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 forerunners of paper to the [...] by making their own hand-made paper as in pre-industrial times. The printing museum, showcasing machines that are still functional, offers the opportunity of operating a toggle press dating from 1878, while [...] audiovisual interpretation and tells, among other things, the story of the factory workers. A special museum deals with the history of local fire brigades, and the "ALFA" convention centre houses small

is an industrial heritage site since 1806, offering a variety of services for tourists throughout the year. The history of the village of Noormarkku dates to the 15th century. The operation of the Ma [...] and gardens. Noormarkku is still the home of both the Ahlström family and the Ahlström companies. The company's story is a significant part of Finnish industrial, architectural, art, and design history. [...] Makkarakoski sawmill, now functioning as a sawmill museum, began in 1753. The machinery and equipment of the current sawmill are mostly from the 1880s. The Ahlström family acquired the works area in 1870

Ironworks ensemble is the result of over 330 years of iron and paper industry. In 1689, Creutz was granted the privilege of building an ironworks by a mining college. At the turn of the 20th century, wood processing [...] alongside iron production, first in the form of a sawmill and later in various forms of paper processing. The history of Kauttua from the establishment of the ironworks village to the present day is presented [...] and Villa Aalto. The Ironworks have been designated as a built cultural heritage site of national significance by the Finnish Heritage Agency.

life in the rough industrial region and port town. The Kymenlaakso Museum also maintains the art collections. The museum is situated in the same building with the Maritime Museum of Finland . After World [...] n Finland has one of the biggest industrial forestry clusters in Europe. The museums in Vellamo offer means for viewing one’s own life, livelihood and family as part of the course of history. They do not [...] The Kymenlaakso Museum operates in the Maritime Centre Vellamo in the Old Port of Kotka. The Museum tells stories about life and everyday toil in the border region, about the river and the sea as well

adapted for a variety of purposes, but the former dyeshop of the cotton mill houses Työväenmuseo Werstas - the Finnish Labour Museum. The Museum tells the over two-hundred-year-old story of Tampere’s industry [...] the largest industrial city in the country, “the Manchester of Finland”. Impressive museum artefacts and photographs introduce visitors to the industrial enterprises and factory workers of Tampere. A large [...] The pioneer of large-scale manufacturing in the Finnish city of Tampere was the Scot James Finlayson (1771-1852) who, after a spell working in St Petersburg, established an engineering shop in the early

cultural heritage, to industrial production, from the art scene to high-tech ceramic research. At the Westerwald Ceramics Museum, visitors can learn all about the history and production of Westerwald [...] production of a grey-blue vessel. It shows how this unique product became an object of desire in the Baroque period and how the region developed into an important industrial centre with a wide range of applications [...] ceramics. On the upper floor, a variety of displays illustrate the importance of ceramics in contemporary art. Visitors can get creative themselves in the museum's workshop.

the Menai Bridge was a triumph of civil engineering – the biggest suspension bridge in the world at the time. Sixteen huge chains held up 579 feet of deck, giving 100 feet of clearance for tall sailing ships [...] roadway, linking Continental Europe to Ireland. The full history of the bridges and several artefacts can be seen at the Menai Heritage museum . [...] constructed a bridge with two main spans of 140-m long rectangular iron tubes, each weighing 1,500 long tons (1,700 short tons), supported by masonry piers, the centre one of which was built on the Britannia Rock

built in 1909 for use on a colliery line and a fleet of passenger coaches from the 1950s. Films and displays explore how trains work and the impact of coal and electricity. On scheduled days, visitors can [...] can take a ride on a 1950s passenger steam train or heritage diesel locomotives, which run from the museum to Percy Main. [...] ideas that helped spread railways and locomotives across the world. The Stephenson Steam Railway Museum celebrates their achievements. It is located on a standard-gauge, single-track railway that runs

is one Europe’s leading industrial cities and its diverse manufacturing enterprises played a significant part in the early Industrial Revolution. Thinktank is the city’s museum of science and industry, which [...] computing among other fields. The museum also holds natural science collections and examines environmental issues. One reason for the city’s reputation as the ‘workshop of the world’ was the innovative Boulton [...] Boulton and Watt engineering company. The museum features many items made by Boulton and Watt, including the Smethwick pumping engine of 1779 - the oldest working steam engine in the world. Key objects

monuments from the time of the Industrial Revolution, but also artefacts that are much older or younger. It thus offers a diverse picture of the industrial heritage so typical of the region. [...] n region was industrialised already during the times of Austria-Hungary in the 19th century and still today is one of the most important industrial areas in Central Europe with its coal mining, iron and [...] evidence of the region's rich industrial and technical history on the ERIH Regional Route 'TECHNOTRASA'. The virtual route leads to more than 30 technical objects connected with the tradition of mining,

The main exhibition of the Forssa Museum, the City of Colourful Cloth, tells the story of Forssa community. Museum Gallery Moletti, an atmospheric little gallery, focuses on contemporary and textile art [...] art. Forssa Museum was the Museum of the Year 2014 in Finland and a nominee for the Emya prize in 2015. In 2021, the museum opens a new site Pattern Centre, dedicated to printed fabric design. The large [...] hundreds of thousands of different patterns were produced. As the industry gradually waned, the factory properties were converted to other uses and the extensive archives were transferred to the museum. The

the hearts of the local museum guides. For behind these names are four extant historic weaving looms that are regularly used to demonstrate the weaving techniques used in Lodz at the end of the 19th century [...] century. Demonstrations are part of the interactive tour for visitors to the factory museum in the Manufaktura shopping complex which traces the path of cotton from the cotton bolls to the finished product [...] entrepreneur by the name of Israel Poznanski, set up an industrial empire that was brought to a cruelly abrupt end by Hitler’s barbaric Nazi regime. Astonishingly enough, the remains of the buildings survived

The principal museum of technology in France dates from 1794, the time of the French Revolution, when a national conservatory of arts and trades (Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers) was created [...] models and drawings submitted by aspirant patentees. The museum’s Industrial Portfolio includes more than 20,000 drawings and paintings of industrial subjects, including notable 18th century drawings by Jacques [...] descriptions and books relating to arts and trades of all kinds’. It opened in 1799 in the buildings of a priory dissolved during the Revolution. In the course of the 19th century it acquired collections from

Corporation and opened as the city’s industrial museum in 1982. Visitors to the museum can see an array of textile machinery used and made in Leeds, together with their sources of power, a working water wheel [...] There is a collection of narrow gauge and standard gauge steam locomotives, many of which were built in Leeds, and a display of the products of John Fowler (1826-64) pioneer of steam ploughing, whose [...] The best known product of the city’s printing industry is the board game Monopoly developed by John Waddington from 1922. The museum also displays examples of the products of the city’s extensive leather

Ivrea is a town 56 km north of Turin, whose main industry for much of the twentieth century was the manufacture of office equipment by Olivetti, founded in 1908 by the electrical engineer Camillo Olivetti [...] In 2018 Ivrea was inscribed in the Unesco World Heritage list as an "industrial city of the 20th century, developed as the testing ground for Olivetti. It comprises a large factory and buildings designed [...] ensemble reflects the ideas of the Community Movement (Movimento Comunità). A model social project, Ivrea expresses a modern vision of the relationship between industrial production and architecture."

bibliographic heritage related to the history of the Olivetti Company and the Olivetti family. This unique collection consists of millions of documents, letters, books, magazines, posters, drawings, p [...] Piedmont and the Aosta Valley of the Ministry of Cultural and Environmental Heritage. The Association is committed to collecting, organizing, preserving, studying, and promoting the extensive documentary and [...] The Olivetti Historical Archive was founded in 1986 at the initiative of Paolo Mancinelli, then Secretary General of Olivetti, in collaboration with the Adriano Olivetti Foundation. On March 12, 1998,

territory of the Geo-mining Park of Sardinia. The CMSB Foundation is dedicated to enhancing the tangible and intangible mining heritage, offering hikers a unique opportunity to discover the history of the miners [...] identity. The CMSB Foundation is founder and member of the European Mining Routes of Santa Barbara Federation, a network dedicated to promoting mining heritage across Europe. The Federation promotes routes that [...] provide a unique opportunity to discover the rich industrial mining heritage in a sustainable way, immersing visitors in the history and culture of the mining communities that shaped these landscapes

completed, however, as the Industrial Conversion Decree was approved in 1983. After large mobilisations of the workers, the closure of the factory was imposed. As for the industrial heritage, buildings such as [...] Spare Parts Warehouse have been preserved, which will become the future Museum of Industrial Heritage and the Workers' Memory of Puerto de Sagunto. [...] to link the mines of Ojos Negros, Teruel, with the new port infrastructures for exporting iron ore to other European countries. These works involved the migration of a large number of workers and engineers

This industrial museum occupies a huge complex of red-brick buildings that cross to an island over rapids on the river Kymijoki. It was built as a mill for manufacturing cardboard in 1872. It became a [...] long and produced 6,000 tons of board a year. Visitors also see the hydroelectric plant completed in the 1920s with its original turbines. The museum highlights the stories of nine individual people who [...] who worked at the plant. Models, photographs and artefacts explain the construction of the factory and the chain of production. Blacksmiths demonstrate how tools and equipment were made. Nearby, workers’

the world. The mass processing of cotton had begun. Today the Cromford Mill is a recognised World Heritage Site. The same goes for all the other remaining early industrial factories in the valley. Their [...] witness to the start of a new era. This had a lot to do with inventions and factories and especially with the people who worked in the factories. The major burden of the Industrial Revolution – here and [...] Richard Arkwright, a former wigmaker, recognised this fact and promptly invented a hitherto unheard of machine: the water frame. It could spin fine yarn in a way which only hand driven spinning wheels had