office in a former paper mill at Montech. The water slope is 1 km along the canal. There is a small museum on a barge.

The Lumière Museum is in the centre of Lyon, at the factory site of the brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière, world-famous pioneers of film and photography. Their father ran a photography business in Lyon [...] workers leaving the factory. In 1899, their father built the huge Art Nouveau villa that houses the museum. They produced films and sold their technology with great success, beginning a revolution in the [...] colour photography and stereoscopic cinematography. With unique collections and multimedia tools, the museum extends over three floors. The site of the factory is a garden with a wall of plaques to great f

sheds around it, built in 1911. The volunteers collected many locomotives there in a few years. The museum now has 12 locomotives as well as other rolling stock, some still under restoration. All of the [...] France between the 1860s and the 1950s. The oldest is a Schneider built at Le Creusot in 1862. The museum offers steam days and runs special excursions with historic locomotives and carriages on SNCF lines

The museum is 25 km east of Claremont Ferrand in central France. It began in 1957 to care for the archaeological material excavated in Lezoux, which was a centre for Roman ceramic production, especially [...] especially the fine red ‘sigillée’ or ‘Samian’ ware. In the 1980s the town council relocated the museum to a ceramics factory dating from 1866 built by Antoine and François Bompard. The two-storey stone buildings [...] produced refractory ceramics, stoneware and decorative earthenware, and later sanitary ware. The museum was redeveloped and enlarged after 1999 by the département of Puy-de-Dôme. It shows the types and

country towns historically important for woollen textiles in Occitannia in southern France. The textile museum of the département is in a nineteenth-century woollen factory. Visitors enter by a footbridge across [...] a park on Boulevard Carnot. It contains original looms as well as other artefacts brought to the museum. The whole process of woollen manufacture can be understood, from the preparation of raw wool through

Ages and still produces leather, especially using small hides. The Maison des Métiers du Cuir is a museum, heritage site and art gallery in a former tannery in the town, next to the River Dadou. The building

provide the materials used in perfume. The original Fragonard factory in the centre of the town has a museum where visitors can explore the history of the business and tour the production line. The handsome [...] Fragonard brand was begun in 1926 and takes its name from the French painter born at Grasse in 1732. The museum area on the top floor was opened in 1975. It has a display about the long history of perfume, including

Since 1963 the Museum of Chemistry has been in the fourteenth-century Thury Castle in the former coal-mining town of Várpalota, 80 km west of Budapest. The museum examines the history of chemistry, beginning [...] measurement and computer science, with a historical collection of the regional coal industry. It is a museum of traditional form that shows a large number of significant objects in clearly presented cases with

produced in small workshops from the seventeenth century, then in larger workshops. The Kékfestő Museum at Pápa in western Hungary occupies the workshops built by Ferencz Kluge in the 1860s to grow his [...] War it employed 50 people. In 1959 the entire contents were preserved and the buildings opened as a museum in 1962. The cellars include the washing room and the dyeing room with large vats into which textiles

1980s as the nationalized Metal Works of Ózd it employed 14,000 people. It closed in the 1990s. The museum has developed since 1971 in the magnificent factory school of 1895. Much of it is devoted to industrial [...] even the whole ironworks. Interactive exhibits show technological principles. Other parts of the museum cover local history and culture, crafts, the history of the school and other subjects. Outside are

objects and developed displays in collaboration with mNACTEC, the Museums of Science and Technology of Catalunya. On the ground floor, the Museum explains the manufacture of objects such as cotton reels and [...] The Turnery Museum at Torelló examines the process industrialization in wood-turning and horn-turning, during which traditional craft workshops were replaced by factories that made components for the Catalan

It remains a private collection owned by his family but it is part of the network of mNACTEC, the Museums of Science and Technology of Catalunya. Claret was a garage owner and ran a driving school. The

Premià de Mar, built in 1884, is the only museum in Spain that specialises in textile printing. Some buildings of the gas works remain alongside the purpose-built museum, which opened in 2002. It explains the [...] collection of thousands of examples of printed textiles and an archive and library. It is also a museum for local history and archaeology from prehistory to the present.

strongly built of stone with a steel frame, cast-iron columns and large timbers. The museum is part of MNACTEC, the Museums of Science and Technology of Catalunya. It explains olive cultivation and harvesting [...] Olive oil is one of the iconic products of Spain. The museum is in the town of La Grandella in the north-east of Catalunya. It is housed in the buildings of the local oil cooperative, Sindicat Agrícola

through a beautiful natural landscape where mining was once so important. The Upper Harz Mining Museum offers special tours of the system underground.

in 1976, and in 2005 the terminus station at Tywyn Wharf was extending, creating more space for a museum of narrow gauge railways established in the early years of the preservation project in 1954. Two

Ivrea is a town 56 km north of Turin, whose main industry for much of the twentieth century was the manufacture of office equipment by Olivetti, founded in 1908 by the electrical engineer Camillo Oliv

spindles. San Leucio remains a centre for training programmes in the manufacture and use of silk, and a museum shows all phases of silk production. The silk mill buildings and the associated housing form part

In a multimedia exhibition, the Swiss Finance Museum explains the origins of the economic system and the role of the stock market. Visitors can find out all there is to know about the Swiss financial market [...] history and modern innovations in a way that is entertaining and uses a variety of different media. The museum shows the importance of the Swiss financial sector in everyday life, but also the significance of

The Ballyana Foundation is committed to the preservation of this historical heritage. The Ballyana Museum is located in the former production hall of the Bally ribbon weaving mill. Here visitors can get