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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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Arhus | The Old Town |
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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... more >> |
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Arnhem | The Netherlands Open Air National Heritage Museum |
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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... more >> |
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Athens | Pendeli quarry |
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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... more >> |
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Augsburg | MAN Museum |
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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 ... more >> |
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Ballincollig | Ballincollig Gunpowder Mills |
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Ballincollig | Ireland |
| Gunpowder mills were established in 1794 on the banks of the River Lee at Ballincollig, 8 km west of Cork, by Charles Henry Leslie and John Travers. The company became one of the largest industrial en... more >> |
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Barcarena | Gunpowder Museum |
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Estrada das Fontainhas | 2475-613 Barcarena | Portugal |
| Oeiras lies on the Estoril coast, 15 km E of Lisbon, and is most celebrated for the eighteenth century palace in the Rococo style built by the Hungarian architect Carlos Marcel for the Marquis of Pomb... more >> |
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Barrow-in-Furness | Dock Museum |
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North Road | LA14 2PW Barrow-in-Furness | Great Britain |
| The Dock Museum is a striking modern building on a scenic channelside site. Built over an historic graving dock, the museum is home to a wealth of objects and information on the social and industrial ... more >> |
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Barßel | Elisabethfehn Moorland Museum |
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Oldenburger Straße 1 | 26676 Barßel | Germany |
| Die Geschichte Elisabethfehns beginnt mit dem Bau des Hunte-Ems-Kanals Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Im Zuge der Kultivierung der großen Oldenburger Moorgebiete im Nordwesten Deutschlands entstand dies... more >> |
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Baruth | Baruth Glassmaking Village |
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Hüttenweg 20 | 15837 Baruth | Germany |
| In 1716 Count Sigismund Friedrich (1696-1738) established a glassworks about 7 km from the small town of Baruth that lies 45 km south of Berlin, near the main road and railway routes to Dresden. The c... more >> |
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Basel | Basel Paper Mill and Swiss Museum of Paper, Writing and Printing |
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St Alban-Tal 35-37 | 4052 Basel | Switzerland |
| The Galliciani mill in Basle was converted to make paper in 1453, continued to do so until 1955, and was adapted as a museum in the 1970s. Its displays provide a comprehensive picture of the developme... more >> |
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Beamish | Beamish Museum |
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DH9 0RG Beamish | Great Britain |
| Beamish, once called the North of England Open Air Museum and now ‘the living museum of the north’, occupies a site of more than 100 ha 14 km north-west of Durham City. It was established in the 1... more >> |
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Bedford, Bedfordshire | Stewartby Brickworks & Village |
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Stewartby | MK43 Bedford, Bedfordshire | Great Britain |
| The Bedfordshire landscape is still dominated by the huge chimneys of the Stewartby brickworks. The iconic 90 m high brick structures were designed to carry away the waste gases particularly sulphur o... more >> |
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Belgrade | Museum of Science & Technology |
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Skender Begova 51 | 11000 Belgrade | Serbia |
| The Museum of Science and Technology in Serbia was formally constituted on the initiative of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts in 1989, although many proposals for such a project had been put fo... more >> |
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Bergisch Gladbach | Rhineland Industrial Museum Old Dombach Paper Mill |
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Kürtener Straße | 51465 Bergisch Gladbach | Germany |
| It all begins with pulp. In ancient China it consisted of pounded natural fibres or – as in Europe later – old rags. The fibres are first soaked in water for several days causing them to swell. Th... more >> |
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Berlin | AEG turbine factory |
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Huttenstraße 12-19 | 10553 Berlin | Germany |
| Architecture of high quality characterised the industrial history of Germany in the twentieth century and the acknowledged symbol of that quality is the Turbinenfabrik (turbine factory) in Huttenstras... more >> |
