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
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
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.
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
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.
The Ahlström works in Noormarkku is an industrial heritage site since 1806, offering a variety of services for tourists throughout the year. The history of the village of Noormarkku dates to the 15th century [...] and equipment of the current sawmill are mostly from the 1880s. The Ahlström family acquired the works area in 1870. Since then, the area has developed into its current splendour, with three successive [...] homes is Villa Mairea, designed by Alvar and Aino Aalto (1939). The area also includes numerous workers' housing and officials’ residences, forming a cohesive whole with its buildings, parks, and gardens
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.
which you can take a look inside the furnace, see the bellows and imagine the work required to stoke the flames. The Workers' Museum is an open-air museum that shows the regional living and working conditions [...] foundry industry. The museum complex consists of the Foundry Museum, the Högfors Blast Furnace and the Workers' Museum. The Foundry Museum shows the various stages in the history of the foundry industry, especially [...] conditions between the 1850s and 1960s. Several old houses are furnished as workers' homes from different decades.
century Dundee had more jute factories than anywhere else in the world. One of them was the Verdant Works. The last working jute mill in Britain is now an exciting museum. Here visitors can find out more [...] before being confronted with the appalling factory conditions under which children were forced to work. They are then given the chance to contrast this to the luxurious lives of the Jute Barons and their [...] computer programmes, audio-visual scenarios, the smell of oil and the noise of running machines, Verdant Works is a place where the power of the industrial past is made vividly present.
1930s. A film brings the history of the industrialisation of Sardinia and the salt works to life. This area of the salt works is maintained and open to visitors by the FAI - Fondo per l'Ambiente Italiano, [...] Vecchi reclaimed land in the Santa Gilla basin and created the saltworks. It supported over 1,000 workers in the community of Macchiareddu, with schools, medical support and recreational facilities, and
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
Fiskars 78 km west of Helsinki by Peter Thorwöste has had a continuous history since that time and its work is carried on by the Fiskars Corporation. From 1822 it was managed by Johan Julin (d 1853) who developed [...] to the furnaces, the forge and the machine shops, and establishing good living conditions for the workers. Finland’s first machinery workshop was built at Fiskars in 1837. The first Finnish steam engine [...] culture of the ironworks from the seventeenth century to the present, and the living conditions of the workers at various dates. During the summer in the Fiskars Museum, the scent of freshly baked bread, spun
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.
produced from brine springs at Tuzla in prehistoric, Roman and medieval times. In 1884 a large new salt works was built at Tuzla by the Solana company with a pipeline for brine from salt wells several kilometres [...] period to the present day. It displays ancient wooden tools and artefacts preserved by the salt, workers' costumes, models and processing areas with evaporation pans.
textiles, historic machinery and individual stories, ranging from the workers in the Middle-Ages, the conditions experienced by factory workers in the 19th century to the closing-down of the factory in 1994. [...] has marked the Tuscan town up to the present day. The textile activity ceased trading in 1994. The work of the factory rehabilitation begun in 2000. In May 2003 Prato Textile Museum (just operating since
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
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.
ironworkers worshipped dates from 1737 and its bell tower from 1766, while between the works and the church is a group of workers’ houses of c 1800, covered in ‘punamltamaali’ the traditional rusty-red paint of
century the valley was celebrated for its Arkwright-style cotton spinning mills, and for battery works making sheet and bolts from copper, smelted in Lancashire and Swansea from ores mined at Parys Mountain [...] valley in which the remains of a succession of dams and the foundations of cotton mills and copper works have been preserved.
Kopřivnice in eastern Moravia is the site of the Tatra works, founded in Ignác Šustala (1822-81), which progressed from making horse-drawn coaches, to building railway wagons and coaches from 1881, motor [...] and commercial trucks from 1898. Production of railway vehicles ceased in the 1950s after which the works concentrated on heavy trucks. Few early buildings remain. The present technical museum has developed
