weavers of Lyon called themselves ‘canuts’, which is how the museum gets its name. It is an early example in Europe of preserving industrial heritage: it was set up by a weavers’ cooperative in 1970 to promote [...] Lyon. The collections now belong to the city of Lyon and the building to a cooperative company. The museum reopened after a major refurbishment in 2009. The exhibitions explain the history of making silk

French fashion industry is explored. Further displays are concerned with the history of the related trades of lace-making and embroidery. The museum is descended from the Museum of Art and Industry, established [...] pre-eminent silk-working city. The industry’s origins in the city go back centuries before the Industrial Revolution, and it is fitting that the displays in the museum take a long view of silk-manufacture [...] 18th century mansion of the Villeroy family, which it shares with the city’s museum of decorative arts. In 1985 the museum established the first workshop in France for the restoration of ancient fabrics

well-known and popular part of the museum, and a speciality of the shop is the provision of Walloon delicacies including chocolate, pékèt (alcohol) and sirop de Liège. The museum holds many documents relating [...] Gustave Marissaux (1872-1929) of mining subjects. Marissaux was born in the nearby industrial community of Seraing. The museum is located in a former monastery near the centre of Liège. [...] The Musée de la Vie Wallone (Museum of Walloon Life) portrays many aspects of the social history of the French-speaking community in Belgium from the early nineteenth century onwards. Its collection of

the Museum of Natural Sciences in Brussels, but their discovery is commemorated in the small Musee de l’Iguanodon in the Ruellle des Medicins in Bernissart. A few kilometres from the mining museum, you [...] Bernissart, with which it has been combined for local government purposes since 1976. The mining museum was created in the years 1988-89 by a local man, Jeannot Duquesney and displays all the paraphernalia [...] and of mining art, including works by Ernest Dubois (1863-1931). Visitors taking refreshment in the museum restaurant can admire a superb piece of stained glass from one of the surface buildings of the H

structure of the vast industrial district with its broad range of products is still visible in the preserved buildings. The GDR made Schöneweide one of the country’s largest industrial centers employing 25 [...] Following the reunification Schöneweide witnessed several unsuccessful attempts to preserve the industrial heritage. The number of jobs dropped from 25,000 to barely 2,000 in 2012. When the University of Applied [...] involved in the historical research of the district, conveys new perspectives on the local industrial heritage and offers exciting guided tours of a site heavily experiencing a period of change.

in the early decades, is now a visitor attraction thanks to its status as a listed industrial heritage building, museum and events location. Highlights for fans of technology include furnaces from three [...] technical exhibition about the boiler, the museum’s permanent exhibition addresses the history of medicine, hospitals and the architect Hermann Blankenstein. The museum’s volunteer employees are always happy

century and revolutionised the industrial manufacture of lace. The fascinating architectural ensemble is clearly a metaphor, not only of its ambitions as an industrial museum, but also as a shop window for [...] Gaultier, Pierre Cardin or Chantal Thomass. The latter is the patron of the Museum for Lace and Fashion in Calais too. The museum, which opened in 2009, is housed in a historic weaving and lace-making factory [...] to the 21st century, and a presentation of state-of-the-art manufacturing methods. In addition the museum has room for temporary exhibitions, a documentation centre, a room for fashion shows and spaces for

unique in Europe. The museum is run by an association of friends who demonstrate the old techniques. The former cutting and embroidery rooms have exhibitions and demonstrations. The museum offers activities [...] Krefeld in North Rhine-Westphalia has a long association with the silk industry. The House of Silk occupies the building of a silk goods manufacturer dating from 1868. The large windows facing south gave [...] the Latin term 'paraments', which translates as 'prepared for the Lord's table'. The heart of the museum is the preserved weaving room, which was used until 1992, when the last owner, Erwin Maus, decided

production of electrical appliances for households as well as industry. To this day, the company is owned by the two founding families. The museum tells the success story of the company and presents the diverse

a hotel bar, a hospital ward and a butcher’s shop have in common? Their tiles. At Jackfield Tile Museum, all of these places are recreated, showing the stunning tile-work which was the hall-mark of their [...] surface to protect it from the heat of re-entering the earth’s atmosphere. As the displays at the museum show, fashions may change, but tiles have never really gone out of fashion. Tiles are all around [...] see. Compare Pugin’s tile designs for the Houses of Parliament to the ones in your bathroom. The museum is housed in an original tile factory, and the gas-lit tile showroom and offices are preserved for

restored. Since 1989 it has functioned as an outside branch of the Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum in Hagen. The “Museum of the Hagen Impulse”, as it is now called, contains a huge number of legacies of local [...] the man who commissioned the work was a young banker’s son, patron and founder of the world’s first museum of contemporary art, Karl Ernst Osthaus. Both these men were responsible for making the Hohenhof [...] he considered the united power of art to be the basic instrument with which to transform modern industrial society. He thought that in so far as art arouses an awareness of beauty and reveals interconnections

the International Maritime Museum, the Deutscher Zollmuseum (German Customs Museum), Miniatur Wunderland (a colossal model railway) and the Hamburg Dungeon. The World Heritage designation also includes [...] of Hamburg’s Museum of Work. Visitors can tour the Speicherstadt on tour buses or on canal boats, and at night the whole area is illuminated. The Speicherstadt includes several other museums amongst them [...] been one of Europe’s principal maritime trading centres, and the Speicherstadtmuseum (Warehouse City Museum) celebrates the outstanding architecture that characterises a part of the port that was rebuilt in

building there is a heritage park of steam machinery where visitors can experience the time when steam-powered drainage pumps, winding gear and locomotives revolutionized the mining industry. Those who have [...] place. Back to the surface, visiting the pit bank of the "Angel" shaft nowadays used as a mining museum, the one-hour trip to the historical silver mine of Tarnowskie Góry appears to be like a glimpse

in the town. The saltworks, with that at Arc-et-Senans forms part of a regional circuit of industrial heritage sites. [...] Salin at least from the 6th century AD, but the works that closed in 1962 and is now displayed as a museum dates principally from the mid-18th century. One of its largest underground chambers accommodates

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

part of a whole string of factories producing china wares and tiles in the area. Now converted to a museum, you can go inside the ovens, watch demonstrations of china flower making – and have a go yourself

processing the ore with copper, and this formed the basis for the widespread growth of the metalworking industry in the Aachen region. Until the end of the 17th century the ore was quarried from open mines and [...] "the neutral area of Moresnet". Mining around La Calamine stopped in 1951. But memories remain. The Museum in La Calamine contains a permanent exhibition on the arduous working conditions which the miners [...] the ore. The long and colourful political history of the area is another theme dealt with in the museum. Visitors can see rare exhibits here, like the coins and stamps which were specially issued during

miners. Some caverns are occasionally used for concerts. The slate mine is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona. Fossils from the slate deposits discovered from 1705 by the [...] celebrated Zurich geologist Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672-1733) were distributed to natural history museums all over the world, and some examples can be seen in the Glarner Naturmuseum opened in 2004 in a

The Nene Valley Railway is an immensely impressive mixture of industrial landscape and steam nostalgia. British and European mainline steam and diesel locomotives run real services into the heart of P [...] turnpike of the early eighteenth century. Three station buildings are located at Wansford, with the museum itself housed in the "New" station building. The "Old" station building on Platform 3 was built in

r sights in European industrial heritage, its two towering engine houses hanging half way down a cliff above Atlantic waves. The site is part of the Cornish Mining World Heritage site. The nineteenth-century [...] for collecting arsenic. The location is part of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site.