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Baía do Tejo Industrial Museum at former Companhia União Fabril (CUF) Area

Barreiro | Portugal
Companhia União Fabril (C.U.F.) in Barreiro opposite Lisbon was the largest chemical industrial center of one of the biggest Portuguese business groups in the 20th century. The construction of the industrial complex began in 1907 and the first factory started operating in 1908. The complex grew over ...
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Baía do Tejo Industrial Museum at former Companhia União Fabril (CUF) Area
Museu Industrial Baía do Tejo
Parque Empresarial da Baía do Tejo
2830-314 Barreiro, Portugal

Museum of Woollen Textiles

Covilhã | Portugal
„The yarns of the past weaving the future“: in line with its motto, the three neighbouring locations of the Museum of Woollen Textiles in Covilhã explore the traces of local wool processing over the centuries. There are plenty of them in the "Manchester of Portugal", ranging from the circular ...
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Museum of Woollen Textiles
Museu de Lanifícios da Universidade da Beira Interior
Rua Marques de Avila e Bolama
6200 Covilhã, Portugal

Vista Alegre Museum

Ílhavo | Portugal
The Vista Alegre porcelain factory at Ílhavo is one of the world’s largest producers of table ware. The factory was built in 1824 beside the Aveiro estuary, close to supplies of china clay, sand and imported coal. It became famous for high-quality design and decoration. The company began its museum ...
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Vista Alegre Museum
Museu da Vista Alegre
3830-292 Ílhavo, Portugal

Gorreana Tea Plantations

Maia | Portugal
Gorreana Tea Plantations is located on the island of São Miguel, in the Azores. Since the beginning of the 19th century, tea, just like tobacco and beet, was planted on the island to replace the decline of the orange production. About 20 tea factories were located on the island, but just Gorreana ...
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Gorreana Tea Plantations
Fábrica de Chá Gorreana
Plantações de Chá Gorreana
9625-304 Maia, Portugal

Oljeon

Fagersta | Sweden
A refinery dating from the pioneer years of the oil industry is preserved at Angelsberg on Oljeon (oil island) in Lake Amannigen, near the Engelsberg ironworks. Oil-refining was begun on the mainland in 1871 by Pehr August Alund, but his plant was twice destroyed by fire, and he set up the company ...
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Oljeon
Ängelsberg Barron (Sjon Ananningen)
Fagersta, Sweden

Västanfors Area

Fagersta | Sweden
In 1927, the Västanfors area was established by an antiquities association as a beautiful place to visit next to Strömsholm's Canal. It is now associated with the large Bergslagen ecomuseum of sites related to the historical iron industry of the region. The conserved buildings at Västanfors include ...
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Västanfors Area
Västanforsområdet
Rune Lindströms väg
73730 Fagersta, Sweden

Flogberget Mine

Ludvika | Sweden
At Flogberget Mine iron ore was mined on and off from the 17th century and up until 1918. Production stopped in 1899 but resumed in 1906, and ceased altogether in 1918.The visitor mine was opened from 2002 by a voluntary association, the Flogberg Sellskapel which also arranges theatrical ...
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Flogberget Mine
Flogberget 1
77790 Ludvika, Sweden

Hammarbacken

Ludvika | Sweden
Hammarbacken is part of old Ludvika ironworks and dating back to the 16th century. Four buildings are conserved and open to the public, a smith’s house of four rooms, with walls of iron slag, a house showing the living conditions of a family of circa 1900, another house used for meetings, and a ...
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Hammarbacken
Bruksgatan 2
Ludvika, Sweden

New Lapphyttan

Norberg | Sweden
Lapphyttan is a site of world importance in industrial archaeology and a place where you can go back in time to see an early furnace in action. Archaeological excavations from the 1970s proved this was the oldest site discovered of a blast furnace – the innovation that revolutionised iron making. ...
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New Lapphyttan
Nya Lapphyttan
Västanforsvägen 30
Norberg, Sweden

Sala Silvermine

Sala | Sweden
The historic Sala mine preserves an exceptional group of buildings and underground features. It was Sweden’s richest source of silver, found in galena ore with zinc and lead. The silver was processed into coins or also precious household goods. The first royal charter for mining was in 1512. The ...
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Sala Silvermine
Sala Silvergruva
Drottning Christinas väg 9a
73336 Sala, Sweden

Museum Neuthal Textile and Industrial Heritage

Bäretswil | Switzerland
Between Bäretswil and Bauma the former Neuthal spinning mill is situated. The historically important factory ensemble is wonderfully embedded in the hilly landscape of the Zurich Oberland and is classified as a site of national importance. The region experienced an incredible boom in the textile ...
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Museum Neuthal Textile and Industrial Heritage
Neuthal 6
8344 Bäretswil, Switzerland

Egliswil Collection Centre of Aargau Museum

Egliswil | Switzerland
The Museum Aargau collection on the history of the canton, which was founded in 1803, has grown since 1830 to around 55,000 objects dating from 1000 BC to the present day. Some 30,000 objects are kept in the collection centre in Egliswil, which is open to visitors on guided tours at certain times. ...
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Egliswil Collection Centre of Aargau Museum
Binzenholzstrasse 10
5704 Egliswil, Switzerland

Iron Library

Schlatt | Switzerland
Only a few meters from where bathers and water sport aficionados enjoy the Rhine in fine weather stands Klostergut Paradies, with its unique Iron Library. The core of this special library, set in the idyllic surroundings a former convent, is literature on the history of iron and steel. The ...
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Iron Library
Eisenbibliothek, Stiftung der Georg Fischer AG
Klostergut Paradies
8252 Schlatt, Switzerland

BALLYANA Museum

Schönenwerd | Switzerland
For almost 200 years, the shoe company "Bally" has shaped the country and the people of the Niederamt in the Swiss Canton of Solothurn. For decades, Schönenwerd and its surroundings lived according to the rhythm of Bally‘s factory sirens. Bally provided living and working space for the workers and ...
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BALLYANA Museum
BALLYANA Sammlung Industriekultur
Schachenstrasse 24
5012 Schönenwerd, Switzerland

Museum ENTER

Solothurn | Switzerland
Museum ENTER takes its name from the ‘enter’ key on a computer keyboard as well as the word to come inside. It is a museum of computers and consumer electronics. It began with private collections in the 1990s and was established formally in 2010. The completion of a new building is planned for 2023: ...
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Museum ENTER
Zuchwilerstrasse 33
4500 Solothurn, Switzerland

Swiss Finance Museum

Zürich | Switzerland
In a multimedia exhibition, the Swiss Finance Museum explains the origins of the economic system and the role of the stock market. Visitors can find out all there is to know about the Swiss financial market and experience economic history and modern innovations in a way that is entertaining and uses ...
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Swiss Finance Museum
Pfingstweidstrasse 110
8005 Zürich, Switzerland

4th Dritl. Virtual Mining Museum

Trbovlje | Slovenia
The Virtual Museum of Mining 4th dritl is located in the basemant of historical building of Delavski dom Cultural Center Trbovlje, that was built with volunteer work and contributions of Trbovlje's inhabitatnt, mostly miners. Exhibition combines real mining heritage artifacts with digital content ...
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4th Dritl. Virtual Mining Museum
Trg svobode 11a
1420 Trbovlje, Slovenia

Mining Museum of the Basque Country

Abanto-Zierbena | Spain
The Asociación Cultural Meuseo Minero (Cultural Association for the Mining Museum) was established in 1986 as mining was finally coming to an end, and opened the museum in 2001. Its headquarters is in an old slaughterhouse near a vast open-cast pit, Corta Concha II, from which siderite (iron ...
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Mining Museum of the Basque Country
Museo de la Minería del País Vasco
Barrio Campodiego s/n
48500 Abanto-Zierbena, Spain

Agorregi Ironworks and Mill

Aia | Spain
Standing in the heart of Pagoeta Natural Park, next to the Iturraran homestead, the Agorregi Ironworks and flour mills, plus the infrastructure of reservoirs, dams and canals. This faithfully reproduces the 18th century iron industry. The earliest records date it to the beginning of the fifteenth ...
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Agorregi Ironworks and Mill
Ferrería y Molinos de Agorregi
Pagoeta Natural Park Laurgain Auzoa Barreiatua, 13
20809 Aia, Spain

Ajuria & Urigoitia Industrial Forest

Araia | Spain
The industrial landscape resulted from the iron smelting activities of Ajuria & Urigoitia, one of the first steel mills in the country. Visitors have the chance to see the state’s first electric induction furnace and the first blast furnace of Euskadi. Situated at the entrance to the Aizkorri-Aratz ...
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Ajuria & Urigoitia Industrial Forest
Intuxi, 48
01250 Araia, Spain

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