commercial port of modern times and the modern industrial port. On the upper floor a rich collection of ship models is presented. At anchor are three museum ships: the three-master "Duchesse Anne", the lightship [...] The harbour museum is housed in a former tobacco warehouse dating from 1869 on the Quai de Citadelle at the Bassin de Commerce. It tells of the herring fishery of the Middle Ages, the naval wars during [...] lightship "Sandettie" and the inland waterway vessel "Guilde". The museum also includes a lighthouse of 66m hight that offers a fantastic view and an exhibition on navigation.

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

Poland. It opened as a museum in 2003. The minerals extracted at the mine included fluorite, barytes, galena and quartz, which had varied uses in the chemical and metallurgical industries. The mine had a vertical [...] 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

experience as a journeyman. At the age 23 he arrived at Chemnitz in Saxony, where he worked for Carl Gottlieb Haubold (1783-1856), founder of the Chemnitzer Maschinenbau company who is regarded as the father [...] Richard Hartmann was one of the leading figures in the engineering industry that flourished in Saxony from the mid-nineteenth century. He was not a native of Saxony having been born at Barr in Alsace, [...] father of mechanical engineering in the city. He was recognised as a citizen of Chemnitz from 1837 which enabled to set up his own business, a workshop repairing cotton spinning machines, with a partner and

John Haswell was one of several nineteenth-century Scotsmen who established large scale industries in continental Europe. He was born in Glasgow, studied at the university in that city, and subsequently [...] mechanical engineering and the structural use of iron and steel. An example is displayed in the Technical Museum in Vienna. He remained in Vienna after resigning his post in 1882 and was buried in the city’s Döbling

Hat museum on the edge of the Pyrenees in France. The 300 m² museum shows the history of the hat industry in Espéraza, which provided work for around 2000 people in over 20 factories at the time of in [...] industrialisation. The museum focuses on both the social history of labour in the town and the history of technology through numerous machines. In a separate section, the museum displays a large number of

Opening in 2000, Hat Works is the UK’s only museum dedicated solely to the hatting industry, hats and headwear! The museum was developed in Stockport, one of Manchester´s leading hatting towns. It is an [...] thriving hat factory. Hat Works focuses on the development of the hatting industry from its humble beginnings in the cottage industry to the mass production of the early 19th century. Live demonstrations of [...] thematic displays in the museum, with an approximately equal but ever-growing number of hats in store, waiting to take their place on display. One of the most atmospheric parts of the museum is the recreation

y of fashionable hats for ladies. When the industry was at its peak in the early 1930s there were 30 factories in the town employing 2500 workers. The museum, established in the former hat factory of Jules

Artur Hazelius founded the open air museum called Skansen at Stockholm, which has given its name to collections of buildings that have been scientifically removed from their original sites in many European [...] native country during which he developed a lively interest in folk lore. In 1872 he established a museum for Swedish ethnography, which has evolved into the present-day Nordiska Museet. After seeing the [...] by King Oskar II , he began to acquire buildings as well as artefacts, and in 1891 established a museum on Djurgarden, an island in Stockholm harbour that came to be called Skansen (i.e. fortifications)

Wincor-Nixdorf AG still has its headquarters in Paderborn. The Heinz Nixdorf Museum is claimed to be the world’s largest museum of computers, although that claim is contested. It portrays with more than [...] principal emphasis is on the development of computers. The museum is located in an attractive modern building, and is part of the Heinz Nixdorf Museum Forum, which organises regular symposia on topics related [...] Even in the second half of the 20th century the location of industry owed much to the enterprise of individuals, and the concentration of computer companies in Paderborn is largely due to Heinz Nixdorf

mills: Higher Mill and Whitaker’s Mill which, together, are Helmshore Mills Textile Museum. We are upgrading the Museum buildings, displays, information and facilities, as part of an exciting project to [...] of Helmshore Museum, and others. Cloth production, first wool, then followed by cotton, was Lancashire’s main role through the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. The Museum will lead you [...] Lancashire´s role in the industrial revolution. Watch the mighty waterwheel powering the stocks as they thump the wet woollen cloth. Discover famous inventors and international textile industry treasures including

attracted strong support from former workers in the industry, and the first displays opened in 1990 were manned by a ‘group of eight’ ex-printers. The museum prospered and now has the support of more than 50 [...] the Fredriksdal open air museum. The starting point of the design was the printing works of the Helsingborg Dagblad (daily newspaper) which was demolished in 1913. This is a museum in which visitors can see [...] The printing museum in Helsingborg, the largest of its kind in Scandinavia, was established in 1988 during the celebrations of the centenary of the Graphic Workers Union in the city. The project attracted

over almost immediately by the LVR Industrial Museum. The takeover also included some of the workforce who had scarcely enough time to remove their overalls. The Museum, set up in the former Hendrichs drop [...] in processing workshops, the museum focuses on how grinding was more and more mechanized. It is scarcely possible to recount the history of the Solingen cutlery industry in a more living manner. You would [...] another planet. Their mansions stand right next door. Needless to say these also belong to the museum. The museum is supplemented by a network of other sites involved in the production of cutlery. The ‘Wi

restored and promoted by the industrial museum which opened in May 12, 2000. The exceptional industrial heritage of Syros invites the interested visitor to an exciting and informative tour. [...] building iron ships. The museum: Built in 1888, the building first housed a lead shot factory before becoming a paint and dye works in 1909. A significant part of Syros’ industrial history is kept, restored [...] Hermoupolis is an industrial community with an astonishing history. The island of Syros is relatively barren, has few classical antiquities of note, and had a population of only about 4000 in 1800. From

workers continuing to produce high grade paper for artists. The museum of papermaking, established in the 1980s, shows techniques used in an industry that has been important in the area for several centuries [...] River Bela where Billerudkornäs manufacture grease resistant paper for the food and pharmaceutical industries at a mill that employs 140 people.

in Lübeck from industrialization to deindustrialization: its transformation from an ancient merchant city to and industrial one in the nineteenth century and the closure of many industries in recent decades [...] processing, especially in the post-war economic boom of the 1950s. The district of Herrenwyk was an industrial suburb where the steel plant opened in 1907. Shipbuilding began nearby in 1917. The History Workshop

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

coaches of the Hespertalbahn (Herspertal railway) and enjoy the trip along the Baldeney lake. The museum railway takes you from Essen-Kupferdreh to Haus Scheppen, a former vassal estate of the abbey of [...] powder or the smelting works producing steel. Only the Hespertalbahn bears witness of the region's industrial history. Built in 1877 as a standard gauge steam railway its main objective was to transport ores [...] required. Two years later railway enthusiasts established an association to preserve the outstanding industrial monument. Ever since the Hespertalbahn e.V. operates the railway with historic steam and diesel

northeast of Marburg, in the heart of a region that relied on lignite mining for more than 400 years. The museum, founded in 1992 and located in a timber-framed building called Am Amtsgericht in the town centre [...] centre, illustrates the history of the coal field and the significance of lignite in industrialization as well as the everyday life of the miners. In a reconstructed gallery visitors can learn about the different [...] underground mining from the beginning of the 20th century until the end of the regional lignite industry in the 1980s when mechanical cutters and hydraulic props were in action on a large scale. An associated

carried out, it was opened in 1996 as a house of industrial heritage by the association “Haus für Industriekultur”. It has been owned by the Hessian State Museum Darmstadt’s department of typecasting, typesetting [...] European type foundry, D. Stempel AG (1895-1985) in Frankfurt am Main. The museum demonstrates developments in the printing industry from the beginning of the 19th century right up to the mid-1970s with the [...] art nouveau reliefs in the windowsills, meaning that Klee designed the decorative exterior on an industrial scale. The company Alter, which was also to make a name for itself in aircraft and railway carriage