The city of Alkmaar in the province of Noord Holland is the principal centre of the cheese trade in Holland. Dealing in cheese now takes place at an exchange, but every Friday in the summer visitors can [...] the market in Alkmaar. There are displays illustrating cheese production on a traditional Noord Holland farm and in the factories that were built in the region from the late 19th century, and the particular

This museum in the north of Holland forms a twin milestone in Dutch industrial history. On the one hand it displays a huge number of original steam engines used in shipping and industry, most of which

at this location was started at 1863. It was closed after few years. Then the N.V. Suikerfabriek Holland opened. It became part of the Centrale Suiker Maatschappij, the Central Sugar Company. Part of the

functional paper mill in Germany. The machines such as a globe-shaped steam boiler, an edge mill or a hollander beater are driven via transmission by both hydropower and engines.

A trip to Holland of the brothers Friedrich and Christoph Lange to learn the craft – and import the technology was the start of the production of damask in Großschäunau. From 1666 to 1933 there was no

papermaker, Nicola Milano. It is located in a mill that retains its waterwheel, and exhibits include a Hollander first used there in 1745. There is an extensive library and the museum has many international links

clogs, row and rows of cheese blocks. Zaanse Schans could come straight out of a picture book of Holland in the 17th and 18th century. Time seems to have stopped still here. The rhythm of work is determined

follow the journey from textile or wood fibres to finished paper. A waterwheel is connected to ‘Hollander beaters’ for preparing the pulp. Hand processes are demonstrated of dipping a frame of wire mesh

port guarding the entrance to the Zuyder Zee (now the Ijsselmeer) at the northern tip of the North Holland peninsula. The waters of Den Helder were the assembly point for Dutch fleets trading to distant parts

activities take place in and around the vicinity of the museum in the Province of Limburg in the east of Holland. Visitors can experience life-like scenarios on 27 different working and residential sites and explore

through time from the ice age to the present day. It is located in the town of Twente in the West of Holland, which once boasted a flourishing textile industry. One of the few remaining factories from this

Spain, but also from many other European countries, including Germany, Belgium, Scotland, France, Holland, Hungary, Sweden and Switzerland. In addition, there are two unique collections to be discovered

founded in 1878 and became the principal transport operator linking the city with the islands of South Holland and Schouwen-Duiveland. It originally operated horse trams but introduced steam traction in 1881

already in the 17th century biscuit was produced as food for crew on the many ships that sailed from Holland. By baking the product twice, all water is distracted from it. As a result of it, the product stays

, its torpedo store, its galley, its escape hatches and its crew’s cramped living quarters. The Holland I was the Royal Navy’s first submarine, built to an American design at Barrow-in-Furness in 1901

and belts that until 1942 conveyed power from water turbines to the machines remain, as well as Hollanders and other equipment used for grinding pulp. The mill was filmed and photographed when it was still

built from 1879 at Veenwouden in Friesland, a boatbuilder’s workshop of 1885 from Marken in North Holland, with its attendant slip on which vessels could be drawn from or lowered into the water, together