This is the first dedicated World Heritage Centre in the UK and is the focal point for the Blaenavon Industrial Landscape World Heritage Site. The Visitor Centre combines video presentations, interactive [...] wanting to know more about the features that make up the 33,000 hectares of heritage landscape around the Centre. The World Heritage Centre will be housed in the carefully restored Grade II* St. Peter’s School [...] to explain the leading role that Blaenavon and South Wales played in the formative years of the Industrial Revolution. The centre will be a fun and educational place to visit for families, educational groups

the workers seem tiny. Blaenavon owes its status as a cultural World Heritage Site to the sheer authenticity of its former industrial landscape. [...] small town – with a huge effect. The South Wales town of Blaenavon was once the spearhead of the industrial revolution. For 200 years everything revolved around coal and iron here in the Afon Lwyd Valley [...] past once more. The climax of this journey back in time is a visit to the Big Pit: National Coal Museum. Here visitors climb into a cage and descend 90 metres to the pit floor below. Former colliery workers

The development of the oil industry in the Caucasus region in the late nineteenth century was strongly supported by several of Europe’s leading industrial and banking families including the Rothchilds [...] the shores of the Black Sea at Batumi in Georgia. The museum in Batumi, which opened in 2007, has exhibits showing the development of the oil industry, the introduction of Chinese labour and the development

g, foundry work, vehicle construction and peripheral industries from Schönebeck and the surrounding region, is remembered by the Industrial Museum. It was opened in 2013 in the over 100-year-old, partly [...] manufacturer still in production today. The history of these industries, as well as that of numerous other companies from the industrial sectors of energy, explosives, ammunition and weapons, mechanical [...] Schönebeck, located 15 km south of Magdeburg on the Elbe river, has a considerable but little-known industrial history, which also has some special features. Since the 12th century, brine, from which salt was

At the beginning of the 21st century, the chain industry in Fröndenberg almost disappeared as a result of structural changes in the coal and steel industry. In order to keep the history of chain production [...] n Kulturzentrum Fröndenberg e.V. has established a chain forge museum in the straw storage building of a former paper factory. The museum's collection includes a large number of machines from the Fröndenberg [...] The production of chains determined the industrial history of the town of Fröndenberg for over a hundred years. The product range extended from chains for agriculture to heavy chains, especially ship and

coffee roasters and hair curlers. Displays show something of the history of the gas industry in Warsaw. The museum has a large and important collection of gas street lamps. [...] succeeded in restoring supplies by July 1945. The last gas was produced at the plant in 1978. The museum was established the previous year. It conserves and interprets the nineteenth- and twentieth-century

mining heritage artifacts with digital content (3D video, VR, holographic projections, mapping) in order to tell the story of our community. This local community was formed by the mining industry, which [...] of mining. Besides the tour through exhibitions and guided tours around industrial landscape in and around the town, the museum also offers the game »Escape from the mine«: fun and educational experience [...] The Virtual Museum of Mining 4th dritl is located in the basemant of historical building of Delavski dom Cultural Center Trbovlje, that was built with volunteer work and contributions of Trbovlje's inhabitatnt

central European port and an industrial hub, all the way to the end of the 20th century. The second floor reveals the story about the former industrial compound where the museum is located. The story encompasses [...] and it was known as the Sugar Refinery Palace. The sugar plant marked the beginning of Rijeka’s industrial story and wrote the first chapter of the city’s industrialisation, after which nothing was the [...] plant reached their pinnacle in mid-19th century, when Rijeka accounted for as much as one half of industrial production in Croatia. The sugar refinery was established in 1750 by a Dutch-based company Arnoldt

researches Berlin's industrial heritage, develops tourist attractions, designs educational formats for young and old, advises and moderates questions concerning industrial heritage in the city, supports [...] Center for Industrial Culture (bzi) is a joint institution of the Berlin University of Applied Sciences and the German Technical Museum Foundation Berlin. BZI networks actors of industrial culture in Berlin [...] supports preservation and conversion with ideas, concepts and advice, offers a platform for industrial culture at conferences, in publications and event series, is involved in supra-regional and international

oldest industrial regions in Germany. How the economic, social and cultural upheavals between 1750 and 1850 in the Wuppertal region all hang together is explained in the Wuppertal Museum of Industrial Culture [...] manufacturer by the name of Friedrich Engels. The Wuppertal Museum of Industrial Culture is split into two sections: it consists of the Museum of Early Industrialisation and the Engels House. The documentation [...] Culture – the Engels House and the Museum of Early Industrialisation. Not forgetting the life and work of Friedrich Engels who was born in Wuppertal. Both aspects are intimately connected and in order to

Saint-Louis were specialising in lead crystal, the production of which survived both the French and the Industrial Revolution. Luxury goods are simply timeless. Handmade glassmaking has flourished in the Vosges [...] rows of workers houses on either side of them stretch all along the valley. "La Grande Place" glass museum, completed in summer 2007, stands in the middle of the village. The "large hall" is like a huge storage

publications on industrial topics. The museum manages three historical sites in Grimbergen, two of them are working watermills for grain. One mill is open during regular demonstrations. The museum also has two [...] and profession. The museum has an important and international collection of trade catalogues, many of which with an industrial character, partly digitalised and available on the site's website. The scientific [...] The MOT is a technology museum in Grimbergen near Brussels, which specialises since 1980 in techniques driven by natural power sources. The main collection is built around handheld tools of every era and

mining landscape, with the objective of building upon the past, and using the monuments of past industry as opportunities for future development not as problems to be obliterated. It is based in the buildings [...] luge. La Chaine des Terrils organisations expeditions across the tips to study ecology and mining heritage, and coach tours of the mining landscape across a wider area are operated from the tourist office

the symbol of the industrial revolution which began in the neighbouring iron works belonging to the Coalbrookdale Company. Its factory buildings set milestones along the path of industrial progress from cast [...] Later other important industrial enterprises were set up in the neighbourhood. Today the old factory sites offer a fascinating tour through a total of no less than ten museums. This includes a complete [...] exciting journey into the pioneering past of the industrial era. The monuments to this unique breakthrough have now been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

processing quartz, feldspar and china clay. The end result is breakfast dishes. In the European Industrial Museum of China in the Bavarian town of Selb everything revolves around the so-called “white gold” [...] the present day. A complete range of machinery shows visitors how porcelain body comes into being. Museum workers form, cast, throw and press all sorts and varieties of vessels and objects. Passive infrared [...] contains working steam-engines. The most recent development has been the opening of the European Museum of Technical Ceramics containing everything from artificial hip replacements to heat shields used

now a museum, which uses multi-media techniques to show how the culture of beer-drinking has evolved through the centuries, and how industrial-scale breweries work. The site also includes museums of baking [...] or Tadcaster in England. The town was famous for its beer from the middle ages, and the brewing industry was stimulated by the opening of the Bavarian north-south railway in 1846. In the mid-twentieth

built by the Russian authorities in the nineteenth century, which has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Brest is an important railway centre on the main line that connects Moscow with Berlin, at [...] European standard gauge track (1.435m) gives way to the broad Russian gauge (1.52m). The railway museum, the only one in Belarus, is close to the fortress. Its collection totals more than 50 vehicles,

centre for the car industry in the mid-twentieth century. Dingolfing Museum has a department devoted to industrial history as well as sections for local history and archaeology. The museum occupies three [...] the Upper Town (Obere Stadt); the industrial collections are in the impressive spaces of the former granary. The displays were redesigned in 2008 and won a Bavarian museum award. The first car manufacturer

Hof, has for centuries been one of the chief sources of buttons in Germany, and the industry continues today. The museum, located in a former brewery and opened in 1975, displays the town’s products, the [...] make them, and the extraordinary variety of buttons made in the different countries of Europe. The museum’s collection totals more than a million buttons made of 26 different materials, including wood, ivory

remaining mine in the region. Who descends here by cage, is able to follow almost the entire history of industrial mining in the underground galleries: from the often grueling working conditions of about 200 years [...] years ago to the automated extraction methods from the late 20th century. Aboveground the museum visitors can experience the past of the local production of coal almost as complete - thanks to infrared [...] show that stages the origin of the coal. Visiting the coal sorting and washing halls completes the museum program. The surrounding area has much to offer. A walk on the stone heap, playgrounds, a petting