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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 ...
Erzberg Adventure
Erzberg 1
8790 Eisenerz, Austria
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 ...
Austrian Museum of Papermaking at Old Factory
Museumsplatz 1
4662 Laakirchen, Austria
Mürzzuschlag | Austria
From Vienna to Trieste in 13 hours and 4 minutes - in 1857, when the last track of the Südbahn was laid, this was considered a sensation. Until then, crossing the Alps had been a challenging and time-consuming undertaking. Now, with the Semmering Line, the world's first high mountain railway, ...
Südbahn Museum
Heizhausgasse 2
8680 Mürzzuschlag, Austria
Beringen | Belgium
What a sight! The long line of carefully built individual showers in the miners’ washroom appears to be never-ending. Here every man had his own cabin. The progressive features on the site are mainly due to the fact that the colliery was built relatively late – shortly after 1900. For this reason it ...
Beringen Mine Museum
Mijnmuseum Beringen
Koolmijnlaan 201
3582 Beringen, Belgium
Blegny | Belgium
Les Gueules Noires - the black faces: That’s the way the Walloons called their coal buddies. Italians, Czechs, Hungarians, Poles, Russians, Turks and of course Belgians labored in teams to feed the insatiable blast furnaces around Liege with coal. At the closing in 1980 Blegny mine was the oldest ...
Blegny Mine World Heritage Site
Domaine Touristique de Blegny-Mine
Rue Lambert Marlet, 23
4670 Blegny, Belgium
Gent | Belgium
The bale breaker, the beater and the rack all sound like instruments belonging to a torture chamber, but in reality they are part of the machines in an old mechanical cotton mill. The Museum of Industry in Ghent dedicates a whole storey to textile manufacture because cotton was the driving force ...
Museum of Industry
Industriemuseum
Minnemeers 10
9000 Gent, Belgium
Hornu | Belgium
A portico with three arches and a cobbled forecourt, followed by another three arches in a brick building: that' s the entrée to the spacious lawn of the Cour ovale, its oval - framed by arched arcades - looking like the arena of a Roman amphitheatre. Yet this is not the case: here, in southwestern ...
Grand Hornu World Heritage Site
Rue Sainte-Louise 82
7301 Hornu, Belgium
La Louvière (Houdeng-Aimeries) | Belgium
The entrance: a steel portcullis flanked by delicate round towers. Behind it are elongated brick buildings that accommodate, among other things, a warehouse, a historic carpentry workshop and the former machine hall with turbines and other equipment. Right next door stands the director's villa, ...
Museum of Mining and Sustainable Development World Heritage Site
Musée de la Mine et du Développement Durable
Rue Saint-Patrice 2b
7110 La Louvière, Belgium
Marcinelle | Belgium
Two silent pithead winding gears tower over the redbrick gable of the Bois de Cazier colliery near Charleroi. The colliery has now ceased operations but in August 1956 it was the site of one of the most tragic accidents in European mining history; a disaster that killed a total of 262 workers. A ...
Le Bois du Cazier World Heritage Site
Rue de Cazier 80
6001 Marcinelle, Belgium
Ostrava | Czech Republic
Not even 20 years ago Ostrava was called the ‘Republic’s Iron Heart’, referring to the production facilities of Dolní Vítkovice right in the center of the third-largest Czech city. The local concentration of industrial sectors is unique. The Hlubina colliery produced coal that was coked next door to ...
Dolní Vítkovice
Dolní oblast VÍTKOVICE, z.s.
Vítkovice 3004
703 00 Ostrava, Czech Republic
Ostrava-Michálkovice | Czech Republic
One might almost imagine that the smell of soap and sweat, tiny specks of coal dust and the hum of voices at a change of shift still hang somewhere in the air. Dozens of helmets, working clothes and boots hanging down from chains on the ceiling, and the tiled washrooms recall the activities that ...
Michal Mine
Důl Michal
Československè armády 95/413
715 00 Ostrava, Czech Republic
Pilsen | Czech Republic
Take some malt from specially refined Moravian barley and bring the mash to the boil three times. Add medium ripe red hops from the area around Saaz each time, and leave the brew to ferment slowly at a low temperature. Finally store it for up to 30 days in cooled barrels. This recipe, written on 5th ...
Pilsner Urquell Brewery and Museum
Plzensky Prazdroj
U Prazdroje 7
304 97 Pilsen, Czech Republic
Prague | Czech Republic
This historical sewage treatment plant is not an ordinary museum. Rather, it is an adventurous trip to the turn of the 19th century. Right next to the immense hall of the main building is the machine shop, four times a year witnessing the huffing and puffing of two 1903 steam engines. They are still ...
Stará Čistírna Old Waste Water Treatment Plant
Stará Čistírna odpadních vod v Bubenči
Papírenská 6
160 00 Prague, Czech Republic
Forssa | Finland
Where the nickname “cotton angels” for the women employed in the Forssa textile factory came from? You'll have to visit the Forssa Museum to find out. It is located in an old cotton warehouse, one of the earliest buildings at this industrial site set up in 1847 by the Swedish born Axel Wahren. The ...
Forssa Museum & Pattern Centre on the Spinning Mill Area
Forssan museo
Wahreninkatu 12
30100 Forssa, Finland
Pori | Finland
Threshing machines, frying pans, fridges, ships, planks, paper, sulphite pulp, electrical energy, baker's yeast, plastic bags, packaging - even this incomplete list reveals the massive product range of the Finnish company Rosenlew. The owners decided that this had to be documented somehow. So back ...
Rosenlew Museum
Rosenlew Museo
Kuninkaanlahdenkatu 14
28100 Pori, Finland
Ruotsinpyhtää | Finland
The metallic blows of a hammer mill echo through the dense forest near Finland’s south coast, while shining red wooden houses cast their reflection on the smooth surface of a pond. Time, it seems, has stood still here since the young widow Virginia af Forselles took over the several decades-old ...
Strömfors Ironworks
Strömforsin Ruukin
Ruukintie 11A
Kirkonkyla
07970 Ruotsinpyhtää, Finland
Verla (Jaala) | Finland
Of course, Verla is located on the water – there is plenty of that in Finland, and it once powered machines here as it did elsewhere. And of course, there are forests all around – a source of raw materials for the pulp and cardboard production that began here in the late 19th century. Everything ...
Verla Mill Museum World Heritage Site
Verlan tehdasmuseo
Verlantie 295
47850 Verla, Finland
Dommartin-le-Franc | France
Everyone knows the Statue of Liberty in New York. But did you ever hear where it was casted – at least part of it? In a blast furnace of a village in northwestern France called Dommartin-le-Franc. How that happened and why this place left its mark elsewhere in the world is a story told by the ...
Metallurgic Park
13 rue du Maréchal Leclerc
52110 Dommartin-le-Franc, France
Grossouvre | France
The ironworks in the Pays Loire Val d'Abois were once known all over the world. The area manufactured weapons for the French Revolution, pipelines for Madrid and Paris, and components for building the Eiffel Tower. Visitors can find out how this came about in the extensively restored former Charcoal ...
Charcoal Hall of Grossouvre
Espace Métal - Halle de Grossouvre
Route de Véreaux
18600 Grossouvre, France
Guise | France
10 million bricks, 30,000 square metres housing area and courtyard, 495 workers' flats for 1,748 people, running water on all floors, a nursery with 50 cots, a theatre for an audience of 1,000, a school, a laundry, a public swimming pool and, last but not least, a comprehensive social security ...
Le Familistère de Guise
178-179 Familistère pavillon central
02120 Guise, France
Husseren-Wesserling | France
Exceptionally well-preserved, the Parc de Wesserling - Ecomusée Textile is one of the few industrial sites in Europe able to offer visitors an overview of the different historical, social and technical strata of the textile industry, from the 18th to the 21st century. The site covers almost 42 ...
Wesserling Park Textile Ecomuseum
Parc de Wesserling-Écomusée Textile
Rue du Parc
68470 Husseren-Wesserling, France
Alfeld (Leine) | Germany
Why is it that a boot-last factory in rural Lower Saxony becomes a turning point in modern architecture? The former warehouse of the Fagus Factory turns that question into an exciting story, displayed on five floors, and recounting various aspects that still shape our reception of architecture. This ...
Fagus Factory World Heritage Site
Hannoversche Strasse 58
31061 Alfeld (Leine), Germany
Augsburg | Germany
Rattling looms, creative fashion laboratory, modern high-tech: tim, the young Augsburg Textile and Industrial Museum, which opened in January 2010, connects the rapid development of the local textile industry with an exciting trip into the history of fashion and clothing over the past two centuries. ...
tim - State Textile and Industrial Museum
Augsburger Kammgarnspinnerei (AKS)
Provinostraße 46
86153 Augsburg, Germany
Bendorf-Sayn | Germany
A prototype of modern industrial construction? One that looks like a Gothic church? In this remote valley near Koblenz? The answers lie beyond the spectacular glass façade. This first industrial facility with its supporting cast-iron construction, built in 1828-30 by Carl Ludwig Althans in a ...
Sayner Hütte Ironworks
In der Sayner Hütte 4
56170 Bendorf-Sayn, Germany
Berlin | Germany
Lifeworld Ship”, “From Ballooning to the Berlin Airlift”, “Trains, Locomotives and People”: any technological developments that Berlin witnessed during the past 120 years are showcased in the capital's Deutsches Technikmuseum (German Museum of Technology). Greeting travellers from a distance there ...
German Technical Museum
Trebbiner Strasse 9
10963 Berlin, Germany
Berlin | Germany
It is located in the middle of a residential area: the 75/76 forced labor camp in Berlin-Schöneweide. From June 1944, deported civilians from all over Europe lived here, as well as more than 400 Italian military internees and about 200 female concentration camp prisoners. Who were they, what did ...
Nazi Forced Labour Documentation Centre
Britzer Str. 5
12439 Berlin, Germany
Bitterfeld-Wolfen | Germany
Nowadays, the complexity of producing non-digital films is hard to imagine. A guided tour of the Bitterfeld-Wolfen Industry and Film Museum helps to change the focus. Visitors gain deep insights into the challenging temperatures and light conditions by inspecting the particular machines that ...
Industry and Filmmuseum
Chemiepark Bitterfeld-Wolfen
Areal A
Bunsenstr. 4
06766 Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Germany
Bocholt | Germany
Whirring belts, rattling looms, the smell of oil and work: the Museum replicates the activities in an early 20th century cotton mill. The reconstructed brick buildings follow the historical examples of the region: the boiler house and shed roofs, workshop and office, and the fully furnished ...
The Bocholt Textile Factory
Uhlandstraße 50
46397 Bocholt, Germany
Chemnitz | Germany
The framework: a listed factory building from around the turn of the 20th century. Inside: innovative products of Saxon industrial history, the major ones highlighted on a silver strip. The exhibits cover more than 200 years, from the beginning of industrialization to this day. There are, for ...
Saxon Museum of Industry | Chemnitz Museum of Industry
Zwickauer Straße 119
09112 Chemnitz, Germany
Delmenhorst | Germany
Twelve hours work in suffocating factory rooms followed by a meagre dinner in a house belonging to the company, and maybe a chat over the garden fence with the neighbour before going to bed. This was more or less the typical pattern of everyday life in the north German Wool Combing and Worsted ...
Nordwolle
Nordwestdeutsches Museum für Industriekultur
Am Turbinenhaus 10-12
27749 Delmenhorst, Germany
Dortmund | Germany
Angle towers and gables with battlements, artistically ornate staircases, an imposing boulevard of lime and plane trees against the background of a palatial redbrick façade! Was this once supposed to be a colliery? Indeed it was. The original owners consciously set out to build a magnificent ...
The Zollern Colliery
Grubenweg 5
44388 Dortmund, Germany
Duisburg | Germany
“Clean and tidy and ready to be fired up once more”. That may be so. But blast furnace no. 5 on the site of the disused Thyssen ironworks will stay for ever cold. Because it is right in the middle of the North Duisburg Landscape Park. This 200 hectare area is a clear example of how nature and ...
North Landscape Park
Emscherstrasse 71
47137 Duisburg, Germany