region at the mouth of the River Tagus, 14 km south of Lisbon, and has been the home to a variety of industries, the monuments of several of which are preserved by the Municipal Ecomuseum. The maritime museum

commemorate the whaling industry in a museum in the 1960s and a temporary museum was opened in 1979. The history of the museum is now covered in two museums. The Museum of the Whaling Industry in the village of

1853 Centre includes a museum that provides a comprehensive picture of the Portuguese fish canning industry. Its larger exhibits include tuna traps, the prototype of a machine designed to remove heads from

La Fonderie is the Museum of Industry and Labour for Brussels as a leading industrial city. It is in the Molenbeek area, known as ‘the Belgian Manchester’. The museum uses the foundry buildings of the [...] hall, a smelting hall, a sculpture workshop and a manager’s house. The displays present the main industrial sectors of Brussels: metal, wood, textiles, food, car manufacturing and hat making. They look at [...] at technology, business, working conditions and trade. The museum provides guided tours of the industrial heritage of Brussels on foot and by boat on the Willebroek canal. There are temporary exhibitions

States. It has a comprehensive selection of cars vehicles made by Belgian manufacturers before the industry came to be dominated by international companies. There are vehicles by Fondu (1906-12), Germain

to Europe as a drink, and the evolution of the chocolate bar as manufacturing developed on an industrial scale. Other exhibitions show the origins of the cocoa beans used by present-day manufacturers [...] Indonesia and the Philippines. Particular emphasis is placed on the development of the chocolate industry in Belgium. The museum’s methods of interpretation include documentary films, demonstrations and

dominate the landscape of the region. The museum which interprets the history of the brick-making industry is based in the former Frateur works.

revitalise the local economy after the closure of mines and other industries. The project was supported by the Portuguese Association for Industrial Archaeology, and the centre was opened in its present form

century. The museum, opened in 1990 and extensively renovated in 2006, is concerned both with industrial archaeology and with science, and particularly with questions about energy. Visitors can follow [...] from the 1930s to the 1950s, and holds large numbers of documents and photographs relating to the industry. It is also a cultural centre, the location of exhibitions on such subjects as painting, sculpture

of beer from the first century BC to the present with particular emphasis of the development of industrial-scale breweries in the nineteenth century. The centrepiece of the displays is a reconstruction

a are arranged in geometrical patterns on the mountain side. There are displays relating to the industry in the archaeological museum at Fundao.

The salt industry at Figuera de la Foz, a seaport and resort on the Mondego estuary, dates from the eleventh century AD, but many of the traditional salinas are being converted to fish farms. The salt

experiment with weaving samples by hand. There is also a display about workers and entrepreneurs in the industry. In the other building, the museum preserves the wool carding and spinning equipment of the factory

River Guardiana, which is the frontier with Spain, 65 km north-east of Faro. Exploitation on an industrial scale began in 1868 under the direction of Joao Texeira. The workings were abandoned in the late

(Historic) Automobile Club (AAK) and now displays more than 100 vehicles. Riga was one of the principal industrial cities of the Russian Empire in the years before the First World War, with important companies

safety pins and pins with coloured glass heads. It played a significant role in the lace-making industry in the region. From 1860 manufacturing was concentrated in a 24-bay, three-storey main building [...] warehouse. It includes some nineteenth-century machines and has nine principal themes, including the industrial context in Normandy, the valley of the River Risle, the Bohim Company, the workers at Saint-Su

in 2000, the 130th anniversary of the arrival of the railway in what was to become the largest industrial city in the Ukraine. It occupies the former Uzovo locomotive depot near the city’s main station

much of the Sierra Almagrera displays evidence of past mining activities, but the most significant industrial monument is at Barranco del Chaparral where a steam engine of 1873 made in Reading, England, stands

Oporto is a city of many industries, but is best known as the entrepot where merchants from many countries have traded in Port wine, brought down the River Douro in sailing barges that passed under Gustav

Most of the steam locomotives in the collection were built before 1939 either for shunting at industrial premises, many of them for sugar factories, or for working freight trains on main lines. One of