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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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Llanberis | National Slate Museum |
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Padarn Country Park | LL55 4TY Llanberis | Great Britain |
| How do you steal a mountain? You knock it off. That’s the answer you’d get from a Welshman. The Welsh speak from experience. In North Wales they knocked off mountains en masse – in the form of h... more >> |
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London | Victoria and Albert Museum |
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Cromwell Road | SW7 2RL London | Great Britain |
| The Victoria and Albert is essentially a museum of the applied arts, but its collections are an illuminating resource for anyone concerned with the industrial history of Europe. It was founded, as the... more >> |
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London | National Museum of Science and Industry |
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Exhibition RoadSouth Kensington | SW7 2DD London | Great Britain |
| The Science Museum in London holds one of Europe’s greatest collections of artefacts relating to the history of science and industry. A collection of objects from the Great Exhibition of 1851was put... more >> |
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London | Bramah Museum of Tea and Coffee |
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40 Southwark Street | SE1 1UN London | Great Britain |
| The Bramah museum is located close to the Pool of London, and to wharves which were once the centre of the trade in tea and coffee between the United Kingdom and China, India, Sri Lanka and Africa. It... more >> |
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Lütau | Museum of draught horses |
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Alte Salzstraße 29 | 21483 Lütau | Germany |
| Willkommen an der Alten Salzstraße – mittendrin zwischen den Hansestädten Lüneburg, Lübeck und Hamburg. Die unmittelbare Lage an dem historischen Frachtweg – einer Via Regia – und die Nähe ... more >> |
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L’Espluga de Francoli | Museum of Wine | The wine cathedral |
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Josep M. Rendé, 5 | 43440 L’Espluga de Francoli | Spain |
| L’Espluga de Francoli is a wine-making town some 30 km north of Tarragona. The ‘wine cathedral’ is the name often given to this amazing early twentieth century building, which consists of three ... more >> |
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L’viv | Museum of Beer and Brewing |
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vul Kleparivska 18 | 79000 L’viv | Ukraine |
| L’viv is famous for the quality of its beer and the beer museum opened in 2005 on the 290th anniversary of the establishment of the city’s first large-scale brewery. It is housed in a 19th century... more >> |
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Magdeburg | Magdeburg Technical Museum |
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Dodendorfer Straße 65 | 39112 Magdeburg | Germany |
| If there is one feature which unites the exhibits in the Magdeburg Technical Museum, it is pioneering spirit. This is immediately obvious in the threshing equipment manufactured by the Magdeburg compa... more >> |
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Manchester | The Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester |
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Liverpool RoadCastlefield | M3 4FP Manchester | Great Britain |
| Manchester was one of the very first industrial cities in the world. It is a byword for unrestrained capitalism and appalling social poverty; but also for its pioneering achievements. One of these was... more >> |
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Mannheim | TECHNOSEUM. Museum of Technology and Labour |
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Museumstrasse 1 | 68165 Mannheim | Germany |
| The museum of technology and labour in Mannheim opened in 1990 in a Modernist building designed by the Berlin architect Ingeborg Kuhler. Its objective is to illuminate the process of industrialisation... more >> |
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Manningtree | Mistley |
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High Street | CO11 1AD Manningtree | Great Britain |
| Arthur Young (1741-1820) regarded Mistley in Essex as ‘one of the most interesting places to be seen in England’. The first quay was built there about 1720, but in the late eighteenth century the ... more >> |
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Mänttä | G A Serlachius Museum |
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R. Erik Serlachiuksen katu 2 | 35800 Mänttä | Finland |
| The G A Serlachius Museum in Mantta, a town of about 7,000 people in West Finland, 90 km north-east of Tampere, depicts life in industrial communities in Finland from the mid-19th century to the prese... more >> |
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Marl | Chemical Industry Estate |
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Paul-Baumann-Straße 1 | 45764 Marl | Germany |
| 30 active companies, 100 production units, 900 buildings, a dense network of high technology stretching over more than six square kilometres. This is what the future of industrial heritage looks like.... more >> |
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Marsciano | Dynamic Museum of Bricks and Terracotta |
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O6055 Marsciano | Italy |
| Marsciano in central Umbria, 28 km south of Perugia, has for many centuries been a centre for the manufacture of various kinds of heavy ceramics. The museum, based in the Palazzo Pietromarchi in the t... more >> |
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Medemblik | Netherlands Steam Machine Museum |
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Oosterdijk 4 | 1671 HJ Medemblik | Netherlands |
| In 1976 mr. C. P. Jongert starts a private steam engine collection. By doing this he lays, without realising the foundation for the Dutch Steam Engine Museum. The museum becomes a certainty when on a ... more >> |
