the 17th century. The site is the Bayard coal shaft, which opened in 1924 and closed in 1978. The museum occupies the electricity-generating and winding-engine house, which is built in brick on a steel [...] steel winding tower of the pit and other mine buildings, including a pit-head baths and offices. The museum has 160m of authentically reconstructed underground workings that visitors can walk through to gain

Near the village of Svatý Jan pod Skalou, the Solvay Quarries open-air museum (skansen) is concerned with limestone quarrying and transport. The quarry started in 1916 to provide limestone to a factory [...] operates with diesel and electric locomotives, passenger wagons and tipping wagons. Other objects at the museum include quarry dumper trucks, a bulldozer and a 1927 steam locomotive made by Schwartzkopff in Berlin

industry locally, making products for famous brands such as Pierre Cardin and Christian Dior. The museum is in Brillaud’s factory on the bank of the river Creuse: a U-shaped complex of three and four storeys [...] dispatch. An association to preserve the shirt-making heritage of the town was started in 1982 and the museum opened with the help of the local authority in 1993.

impressive industrial buildings have a water-power canal between them. The chain shop is 90m long. A museum displays large-scale models, images and original artefacts to explain the site, the needs of the

century the area has produced glasses on a large scale. In a beautiful new building of glass, the museum explains the technologies for making frames and the history of the workers in this labour-intensive

history of production is placed in its local and international economic and cultural context. The museum offers guided tours and workshops where visitors can learn about colours and paints. Other walks

ceramics in the town. In a former ceramics factory with an impressive new building alongside, the museum explains the history of local ceramic production and demonstrates techniques. The displays include

The Museum for the town of Apt in the south-east of France – also called the Musée de l'Aventure Industrielle – concentrates on the industries of the area. Three important industries grew up here based [...] based on three natural resources – fruit, ochre and clay. The museum is inside part of the factory of Marliagues founded in 1873 for making candied-fruit confectionary. It includes a complete workshop, displays [...] Artefacts associated with mining, processing and marketing of ochre are displayed. Finally, the museum traces the clay industries of Apt from the 17th century to the present, with hundreds of examples

The Sewer Museum in Paris offers visitors the chance to discover ‘the city below the city’. Tours have been offered since the mid-19 th century of the sewers of the French capital. Parisian sanitation [...] for clearing obstructions, a pump for raising the water level and a sluice boat. Facilities in the museum include an auditorium and a shop.

The Felt Museum opened in 1987 and was redeveloped in 2012. It occupies a former stables in the centre of the town of Mouzon in north-east France. A pioneering factory for the industrial production of [...] made for at least 8,000 years. It is produced by wetting, heating and compressing wool or hair. The museum shows examples of felt products from different cultures, especially nomadic people in central Asia

became an interpretation centre for the sea. The main part of the ropeworks was renovated in 2017. The museum explains the importance of rope in the navy, how the hemp plant was made into yarn and how strands [...] specialist knots. Nearby, the residence of the naval commanders houses a branch of the National Marine Museum.

handloom weaving and mechanised weaving. Many earlier examples of equipment are also preserved in the museum. Displays show the impact of the industry on the landscape and the history of the exploitation of [...] Damask cloths and stockings. Temporary exhibitions and cultural events are held. Visitors to the museum can also collect information to help them take walking tours of the local heritage.

The museum preserves an intact kiln of the world-famous Limoges porcelain industry. The Les Casseaux district was an important centre of the industry from the 18th century, close to the River Vienne, which [...] which carried fuel for the kilns. The museum is sited at the rear of the Royal Limoges factory, next to the shop. It was opened to the public by a local association for industrial history in 1992. It occupies [...] the building. Visitors can see inside the kiln, which could fire up to 15,000 pieces at once. The museum also shows temporary exhibitions of Limoges porcelain.

premium brand that takes the name DS is represented in vehicles made since 2010. L’Aventure’s other museum is for a Peugeot collection at Sochaux in eastern France.

The mining museum in the historic town of Planá (also called Planá u Mariánských Lázní) tells the story of mining in western Bohemia since the 16th century for silver, lead, copper, cobalt, nickel, antimony [...] antimony and uranium. The Ondřej Šlik adit, where the museum in located, was dug at the end of the 16th century and continued until the late 20th century. The Šliks also had a mint for making coinage in [...] in the centre of Planá. The displays are in a museum building and the underground workings. They show samples of minerals, coins made from metals mined locally, safety equipment, working tools and mining

exhibition of brewing. The site is a national historical monument and branch of the National Agricultural Museum. The beautiful copper brewing equipment made by Škodawerke in Plzeň in 1930 is fully conserved in

until 1992 in the mountains on the present border of the Czech Republic and Poland. It opened as a museum in 2003. The minerals extracted at the mine included fluorite, barytes, galena and quartz, which [...] electric locomotive and trams, and mining equipment such as rock drills driven by compressed air. In the museum on the surface are samples of minerals, tools, safety equipment and models and displays about the

The two museums of Charlieu are housed in the former Hôtel-Dieu de Charlieu hospital, built in the 18th century. One is the Hospital Museum, which displays the historical men's ward, operating theatre [...] In 1992 the former women's ward became the Silk Museum. The town has been a centre for making high-quality silk fabrics since the 18th century. The museum includes several working textile machines for silk [...] examples of costumes made from silk and fabrics designed for the fashion houses of Paris. Part of the museum is devoted to the history of the Charlieu corporation of weavers, which is now the last that is active

The Maison de la Brique is a former brickworks that traces the history of the brickmaker's trade, the nature of brick as a material and its use in Lower Normandy. Visitors can see the clay storage pit

rally impressive buildings of a former convent close to the river Loire, 60km east of Orléans. A museum was opened there in 1895 to show a large collection of pieces produced in the area. It was redisplayed