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Museum of Industrial Heritage

Bologna | Italy
They represented the acme of European technology prior to the Industrial Revolution: the Bologna-type silk-throwing machines. Not a single of them has survived, but a half-size reconstruction in the Museum of Industrial Heritage keeps them impressingly alive. Coupled with other functional models and ...
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Museum of Industrial Heritage
Museo del Patrimonio Industriale
Fornace Galotti Via della Beverara 123
40131 Bologna, Italy

Museum of Hydroelectric Energy

Cedegolo | Italy
How does a drop of water transform into electric power? The high halls of Cedegolo's historical Museum of Hydroelectric Power, bathed in light, offer answers that affect all senses. The experience starts with the sphere's room: A double video projection on opposing semispheres follows a drop's ...
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Museum of Hydroelectric Energy
Museo dell'energia idroelettrica
Via Roma 48
25051 Cedegolo, Italy

"Antonio Pitter" Power Plant Museum

Malnisio di Montereale Valcellina | Italy
Without the water pipes climbing the steep slopes in the background this monumental wing-shaped building in the village of Malnisio could well be taken for a palace. In fact, it's a palace of hydroelectric power: for more than 80 years its powerful machines transformed the current of northern ...
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"Antonio Pitter" Power Plant Museum
Museo dell'ex Centrale Idroelettrica "Antonio Pitter"
Via Volta 27
33086 Malnisio di Montereale Valcellina, Italy

MuCa - Museum of Shipbuilding Industry

Monfalcone | Italy
You want to know how industrialisation welds a small town and its people together into a whole? Then you have to go to Monfalcone in Italy. Since 1908, when the first ship was launched here - a place near Trieste that belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire until 1918 - Monfalcone has been renowned ...
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MuCa - Museum of Shipbuilding Industry
MuCa - Museo della Cantieristica
Via del Mercato, 3
34074 Monfalcone, Italy

Campolmi Factory | Lazzerini Library | Textile Museum

Prato | Italy
In the centre of Prato there can be found an industrial heritage site of European importance: The Campolmi Textile Factory. The two-storey, faithfully restored rectangular building with its courtyard, elegant water basin and slender brick chimney was constructed in 1863. Today it is a symbol of ...
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Campolmi Factory | Lazzerini Library | Textile Museum
Istituto culturale e di documentazione Lazzerini Via Puccetti, 3 59100 Prato Telephone +39 (0) 574 - 1837800
Museo del Tessuto Via Santa Chiara 24
59100 Prato, Italy

Museum of the Art of Woolmaking

Pratovecchio Stia (Arezzo) | Italy
The elongated stone buildings with their regular, multi-storey rows of windows appear to be down-to-earth and tidy. Functional metal posts structure the bright and spacious room inside. Around 1900 this place in the hills of the Casentino region not far from Florence witnessed the hustle and bustle ...
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Museum of the Art of Woolmaking
Museo dell’Arte della Lana Fondazione Luigi e Simonetta Lambard
Via Giovanni Santori 2
52017 Pratovecchio Stia, Italy

Poli Distillery – Poli Grappa Museum

Schiavon | Italy
A dozen neatly arranged copper cauldrons, linked to tall distillation columns by curved pipes, the whole framed by smoothly jointed brick walls and permeated by the characteristic mix of sweet and dry scents that accompanies the production of brandy: Already at first glance the Grappa Distillery ...
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Poli Distillery – Poli Grappa Museum
Poli Distillerie – Poli Museo della Grappa
Via G. Marconi 46
36060 Schiavon, Italy

National Museum of Iron Ore Mines

Rumelange | Luxembourg
Helmets on, enter the mine train and off it goes into the mountain, 580 metres deep. An extensive network of tracks covering main and secondary galleries indicates how busy the iron ore mines of Rumelange must have been back then. Monumental machines illustrate post World War II mining operations ...
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National Museum of Iron Ore Mines
Musée National des Mines de Fer Luxembourgeoises
Rue de la Bruyère
3714 Rumelange, Luxembourg

Heineken Experience - Heineken Brewery

Amsterdam | Netherlands
Four huge copper silos stand side by side in the hall. Until 1988 this was the heart of the famous old Heineken brewery in Amsterdam. Now the world famous firm is using its historic building to present a highly modern interactive exhibition on itself and its products called “The Heineken ...
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Heineken Experience - Heineken Brewery
Stadhouderskade 78
1072 AE Amsterdam, Netherlands

Haarlemmermeermuseum De Cruquius

Cruquius | Netherlands
King William I of the Netherlands had a choice between 240 windmills or three coastal pumping stations. He could not afford to waste time because every year violent storms beat against the banks of the Haarlemmermeer. In 1836 the ever growing lake even threatened to flood Amsterdam. So two years ...
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Haarlemmermeermuseum De Cruquius
Cruquiusdijk 27
2142 ER Cruquius, Netherlands

Hoorn-Medemblik Steam Tram Museum

Hoorn | Netherlands
Some of the steam locomotives look just like outsize toys. Or exactly like Emma, the locomotive in Michael Ende’s fairytale about Jim Knopf and the train driver Lukas. But as soon as smoke begins to pour from the chimney and the whistle blows, it becomes quite clear that this is the real thing! The ...
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Hoorn-Medemblik Steam Tram Museum
Museum Stoomtram
Van Dedemstraat 8
1624 NN Hoorn, Netherlands

Ir. D.F. Wouda Steam Pumping Station World Heritage Site

Lemmer | Netherlands
A celebration of technology – that's at the heart of the Wouda Steam Pumping Station's machine room near the village of Lemmer in Friesland. The four double steam engines, coupled with powerful flywheels driving eight round centrifugal pumps, are all sparkling and gleaming as on their very first ...
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Ir. D.F. Wouda Steam Pumping Station World Heritage Site
Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal
Gemaalweg 1
8531 PS Lemmer, Netherlands

Sphinx Quarter | Sphinx Passage

Maastricht | Netherlands
How did industrialization affect the cities of the 19th century? The extensive Sphinxkwartier in Maastricht illustrates this transformation with a multitude of factories and industrial buildings that, through reuse, are increasingly evolving into the city's cultural hotspot. The district is ...
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Sphinx Quarter | Sphinx Passage
Sphinxkwartier
Fenikshof 1
6211 AX Maastricht, Netherlands

DRU Industrial Park

Ulft | Netherlands
In Ulft, along the river Oude IJssel, once stood the DRU's 'iron hut'. For almost 2.5 centuries iron products, such as stoves, pans and bathtubs, were produced for millions of customers worldwide. This glorious past has left an impressive heritage: an ensemble of seven industrial monuments.  ...
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DRU Industrial Park
CIVON Innovatiecentrum
Hutteweg 24
7071 BV Ulft, Netherlands

Museum Nord - Narvik

Narvik | Norway
It would be sea and iron-ore that would decide Narvik’s fate. Despite Narvik’s location north of the Arctic Circle, the town at the head of the Ofoten fjord is an ice -free port. Narvik has been and still is a reloading point for a seemingly inexhaustible supply of iron ore from Kiruna in ...
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Museum Nord - Narvik
Administrasjonsveien 3
8502 Narvik, Norway

Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum World Heritage Site

Rjukan | Norway
Seldom are nature and technology located so unexpectedly near to one another. A waterfall thunders into the depths right next to the old hydroelectric power station built in 1911, with which the Norsk Hydro company catapulted the rural parish of Rjukan into the industrial era. There is nothing to ...
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Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum World Heritage Site
Norsk Industriarbeidermuseum
Vemork
3661 Rjukan, Norway

Textile Industry Museum

Salhus | Norway
Sweaters, socks, underwear, sportswear, swimwear – products like that were churned out by the Salhus Knitwear (Tricotage) Factory for more than 130 years. Notably knitwear branded Krone-Maco became quite known in Norway. For visitors the machines are still put into operation, since the former ...
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Textile Industry Museum
Tekstilindustrimuseet
Salhusvegen 201
5107 Salhus, Norway

Kraftmuseet. Norwegian Museum of Hydropower and Industry

Tyssedal | Norway
According to the Norwegian writer, Frode Grytten, who was born and grew up in Odda: “The valley seems to have been created by a gigantic blow with a sledgehammer”. As early as the 19th century waterfalls, glaciers and dramatic mountain landscapes attracted countless tourists to the region around ...
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Kraftmuseet. Norwegian Museum of Hydropower and Industry
Kraftmuseet. Norsk vasskraft- og Industristadmuseum
Naustbakken 7
5770 Tyssedal, Norway

Erzberg Adventure

Eisenerz | Austria
The world's biggest taxi is as high as a house, goes by the name Hauly and has 860 hp. The converted heavy goods vehicle takes visitors right in the middle of the largest surface mining of Central Europe. Starting from the valley of the small Styrian town Eisenerz the ore mine rises like the steps ...
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Erzberg Adventure
Erzberg 1
8790 Eisenerz, Austria

Austrian Museum of Papermaking at Old Factory

Laakirchen | Austria
A wooden vat and two rollers inside a seamless wire: this is what the world's first paper machine looks like. Visitors to the Laakirchen Museum of Papermaking and Print can see its replica in action. The technical relic is part of an exciting trip exploring the history of paper production - from the ...
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Austrian Museum of Papermaking at Old Factory
Museumsplatz 1
4662 Laakirchen, Austria

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