prisoners. Who were they, what did they suffer? Their story, set against the backdrop of 26 million people who were abducted and enslaved by the Third Reich, is told by the Nazi Forced Labour Documentation [...] experience. Particularly striking is a gallery with large-scale photo portraits of forced labourers - people who were exposed to the Third Reich's racism, abuse and violence every single day. The exhibition

twentieth century was the proliferation of youth hostels providing inexpensive accommodation for young people on their travels. The first such hostel was established in the twelfth century Burg Altena (Altena

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 the last

its half-timbered houses in the old town. The town has a long industrial history, and in 1991, 25 people got together and founded the ‘Friends of Historic Vehicles Freudenberg’. To provide space for their

Board of Antiquities. It opened in 2008 and has a spacious boat hall and an auditorium seating 200 people. Its main exhibition ‘North Star: Southern Cross’ tells the story of seafaring in Finland, explaining

production including locomotives, turbines and damask cloths of linen, and employed thousands of people. The textile production ended in the 1970s, and industrial use of the last buildings by the rapids

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 in the 1980s.

was given a purpose-built new home in 2001. An aquarium to show living cod was added in 2013. The people of the nearby Aveiro Lagoon were leaders in the fishing industry and the exploitation of cod stocks

established at the waterfront site of Rörstrand in Stockholm in 1726 and grew to employ over 1,000 people by 1900. In the early 20th century, it opened porcelain factories in Göteborg and Lidköping and worked

a primitive undershot waterwheel. The second building is a corn mill, which made flour for local people until the 1960s. It has a horizontal waterwheel with a direct drive to grindstones on the floor above

and other artefacts and costumes that explain innovations in technology and the working lives of people in the telegraph, telephone and mail services. A post office from a century ago is reconstructed

future of technology was set up with the aim of preserving cultural heritage and inspiring young people for technical professions. In over 10,000 square metres of interactive exhibition space, visitors

As early as 1810, commercial hand embroidery in Plauen was well-known, and in 1828 more than 2,000 people were employed in whitework embroidery. The industrialization of the craft proceeded just as quickly

became an important railway junction, another turntable and locomotive shed were added. By 1902, 350 people worked in the depot. Regional trains are still serviced there and the workshops repair and reconstruct

of engine-powered boats, exploring issues such as life on the river vessels and education for boat people. Artefacts on display include plans, photographs, objects dredged from the river and scale-models

offices, while courtyards behind contained workshops. In the 19th century the mint employed 1,900 people. Guided tours show visitors workshops where currency and medals are still made. A museum explains

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

history of industrialisation in Nuremberg from 1800 to the present day. It tells the story of how people's working and everyday lives have changed from the invention of the steam engine to the present day

the neighbouring arcade building. Information about the history of regional iron production and the people who shaped it can be found in the Krupp'sche Halle, which is also adjacent.

the sinking of the Anna colliery. The second worst mining accident in German history, in which 271 people lost their lives, occurred in Shaft II of this mine on 21 October 1930. The last pit was closed in