The principal museum of the Staropolski Industrial Region, where Stanislaw Staszic(1755-1826), Director of the Division of Industry and Mining of the Congress Kingdom of Poland between 1816 and 1824, and [...] royed during the Second World War, it was restored from 1956, and historic machines from other industrial sites were displayed in its buildings, including a steam pump of 1858 made by Rudolf Siebert of

built in 1911, with which the Norsk Hydro company catapulted the rural parish of Rjukan into the industrial era. There is nothing to indicate that between 1942 and 1944 this location right beneath the Hardanger

100 years. Today the Museum for Industrial Clock Making in the old factory features carefully restored and fully operational manufacturing machinery. „To relive industrial history“ is the aim of the museum’s [...] of the factory age. Enjoy a comprehensive, often humorous and sometimes playful look at the clock industry. Experts show the manufacture of a mechanical alarm clock. A colourful range of products from the [...] manufacturers is testimony to the multi-facetted world of mass-produced clocks. In 2003 the Museum for Industrial Clock Making has won the Luigi Micheletti Prize dedicated by the European Museum Forum as the best

enthusiasts. Re-christened the Cambridge Museum of Technology which now is the home of the city’s industrial heritage, from the steam age to semiconductors. It contains a variety of original pumps and boilers

conserve and enhance sources and documents of the history of the Italian resistance movement, industrial companies and the labour movement. Fondazione ISEC has become a naBonal reference point for whomever [...] Italy. Throughout the years, at the early corpus of documents, many archives belonging to great industrial businesses, parBes, poliBcal representaBves, militants and proponents in the fields of trade union [...] (such as Breda, Falk, Ercole Marelli etcetera) and it is devoted to the appreciaBon of the local industrial heritage. Current events of Fondazione ISEC are announced on its website.

is easily ground into ‘talcum powder’, which has been used since 1894 to absorb moisture and has industrial uses, for example in paper, ceramics, paints and pharmaceuticals. The mine was opened by the Società

electrification). The museum reflects this exact period when Thessaloniki was turning into a large industrial centre and shows that water history goes hand in hand with the history of the city. The old pumping [...] boiler room and the coal storage room, reflecting clearly the different energy phases of water supply industry. The director’s residence later completed the construction, getting us back to an era when directors

Écomusée de l'Avesnois is a 'Musée de France' located in the heart of two former industrial sites in the textile and glass industries, emblematic of the Avesnois-Thiérache region: the former Prouvost-Masurel [...] Parant glassworks in Trélon. Within this remarkable architectural heritage, the collections showcase industrial and ethnological heritage from the 19th century to the present day. MTVS - Musée du textile et [...] sociale ( Museum of Textiles and Social Life) Fourmies was the principal centre of the woollen textile industry in France in the second half of the 19th century. The museum houses in the single-storey former

last Siemens-Martin furnace in Western Europe is still standing and forms the centrepiece of the industrial museum. Opened in May 2000, it covers an area of around 4,500 square metres. A visit to the museum

early industrial plants and former shipyard facilities just before the mouth of the river are visible in the landscape. Along the river, a 23 km trail was established, which opens up the industrial history

spinning mill in Ratingen in the Bergisch Land, now one of the on-site museums belong to the Rhineland Industrial Museum. Johann Gottfried Brügelmann, an extremely wealthy merchant and textile magnate from Wuppertal [...] enough to give you an impression of his self-assured economic power. The metronome of the dawning industrial age – a clock – hangs prominently over the magnificent stairway to the house making it clear that [...] spirit of the English so much that he decided to exploit their know-how to the full with the help of industrial espionage. This is how what is probably the first factory on the European continent came into being

an altitude of roughly 1,000 metres, is one of the most spectacular sites of the European cutlery industry. The narrow streets are home to countless small workshops, and nearly all families in this 2,50 [...] autonomy. The ethnographic museum opened in the 1980s and has a rich collection on the local cutlery industry, including products, tools and machines. It aims to keep the local traditions of handicraft and

arcades are four storeys high, and ornamented with frescoes and reliefs depicting science, art, industry and agriculture, with statues of 24 famous Italians. The gallery includes many boutiques selling

and mining, chiefly for sphalerite and fluorite continued until 1999. Appreciation of the area’s industrial history was stimulated by an exhibition Le Miniere in Valtrompia staged in 1985 at the Museum of [...] Ecomuseo di Valle Trompia La Montagna e l'Industria (Trompia Valley Ecomuseum. The Mountains and Industry). The Museum also manages and interprets La Via del Ferro (the Iron Road) a series of sites in the

the town of Abbadia Lariana has a civic museum of the manufacture of silk thread, an important industry in the region from the sixteenth century. The silk manufacturer Pietro Monti came to Abbadia from

factory's products on display. The Calabrian silk and liquorice industries are also described. A path leads through a classical archway to the industrial archaeological sites of the foundries, blast furnaces and [...] Calore. After the factory closed in the 1870s, it was abandoned and is now one of the most important industrial archaeological sites in the country. The MuFar 'Royal Bourbon Weapons Factory Museum', was inaugurated [...] and iron ore mines of the "Calabrian Iron and Steel Industry Park".

the theme of industrial culture as it is a clear unique selling point for the region. From 2021, the "Long Night of Industrial Culture" will be organised in the region. Traditional industrial companies in [...] events in the Capital of Culture year will be industrial culture. Among other things, there will be industrial culture themed tours in museums, a new industrial history magazine with numerous company and [...] and allow a look behind the scenes of industry. In the meantime, 25 companies & museums open their doors to the public and allow visitors to participate in industrial history up close for one night with

About the same time the striking portals of the Bülow and Heinitz Canals took shape, connecting the industrial site with the network of regional waterways. A building that looks like a city gate at first sight

1832 and was the leading textile factory in Denmark until it ceased operations in 1956. The unique industrial monument provides visitors with a lively impression of a historic factory site, covering almost

a model community, designed by Silvio Benigno Crespi n (1868-1944), who had studied the textile industry in Cologne and Oldham and in France. The village is one of the most spectacular in Europe, and as