furnaces, alum plants and mines – not to speak of serious illnesses in the course of their working-lives. All this is recalled in an exhibition entitled "Masters of Fire", housed in the former forge of a [...] demonstrated before our eyes, e.g. by means of small experiments during the guided tours. The arduous lives of the workers, the back-breaking work which they had to endure, and their poverty-stricken living
displays extending through sixteen galleries telling the mill’s history, and describing the social lives of the workers. There are regular workshops teaching traditional paper making, calligraphy and paper
exchanges and other artefacts and costumes that explain innovations in technology and the working lives of people in the telegraph, telephone and mail services. A post office from a century ago is reconstructed
exploring the properties of silk, design education, Macclesfield´s diverse textile industries, workers´ lives and historic machinery. The Silk Museum follows the story of silk from its origins in China, along
railway that served the docks and the street tram system. Cars manufactured at Liverpool include a Liver Phaeton made by William Lea in 1900 and a 1963 Ford Anglia. The social history collections include
development and introduces technical, social, epidemiological and environmental issues, including the lives of the sewer workers. From the modern entrance building on the surface, guides take visitors into
which children were forced to work. They are then given the chance to contrast this to the luxurious lives of the Jute Barons and their families. As was usual in the local factories it was mostly women who
and functional Jugendstil style by Ferdinand Boberg. The museum explains public transport in the lives of Stockholmers for more than 150 years. The displays on several floors cover public transport on
Volkswagen plant at Zwickau until 2012 to weld together car bodies. The examples indicate that the live demonstration of machines is a focal point of the museum. In the basement, where the textile tools
in the world. It has been a huge success. Exhibitions on industrial history, art installations, and live performances have all profited from the unique atmosphere within the construction. Once inside it
production process of salt, see old salt-making machinery and enjoy the magic of the lagoon and the lives of hundreds of rare birds that inhabit the lagoon's unique wetlands. The Salt Museum is a multifaceted
walls. The mining company not only dictated everyday working conditions but also the miners´ private lives in the neighbouring housing settlement. Since 1983 visitors have been allowed inside this microcosm
Anna colliery. The second worst mining accident in German history, in which 271 people lost their lives, occurred in Shaft II of this mine on 21 October 1930. The last pit was closed in 1992. Today, the
Mathilde (b 1910) went to the Netherlands. After the Nazi invasiotn the three women took their own lives rather than face deportation to an extermination camp, although Fritz Bender escaped. There are S
at Gosport provides an opportunity to observe how submarines are constructed as well as about the lives of the crews who manned them. It occupies the site of HMS Dolphin , the training centre on land for
coal mine. What was it like when the rhythm of gigantic machines and conveyor belts determined the lives of 5,000 miners and their families? The "Portal of Industrial Heritage" translates this history to
camera obscura, peep shows, projectors and opthalmalogical instruments. Displays illustrate the lives and achievements of Carl Zeiss and Ernst Abbe and there is a planetarium on the upper floor. Currently
in Nuremberg from 1800 to the present day. It tells the story of how people's working and everyday lives have changed from the invention of the steam engine to the present day, combining technical, cultural
industrial and ecological heritage of the region, and to promote its interpretation, both to those who live there and to visitors. From its headquarters in the Bikuna Palace, a seventeenth century building
