The railway museum at Chemnitz is located in the Hilbersdorf locomotive depot which closed in 1992. Its buildings, now designated historical monuments, include two roundhouses with 20 m turntables, water [...] private lines serving industrial concerns, the military or forestry enterprises not open to the public). A Krieglok 2-10-0 steam locomotive regularly works excursion trains. The museum organises a Boiler [...] inspection pits. Its large collection of locomotives includes examples on loan from the transport museums at Dresden and Nürnberg, and from private owners. The collection reflects principally the railways

east of Chemnitz in the Erzgebirge, dates from soon after 1800. It was owned from 1910 by Martin Tannenhauer, who established a textile business in Chemnitz in 1883. The mill became a technical museum from [...] textile industry in the former GDR. The building is now owned by the Gemeindeverwaltung Niederweisa and has comprehensive displays on three floors detailing the history of weaving. The museum’s collection

grand scale. Some are now known only to specialists. In the Saxon Commercial Vehicle Museum in Hartmannsdorf near Chemnitz, approximately 50 restored pieces from the much larger inventory of the association [...] changing exhibitions and a functional setting. The spectrum ranges from the Presto, built in 1913 in Chemnitz, to the most recent exhibit, a Robur LO 3000 from 1991.

surface is a grindery used for working precious stones. The museum forms part of the Sächsisches Industriemuseum (The Saxony museum of industry) and part of the Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří [...] Tin ore was discovered in the region of Ehrenfriedersdorf, 34 km south of Chemnitz, in the 13th century and was mined until the early 1990s. Some silver was also extracted from the local mines, as well

At Frankeberg near Chemnitz in Saxony the Time-Work-City Experience (ZeitWerkStadt) is a museum about technical inventions that affected the life of the region – an exploration of pioneering spirit. It [...] the collection came from the Frankenberg vehicle museum, which was open from 1996 to 2019. Original exhibits include objects from the textile industry and carpet weaving, a printing press from 1845 that

made at Oderwitze, and the Presto cars and motorcycles produced in Chemnitz, are now largely forgotten. One of the objectives of the Museum of Saxon Road Vehicles is to perpetuate the memory of companies [...] building in the International Modern style, built in 1928 when the motor industry in Saxon was at its most prosperous. The museum displays more than 200 motorcycles and cars manufactured in Saxony by more [...] land or state, once the kingdom, of Saxony was home to one of Europe’s most innovative engineering industries in the first half of the twentieth century, and a leading centre for the production of motor vehicles

the mining industry are the Abrahamschacht, with pithead buildings of 1839, and the Alte Elisabeth, with structures of the 1840s, including a steam engine made by Constantin Pfaff of Chemnitz. The history [...] history of mining is comprehensively depicted in the Municipal and Mining Museum, and the technical university, that incorporates the mining academy established in 1765, has extensive geological and mineralogical

worked in their own homes. The museum, supported by a voluntary association, the Forderverein Esche-Museum eV, was established in 2001. It tells the story of the hosiery industry from the time when it was entirely [...] Limbach-Oberfrohna, a medium-sized town, 19 km. west of Chemnitz and 36 km. east of Zwickau, is one of the historic centres of the textile industry in Saxony, and is particularly important for its role in [...] in 1719. His family continued to manage factories in Limbach-Oberfrohn and the present-day Esche-Museum is located in a three-storey hosiery factory built in 1854 by Ernste Reinhold Esche (1817-73), where

The museum of Oederan, a small village 20 km East of Chemnitz, presents the textile history of the Ore Mountains. Under the guidance of museum staff and on hand and power looms, visitors can learn various [...] spooling, as well as sectional and direct warping procedures. As the machinery and equipment park of the museum covers almost the entire history of weaving, from the simple handlooms of the early days via Jacquard

Coal in the area around Oelsnitz, 25 km south-west of Chemnitz was mined on a large scale between 1844 and 1971, although some had been extracted by farmers from their own fields in earlier times. Some [...] from 9 m to 1200 m, the deepest of them known as the Frisch-Gluck-Schacht (the new luck shaft). The museum is based in the Kaiserin-Augusta-Schacht (the Queen Augusta mine), which was sunk to a depth of 260 [...] 260 m in 1869. From 1946 the mine was named after the philosopher Karl Liebknecht. The museum was established from 1976 by former miners and was officially opened in 1986. From 2002 visitors have been

Saigerhutte in Olbernhau, 32 km south-west of Chemnitz, was once a self-contained village of timber-framed buildings devoted to the processing of copper, which originated in 1836, and was the principal

opened as a museum the following year. Its displays feature many aspects of textile manufacturing, particularly hosiery production and weaving on Jacquard looms. The other theme of the museum is motor cycling [...] The adjoining towns of Hohenstein and Ernstthal west of Chemnitz in Saxony were formally united in 1898. Both have been associated with the manufacture of textiles over several centuries. Mining prospered [...] prospered in the area in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The textile industry expanded, particularly in the nineteenth century as the accessible veins of silver ore ran out. The area became

south-east of Chemnitz, since the 16th century. The burning of limestone to make lime ceased in the area in 1975, although cement is still made by Geomin Erzgebirgische Kalkwerk GmbH. The museum opened in [...] the first successful kilns that were continuous rather than intermittent in their operation. The museum is also concerned with the geology and the natural history of the quarries, where many varieties

factory – much further. The forefather of the dynasty, Johann Esche, had – as is shown in the Esche Museum in Limbach-Oberfrohna – recreated a stocking knitting frame in 1700 and thus sustainably influenced [...] interior designer, who at the time was still largely unknown as an architect, to build a villa in Chemnitz, which van de Velde in 1911 again extended and largely furnished himself. Van de Velde's wife Maria [...] After being carefully restored and redeveloped from 1998 to 2001, it now houses a Henry van de Velde museum with rooms including their original furnishings and other exhibits. It also serves as a meeting place

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 [...] focal point of the museum. In the basement, where the textile tools are located, an entire production line is switched on, illustrating the century-old history of the Saxon textile industry by automatically

the forefront of industrial design. The National Museum has collections of machines, vehicles, clocks and cameras, but the departments of industrial design and of consumer industries, relating to office [...] equipment and household appliances, are of particular importance. The museum also takes responsibility for some industrial sites and museums in other parts of the republic.

mill have been renovated. Museum includes also an area for temporary events, an audiovisual room and a space for laboratories. Museum of Iron is part of musil – Museum of Industry and Labor of Brescia, a [...] The Museum of Iron was opened in 1984, when the building was acquired by Civiltà Bresciana Foundation to be transformed in a museum-laboratory of industrial archaeology. It is located in the oldest pr [...] proto-industrial area of the city, but the hammer forge was in function until the end of the XX Century. In its external area, Museum of Iron shows the historic role of the water wheels: the canal provides

Calderdale which was centred on Halifax opened an industrial museum in the mid-1980s. It was one of the last of a succession of conventional indoor industrial museums developed in large towns and cities in the [...] a body of enthusiasts, the Calderdale Industrial Museum Association, and from 2017 was again open to the public but on Saturdays only. The museum is located in the former Albion Works in the centre of [...] the United Kingdom from the 1960s. The museum was initially successful but attendances dwindled and it soon closed. After a long period when it was inaccessible to the public it was leased from 2014 by a

The museum centre Konsti includes Varkaus History Museum and Varkaus Art Museum and, as a new addition, Children's Factory, which lets kids explore the industry through play. In Konsti visitors can find [...] story of Varkaus’ 200 year old industry all the way to the future. Industry in Varkaus started from a small iron mill in 1815. It grew and expanded to multibranch industrial centre and today it is known [...] services for visitors from restaurants to accommodation. Museum Centre Konsti is also a cultural multipurpose building that presents Varkaus industry, culture and art. Konsti has space for the entire community

Mining and Industrial Museum in El Entrego • The Asturian Railway Museum in Gijón • The Railway Industry Museum in Langreo The Asturian Tourist Board has set itself the aim of marketing the industrial heritage [...] other industrial enterprises, all of which contributed to making the region a pioneer in the industrialisation of Spain, alongside Catalonia and the Basque country. All these branches of industry have left [...] these industrial monuments and expressions of a bygone engineering technology are part of the landscape which they once radically transformed. Some of the sites have been turned into industrial museums