actions integrating young people within the network, such as Green Deal strategies, creative industries, slavery heritage linked to industrialisation, etc. Enhance the strategic development of tourism through [...] National Coordinators and the ERIH Board. The creation of specific a Working Group on Cultural (Industrial) Tourism is suggested. ERIH President Professor Dr Meinrad Grewenig and Board Member Peter Backes

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

travelling on a Museum Steam Day. The more adventurous can drive a steam locomotive and operate signalling on one of the regular Railway Experience Courses. EARM is an active member of the Heritage Railway A [...] The East Anglian Railway Museum is not only home to the most comprehensive collection of period railway architecture and engineering in the Region, but is also based at a working railway station on historic [...] Association and undertakes the restoration of locomotives and rolling stock from other museums. The amazing Chappel Viaduct is beloved of artists and photographers and runs across the valley just alongside

are managed as one site. The adjacent Industrial Discovery Centre, with a captivating audio-visual presentation, provides an overview of Cornwall’s industrial heritage. There are few better places in which [...] Europe’s principal source of tin from classical times and an important source of copper during the Industrial Revolution period, and the ores of many other metals have been extracted from its mines. The two [...] road between Camborne and Redruth, are amongst the most impressive monuments of the Cornish mining industry. The East Pool mine was worked for copper from the early eighteenth century until 1784, and was

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.

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 with c [...] 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 [...] also gained their livings by raising crops and keeping animals. An association concerned with the heritage of the region, the Scopriminiera, was set up in 1998, and within ten years had welcomed 230,000

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

remarkable architectural 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 [...] verre (Glass Workshop Museum) The site of the glass factory in Trélon (Rue Clavon Collignon 12) is an outstanding heritage, one of the few buildings preserved from the industrial history of the region [...] 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

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

There was heavy industry in Elsecar from the early 18th century. Elsecar and the adjacent villages were packed with collieries, ironworks, and other industrial concerns, playing a critical role in the [...] with vast sidings created in the 1840s. Elsecar’s industrial story continued long into the 20th century. The buildings which are now Elsecar Heritage Centre were National Coal Board workshops until the [...] area, it was for many years a colliery village built by colliery owners to house their workers. The Heritage Centre is the former foundry and colliery workshops of the Earl Fitzwilliam, developed from the

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

which is about 15 kilometers. Having 271.5 meters of height, the arch dam was granted the industrial heritage status of national value in 2015. Enguri HPP gives almost 46% of the total electricity of Georgia

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