Room. In the yard is the Victorian Goods Shed, a real survivor and unique to the area. There is a hand-operated crane inside for handling the wide variety of packaged cargo that one moved by rail. The

know our history. For this reason, the II International Forum of Industrial Tourism aims, on the one hand, to deepen its knowledge from a cultural-heritage perspective and, on the other, to publicize experiences

Alexandra Alves presents an original project, called “Industrial Tourism” and launched in 2012, that makes S. João da Madeira, a Portuguese city of approximately 22,500 inhabitants, a pioneer in the d

version, is newly composed each year, as is the specially developed choreography, which translates the hand movements and gestures of work from the past into modern movements. Photos and videos will be taken

This museum in the north of Holland forms a twin milestone in Dutch industrial history. On the one hand it displays a huge number of original steam engines used in shipping and industry, most of which have [...] preserved thanks to the farsightedness of a private collector named Cees P. Jongert. On the other hand the old steam-driven pumping station “Vier Noorder Koggen”, with its complete inventory of machinery

Senefelder’s first lithographic press, made of wood. Visitors can try mixing colours or working a hand-press. Printing demonstrations are given regularly, visitors can watch artists at work, and the museum

The mechanisation of the laborious process of making paper by hand was developed by several inventors around 1800. In France, Nicholas-Louis Robert developed a method for pouring paper pulp onto a continuous

weaving traditions and the rapid transformation of agricultural workers and homeworkers into factory hands. Extremely tall glass cases can be seen everywhere throughout the museum: the arrangement of exhibits

cargo barge Helga built in 1955, the winch that pulled vessels upstream through the Stone Bridge, a hand-operated crane, an electric crane of 1912 and a steam boiler.

differing distinctively in time, design and technical background. There are several workshops offering hands-on experiences. Soldering bits, forges, ceramic kilns or 3D printing Welcome to DRU Industriepark

invented a hitherto unheard of machine: the water frame. It could spin fine yarn in a way which only hand driven spinning wheels had been able to do until then: but at an unprecedented speed. In 1771 Arkwright

process. Now the only hurdle left was the problem of setting the type, which was traditionally done by hand. This was solved in the USA in 1884 by a watchmaker named Ottmar Mergenthaler whose Lynotype machine

In a time when so much printing is digital, Colophon demonstrates its passion for paper, type and hand-made books. The museum is housed in the bailiff’s house in the ancient Savoie town of Grignan. The

a door into the top storey from ground level at the rear. Within the cottages are spinning wheels, hand looms and other items used in the making of woollen cloth, while at the rear are tenter posts, brought

claimed to be Germany’s best mill museum, with several magnificent windmills, horse mills, dog mills and hand mills. Research in recent decades has concentrated on developments in agricultural technology between

escavated fragments and a mock-up of a traditional kiln. Ethel Kelly also makes Ogham Wishes, pieces of hand-made pottery inscribed in traditional Irish script.

and to follow the Rat Trail. There are also opportunities for prospective young engineers to get hands on experience in an effort to help provide future engineers.

rubber company before the end of 1934. André Citroën died the following year but the firm, in new hands, continued to prosper. The Traction Avant was assembled abroad in factories at Vorst (Belgium), Cologne

first time in history to establish secure food production independent of the weather. On the other hand, theorists had gained insights into the structure of chemical elements: The "structural formula" developed [...] that traditional bleaching powder came under massive price pressure. Electrothermics, on the other hand, used heat mainly to operate the new, extremely hot electric arc furnaces that produced steel alloys

B.Crompton and the Hoffmann Manufacturing Company who created global industries in the town. New hands-on exhibits vividly demonstrate the scientific principles involved. These inventors and technology