should be used for an open air museum. Fredriksdal includes both rural and urban buildings. The oldest farmhouse, from Lillarydsgården dates from the seventeenth century. Industrial buildings include an octagonal [...] Fredriksdal is 36 ha Skansen-type open air museum devoted to the social and architectural history of Skåne located in the grounds of a mansion built by Fredrik Coster in 1787 which passed into the possession [...] saw mill also dates from the nineteenth century, and there is a range of glovers’ workshops. The museum includes a 2-8-2 tank locomotive once used on the state railways that was built in Helsingborg by

the mining industry are the Abrahamschacht, with pithead buildings of 1839, and the Alte Elisabeth, with structures of the 1840s, including a steam engine made by Constantin Pfaff of Chemnitz. The history [...] history of mining is comprehensively depicted in the Municipal and Mining Museum, and the technical university, that incorporates the mining academy established in 1765, has extensive geological and mineralogical

19th-century Mulino Nuovo (New Mill) industrial complex. The mill underwent major renovation and today, along with the Freidano Ecomuseum, it houses the Ethnographic Museum, dedicated to the trades that once [...] The Freidano Ecomuseum takes its name from the canal that provided the energy for the earliest industrial activities in the area that lies between Torino and the suburb of Chivasso along the left bank [...] river. The Freidano Ecomuseum develops research projects that focus on the local landscape and industrial heritage, and organizes workshops and events for schools and families, and visits for the public

kilometres west of Siegen, is known for its half-timbered houses in the old town. The town has a long industrial history, and in 1991, 25 people got together and founded the ‘Friends of Historic Vehicles Freudenberg’ [...] house on the site of a glue factory that was demolished in the early 1970s. In 2002, the technical museum was opened. Since then, historical methods of production and their products have been brought up [...] 1904 from the former glue factory has been preserved at its original location and is now one of the museum's outstanding exhibits. On demonstration days, it drives the transmission system of several reconstructed

in the Leverkusen suburb of Schlebusch the red brick walls of the Freudenthal Scythe Hammers Industrial Museum quiver and shake as they have done for centuries. Heavy hammer heads thunder down onto red-hot [...] the 1950s and in 1987 the Hammer factory ceased operating for good – only to change into an industrial museum which graphically illustrates the transitional period from manual to factory production.

sold all over the world. Friitala also produced leather for the Finnish shoe, bag, and furniture industry. At the beginning of the 1970s, the factory employed around 1,000 employees. In 1993, Friitala stopped [...] the production gradually ceased, the factory building was converted to other uses. Friitala leather museum located in the former factory building presents the phases of the tannery, leather manufacturing

This museum commemorates the work of an industrial pioneer who established a mechanical engineering company that produced a remarkable variety of products over more than two centuries. Frédéric Japy ( [...] sons, and his descendants were involved with the company for most of the rest of its history. The museum opened in 1986 on the ground floor of a four-storey brick and stone factory called "La Pendulerie" [...] factory), whose upper floors have been adapted as dwellings. The project was officially classified as a museum in 1996. The displays feature the astonishing variety of products made by the Japy company in the

small boats to factory ships -, shellfish industry, aquafarming, but also oceanography with all its facets: the variety of aspects in the Galician Maritime Museum reflects the close and centuries-old re [...] to the Bronze Age, as is shown by the remains of a settlement dating from the 8th century BC. The museum occupies a refurbished and extensively enlarged canning factory, and the design of its permanent

Namur, not far from Belgium’s border with France. The Gambrinus Drivers’ Museum is one of Europe’s most specialised industrial museums. Located in a nineteenth century malting and brewery complex, it is devoted

the museum that displays Roman antiquities found in the area, provide premises for science-based industries, and establish a museums campus in which the Museum of Ethnography, the National Museum of Technology [...] Technology, the Museum of Transport and a new Museum of Architecture will be located. Two areas of Garden City style housing, one designed for managers and the other for workers, remain adjacent to the [...] the Obuda Works. The present gas museum has extensive displays showing the construction of the Obuda works, and exhibits a steam locomotive that once shunted wagons there. The collection also includes many

coal gas until 1980. It has since been conserved as an historical monument, and was adapted as a museum which opened in 2000. All the equipment of a functioning gasworks is still in place, the retorts [...] display concerned with gas and the environment. An additional display shows something of the glass industry that flourished in Neustadt between 1689 and 1840.

now brought the everyday life of the mine back to life. The former office buildings now serve as a museum for mining artefacts and tin products – not to speak of the precious minerals which where the brilliant [...] their original equipment bear impressive witness to the technological development of the tin mining industry. The “Dry”, where the miners changed and showered looks as if the next shift is likely to show up

kept on with ore and coal mining trought the Roman Empire, Spanish domination and the era of the Industrial Revolution until the last mines closed at the end of the 20th century. Former mines and their remains [...] the park is in the southwest of the island. This is also where most of the mining monuments and museums that are open to tourists are located, some of which are presented on the ERIH website: Carbonia [...] Zurfuru Mining Site Guspini. The Mines of Montevecchio Iglesias. Masua Mines and Porto Flavia Iglesias. Museum of the Arts of Mining Narcao. Rosas Mining Ecomuseum

between Baku and Batumi, which commenced operation in 1907. Today, a museum in Batumi documents the history of the petroleum industry. At the same time, both the Czar of Russia and the German steel group [...] developed from an agricultural trade to an industry, supported by the Caucasian Institute for Silkworm Breeding, founded in Tbilisi in 1887. Today, a museum in the old institute building recalls Georgia’s [...] extensive programme of industrialization. The use of water power began in 1927 with the hydroelectric plant in Avchala, near Tbilisi; the plant on the Rioni River near the expanding industrial city of Kutaisi

Hof, has for centuries been one of the chief sources of buttons in Germany, and the industry continues today. The museum, located in a former brewery and opened in 1975, displays the town’s products, the [...] make them, and the extraordinary variety of buttons made in the different countries of Europe. The museum’s collection totals more than a million buttons made of 26 different materials, including wood, ivory

regional industrial heritage. In this respect the two organisations – the "Sachzeugen der chemischen Industrie e. V." and Merseburg Technical College – enhance each other perfectly. The museum is ideally [...] the chemical industries in the area a further modernisation boost, and simultaneously offered a rare opportunity to save historically valuable sites from being lost forever. Nowadays the museum collection [...] history and development of the region’s industrial heritage, and the enlargement of the hands-on laboratories to a science centre. In this way the German Chemistry Museum is becoming a meeting place between

combines such different attractions as the "watchmaker´s cottage" in Vöhrenbach, with the Clock Industry Museum in Schwenningen, whose many fully-working machines tell visitors about everyday life in the factory [...] And on your way, if you want, you can watch cuckoo-clock makers at work. Finally the German Clock Museum in Furtwangen offers visitors a comprehensive overall view of clock making in the region. Its 15 [...] collection of its type in the whole world. Along with its rich stock of international clocks, the museum provides a multifaceted picture of the history and technology of the phenomenon of time.

200 and an exciting industrial museum. Also William Lever (1851-1925) provides adequate housing and social security for the workforce of his soap factory. The Port Sunlight Museum reveals who is maintaining [...] Belgian ERIH Anchor Point and World Heritage Site Grand Hornu . In Italy, the MuCa - Museum of the Shipbuilding Industry , also an ERIH Anchor Point, is worth a visit, as is Nikiszowiec in Poland, a suburb [...] Czech shoe manufacturer Tomáš Bat'a (1876-1932) starts around 1900 to conceptualise and implement industrial estates as planned cities . Other outstanding examples of European company housing include the

reminder of the Berlin Airlift era - is one of the largest museums of its kind in Europe and interlinks Berlin's rapid technological and industrial history with its impact on urban life. A particular focus [...] became the largest inner-city industrial district in the GDR. In 2009, the Industriesalon Schöneweide association came into being here, researching the local industrial history, campaigning for its p [...] number of further ERIH sites each shed light on specific aspects of Berlin's industrial history. The Herzberge Boiler House Museum , for example, represents the period towards the end of the 19th century,

soil pollution. Today, the site is a location of the LVR Industrial Museum and also hosts its headquarters. A unique ensemble of historic industrial plants in the midst of a spectacular landscape unfolds [...] worldwide. The fascinating story of this rise is recounted in the Vieille Montagne Museum . Other centres of the zinc industry and zinc mining were located in Upper Silesia, South Tyrol and present-day Slovenia [...] The Sala silver mine , an ERIH site in Sweden, possibly represents the future of the European zinc industry. Although mining in Sweden's once richest source of silver, which was found in galena ore mixed