for its large number of slate-faced buildings. Au Coeur de l’Ardoise is a museum concerned with the heritage of the slate industry in the region. Visitors can go on a 75-minute audio-guided tour that takes [...] are available in the museum shop. Au Coeur de l’Ardoise is linked through the organisation Le Réseau Ardoise d’Ardenne and the trail guide La Route d’Ardoise with similar slate museums at Alle-sur-Semois

Friedrichshafen on shore of the Bodensee (Lake Constance) is best-known in industrial history as the manufacturing and operating base for the airships built by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838-1917) [...] areas of engineering, particularly the manufacture of hardware for space exploration. The Dornier Museum occupies a striking modern building and its 400 exhibits include twelve original aircraft and two [...] tour of the Bodensee in a flight simulator. There are joint ticketing arrangements with the Zeppelin museum and with the operators of the catamaran service from Konstanz to Friedrichshafen.

to the idea of dealing with the topic of draught horse transport. Already for about 20 years, the museum has documented the global development of horse-driven transport.With its focus on the age of ind [...] before the beginning of the 20th century. The Zugpferdmuseum is about a type of ‘living and moving’ industrial history.

a seven-storey section on top of which is an oval, five-storey tower. The museum combines science and technology with industrial history. It was established in 1966 and moved to the factory building in [...] The entrance to the museum of science and technology, now titled Dresden Technical Collections, is on Schandauer Straße. The multi-storey building was a factory for the Ernemann camera company and was

history of the town of Tramagal, which itself became a brand name. The museum opened in 2017 in the former MDF factory in Tramagal. The museum follows the history of the MDF company from when it was established [...] engineering who founded the company Metalúrgica Duarte Ferreira (MDF). It made agricultural equipment, industrial machinery, safes, enamel ware and commercial vehicles among other products. Ferreira had an important

designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979. It suffered severely from shelling during the wars of the early 1990s, but much of the damage has since been restored. The Maritime Museum originated as early [...] it was managed by the Yugoslav Academy of Arts and Sciences (JAZU), but became part of the city’s museum service from 1987. It occupies the first and second floors of St John’s Fortress, while a notable

The museum was founded in 2010. It is an independent museum which preserves the transport heritage of the city of Dundee and the surrounding areas. It is currently temporarily housed in a modern industrial [...] depot, a group of buildings dating from 1901, and hopes to restore the buildings and rehouse the museum there. Vehicles on show are either held in the collection or brought in for themed days. Visitors [...] of local businesses, military vehicles, motorbikes, emergency vehicles, buses or other transport heritage. The theme of future transport is explored through concept cars and vehicles once considered futuristic

there are exhibitions about this industrial history and a 3-d animation shows the development of 35 different industrial sites in the area. Among the key industries was the Teslić spirits distillery, [...] Sisak became an important centre of industry in the nineteenth century and twentieth century, thanks to its transport connections by railways and by the rivers Kupa and Sava to the Danube. In the information

1974. The first coal was mined here in 1898. The museum included the shaft hall, the winding tower and the winding machine house. Since 2022, the museum has been housed in the former 'Kneepkens' department [...] mining in the Limburg region ended in the 1960s and 1970s. To preserve this history, the Dutch Mining Museum was opened 40 years later. It was initially located at Shaft II of the Oranje Nassau I mine in Heerlen [...] floor is dedicated to mining and the miners. The first floor tells of the prosperity that the coal industry brought to the region, while the second floor depicts the unsafe and unhealthy working conditions

This museum in the north of Holland forms a twin milestone in Dutch industrial history. On the one hand it displays a huge number of original steam engines used in shipping and industry, most of which

country towns historically important for woollen textiles in Occitannia in southern France. The textile museum of the département is in a nineteenth-century woollen factory. Visitors enter by a footbridge across [...] a park on Boulevard Carnot. It contains original looms as well as other artefacts brought to the museum. The whole process of woollen manufacture can be understood, from the preparation of raw wool through [...] graphics and film to show the marketing and final use of textiles and the society associated with the industry. The displays consider the latest developments and the future of textiles and include the science

The ENTER Museum takes its name from the 'Enter' key on a computer keyboard and the English word for 'enter'. It is a museum of computers and consumer electronics that was created from private collections [...] collections brought together in the 1990s and has been on display since 2010.. In 2023, the museum moved into a new building in Derendingen to the east of Solothurn, where, in addition to the exhibition, an academy [...] dedicated to the history and future of technology was set up with the aim of preserving cultural heritage and inspiring young people for technical professions. In over 10,000 square metres of interactive

many skilled decorators. Craft and industrial producers still make ceramics in the town. In a former ceramics factory with an impressive new building alongside, the museum explains the history of local ceramic [...] and firewood and traded from the port of the River Sarthe. Others followed him into the ceramics industry. They focused on earthenware goods for domestic use. In order to compete with other ceramic producers

travelling on a Museum Steam Day. The more adventurous can drive a steam locomotive and operate signalling on one of the regular Railway Experience Courses. EARM is an active member of the Heritage Railway A [...] The East Anglian Railway Museum is not only home to the most comprehensive collection of period railway architecture and engineering in the Region, but is also based at a working railway station on historic [...] Association and undertakes the restoration of locomotives and rolling stock from other museums. The amazing Chappel Viaduct is beloved of artists and photographers and runs across the valley just alongside

are managed as one site. The adjacent Industrial Discovery Centre, with a captivating audio-visual presentation, provides an overview of Cornwall’s industrial heritage. There are few better places in which [...] Europe’s principal source of tin from classical times and an important source of copper during the Industrial Revolution period, and the ores of many other metals have been extracted from its mines. The two [...] road between Camborne and Redruth, are amongst the most impressive monuments of the Cornish mining industry. The East Pool mine was worked for copper from the early eighteenth century until 1784, and was

kilns, used from about 1870, dominate the landscape of the region. The museum which interprets the history of the brick-making industry is based in the former Frateur works.

The ecomuseum has organised four touring routes through the valley interpreting its industrial and geological heritage, and is responsible for a variety of educational programmes. It co-operates with c [...] turbulent history and the religious unrest of past centuries is reflected in the presence of a small museum concerned with the Waldensian faith. The extraction of talc, or bianco delle Alpi , has been an intrinsic [...] also gained their livings by raising crops and keeping animals. An association concerned with the heritage of the region, the Scopriminiera, was set up in 1998, and within ten years had welcomed 230,000

develop the French silk industry and examined the potential for factories in the Ardèche. By the mid-nineteenth century the region had more than 400 silk factories. The industry continued strongly into [...] Fontolière. The ecomuseum occupies a large silk factory that was powered by the river. It was opened as a museum in 1988 and refurbished in 2006. It has models, machines and interpretative films and panels so that

remarkable architectural heritage, the collections showcase industrial and ethnological heritage from the 19th century to the present day. MTVS - Musée du textile et de la vie sociale ( Museum of Textiles and Social [...] verre (Glass Workshop Museum) The site of the glass factory in Trélon (Rue Clavon Collignon 12) is an outstanding heritage, one of the few buildings preserved from the industrial history of the region [...] Écomusée de l'Avesnois is a 'Musée de France' located in the heart of two former industrial sites in the textile and glass industries, emblematic of the Avesnois-Thiérache region: the former Prouvost-Masurel

its iron and steel industry. There is also a replica of a simple pub used by the miners at the end of their shift – as a foretaste of a visit to the open air playground and the museum restaurant.