the area and are interpreted for visitors. The four-storey water mill has an overshot wheel that works three sets of stones, a winnower and a sack hoist. The Small Windmill is 12.2 m high with a thatched
exploring the properties of silk, design education, Macclesfield´s diverse textile industries, workers´ lives and historic machinery. The Silk Museum follows the story of silk from its origins in China
Kainuu region shows how farmhouses in forest areas traditionally kept open house for many itinerant workers, loggers, reindeer herders, hunters and migrant farm labourers.
extending through sixteen galleries telling the mill’s history, and describing the social lives of the workers. There are regular workshops teaching traditional paper making, calligraphy and paper marbling
nave". Touchpoint monitors and acoustic simulations illustrate in detail the meticulously coordinated work operations: the charging of the blast furnace, the drying of the casting moulds in the drying rooms
workshops. By 1925 there were 2,500 workers. It closed in 1983. Several businesses use the site today. A museum is located in the first hydroelectric plant for the works, built in 1898. Visitors see original [...] demonstrations. A sound and light show brings to life a 23-m model of the works. The working-class community that grew up around the works is presented by recorded testimonies. A documentation centre preserves [...] The Saut-du-Tarn Steel Works at Saint-Juéry was founded in 1824. It specialized in manufacturing steel hand-tools such as files, scythes and sickles, and later agricultural machinery and other equipment
stages of arable farming from clearing the landscape for agriculture to ploughing and harvesting, the work of animal husbandry, life in the farmhouse and connected employment in hunting, fishing, forestry
the River Rur with its narrow streets and half-timbered houses blossomed in the 18th century. Here workers produced precious woollen material which was exported to countries as far away as Turkey and Russia [...] over at the start of the 19th century, it attracted waves of people into the town in search of paid work. But the poor road communications and the difficulty firms experienced in expanding their businesses
Archive A varied collection of objects, pictures and ocuments provide evidence about the life and work of the Greg family and their workforce. 3. A Living Museum Quarry Bank Mill and Styal Estate is still
The museum preserves the former Pythagoras engineering works in an attractive group of low brick buildings around a courtyard. The works continued to be named after the Ancient Greek mathematician after [...] engines’ in which fuel is ignited by a red-hot metal surface rather than a spark. At its peak the works employed 80 people. The factory became derelict in the 1960s but was rescued by a group of volunteers [...] management offices and the packing hall and stables. The caretaker’s house is presented as a typical workers' residence from the 1940s.
infrastructures for exporting iron ore to other European countries. These works involved the migration of a large number of workers and engineers, so the company provided the area with all the facilities [...] 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 the sanatorium [...] Warehouse have been preserved, which will become the future Museum of Industrial Heritage and the Workers' Memory of Puerto de Sagunto.
electric trains, a suspended monorail and coal conveyors. A dedicated area explains the dangerous work of mine rescue services and the history of mining disasters. Also on display are scale models of opencast
nitrogen works in Piesteritz. Just one year later the management decided to build a housing estate to accommodate the growing number of workers. It was supposed to offer room for all the workers, from the
the sewer workers. From the modern entrance building on the surface, guides take visitors into underground galleries and tell them about the water cycle. Models and tools are used to show work in the sewers
unattractive to dismantle it. In the GDR era, there was a lack of capital for modernisation. Dedicated workers managed to keep the old equipment in working order. During the 1990 campaign, six steam engines were
Finland. The oldest remaining production and administration buildings dates from the 1850s. The workers’ housing is notable, and ranges in date from the 1860s to the 1940s. The museum dates from 1977. [...] collections are administered jointly with those of the Arabia glassworks in Helsinki and the Littala works at Kalvola by the Design Museum Foundation.
high-quality, hand-made glasswares. Tours of the factory take visitors to see the glass-blowers at work in the furnace building, which was rebuilt after a fire in the 1940s, and glass-cutters in the cutting
Twelve hours work in suffocating factory rooms followed by a meagre dinner in a house belonging to the company, and maybe a chat over the garden fence with the neighbour before going to bed. This was more [...] owner’s word was law: twine and spinning frames dictated the rhythm of life. But now the noise of work has died. A new suburb has grown up on the abandoned site, consisting of listed buildings and modern [...] ornamented red brick building of the old turbine house which used to be the central power station of the works. In the adjacent row of sheds visitors can follow the process of turning raw wool into yarn – some
