cultural potential of the region. Since 2001, the Night of Industrial Culture has thus staged the transformation of the Ruhr Metropolis from heavy industry to a modern economic and cultural region. Up to 300 [...] marketing. Once a year, the Ruhr metropolis becomes a huge festival site. The "ExtraSchicht - Night of Industrial Culture" is a unique project that brings together more than 50 venues and 150 cooperation partners

km. south of Gera in Thuringia, is one of the best preserved monuments of the traditional leather industry in Europe. Friedrich Francke began the works in 1844 and it continued to use natural substances

A particularly fine example of the asynchrony of the industrial revolution can be seen with the King Frederick Augustus Tower, built in 1854 on Löbau Hill. It is the only surviving cast-iron lookout tower

highlight, the IndustrieWelt Liechtenstein was opened here in 2019. With many informative films, documentaries and statistics, it offers a profound insight into Liechtenstein's industrial history and today's [...] today's industrial high-tech world. The special exhibition area presents exciting exhibitions of international standing on a wide range of topics. For children and families, there are various playful activities

the architecture and landscape of one of the most remarkable communities to have been created by industry in wartime. A fireless steam locomotive of the kind used in the factory is displayed outside the

Already in pre-industrial times chairs were made in Rabenau; but the industrialization of production was hesitant. It was not until 1870 that the chair merchant Ferdinand Reuter build a large factory complex

Horsens is a city with long commercial and industrial traditions. The Museum was opened in 1977 in the municipal power station building of 1906. Displays including steam engines, printing, brewing and

Nuremberg, the town of Seiffen, 32 km south of Freiburg, has been one of the principal centres of the industry. The museum originated in a collection accumulated at the technical school for toy-makers, the [...] The museum holds extensive collections of documents and photographs relating to the toy-making industry. In 1973 the Spielzeugmuseum took responsibility for the nearby open air museum in which 14 buildings

was founded in 1924 under the patronage of several of the country’s leading learned societies and industrial organisations. It is located in a building in the International Modern style designed by Ragnar [...] in 1946, and has received state funding since 1964. The displays portray many aspects of Swedish industry. A substantial permanent exhibition called Ferrum illustrates the importance of iron-making in Sweden [...] the workings of an electric arc furnace. Other galleries have displays on electric power, forest industries and mining, and the development from its infancy of information technology. An extensive model

Museum of the Petroleum Industry, opened in 1999, show the technology of oil exploration and pumping, the way of life of those who worked on the platforms, and the effects of the industry on Norwegian society [...] From 1971 the Norwegian offshore oil industry provided Europe with a significant portion of its energy, and Stavanger, once a centre for fish-canning, became the principal base for exploration and for

Park, established in 1962. It offers an exhibition ‘From Mine to National Park’ which links the industrial history of the area with its ecology. There is a geological garden where rocks and minerals can

walk-through re-creations of underwater habitats, displays illustrating the long history of the fishing industry in Norway and its exports to the rest of Europe and exhibitions showing the ways of life of past

stables behind it is the Nottingham Industrial Museum. This was set up by a voluntary group in 1964 and opened in 1971. It has five galleries telling the story of industries of special importance in the region:

Bradford was often called ‘worstedopolis’ in the nineteenth century and the city’s industrial museum is based in a mill built by one John Moore in the mid-1870s for spinning worsted yarn. Two floors were

communicating the industrial history of the town of Lohne and its region in Lower Saxony. The present museum opened in 2000 to bring together existing collections. Some of the local industries were cardboard [...] box-making, cork processing, cigar making and brush making. Plastics processing is still a significant industry in the town. All of these sectors are represented in the museum displays. There is also an exhibition

The museum presents the history of the knitwear industry in the area around Albstadt, about 60 kilometres south of Stuttgart. Knitted textiles have continuous yarn while weaving has interlaced yarn. It [...] used to make ‘jersey’ material, underwear and stockings in continuous tubes. It began as a domestic industry and moved into factories in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The museum is in a former building [...] dyeing. Many of the staff are textile workers who keep the machines in working order and bring the industry to life for visitors.

extended for 7 hectares. It presents the story of industry and transport in the city of Vierzon in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Several industries became important in the area. There were about

to keep its original machines in the Ardèche – one of Euope’s most important regions for the silk industry. The equipment is in working order and still uses water power. The mill is sited in the heart of

equipment and provide visitors with information on the geology of the region and its iron and steel industry. There is also a replica of a simple pub used by the miners at the end of their shift – as a foretaste

imported into Germany because of Napoleon’s Continental System. In 1863 Mönchengladbach’s textile industry was said to be flourishing greatly, and it was sometimes called the ‘Manchester of the Rhineland’ [...] to the Rhineland were greeted at the station by a gigantic cotton mill in the Gothic style. The industry has declined since the mid-twentieth century but some textile companies still have their administrative [...] came from the linen and jute mills of P W Blancke in Hinsberg. The history of the city’s textile industries is illustrated with numerous photographs. Mönchengladbach’s art museum was established in 1904