Onil in Alicante has been the centre of the doll-making industry in Spain since the late nineteenth century. It still has many traditional manufacturers and produces goods for the Playmobil brand. The

Parque Minero de la Unión (Mining Park at La Unión) is an open air museum commemorating the mining industry whose principal feature is the mine called the Mina Agrupa Vincenta which is registered as a property [...] multi-media displays on the history of the area. A train them takes them through a landscape full of industrial monuments to the Mina Agrupa Vincenta. Amongst the features of the landscape are a lake of ochre-tinted

in extent, has many military and naval monuments that reflect on the relationship between war and industry. The Royal Navy maintained extensive facilities at Gibraltar from the 18th century until almost [...] part of the museum displays. Two sections of the museum are of particular relevance to the theme of Industry and War. There is a room illustrating the Great Siege of Gibraltar when it was held by British forces

although it remained open for freight trains carrying limestone and sand until 1988. The copper industry of the Churnet Valley was once of great importance and the limestone quarries at Cauldon Low were

basin. Not so long ago the area was full of industry: collieries, open-pit mines and blast furnaces. Nowadays the region bears witness to a century of industrial history in idyllic surroundings. A journey

phenomenon. But the difficulty of moving goods was a real problem in the late 1700s in the Midlands’industrial heartland. The great canal engineer, James Brindley, was commisioned in 1769 to build a canal between

concerned with the industrial history of Europe. It was founded, as the South Kensington Museum, in the year after the Great Exhibition of 1851 with a mission to improve the quality of the industrial arts – designs [...] from Japan, Korea, China, India and the Islamic countries. Exhibits of direct relevance to British industrial history include silk from Spitalfields, iron railings of 1710-14 from St Paul’s Cathedral, cast [...] , ocean liners and cameras, and ceramics from the principal designers and manufacturers of the Industrial Revolution period and after. The ceramics collection totals 75,000 artefacts. The glass collection

The woollen factory called Merinos at Bursa was a state-funded project to advance industry in Turkey. It was opened by President Atatürk in person in 1938. The plan was to use fine-quality fleeces of merino

ng, fishing and port history. It is also the only museum in the UK dedicated to the oil and gas industry. The highlight of the exhibition is the true-to-scale and detailed reproduction of the Murchison

1909. A significant part of Syros’ industrial history is kept, restored and promoted by the industrial museum which opened in May 12, 2000. The exceptional industrial heritage of Syros invites the interested [...] Hermoupolis is an industrial community with an astonishing history. The island of Syros is relatively barren, has few classical antiquities of note, and had a population of only about 4000 in 1800. From [...] settle at Hermoupolis, and their commercials and technological skills transformed it into a thriving industrial city, milling corn brought from the Black Sea, processing lead from Lavrion, spinning cotton, tanning

built in the area in the 1820s. The Museum of Art and Industry, moved to a new location in 2001, and has comprehensive displays relating to local industries, particularly ribbons, of which it has 300,000 samples [...] Saint-Etienne is one of France’s most notable industrial cities. Nearby coal mines stimulated the growth of ironworking, glassmaking, textiles, particularly ribbons, and the manufacture of armaments in

illustrates the history of industries of many kinds from south-east England, but it is particularly important for the evidence it provides of lime production, road transport and industrial railways. The museum [...] the Southdown company. Amberley also holds a substantial collection illustrating the history of industrial railways in the United Kingdom, including those used on construction sites. It includes more than

, New Lanark and Saltaire. Based on waterpower Frederiksvaerk once housed the national armament industry and was a worldwide supplier of military equipment. In the 1720s an agate polishing mill was built [...] gh was made in the 1760s by the general J.F. Classen who developed the place into a prosperous industrial society. The Gun Foundry, an extensive powder works and a large number of dwellings in combination [...] combination with workshops still exist. Later Frederiksvaerk continued as a more traditional industrial town with iron works producing civil goods. The first Danish-built steam engine was constructed in the workshops

became a technical museum from 1994 after production ceased with the rationalisation of the textile industry in the former GDR. The building is now owned by the Gemeindeverwaltung Niederweisa and has comprehensive

on a continuous rope, so one goes up as the other goes down. Passenger funiculars developed from industrial inclined-plane railways, which were common in the eighteenth century. Most are powered by electricity

a cast iron fire plate dated 1544. The museum includes many buildings that might be regarded as industrial, including a bakehouse, a bleach green hut, an oil mill, a blue dye works and a woodworking shop

lignite. But it was mainly the chemical industry and its processes that needed oil, which was obtained from the Soviet Union. In order to build up its own oil industry, the country was traversed by test drillings [...] d panels, documents and relics from GDR times trace the development of the region's oil and gas industry and the history of a former state-owned oil company from 1962 to 2001. Numerous original tools and

at one end of the building. The museum explores the importance of electricity in daily life and industrial production through photographs, documents, models, graphics and films, hundreds of original artefacts

La Rochelle, with Bremerhaven, Ostend and Grimsby, was one of the industrial fishing ports that flourished in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The maritime museum in the city focuses

woollen industry, and as the location of many woollen mills. It was also the principal flax-spinning town in England, and its mechanical engineering, tailoring, printing and leather industries were also [...] 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 industry, and a small cinema [...] also of major importance. The city’s industrial museum is at Armley Mills, located between the River Aire and the Leeds & Liverpool Canal. There have been mills on the site since the middle ages, and in