tourist potential. Landscapes that complement the museum and interpretive spaces linked to our industrial past and that, in addition to witnessing the industrial evolution of the Basque Country, maintain the [...] years, the very appearance of our towns and cities is a direct consequence of that industrialization process. Thus, industrial landscapes, whether urban, mining, port, etc., have themselves become resources [...] The definitive development of industrialization, which occurred in the Basque Country since the end of the 19th century, transformed many of our municipalities and regions into work spaces, factories,

in the old factories. Industrial tourism is not a niche market, but a broad movement that inspires many people. But preserving old industrial sites and presenting them as museums is a challenge that requires [...] (now dissolved) German Society for Industrial Culture (DGfI) proposed to implement a pan-European network that would help to support the establishment of industrial heritage as a tourism brand. The network [...] to promote the recently opened "Route of Industrial Heritage" in the Ruhr area, in the development of which DGfI was involved, in its start-up phase. As industrial heritage has hardly ever been marketed

many skilled decorators. Craft and industrial producers still make ceramics in the town. In a former ceramics factory with an impressive new building alongside, the museum explains the history of local ceramic [...] and firewood and traded from the port of the River Sarthe. Others followed him into the ceramics industry. They focused on earthenware goods for domestic use. In order to compete with other ceramic producers

kilns, used from about 1870, dominate the landscape of the region. The museum which interprets the history of the brick-making industry is based in the former Frateur works.

turbulent history and the religious unrest of past centuries is reflected in the presence of a small museum concerned with the Waldensian faith. The extraction of talc, or bianco delle Alpi , has been an intrinsic [...] Gianna mine. The ecomuseum has organised four touring routes through the valley interpreting its industrial and geological heritage, and is responsible for a variety of educational programmes. It co-operates

develop the French silk industry and examined the potential for factories in the Ardèche. By the mid-nineteenth century the region had more than 400 silk factories. The industry continued strongly into [...] Fontolière. The ecomuseum occupies a large silk factory that was powered by the river. It was opened as a museum in 1988 and refurbished in 2006. It has models, machines and interpretative films and panels so that

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 [...] heritage, the collections showcase industrial and ethnological heritage from the 19th century to the present day. MTVS - Musée du textile et de la vie sociale ( Museum of Textiles and Social Life) Fourmies [...] 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 Prouvost-Masurel wool-spinning mill which worked

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 of a visit to the open air playground and the museum restaurant.

were flooded by the sea. During the 1990s the industry was revived by a group of young entrepreneurs, La Coopérative des Sauniers de l’Ile de Ré, and the museum was established to explain to visitors the [...] Scandinavia, or by sea to Bordeaux and then by inland navigation to central and southern France. At the industry’s peak in the first half of the nineteenth century some 1,500 ha., about 18 per cent of the surface [...] explored by bicycle on a network of tracks that extends for 100 km. around the lagoons. The shop at the museum offers varied a variety of products from the co-operative, including flavoured salt, and picked samphire

collection is on objects from the industrial history of Aargau. The canton of Aargau is located in the northern part of Switzerland and shares a border with Germany. Its industrial history began in the mid-19th [...] developed by the Aarbach Museum invites you on a journey back in time to the beginnings of industrialisation. With this smartphone app, you can discover three centuries of industrial history on the Aabach [...] The Museum Aargau collection on the history of the canton, which was founded in 1803, has grown since 1830 to around 55,000 objects dating from 1000 BC to the present day. Some 30,000 objects are kept

The workers’ colony of Eisenheim in Oberhausen became one of the first international industrial archaeological causes célèbres in the mid-1970s. Ironworking in the area began in 1758, and the principal [...] the oldest surviving workers’ colony in the Ruhrgebeit. The LVR-Industriemuseum maintains a small museum in one of the houses, displaying the history of Eisenheim, adjacent to which are play facilities

the Mersey Estuary, the museum allows you to discover the fascinating social and industrial history of Britains canals. Hop aboard and explore the narrow boat cabins to experience how families lived and [...] This unique, award winning museum is set in over 7 acres of historic canal port and is home to the world’s largest floating collection of inland waterway craft. Set in the old dock complex overlooking

The museum presents the history of industry, technology and everyday life in Schleswig-Holstein. Elmshorn became an important industrial centre in the nineteenth century, especially for the food industries [...] city of Elmshorn acquired it in 1988 for an industrial museum. The ground floor shows the history of cotton textiles, communications, the local leather industry and the craft of processing fish skins to [...] industries but also leather, textiles, ceramics and shipbuilding. The museum is in a five-storey former warehouse in the town centre that was built around 1890 by Christian Hinrich Carstens to trade in household

four locomobiles, two of which are, along with the plough, preserved shown in the museum. Apart from that, the Moorland Museum owns the world’s largest preserved peat excavator, whereas small tools refer to [...] refreshment, the museum café serves local food, such as buckwheat pancakes or sausages from Bentheim pigs. The pigs and other traditional and endangered species domestic animals are bred by the museum itself - [...] The Mammut is still alive, at least at the Emsland Moorland Museum in Geeste. "Mammut" is the name of a massive 30-ton steam plough made by Ottomeyer in the 1940s. The only one of its kind in the world

and the Kruonis pumped storage plant. Other museum sections are dedicated to the history of Vilnius industry as well as hands-on exhibits for children. The museum opened in 2003. [...] The Energy and Technology Museum in Vilnius is housed in a former power plant launched in 1903 and shut down in 1998. The power plant was damaged during World War II but was subsequently rebuilt, and much [...] much of the original equipment can still be seen at the museum. The power plant included three turbines by AEG (1911), MAN (1913) and Brown Boveri (1925), three generators, a control panel made in Poland

bourgeois house of 1775, is preserved as part of the city`s history centre, which also includes a museum of industrial archaeology. He was the son of a cotton manufacturer, and spent three years in the employment [...] Friedrich Engels wrote one of the classic critiques of the consequences of the Industrial Revolution in England, devoted much of his life to supporting and publicising the writings of Karl Marx, and was

Enigma is a museum of communications established in 1997. Its name comes from the Ancient Greek word for a spoken riddle. It is housed in the former post office in Østerbro, where it cares for Denmark's [...] Denmark's national collections of the post and telecommunications industries, including the country’s largest stamp collection. Through sophisticated interactive exhibitions it explores many historical and current

Eperon d’Or (the ‘golden spur’) is a museum in a factory of fine-quality shoes in the traditional centre of Belgian shoemaking. The company was started by Emiel Vandommele in 1863. It became the official [...] built in 1910 and an office in Art Deco style was added in 1930 by the architect Charles Laloo. The museum displays the whole production line of shoemaking in the 1950s, a large collection of beautiful shoes [...] stories of the workers and a hall of fame of local people. It also tells the story of another local industry, making hairbrushes and fine brushes for other purposes. Close by are the preserved steam engines

finest exhibits in the Rhineland Industrial Museum which has taken over the grounds and old factory buildings as one its six sites. “Under Tension” is the motto of the museum and its fascinating programme [...] own needs. It was finally closed down in 1979 only to reopen as an industrial museum in 1987. A short walk away from the main museum site there is the Oelcheshammer, an old water-driven smithy which is [...] the son of a Wuppertal textile manufacturer, visited Manchester during the early years of the industrial revolution he was shocked by the working conditions in the factories. In 1848 he and Karl Marx

factory – much further. The forefather of the dynasty, Johann Esche, had – as is shown in the Esche Museum in Limbach-Oberfrohna – recreated a stocking knitting frame in 1700 and thus sustainably influenced [...] interior designer, who at the time was still largely unknown as an architect, to build a villa in Chemnitz, which van de Velde in 1911 again extended and largely furnished himself. Van de Velde's wife Maria [...] After being carefully restored and redeveloped from 1998 to 2001, it now houses a Henry van de Velde museum with rooms including their original furnishings and other exhibits. It also serves as a meeting place