for the arts has proved to be one of the outstanding examples in England of the adaptation of an industrial building for new uses. The Baltic Mill, constructed in the 1950s, was the last large-scale installation

largest in Madrid, but from the point of view of industrial heritage it consists of two separate stations which comprise one of the most extraordinary industrial heritage spectacles in Europe. It occupies the

Afterwards it was unused for many years and fell into disrepair before the architecturally outstanding industrial monument was thoroughly restored and has been used since 2008 as an exhibition hall of the Brandenburg [...] artistic traditions, with over 42,000 works. In the former Cottbus diesel power station, the classical industrial architecture now forms the backdrop against which contemporary art finds its voice.

gallery is acknowledged to be one of the outstanding examples in Europe of the adaptation of an industrial building to an appropriate new use. The building, in the Beaux-Arts style, was designed by the

The cable factory in Helsinki characterises the changes that took place in industry in Finland, and in other European countries in the course of the 20th century. All cables used in Finland had to be imported [...] cable company) was founded in 1912 by Arvid Wikstrom (1886-1937), who had gained experience of the industry in England and Germany. The factory, on the sea shore, in the Salmisaari area on the west side of

warehouses and factories were built by local investors as production sites for the Bulgarian tobacco industry. The unique tobacco warehouses from the 1920s, with a few exceptions, are now abandoned and in a [...] monuments of culture. "The Tobacco City" is a project about the preservation of a vanishing tobacco-industry city through multi-genre artistic actions, installations, exhibitions and research, implemented

Art is one of the outstanding examples in Europe of the imaginative adaptation to new uses of an industrial building. The power station was one of several built in the twentieth century on the banks of the

The Hembrugterrein is a former industrial and military complex. It measures about 45 ha and housed the socalled Artillerie Inrichtingen, where new armouries and weapons were developed and tested. The complex

the Kruonis pumped storage plant. Other museum sections are dedicated to the history of Vilnius industry as well as hands-on exhibits for children. The museum opened in 2003.

This is an extraordinary and beautiful industrial building. It was a watch factory built on a steep hillside in many terraces so that all the workshops would have large windows for light. It was completed

The municipal museum of Nordhorn is on three sites of industrial heritage: NINO-Hochbau, Povelturm and Museumsfabrik. It takes 15 minutes to walk between them. The town is on the border with the Netherlands [...] Netherlands and was an important centre for the cotton industry, which employed 12,000 people there in the 1960s. The NINO building was a five-storey cotton spinning mill. The museum opened on the first floor

land or state, once the kingdom, of Saxony was home to one of Europe’s most innovative engineering industries in the first half of the twentieth century, and a leading centre for the production of motor vehicles [...] disrepute because of their role in providing munitions to the Third Reich. Nevertheless the motor industry under the GDR was relatively innovative until it began to stagnate about 1970. Many of the marques [...] prestigious seven-storey building in the International Modern style, built in 1928 when the motor industry in Saxon was at its most prosperous. The museum displays more than 200 motorcycles and cars manufactured

the history of water supplies in Prague from the twelfth century, through the Renaissance and the industrial developments of the nineteenth century to the present. The museum includes paintings of the waterworks

been completely renovated and integrated into the Kraftmuseet (Norwegian Museum of Hydropower and Industry). The monumental architecture highlights the highly developed aesthetic taste of the architects

there are documentary and pictorial records of local railways, electric trams, motor buses and industries. The museum includes seven working model railways and also serves as the starting point for guided

Amongst its 16 principal themes are paper-making and printing, textiles and particularly the cotton industry in south-west Germany, engineering including the construction of locomotives, the manufacture of [...] work station from the Porsche factory, electric power, nuclear energy and products of the chemical industry. The ship Mannheim is an outstation of the museum in the nearby harbour on the River Neckar. The

The technical museum in Vienna holds many artefacts of significance to the industrial history of Europe. It was formally established in 1908, with Dr Ludwig Erhard as its director, as part of the jubilee

London holds one of Europe’s greatest collections of artefacts relating to the history of science and industry. A collection of objects from the Great Exhibition of 1851was put on permanent display in South [...] by government to management by a board of trustees. Many of the principal exhibits relating to industrial heritage are displayed in a section called Making the Modern World, which includes the steam locomotive

collections relating to the zinc, alkali and soap industries, together with archives and files of employee publications from Imperial Chemical Industries, the principal British chemical company during most [...] tower, once the office of a soap-manufacturing company, that provides wide-ranging view of the industrial landscapes along the Mersey. The open-air part of Catalyst includes the remains of condensing cisterns

one of the homes, in his later years, of Alfred Nobel (1833-96) creator of the modern explosives industry. Nobel was also the owner from 1894 of the nearby Bofors engineering works. He spent much of his