industry, domestic work, agriculture, commerce and especially fish canning and lithographic printing of packaging.There are three main exhibitions. The first looks at agricultural and domestic work and presents [...] factory, the Museum of Labour opened in 1995. It grew from a collection dedicated to the world of work that was gathered by students in a project supervised by the French ethnographer Michel Giacometti [...] industry, including a large and colourful collection of printed packaging. Testimonies can be read from workers who collectively helped construct the exhibition. The third exhibition is of a reconstructed grocery
brickwork, stands astride the River Marne which powered its Girard turbines. The design of the workers’ housing was influenced by model industrial settlements in Britain. The River is crossed by a single-span
life of the workers like? Machines, dioramas, documentary films and models are used to present a virtual factory in a small space – a factory that was once one of the largest textile works in Europe. Its
ceramics together with equipment such as clay mills, tile presses, kilns, photographs of tile works and their workers and information about the continuing industry in the area. A complete tile kiln stands outside
nineteenth century to accommodate workers at a substantial paper mill which itself dates from 1816. In one of the houses, visitors can take a closer look at how these workers lived there: Its interior has
Timothy Hackworth, builder of Sans Pareil, a competitor in the Rainhill Trials, Hackworth established a works at Shildon in 1826 that originally built locomotives, but which became the main wagon-building plant [...] the Hackworth family, an iron merchant’s warehouse of the 1820s that was associated with the wagon works and a range of coal drops characteristic of the North Eastern Railway.
Littry, formally established in 1747 produced fuel for potteries and glass works, for the boilers of ships and for gas works over the following century. There were 30 pits in the region in 1840, but in [...] German occupying authorities ordered the resumption of production, and mines in the area continued to work until the early 1950s. The museum, one of the first in France to be devoted to coal mining, dates
lives of the workers, the back-breaking work which they had to endure, and their poverty-stricken living conditions are also strongly featured. Whereas the exhibition indoors explains the work and social [...] experiences. Right next to the forge is the old lime works, and the huge lime furnaces can still be seen on the road leading to the works. People still work here. During the week lorries transport heavy loads [...] lime works dating back to 1897, on the edge of the town. With the aid of up-to-date exhibition techniques and modern information media, visitors are able to learn more about the "masters", workers and
and two four-column beam engines of c1820 by Matthew Murray (1765-1826) and Benjamin Hick. Several workers’ cottages of the nineteen century remain on the site and have been restored with appropriate interiors [...] in Leeds, and a display of the products of John Fowler (1826-64) pioneer of steam ploughing, whose works was in the city. Another section deals with tailoring, and particularly the enterprise of Montague [...] the city’s extensive leather industry, and a small cinema in the style of the 1920s commemorates the work of Louis Le Prince (1841-1880), who was born in Metz and demonstrated cine films in Leeds in 1888
10 million bricks, 30,000 square metres housing area and courtyard, 495 workers' flats for 1,748 people, running water on all floors, a nursery with 50 cots, a theatre for an audience of 1,000, a school [...] Charles Fourier and establishes a cooperative, the Société du Familistère, in 1880, thus turning the workers into owners of his stove factory. The museum, which opened in the main wing of the residential complex
one of the most tragic accidents in European mining history; a disaster that killed a total of 262 workers. A major section of the colliery museum erected on the site is devoted to the accident. Surrounding [...] give visitors a good idea of the region whose coal resources were once used to fire iron and steel works, glassworks and chemical factories. Visitors are also able to view original generators, blowing engines
The Conserverie offers an industrial visit to see how fish are canned. Belle-illoise opened its first factory in 1932 in Port-Maria, a fishing port on the peninsula of Quiberon in Brittany. At that ti
exploitation began in the 1960s and by 2008 it followed the ore body to a depth of 1,365m. In 2014 work began to move the city 3km to avoid subsidence. The latest mine expansion uses remote-controlled machines
The tour of the machine rooms, blackened by coal dust, extends over seven floors and brings former workers' everyday routine to life in touching video interviews. Historical machines dating from 1918 onwards
exhibition of the history of the area and the other displays the apartments of sawmill workers, factory workers and skilled workers furnished with everyday objects in scenarios from the 1910s to the 1930s. Next [...] The museum is in a workers’ settlement in the Marttala district of the city of Kemi in Lapland. It is open on request and visited especially by educational groups to learn how people lived in the early [...] barber’s shop. Barbers often carried out tooth extractions and small medical procedures for the workers. Both museums are run by the historical museum of Kemi.
clothes and received their pit lamps there is now a comprehensive museum dealing with their everyday work. Tools, a huge collection of photos and documents, and above all films and sound recordings with
through the evolution of internal combustion engines. Most engines are run regularly and at least eight work every day for visitors to experience the sights, sounds and smells of industry. They were rescued
south-east Finland in 1895. It built 20 apartment houses in distinctive timber architecture for the new workers and their families. Other facilities for the community included a sauna, laundry, bakehouse, shop [...] is the sauna, where visitors learn about services provided for the well-being and health of the workers.
Hungary. It includes numerous industrial history objects such as spinning and weaving shops, leather workers’ premises, wind and water mills and limekilns. In all there are 200 rural buildings, including small
