first paper mill in the region was established on the bank of the River Warchenne in 1726, and the industry was developed in the nineteenth century by the Steinbach family. In 1848 a mill in Malmedy produced [...] the Papeterie du Pont de Warche, was established in 1909 to manufacture high-grade stationery. The industry has since declined but one mill remains in production, although in foreign ownership. The museum

bleaching flax. The town was celebrated for high quality damask that was sold throughout Europe. The industry collapsed in the 1960s, and most of the 200 factories in the region have been demolished, but its

1867-76 to supply drinking water to Eupen, parts of the Liege region and Verviers, where the woollen industry needed a supply of lime-free water. The dam was rebuilt in 1967-71 and is now 77.6 m high and 416

second half of the nineteenth century the principal centre of shipbuilding was at Baasrode, where the industry was in the hands of the Van Damme and Van Proet families. Many of the craft they built were for

century, and by the seventeenth century local weavers specialised in the production of ribbons. The industry developed rapidly from the 1680s with the introduction of bar looms, with encouragement from Philippe [...] and concentrated in factories. The area was devastated during the First World War, but the ribbon industry revived in the 1920s. New technology was introduced in the 1960s and manufacturing continues in

The Gueuze museum provides an unusual opportunity to see beer brewed in a traditional way on an industrial scale. The museum is a fully-operational brewery, worked by the Van Roy-Cantillon family whose

and has a complex political history. When part of the USSR it was a restricted area, but a local industrial combine was able to establish a wool manufacturing enterprise in the 1950s using wool from the

is its comprehensive collection of cars used in Estonia in the Soviet era, relics of the huge car industry of the USSR that has either disappeared or changed beyond recognition. Soviet era cars include Volgas

The entire town is on the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites. Typorama is a museum of the printing industry managed by the Typorama Foundation established in 2011 and largely run by volunteers. The hand-setting [...] all of which are in working condition. Also in the town, and closely associated with its printing industry, is the Bischofszell paper mill which was established in the nineteenth century and worked until

treatment for health in the twentieth century. They also examine the work of the city in crafts and industry. The electrical engineering company Brown, Boveri & Compagnie was founded in Baden in 1891 to make

military vehicles. The museum holds documentary records of Sauber vehicles and has links with other industrial and transport museums around the shores of the Bodensee.

district of the city was built for employees of the ironworks, and often also by owners of this industrial plant. The plant was the leading facility of this type in the country, applying the latest tec

It is one of the landmarks in the history of the mighty steel industry, which provided employment and livelihoods for many generations of residents of Katowice up until not so long ago. The Zinc Rolling

of iron smelting and iron processing from a modest sheet metal works in 1686 to the large-scale industrial operation of the 20th century. The basic processes are illustrated by models. The environmental

Częstochowa in southern Poland was the centre of the country’s iron ore mining industry. A museum was established in 1968 with displays illustrating mining techniques, and collections of winding equipment

fields, and leaving a legacy of exposed earth and bizarre landscapes. This has left its mark on the industrial region and its people in every respect. In the meantime, Lusatia has been undergoing a radical [...] is providing impetus for the future, with floating homes on flooded pits, cultivation on former industrial sites, and special interest tours in unique mining landscapes. Moreover, the Ilse Lake is just

established in 1989, is located in a nineteenth-century textile warehouse, tells the story of the cotton industry in the valley, with particular emphasis on the experiences of the workpeople. The collection of

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