Portugal’s first museum of the paper industry is in the community of Santa Maria da Feira, south of Oporto. People in the region were engaged in the making of paper from the early eighteenth century, but [...] but the last mills stopped working before the end of the twentieth century. The museum is owned by the local municipality and is located in two former paper Mills, the Azvedos Mill, and the Custódio factory

until the early 1950s. The museum, one of the first in France to be devoted to coal mining, dates from 1902, and provides a broad picture of the archaeology of the industry. It is housed at the site of [...] iron mines in Normandy. The museum also features a video documentary on the history of the Littry mine and a reconstructed underground gallery 70 m long. At the end of the museum is an impressive working

including Art Déco, Bauhaus and neoclassicism. Most important witnesses to the toy industry are the German Toy Museum, the New Townhouse as the Town of Toys’ representative office, and the former US-American [...] stores Kresge and Halbourne. Further highlights of Sonneberg are the German Teddy Bear Museum, the SOMSO Museum for anatomic models as part of the toy production, and St. Peter’s, an outstanding neo-Gothic [...] starts at the station square leads to 16 signposted stations and introduces visitors to the toy industry’s history, its architectural heritage and the life and work of Sonneberg’s inhabitants.

European type foundry, D. Stempel AG (1895-1985) in Frankfurt am Main. The museum demonstrates developments in the printing industry from the beginning of the 19th century right up to the mid-1970s with the [...] industrial heritage by the association “Haus für Industriekultur”. It has been owned by the Hessian State Museum Darmstadt’s department of typecasting, typesetting and print technology since 2001. The collection

experience the many facets of the Vogtland textile industry with all its highlights, but also its dark sides. In addition to exhibits from the museum's rich collection, the thematic diversity is also presented [...] around 40 mostly small companies operating in the Vogtland. The history of the Vogtland textile industry, and Plauen lace in particular, has been presented in the 'Factory of Threads' since the end of

The shoe production, for instance, is represented by a museum, an academy for shoe design and two successfully working enterprises. The hat museum is accompanied by a fur processing plant and the current [...] Industry is very important in S. Joao da Madeira. And, more recently, industrial history as well. This combination makes the city and its surroundings an exciting destination for fans of industrial heritage [...] information about locations and guided tours. In the factory next door, visitors can experience a museum of contemporary art, as well as an exhibition on the history of the Oliva company and its outstanding

Ivrea is a town 56 km north of Turin, whose main industry for much of the twentieth century was the manufacture of office equipment by Olivetti, founded in 1908 by the electrical engineer Camillo Olivetti

(or tourist) industry, hotels, wayside inns, motorway service stations, are readily recognised as part of the industrial heritage. One of the most significant innovations in the industry in the twentieth [...] The museum in the castle has displays on the history of the youth hostel movement, but also on the geology and history of the region, including its industrial history. The entrance to the museum lies [...] lies 300 m from the Deutsche Drahtmuseum (German wire museum).

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 [...] site was purchased by Leeds City Corporation and opened as the city’s industrial museum in 1982. Visitors to the museum can see an array of textile machinery used and made in Leeds, together with their [...] Leeds is well-known as the commercial centre of the Yorkshire woollen industry, and as the location of many woollen mills. It was also the principal flax-spinning town in England, and its mechanical e

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 [...] 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 between the 1850s and 1960s. Several [...] The Finnish Foundry Museum is located on the site of the Högfors foundry, which was founded in the 19th century and played an important role in Finnish iron production. Today, the well-preserved buildings

and interactive displays and an archive and library. The museum is surrounded by plantations of mastic trees. The museum is a site of the Museum Network of the Cultural Foundation of the Piraeus Bank Group [...] part of the island. Research projects into the history of the industry took place in 2007-08, and in 2009 it was decided to build a museum on a site given by the Chios Mastic Growers Association, the

replaced by a gas turbine power station which itself was demolished in 1995. The Peat and Colony Museum, created gradually since 1988, contains many buildings that show the new colonisation of the moorland [...] the mid-18th century to the early 20th century. It also shows the history of the peat extraction industry in the region. Some buildings are original, some relocated here and some reconstructed based on [...] typical colonist’s house, a smithy, a sawmill, a school and a well. The equipment from the peat industry includes large machinery – diesel-powered turf cutters, excavators and conveyors. A narrow-gauge

specialized in cutlery opened in Albacete in 2001. The municipal museum, established in an old city palace in 2004, focuses on the cutlery industry as well. Its galleries feature an extraordinary collection

Cultural Meuseo Minero (Cultural Association for the Mining Museum) was established in 1986 as mining was finally coming to an end, and opened the museum in 2001. Its headquarters is in an old slaughterhouse [...] minerals. Guidance is provided to the monuments of the mining industry, open-cast pits, calcining kilns, ore-washing equipment and ropeways. The museum encourages research into mining operations and mining culture [...] from which siderite (iron carbonate) was extracted from the 1970s until its closure in 1993. The museum holds collections of tools, machines, oil lamps, dented helmets, miners’ footwear, drills and surveying

Eperon d’Or (the ‘golden spur’) is a museum in a factory of fine-quality shoes in the traditional centre of Belgian shoemaking. The company was started by Emiel Vandommele in 1863. It became the official [...] built in 1910 and an office in Art Deco style was added in 1930 by the architect Charles Laloo. The museum displays the whole production line of shoemaking in the 1950s, a large collection of beautiful shoes [...] stories of the workers and a hall of fame of local people. It also tells the story of another local industry, making hairbrushes and fine brushes for other purposes. Close by are the preserved steam engines

closed down in the 1990's. The museum is located in the former power plant building of the iron and steelworks. It tells the story of the Silesian iron and steel industry. The focus of the exhibition entitled

in the nineteenth century. The museum is in a factory that was built in 1795 on the site of an earlier corn mill. The exhibition traces the importance of the silk industry to the region, from the peasants [...] to the weaver’s loom. The vaulted cellars of the factory are a particularly impressive sight. The museum also has a shop with silk products, a tea room and the terraced garden of the factory owner.

The museum presents the history of industry, technology and everyday life in Schleswig-Holstein. Elmshorn became an important industrial centre in the nineteenth century, especially for the food industries [...] Elmshorn acquired it in 1988 for an industrial museum. The ground floor shows the history of cotton textiles, communications, the local leather industry and the craft of processing fish skins to make [...] industries but also leather, textiles, ceramics and shipbuilding. The museum is in a five-storey former warehouse in the town centre that was built around 1890 by Christian Hinrich Carstens to trade in household

Monfalcone has been renowned as a centre of the shipyard industry. This is due to the Cosulich family, well-established in the regional shipping industry. Their foundation of a shipyard in today's Panzano district

first glance. A visit to the Zeeland Industrial Museum reveals that the sunniest region of the Netherlands also has a lot to offer in terms of industry. Who would have thought, for example, that the glass [...] development of bioenergy? Sweets such as Mentos mints also come from here. It is no coincidence that the museum, which includes a steam turbine and a Art Nouveau-style switchgear at its heart, is located in an [...] mysterious instructions challenge children to embark on quests for hidden treasures. After all, as the museum's motto puts it, the most adventurous discoveries are made with your hands.