Luxembourg, have lent their name to "De Minett" industrial landscape in the very south of the Grand Duchy. This is where the heart of Luxembourg's coal and steel industry throbbed for decades, making the small [...] - the Fond-de-Gras industrial and railway complex . Its idyllic setting stands for another attraction of the Luxembourg mining and steelmaking district: the coexistence of industrial heritage and nature [...] Community. This era is still commemorated today – thanks to extensive voluntary work – by numerous industrial monuments, which can be explored on the 35 kilometre Minett Tour. In its current issue, the magazine

Republic": the vast industrial complex and ERIH Anchor Point Dolní Vítkovice in Ostrava, the third largest city in the country, which in turn constitutes the centre of this Czech industrial zone in the tri-border [...] among other things. The location of the ERIH site Mining Museum in Landek Park combines the nature of the protected former Landek industrial area with collections from the beginning of the 20th century [...] Truck Museum , everything revolves around lorries and chassis from one of the longest-standing car manufacturers in the world. Two further ERIH sites demonstrate that there were other industrial and commercial

Hall of the Century Bochum . Today's ERIH site made its glamorous debut in 1902 at the Düsseldorf Industry and Trade Exhibition. Decorated with stucco, fake sandstone and golden knobs, the structure made [...] renowned RuhrTriennale arts and culture programme. Sheer nostalgia abounds at the Bochum Railway Museum . Here, on the vast grounds of the former Dahlhausen railway depot, visitors get to marvel at around [...] considering its reputation as the ‘most beautiful colliery in the world’ and the flagship of an industrial region in transition. With the completion of Central Shaft XII in 1932, one of the most efficient

both the French and Industrial Revolutions by specialising in the luxury product of lead crystal, and witness England as a pioneer of early industrial mass production. Some of the museums focus on the hard [...] Village , widely regarded as one of the best-preserved glassworks in Europe, and the Immenhausen Glass Museum . The very beginning of post-antique European glass production is marked by the Venetian island of [...] dirty. Despite all the differences, the featured sites have one thing in common: they illustrate an industry that was once dominated by highly specialised craftspeople, and bring their art back to life with

t Cosulich family. Together with the local shipbuilding industry, that family is at the centre of the MuCa - Museum of the Shipbuilding Industry . It is housed in a grand Viennese Art Nouveau building [...] The Light Factory. Museum of Energy in Ponferrada, Spain, symbolises a new, promising technology: light as first application in the history of industrial power generation. Built in 1919, the thermal power [...] supplying Ponferrada's general electricity grid from 1930 to 1971. The fascinating thing about the industrial museum is that it tells the story of the light factory consistently through the eyes of the people

significant hubs of (industrial) culture, home to a Science & Technology Center and the National Center for Film Culture, among other things. Another icon of the emerging industrial city of Łódź, the ‘White [...] mill in Poland. The site is now home to the Central Museum of Textiles and is considered one of the country's most impressive monuments of industrial architecture. With its extensive range of machinery [...] everyday working life and textile history in Łódź. A special feature of the museum is the way it combines technical and industrial history with art, design, fashion, regional history and cultural anthropology

side of the town, in 1939. It now combines three museums, the Shoe Museum, whose collections include examples of footwear from all over the world, the Museum of Applied Art which demonstrates how leather [...] centuries by craftsmen and designers, and the Ethnological Museum, which concentrates on the use of leather Africa, America and Asia. The museum organises special exhibitions on many leather-related topics [...] The leather industry flourished in the town of Offenbach on the River Main 10 km east of Frankfurt over many years. From the eighteenth century small firms called ‘Babbscher’ produced high quality purses

enormous exhibition area of around 12,000 square metres, makes the German Mining Museum in Bochum the largest and most important museum of its kind in the world. [...] The equipment ranges from a mallet and gad to a fully-automatic disc shearer. But the German Mining Museum in Bochum is not content with machines, no matter how spectacular they might be. For the history [...] conditions, life between colliery and carrier pigeons, strikes and settlements, the decline of the coal industry and structural transformation. All these themes are reflected in a huge number of everyday objects

mechanical production of the 20th century. The products of this unique cutlery industry can be seen today in the German Blade Museum in the Solingen suburb of Gräfrath. The exhibits include every sort of sword [...] the collection was officially taken into the newly-opened German Blade Museum in the former Gräfrath town hall. In 1991 the museum moved to its final destination in the imposing buildings of the old Gräfrath [...] aristocratic table. In addition there is a traditional tin works in the lower ground floor of the museum showing how pewter tableware was made. The most famous local example of such tableware is the so-called

Already in pre-industrial times chairs were made in Rabenau; but the industrialization of production was hesitant. It was not until 1870 that the chair merchant Ferdinand Reuter build a large factory complex [...] woodturners and 6 for stainers and polishers. A precursor of today's chair museum was established in 1931, and in 1978 the museum already moved to the farm buildings of the castle. Since 2005, a major attraction [...] of the chair-maker Kurt Aehlig, its equipment largely dating back to the early 20th century. The museum also displays chairs of different styles from the Baroque to “Rabenau Thonet chairs”, as well as

high temperatures and loads with the help of wire. It is no surprise that this museum is located in Altena. The industrial history of the town is brimming over with wire-drawers. Not to speak of hooks and [...] neighbouring town of Iserlohn have remained important centres of the wire industry to the present day. The German Wire Museum exists since 1965. It was originally housed in a part of the mediaeval Altena [...] wire or wire netting you’re in for a huge and very pleasant surprise when you visit the German Wire Museum in Altena in the Sauerland region, south of the Ruhr. Here you can see everything which has been

Sea coast, the German Naval Museum was opened by volunteers in 1998. It is housed in one of the oldest surviving workshop buildings used for the city’s shipbuilding industry, built in 1888. Three galleries

The birthplace of the German oil industry can be found in Wietze, a municipality on the edge of Lüneburg Heath and 18 kilometres west of Celle. Heavy oil was extracted here above ground in “tar wells” [...] followed. By 1963, there was even an oil mine with a track length measuring 95 kilometres. The museum’s grounds, which have an area of 18,000m2, cover part of the old oil field and include various functioning

works and even as a salt capital of the Middle Ages. The German Salt Museum/Industriedenkmal Saline Lüneburg [Lüneburg Salt Works Industrial Heritage Site] has commemorated these production facilities since [...] the central component of the main building and the industrial heritage site. A third of the building (approximately 1,000m2) is now used for the museum. Thanks to preserved production facility parts, visitors [...] general global importance of salt in the past, present and future. The grounds of the German Salt Museum include several buildings and remnants which were placed under a preservation order in 1982 as an

the Far East, shoemaking in Germany declined, and it is no longer the principal industry in Hauenstein. The shoe museum, in a building of striking appearance in the Bauhaus style, covers the history of [...] town of about 4,000 people, which was one of the principal centres of the Palatinate shoemaking industry. Large-scale domestic manufacture of shoes in the region began after the Napoleonic Wars when the [...] Hauenstein. The first factory in Hauenstein was established by the brothers Seibel in 1886, and the industry subsequently prospered. There were 20 factories in the town by 1914. During the Second World War

provides the large museum park with its windmills, historic engine shed, brewery, and the prominent water tower. Inside this building complex visitors can experience not less than 15 museum departments covering [...] Meanwhile the adults can follow another audio guide going back in time to the Industrial Revolution. Thus, every visit to the museum rapidly turns into a fascinating expedition. [...] witnessed during the past 120 years are showcased in the capital's Deutsches Technikmuseum (German Museum of Technology). Greeting travellers from a distance there is a "raisin bomber" (Rosinenbomber) right

a doll-making family from Sonneberg. Visitors to the museum can also go to the showrooms and factories of toy manufacturers in Neustadt. The museum arranges a festival of dolls annually on Ascension Day [...] been a centre for the manufacture of toys since the eighteenth century. Its importance in the toy industry was increased after the Second World War with the settlement there of skilled workers from Sonneberg [...] Sonneberg in Thuringia, less than 10 km to the north, which was incorporated in the DDR. The museum, opened in 1984, claims to be the oldest of its kind in Germany and is based on a large collection of travellers

There was some contraction of the industry, but it remains lively, and today about 1,000 people work for small- and medium-sized companies in Sonneberg. The museum, located in a handsome baroque building [...] There was some contraction of the industry, but it remains lively, and today about 1,000 people work for small- and medium-sized companies in Sonneberg. The museum, located in a handsome baroque building [...] government policy forced toy manufacturers to join large–scale collectives. Ultimately the whole toy industry in East Germany was incorporated into one nationalised concern with 27,000 employees, 10,000 of

Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry , located in the world's oldest surviving passenger station of 1830, the railway already entered the steam age thanks to the inventions of industrial pioneers such [...] of monuments and museums that recount the success of railway transport in the 19th century as well as its further development. The České Budějovice (Budweis) horse-drawn railway museum in the Czech Republic [...] early indication that this was imperative is the DB Museum in Nuremberg, Germany, which dates back to 1882 and is considered to be the oldest railway museum in the world.

of Basque industrial development, visitors can match the El Pobal foundry in Muskiz, right in the heart of the Bizkaia mining zone and dating back to the 16th century, with the Dolomite Museum in Karrantza [...] Anchor Points on the Basque Country Regional Route that represent more peripheral industries in the region: the museum at the former textile factory La Encartada in Balsameda - once successfully producing [...] being on the oil, chemical, automotive and electrical industries. Ever since, the capital Vitoria-Gasteiz has become one of the most important industrial hubs in the Basque Country. ERIH Regional Route Basque