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Port Sunlight

Port Sunlight | United Kingdom

A walk through Port Sunlight is like a journey through England’s architectural heritage set in a beautiful parkland setting. The picturesque character of this late 19th century garden village is no coincidence. Its founder, William Hesketh Lever (1851-1925) built Port Sunlight to house the workers ...

Port Sunlight
Port Sunlight Village Trust
23 King George’s Drive
CH62 5DX Port Sunlight, United Kingdom

Kelham Island Museum

Sheffield | United Kingdom

Knives, saws, scythes, files, razor blades, cutlery. No doubt about it, Sheffield is the English equivalent of Solingen. What began with small workshops in the 16th century quickly developed into the brand mark of an up-and-coming industrial city. Later Sheffield was to pioneer modern steel ...

Kelham Island Museum
Alma Street
S3 8RY Sheffield, United Kingdom

National Waterfront Museum

Swansea | United Kingdom

Computer screens with interactive film sequences. Graphics and projections. Multi-media shows demonstrating how fireproof bricks, iron and steel were manufactured. The first impressions make it unmistakably clear that the National Waterfront Museum in Swansea (Wales) prides itself on ...

National Waterfront Museum
Oystermouth Road
SA1 3RD Swansea, United Kingdom

Iron Bridge World Heritage Site

Telford | United Kingdom

Length: 30.6 metres. Height: 16.75 metres. Weight: 378 tons. These are the basic facts about the Iron Bridge, which spans the Severn Valley in Telford. But who can regard the history of the first ever iron bridge in mere statistics? It is universally recognised as the symbol of the industrial ...

Iron Bridge World Heritage Site
Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust Coach Road Coalbrookdale
TF8 7DQ Telford, United Kingdom

National Coal Mining Museum for England

Wakefield | United Kingdom

You had better dress up warm here. For you’ll be going 140 metres underground. And below the earth it is cold, damp and dark. The National Coalmining Museum for England, near Overton in West Yorkshire, is located in one of the oldest collieries in the United Kingdom. Here visitors can don a miner’s ...

National Coal Mining Museum for England
Caphouse Colliery
New Road Overton
WF4 4RH Wakefield, United Kingdom

DIVA. Museum for Diamonds, Jewellery and Silver

Antwerp | Belgium

Since the beginning of the 20th century, Antwerp has been the world's most important centre for the processing and trading of diamonds, after the city had already been a famous diamond centre in the 16th century, but lost its importance when the country was divided into the Northern and Southern ...

DIVA. Museum for Diamonds, Jewellery and Silver
DIVA, museum voor diamant, juwelen en zilver
Suikerrui 17-19
2000 Antwerp, Belgium

Tobacco City

Plovdiv | Bulgaria

In the very heart of Plovdiv there is an area that fascinates with its past beauty, massive and exquisite architecture and urban ensemble – the so-called Tobacco City. More than 15 hectares on which around 13 tobacco warehouses and factories were built by local investors as production sites for the ...

Tobacco City
16 Ekzarh Yosif Str.
4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Frederiks Vaerk Museum of Industry

Frederiksvaerk | Denmark

Frederiksvaerk boasts a remarkable history along the lines of well-known English factory villages such as Coalbrookdale, New Lanark and Saltaire. Based on waterpower Frederiksvaerk once housed the national armament industry and was a worldwide supplier of military equipment. In the 1720s an agate ...

Frederiks Vaerk Museum of Industry
Industrimuseet Frederiks Værk
Torvet 18-20
DK 3300 Frederiksvaerk, Denmark

German Museum of Wire

Altena | Germany

It’s an all rounder: tough, delicate, shining, decorative. It’s always flexible and it’s quite simply indispensable in everyday life. This amazing material is wire and everybody knows what that is. But if the only thing you associate with the term is barbed wire or wire netting you’re in for a huge ...

German Museum of Wire
Fritz-Thomée-Straße 12
58762 Altena, Germany

Sauerland Museum

Arnsberg | Germany

The Sauerland Museum was founded in 1925 as a museum of local history for the Sauerland region and the history of the Duchy of Westphalia. Since 1937 it has been housed in the Landsberger Hof, a 17th century electoral palace and listed building. In 2019 it will receive a modern, multi-award-winning ...

Sauerland Museum
Alter Markt 24-30
59821 Arnsberg, Germany

Railway Park

Augsburg | Germany

The former railway depot and workshop, covering about 35,000 square meters, was built in 1906 by the Königlich-Bayerische Staatseisenbahnen (Royal Bavarian State Railways). Today the whole complex is listed. The restoration of the buildings and facilities started in 2014 and is due to last several ...

Railway Park
Firnhaberstraße 22c
86159 Augsburg, Germany

The Graduation Tower and the Borlach Museum

Bad Dürrenberg | Germany

The director of the Electoral State of Saxony Saline Baths in Dürrenberg, Johann Gottfried Borlach, was a stubborn man. He had people drilling for saline sources for 19 years. Finally, on 15th September 1763, he struck lucky at a depth of 223 metres. The discovery turned a hitherto obscure place ...

The Graduation Tower and the Borlach Museum
Borlach-Museum
Borlachplatz 2
06231 Bad Dürrenberg, Germany

Wetterau Heritage Railway

Bad Nauheim | Germany

The Friends of the Wetterau Heritage Railway is about 20 km long and crosses the fertile Wetterau, a landscape north of Frankfurt/Main. The railway enthusiasts who maintain the facilities are doing it on a voluntary basis and on their own initiative, running their ‚business‘ as professionally as a ...

Wetterau Heritage Railway
Eisenbahnfreunde Wetterau e. V.
Am Goldstein 12 (Lokschuppen)
61231 Bad Nauheim, Germany

Westphalian Salt Experience

Bad Sassendorf | Germany

The Museum “Westphalian Salt Experience” traces 5.000 years of history that salt and brine made along the ancient trade route of the Hellweg and it sheds light on various aspects of salt that are less known. Brine, salty water which washes out subterranean deposits of rock salt, surfaced along the ...

Westphalian Salt Experience
An der Rosenau 2
59505 Bad Sassendorf, Germany

Luisenhütte

Balve | Germany

Smoking chimneys and industrial spires towering into the heavens! Not here! The Luisenhütte in Balve-Wocklum looks almost cosy. No steel, no complicated tangles of pipes, no gigantic engine house. Instead there’s an angular half-timbered quarry-stone building set amongst quiet trees, and a nearby ...

Luisenhütte
Wocklumer Allee
58802 Balve, Germany

Baruth Glassmaking Village

Baruth | Germany

In 1716 Count Sigismund Friedrich (1696-1738) established a glassworks about 7 km from the small town of Baruth that lies 60 km south of Berlin. The community that grew up around the works gained the name ‘Glashütte’. The works continued to operate until 1980.The historical monument Baruther ...

Baruth Glassmaking Village
Hüttenweg 20
15837 Baruth, Germany

Sayner Hütte Iron Works

Bendorf-Sayn | Germany

The casting hall in the Gothic style at the Bendorf ironworks, Sayn, 10 km north of Koblenz, is one of the most monumental industrial buildings in Europe. A blast furnaces was built at Bendorf in 1769 by Clemens Wenzeslaus, Elector of Trier. When the state of Nassau was absorbed into Prussia the ...

Sayner Hütte Iron Works
In der Sayner Hütte 4
56170 Bendorf-Sayn, Germany

The Mansfeld Works Railway Line

Benndorf | Germany

Broad, undulating fields and rows of fruit trees line the stretch of the oldest narrow-gauge railway in Germany. At the front of the train is one of the original Mansfeld steam engines. Clattering behind it are historic wagons with open platforms and round iron stoves. Re-greened spoil tips which ...

The Mansfeld Works Railway Line
Hauptstraße 15
06308 Benndorf, Germany

Berlin Historic Port

Berlin | Germany

The Fischerinsel in Berlin-Mitte offers familiar views of the TV tower and the Nikolai district. However, if your gaze wanders to the Spree, you will notice historic ships, steam tugs and excursion boats. They are part of the Historic Harbour. The history of shipping in Berlin goes back a long ...

Berlin Historic Port
Märkisches Ufer
10179 Berlin, Germany

Berlin Museum for Communication

Berlin | Germany

The museum of communications in Berlin claims to be Europe’s oldest postal museum. The collection was established in 1872 by the postmaster of imperial Germany, Heinrich von Stephan (1831-97), who, in 1866, had been commissioned by the government of Prussia to establish a federal postal service, ...

Berlin Museum for Communication
Leipziger Strasse 16
10117 Berlin, Germany

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