The museum focuses on the history of the Serra da Estrela Hydroelectric system. This has six operational power plants and two decommissioned ones, dating from between 1909 and 2003. The Museum occupies [...] began supplying electricity to Seia, 6 km away. It went out of production in 1994 and opened as a heritage centre in 2011 in a partnership between the power company EDP and the Municipality of Seia. The [...] building is in a traditional style with red-tile roofs and a modernist block in concrete nearby. The museum relates the history of electricity and its production. Visitors see the imported generator sets and

cotton. After the Second World War production expanded to several plants. The museum presents the history of the linen industry in part of the factory’s printing house. Working historical equipment and displays

ancient city of Toruń in central Poland is a World Heritage site. The tradition of making gingerbread there goes back a thousand years. Opened in 2015, the museum is located in the Weese gingerbread factory in [...] was exporting worldwide. A new factory outside the town was built in 1913. The museum is operated by the district museum in collaboration with the Kopernik confectionary firm. There are interactive displays

Krosno is the largest producer of glass, crystal and glass-fibre in Europe. The industry goes back over five centuries but in 1920 a large new production plant was established (later called Krośnieńskie [...] It continued after privatisation in the 1990s and has been joined by smaller producers. The Glass Heritage Centre opened in 2012. It has interactive displays, a cut-away model of a glass furnace, explanations [...] in optics and special exhibitions by leading glass artists. But the focus is on experiencing the industry first-hand. Visitors begin in the glass-making workshop, where they can watch glassblowers and even

some of the world’s first oil wells. The area became the cradle of the Polish oil industry. The centrepiece of the museum is the drilling tower, a conical structure of timber with an external staircase that [...] The museum is in the area of early oil exploitation at Gorlice, south-east of Kraków, on the site of the former Magdalena oil well. After Ignacy Lukasiewicz invented the kerosene lamp at Kyiv in Ukraine [...] collection tanks, a ‘nodding donkey’ pump, a steam pump and a covered wagon for collecting oil drums. The museum was created in 2012 by former oil worker Kazimierz Dudek with the support of a voluntary association

The canning and printing industries are connected by the use of printed designs on cans. These two museums are operated by MUST (Museum Stavanger) and bring the subjects together in a former fish canning [...] canning factory near Stavanger harbour. The canning museum opened in 1982 and the printing in 1993. Since merging they are called ‘Iddis’ after the local word for labels on cans. In the factory, visitors follow

boom in the textile industry in the 19th century thanks to readily available hydroelectric power. Over time, the textile industry developed into the important Swiss engineering industry, with names such as [...] and Rüti (weaving machines). Since 1991 more than 70 volunteers have been running a unique museum of industrial culture in Neuthal. Visitors are immersed in a fascinating world and in a bygone age which

1974. The first coal was mined here in 1898. The museum included the shaft hall, the winding tower and the winding machine house. Since 2022, the museum has been housed in the former 'Kneepkens' department [...] mining in the Limburg region ended in the 1960s and 1970s. To preserve this history, the Dutch Mining Museum was opened 40 years later. It was initially located at Shaft II of the Oranje Nassau I mine in Heerlen [...] floor is dedicated to mining and the miners. The first floor tells of the prosperity that the coal industry brought to the region, while the second floor depicts the unsafe and unhealthy working conditions

nowadays host the Textile Industry Museum. The multi-part building with its workshops bathed in light is located at the Salhus Fjord right to the north of Bergen. Tours of the museum start in the oldest part [...] were the working conditions like and how did they affect the employees? At the end the well-stocked museum shop invites everyone to buy the same socks and scarfs he or she just watched being produced.

The museum of Großalmerode, the „city of good clay”, takes its visitors on a trip through 800 years of clay work and glass-making, showing the development of local trades and their impact on the people [...] people involved, with a primary focus on the time from the beginning of the industrialization until the 1950s and 1960s. The exhibition illustrates the mining and processing of the clay that was taken from

northeast of Marburg, in the heart of a region that relied on lignite mining for more than 400 years. The museum, founded in 1992 and located in a timber-framed building called Am Amtsgericht in the town centre [...] centre, illustrates the history of the coal field and the significance of lignite in industrialization as well as the everyday life of the miners. In a reconstructed gallery visitors can learn about the different [...] underground mining from the beginning of the 20th century until the end of the regional lignite industry in the 1980s when mechanical cutters and hydraulic props were in action on a large scale. An associated

that was used for the manufacture of buttons and buckles. The main focus of the industrial exhibits in the historical museum is on the making of buttons and buckles, not just those that included iron wire [...] demonstrations of metal-working and every August a smithy day is held to honour blacksmiths. The museum has links with Phänomenta, an interactive science and technology centre which is located nearby.

du-Guard was employed in the silk industry and there were 23 producers. The museum stands in a park in the centre of a block between Rue de l’Industrie, Grand Rue and the river – the pedestrian entrance [...] entrance is at 5 Rue de l’Industrie and the car park is off Grand Rue. The museum focuses on the social history and traditional culture of the Cévennes from the seventeenth century to twentieth. It began with [...] and the museum opened there in 2017 after a large redevelopment project that combined sensitive conservation of the fine original architecture with striking new interventions. Many silk-industry artefacts

huge Art Nouveau villa that houses the museum. They produced films and sold their technology with great success, beginning a revolution in the entertainment industry. Later they pioneered colour photography [...] The Lumière Museum is in the centre of Lyon, at the factory site of the brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière, world-famous pioneers of film and photography. Their father ran a photography business in Lyon [...] photography and stereoscopic cinematography. With unique collections and multimedia tools, the museum extends over three floors. The site of the factory is a garden with a wall of plaques to great film-makers

country towns historically important for woollen textiles in Occitannia in southern France. The textile museum of the département is in a nineteenth-century woollen factory. Visitors enter by a footbridge across [...] a park on Boulevard Carnot. It contains original looms as well as other artefacts brought to the museum. The whole process of woollen manufacture can be understood, from the preparation of raw wool through [...] graphics and film to show the marketing and final use of textiles and the society associated with the industry. The displays consider the latest developments and the future of textiles and include the science

and still produces leather, especially using small hides. The Maison des Métiers du Cuir is a museum, heritage site and art gallery in a former tannery in the town, next to the River Dadou. The building [...] craftspeople. Objects, images, films and documents are used in a permanent exhibition about the industrial and social history of leather. A collection of thousands of skins donated in 2019 from the showroom

coal industry. It is a museum of traditional form that shows a large number of significant objects in clearly presented cases with interpretive texts. They include high-quality models of industrial ins [...] Since 1963 the Museum of Chemistry has been in the fourteenth-century Thury Castle in the former coal-mining town of Várpalota, 80 km west of Budapest. The museum examines the history of chemistry, beginning

the tradition as Intangible Cultural Heritage. The textiles were produced in small workshops from the seventeenth century, then in larger workshops. The Kékfestő Museum at Pápa in western Hungary occupies [...] War it employed 50 people. In 1959 the entire contents were preserved and the buildings opened as a museum in 1962. The cellars include the washing room and the dyeing room with large vats into which textiles

000 people. It closed in the 1990s. The museum has developed since 1971 in the magnificent factory school of 1895. Much of it is devoted to industrial heritage. As well as equipment, documents and photographs [...] al principles. Other parts of the museum cover local history and culture, crafts, the history of the school and other subjects. Outside are exhibited large industrial objects including a railway locomotive

mNACTEC, the Museums of Science and Technology of Catalunya. On the ground floor, the Museum explains the manufacture of objects such as cotton reels and spindles for the textile industry, from collecting [...] The Turnery Museum at Torelló examines the process industrialization in wood-turning and horn-turning, during which traditional craft workshops were replaced by factories that made components for the Catalan [...] Catalan textile industry. It is sited in the former Vidal factory, built between 1888 and 1901. The three-storey building had a steam engine to power line-shafts and belt-drives to the lathes. Later, the