plus >>

DK	Arhus \| The Old Town
	Viborgvej 2 \| 8000 Arhus \| Denmark
	The Old Town in Arhus, the principal city of Jutland, is unusual amongst European open air museums in that it consists largely of urban buildings rather than farmsteads that have been removed from the... plus >>

NL	Arnhem \| The Netherlands Open Air National Heritage Museum
	Schelmseweg 89 \| 6316 SJ Arnhem \| Netherlands
	The Netherlands Open Air Museum is one of several national museums inspired by the example of Skansen in Stockholm, that were established in north European countries in the decades before the First Wo... plus >>

GR	Athens \| Pendeli quarry
	Amerikis Street 2 \| 10564 Athens \| Greece
	Pendeli (Pentelikon, Penteli, Pentelicus) is a mountain, 18 km north of Athens, from which stone was supplied for the construction of the Parthenon, and which has been quarried ever since. Since the t... plus >>

D	Augsburg \| MAN Museum
	Henrich von Buz Strasse 28 \| 86153 Augsburg \| Germany
	Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nurnberg (M.A.N.) is one of Germany’s foremost engineering companies, and its history is comprehensively illustrated in a museum in Augsburg, located in buildings that were ... plus >>