metal from the industrial Midlands and wealthy landowners’ love of tapestries. These created the demand for weavers, the needle makers’ clients. Best of all, it made an easy cottage industry. Forge Mill was [...] and ‘pointers rot’, a lung disease caused by the dust. Redditch was the world centre of the Needle Industry in the 1800s, but today just one firm remains. In its heyday, the town manufactured 3,500m needles [...] collapse of its water wheel it was abandoned just as it was and this helped its restoration as a working museum. At that time it was making fish hooks – an important specialist product locally. This trade developed

The museum of steam engines at Forncett St Mary in the heart of rural Norfolk was established by Dr Rowan Francis, an anaesthetist. It is open to the public two days a week through the year, and engines

produced. As the industry gradually waned, the factory properties were converted to other uses and the extensive archives were transferred to the museum. The main exhibition of the Forssa Museum, the City of [...] tells the story of Forssa community. Museum Gallery Moletti, an atmospheric little gallery, focuses on contemporary and textile art. Forssa Museum was the Museum of the Year 2014 in Finland and a nominee [...] nominee for the Emya prize in 2015. In 2021, the museum opens a new site Pattern Centre, dedicated to printed fabric design. The large collection of industrial textiles includes fabric samples and original

works has been developed as a heritage site, with displays that since 2003 have been located in the former foundry. Forsvik Industriminnen is also the focus for industrial conservation projects elsewhere [...] lock, dug in 1813, and of an iron bridge of the same date the crosses the waterway. It has been an industrial community for many centuries. A royal charter issued in 1686 enabled Anton von Boij to establish [...] of wood pulp. A mechanical pulp plant was established in Forsvik in 1871. All the traditional industries in the town closed in the last 60 years of the 20th century, the pulp mill in 1940, the flour mill

its construction. The bridge became a UNESCO world heritage site in 2015. There is interpretation at North Queensferry station and in Queensferry Museum.

foundry industry. The museum complex consists of the Foundry Museum, the Högfors Blast Furnace and the Workers' Museum. The Foundry Museum shows the various stages in the history of the foundry industry, especially [...] furnace, see the bellows and imagine the work required to stoke the flames. The Workers' Museum is an open-air museum that shows the regional living and working conditions between the 1850s and 1960s. Several [...] The Finnish Foundry Museum is located on the site of the Högfors foundry, which was founded in the 19th century and played an important role in Finnish iron production. Today, the well-preserved buildings

and European heritage. The Partnership’s ultimate Vision is for it to be restored to full working order thus conserving it for the future. Foxton Canal Museum Alongside the locks, a museum is situated in [...] Foxton Locks A unique patchwork of 18th, 19th and 20th century industrial heritage unmatched anywhere in the world, Foxton is most famous for the ruins of the Incline Plane Boat Lift, and the breathtaking [...] restoring the top and bottom approach arms. The work, with substantial contributions from the UK Heritage Lottery Fund and the East Midlands Development Agency, has been managed by British Waterways on

employed seamers and stitchers to finish the garments they produced. The principal museum of the East Midlands knitting industry opened in 1971 at Ruddington 6 km south of Nottingham where there were 343 stocking [...] Framework knitting was a characteristic industry of the English East Midlands. The knitting frame was invented in 1589 by the Rev William Lee of Calverton. It was at first a simple machine, but was steadily [...] yarn imported from India. Samuel Unwin (1712-99) and Jedediah Strutt (1726-97), leading figures in Industrial Revolution in East Midlands, were both concerned with development of frames. By the 1830s some

Franju was a French film director who made two documentaries that are of importance to students of industrial history. He had an individualistic style that fits into no particular school of film-making. Born [...] the Saar. It was intended as a celebration of Guy Monnet’s plan for the modernisation of French industry as part of the European Coal and Steel Community, but Franju showed the steelworks as an ugly intrusion [...] following year Franju made Hotel des Invalides, an ironic critique of France’s principal military museum. He directed his first feature, La Tete contre les Murs (The Keepers) in 1958, followed by the horror

and Frederiksvaerk became the leading town of modern heavy industry in Denmark. The powder works closed in 1965, and has ever since been a museum whose main feature is the intact and working machinery from [...] , New Lanark and Saltaire. Based on waterpower Frederiksvaerk once housed the national armament industry and was a worldwide supplier of military equipment. In the 1720s an agate polishing mill was built [...] gh was made in the 1760s by the general J.F. Classen who developed the place into a prosperous industrial society. The Gun Foundry, an extensive powder works and a large number of dwellings in combination

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

produced lead, zinc, tin, nickel, cobalt and uranium. The most substantial monuments of the mining industry are the Abrahamschacht, with pithead buildings of 1839, and the Alte Elisabeth, with structures [...] Pfaff of Chemnitz. The 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

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 [...] 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. The [...] 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

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.

facilities at its heart. Because without them, the town would not even exist - without them and the industrial pioneer Franz Haniel, who, during a test drilling in 1854, demonstrates that the coal deposits [...] stands the town' s landmark, the headgear, clearly visible from afar. This setting, now a listed heritage site, provides the impressive scenery for a popular horticultural show in 2020. As a result, visitors [...] the historic mining town with civil servants' housing estate and newly arranged colliery park; the heritage centre, illustrating the work and everyday life of former pitmen in a miner's home and a training

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