for enthusiasts for the history of the motor car industry when visiting Turin are likely to be the Lingotto factory and Italy’s National Motor Museum, but, although it is open only on Sundays, the Fiat

The salt industry at Figuera de la Foz, a seaport and resort on the Mondego estuary, dates from the eleventh century AD, but many of the traditional salinas are being converted to fish farms. The salt [...] Corredore de Cobra, the reconstruction of a traditional salt warehouse, and the establishment of a salt museum.

ON THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF FINLAND Listen Finland’s rise as a prosperous industrial nation, which started in the mid-20th century, is due primarily to two very different factors: its extensive forests [...] of water power and an exemption from tariffs, the city of Tampere developed into a significant industrial centre. By mid-century, the cotton factory founded by Scottish entrepreneur James Finlayson alone [...] demanded primarily metal products, from ships and railroad cars to machine tools, the metal-working industry was compelled to modernise extensively, a process which ultimately made the nation competitive in

north of Helsinki, is Finland’s national museum of the glass industry. The origins of the museum were in 1961 but in 1980 it relocated to a former industrial building. This began in 1914 as a mill for [...] spaces and elegant displays of the museum were created by the leading designer Tapio Wirkkala. The focus of the museum is on the three centuries of the glass industry in Finland. The ground floor presents [...] design. There are temporary exhibitions of historical collections and contemporary glass artists. The museum also houses a research library and archive. Nearby are other glassworks buildings adapted to new

Werstas - the Finnish Labour Museum. The Museum tells the over two-hundred-year-old story of Tampere’s industry. The exhibition describes how Tampere became the largest industrial city in the country, “the [...] “the Manchester of Finland”. Impressive museum artefacts and photographs introduce visitors to the industrial enterprises and factory workers of Tampere. A large 1650 hp Sulzer steam engine with an 8 m flywheel [...] flywheel is preserved in the museum.

the production of art castings under the direction of a German founder, C F J W Mertens (d 1882). A museum, open in the summer months, in a small 18th century building displays products of the works including [...] foundries in several European countries. Finspong remains an important centre for the engineering industries, and de Geer’s castle is now occupied by the Siemens corporation. The castle, the rushing water [...] the park, with its iron temple and bridges of the 1850s, comprise one of Sweden’s best-preserved industrial landscapes.

designed by young Norwegian architects in the Jugendstil – the German form of Art Nouveau. The fisheries museum occupies a white warehouse of 1861 on the mole at the entrance to the harbour which escaped the fire [...] displays illustrated the manufacture of cod liver oil for medicinal purposes, which was a significant industry in Ålesund, and the processing of klippfish (bacalao or stockfish), the traditional means of cutting

was one of the founding trustees of the Industrieviertel-Museum (Industrial District Museum) in the city and served as its director. The museum’s displays include one that tells the story of slave labour [...] reputation as a historian and to found a museum of working class life in the town of his birth. Karl Flanner was born in Flugfeld, a working class quarter of the industrial city of Wiener Neustadt, the son of [...] Communist governments before, during and after the Second World War are commemorated in several museums, notably that in Berlin. Karl Flanner suffered more than five years as a slave labourer and as a

launched in 1993, and was supported by the city of Wiener Neustadt and Diamond Aircraft Industries GmbH. The museum building was opened in 1999. Its outstanding exhibit is a Messerschmitt Me-109 of the Second [...] The museum at the edge of the airport at Wiener Neustadt is managed by a private association, and occupies an exhibition hall of 400 square metres. The displays are based on collections made by Toni Kahibacher

The programme pairs brightly illuminated industrial monuments with a rich and diverse cultural programme featuring music, lectures, guided tours and rather offbeat events such as longboard dancing in the [...] as a finale, provide a music parade to explore the opulent oeuvre of the Beatles. Bochum's railway museum is focusing on a slower pace this year, combining beer garden ambience with illuminated installations [...] allow visitors to easily check in and out on site. If you plan well, you can soak up a lot of industrial heritage at former blast furnaces, collieries, breweries and gasometers from Waltrop to Hagen and

Anglian Film Archive are some of the most popular items on sale in the museum shop. For the steam and engineering enthusiast, the museum’s range of five working engines is impressive. ‘The Empress of Britain’ [...] The Food Museum is an open air landscape of buildings and machinery covering a huge 28 hectare site near the centre of one of East Anglia´s historic market towns, Stowmarket in Suffolk. This area has been [...] when the Smithy or the huge engines are at work and you can be transported back to East Anglia´s industrial past. East Anglian firms such as Garrett´s, Burrell´s, Paxman´s, Boby, Smyth and Fison are represented

The Forestry Museum in Sopron is linked to the Faculty of Forestry in the University of Western Hungary, where the first collection of specimens and artefacts related to forest industries was established [...] established by Henry David Wilchens (1763-1832). The museum occupies premises in the Estaházy palace alongside those of the Central Museum of Mining. It opened in 1983 and provides a comprehensive view of forestry [...] ecology is explained in detailed. One display shows how trees are felled and progress to sawmills. The museum includes important records of surveying and cartography, the earliest of them a forest map of 1658

metal from the industrial Midlands and wealthy landowners’ love of tapestries. These created the demand for weavers, the needle makers’ clients. Best of all, it made an easy cottage industry. Forge Mill was [...] and ‘pointers rot’, a lung disease caused by the dust. Redditch was the world centre of the Needle Industry in the 1800s, but today just one firm remains. In its heyday, the town manufactured 3,500m needles [...] collapse of its water wheel it was abandoned just as it was and this helped its restoration as a working museum. At that time it was making fish hooks – an important specialist product locally. This trade developed

The museum of steam engines at Forncett St Mary in the heart of rural Norfolk was established by Dr Rowan Francis, an anaesthetist. It is open to the public two days a week through the year, and engines

produced. As the industry gradually waned, the factory properties were converted to other uses and the extensive archives were transferred to the museum. The main exhibition of the Forssa Museum, the City of [...] tells the story of Forssa community. Museum Gallery Moletti, an atmospheric little gallery, focuses on contemporary and textile art. Forssa Museum was the Museum of the Year 2014 in Finland and a nominee [...] nominee for the Emya prize in 2015. In 2021, the museum opens a new site Pattern Centre, dedicated to printed fabric design. The large collection of industrial textiles includes fabric samples and original

foundry industry. The museum complex consists of the Foundry Museum, the Högfors Blast Furnace and the Workers' Museum. The Foundry Museum shows the various stages in the history of the foundry industry, especially [...] furnace, see the bellows and imagine the work required to stoke the flames. The Workers' Museum is an open-air museum that shows the regional living and working conditions between the 1850s and 1960s. Several [...] The Finnish Foundry Museum is located on the site of the Högfors foundry, which was founded in the 19th century and played an important role in Finnish iron production. Today, the well-preserved buildings

be restored to full working order thus conserving it for the future. Foxton Canal Museum Alongside the locks, a museum is situated in the reconstructed Boiler House of the Foxton Boat Lift. Opened in 1989 [...] Foxton Locks A unique patchwork of 18th, 19th and 20th century industrial heritage unmatched anywhere in the world, Foxton is most famous for the ruins of the Incline Plane Boat Lift, and the breathtaking

employed seamers and stitchers to finish the garments they produced. The principal museum of the East Midlands knitting industry opened in 1971 at Ruddington 6 km south of Nottingham where there were 343 stocking [...] Framework knitting was a characteristic industry of the English East Midlands. The knitting frame was invented in 1589 by the Rev William Lee of Calverton. It was at first a simple machine, but was steadily [...] yarn imported from India. Samuel Unwin (1712-99) and Jedediah Strutt (1726-97), leading figures in Industrial Revolution in East Midlands, were both concerned with development of frames. By the 1830s some

Franju was a French film director who made two documentaries that are of importance to students of industrial history. He had an individualistic style that fits into no particular school of film-making. Born [...] the Saar. It was intended as a celebration of Guy Monnet’s plan for the modernisation of French industry as part of the European Coal and Steel Community, but Franju showed the steelworks as an ugly intrusion [...] following year Franju made Hotel des Invalides, an ironic critique of France’s principal military museum. He directed his first feature, La Tete contre les Murs (The Keepers) in 1958, followed by the horror

and Frederiksvaerk became the leading town of modern heavy industry in Denmark. The powder works closed in 1965, and has ever since been a museum whose main feature is the intact and working machinery from [...] , New Lanark and Saltaire. Based on waterpower Frederiksvaerk once housed the national armament industry and was a worldwide supplier of military equipment. In the 1720s an agate polishing mill was built [...] gh was made in the 1760s by the general J.F. Classen who developed the place into a prosperous industrial society. The Gun Foundry, an extensive powder works and a large number of dwellings in combination