largest cotton manufacturing businesses in Britain with four other mills as well as Quarry Bank. The site has four unique features: 1. Its Original Buildings The Mill is one of the finest and most impressive
the tunnel and visitors are encouraged to travel by boat, train or on foot the short distance to the site where Brunel’s ship the SS Great Eastern was launched in 1858 (Great Eastern Launch Ramps, Masthouse
traditional hand-craftsmen revealing the skills and artistry of generations of quarry workers. Much of the site still looks like it did in the 19th century. The gigantic waterwheel that once drove all the machinery [...] railway that linked the quarry with the works is still running. Quarryman's houses have been rebuilt on site and refurnished to show the cramped living conditions of the quarrymen and their families. All this
old ore gallery and the furnace pond. The Luisenhütte is the oldest remaining complete blast furnace site in Germany. This was what an industrial plant looked like before the Ruhrgebiet stepped in to create [...] cupola furnaces to be used for stove tops and cannonballs. The story of this extraordinary industrial site goes back to the mid 18th century. In 1834 the ironworks were comprehensively modernised for the first
In the centre of Prato there can be found an industrial heritage site of European importance: The Campolmi Textile Factory. The two-storey, faithfully restored rectangular building with its courtyard,
nostalgia. On Sundays there is always a hand-lever trolley at hand on which to drive up and down the huge site to inspect the points, water tower, turntable, engine sheds and coal crane. In addition a rumbling [...] forced to close in 1969. One year earlier the DGEG was set up as a private organisation to rescue the site and its contents from the scrapheap. The Railway Museum in the Bochum suburb of Dahlhausen was opened
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
rebuilt it together with a separate engine house and a replica of a Siegen fire engine house on the site of a glue factory that was demolished in the early 1970s. In 2002, the technical museum was opened
The "Sistine Chapel" of mining heritage lies 50 metres below the surface of Almadén: the gallery of San Andrés. Visitors of the Mining Park are able to reach it by taking a miner's cage down into the
monument, and was inscribed on the French tentative list for designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2002. After falling into disrepair it is now well-maintained. The restoration work has been carried
restoration of the buildings and facilities started in 2014 and is due to last several years. Yet, the site is open to visitors on certain days as “museum under construction”. The centerpiece of the unique [...] which is the name of two World War II bomb shelters. Children take the mini-train to go around the site. The roundhouse of 1924 offers catering services and is an exciting setting for events.
Siuntio, +358 (0)40 7689591), on the pattern established at Skansen, was re-located to its present site around the old Fredriksberg School House after the Second World War. It consists of a collection of
Dansk Automobilefabrik and one by Renault. They are laid out in a large building of 4,000m 2 . The site also houses a toy museum, a collection of model aircraft and the Frasses and Marianne Musikmuseum
This brick warehouse is one of the prestigious museums in the Ironbridge World Heritage site. It was built in 1840 by the Coalbrookdale company to store iron products ready for shipment down the River
high-quality stoneware, earthenware and porcelain in Sweden. A factory was established at the waterfront site of Rörstrand in Stockholm in 1726 and grew to employ over 1,000 people by 1900. In the early 20th
This small water-power site at an altitude of 1,250m in the Pyrenees is open from June to September as part of MNACTEC, the technical museums network of Catalunya. It comprises a sawmill, a flour mill
the state railway company CFR (Căile Ferate Române) in 1980. The collection began in 1991 and the site opened to the public in 1994. It includes 30 steam locomotives built between 1885 and 1959 as well
FSO/Daewoo car factory built in the 1990s in the Żerań district of Warsaw. The huge original factory site is being redeveloped by Okam and the exhibition may move to another location. Most of the cars brough
