in Delft created for workers of the van Marken yeast and spirits factory. It was an influential example of the garden city movement and of community facilities for factory workers. Jacob Cornelis van Marken

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

and the chain of production. Blacksmiths demonstrate how tools and equipment were made. Nearby, workers’ apartments at Reunalinja 7 have been furnished to show living conditions at different periods and

innovation and technological excellence while paying close attention to the social and cultural aspects of work. Additionally, the Association organizes exhibitions, events, and conferences to promote and deepen

department focuses on audiovisual interpretation and tells, among other things, the story of the factory workers. A special museum deals with the history of local fire brigades, and the "ALFA" convention centre

Wood, clay and stones - out of this, the salt workers of Salinas de Añana have created a unique man-made environment, looking like an abstract work of art from above. Everything is encrusted with salt

existing industrial activities. Over the years, to accommodate the growing number of workers, the company built large workers' housing estates with associated utilities and social facilities. In 1975 CUF ceased

Germany. Steam locomotives range from a tramway engine made in 1882 by the Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works (SLM) to a German Maschinenfabrik Esslingen locomotive of 1927. Electric locomotives range from 1899

vehicles in the correct manner is a major part of the museum´s activities. The Bochum-Dahlhausen railway works first went into operation in 1918 as a repair workshop. A few year’s later it was given its own l

Wapping to Rotherhithe in east London, and is 23 m below the river. A shield built at the Lambeth works of Henry Maudslay (1771-1831) was used in its construction. From 1865 the tunnel was used by the East [...] in a building that housed the tunnel’s drainage pumps. It includes the Grand Entrance Hall where work on the tunnel began, and where I K Brunel nearly drowned in 1828. Brunel later organised fairs and

charcoal store and a limekiln. Blacksmiths demonstrate their work in hand forges. Visitors walk a circular trail that also includes a barracks for workers, a manager’s house and an inn. Those who want to walk

the company nearby. The first buildings after the factory were the theatre, canteen, school and workers’ housing completed by 1943. The layout around the Piazza del Popolo followed the pattern of the Fascist

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

Museu do Caramulo: one part was devoted by Abel to the arts – from ancient Egyptian artefacts to the works of Picasso – and the other by João to classic cars, motorcycles and bicycles. Among a dozen automobiles

century, but few were as spectacular as that at Castellar de n’Hug about 90 km north of Barcelona. The works was opened in 1904 by the Companyia General d’Asfalts i Portland, SA, formed in 1901 by the entrepreneur

of the industry towards the end of the 19th century. However you can still visit a building with workers’ apartments nearby. The brick-making factory is also in the vicinity: it has been in operation since [...] influenced by the regional industries. Beffes has a rich tradition of cement-making: the gigantic cement works owes its origins to old quarries and blast furnace plants. The 300 metre long aqueduct over the canal

present. One of Europe’s largest chemical sites is booming here on the former site of the Hüls chemical works. All the necessary prerequisites are in place: a motorway right in front of the door, its own rail

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

labyrinth of adits, underground chambers and pits has been reactivated and is now open to visitors. The works to clear and secure it began in 1996 and even included the construction of a mine train for visitors

and an engineer, M. Lelièvre. More buildings were erected on the site, which even included its own workers´ quarter. Nowadays visitors to the museum can go on an impressive guided tour which includes a d [...] history and techniques of glassmaking from the ca. 250 exquisite glass products and imaginative glass works of art. Visitors will not only feel warm in their heart when they take a tour of crystal manufacturing