one of the homes, in his later years, of Alfred Nobel (1833-96) creator of the modern explosives industry. Nobel was also the owner from 1894 of the nearby Bofors engineering works. He spent much of his [...] Some of the outbuildings at the rear of the house and adjacent area of the grounds are occupied by a museum of the Bofors company. It originated as an ironworks authorised by the government in 1646, whose

of the museum has subsequently expanded, and it was extensively renovated in 2012-13. It is responsible for several other museums in the region. It continues to show the importance of industry in this [...] stimulated by the opening of railways from 1871. The chemical industry became established around Sokolov on a substantial scale from 1927. A museum of the mining region was established in 1960, and is now located

regional industrial heritage. In this respect the two organisations – the "Sachzeugen der chemischen Industrie e. V." and Merseburg Technical College – enhance each other perfectly. The museum is ideally [...] the chemical industries in the area a further modernisation boost, and simultaneously offered a rare opportunity to save historically valuable sites from being lost forever. Nowadays the museum collection [...] history and development of the region’s industrial heritage, and the enlargement of the hands-on laboratories to a science centre. In this way the German Chemistry Museum is becoming a meeting place between

The growth of manufacturing industry in Europe was sustained by the development of financial institutions that provided capital for entrepreneurs and a measure of security for the population at large. [...] at a meeting in Hatton Gardens, London, on 30 May 1848. Six years later the company set up an ‘Industrial Department’ that employed door-to-door agents to sell ‘penny policies’ in middle class and respectable [...] Victorian architects, best known for Manchester Town Hall, completed in 1877, and for the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, built between 1868 and 1880. The offices were commissioned during 1879, and c

presented to the city after the International Exhibition of Science, Art and Industry in 1888 by Sir Henry Doulton (1820-97). The museum also has displays of pottery, textiles, glass and metal castings. [...] 1898 and designed by Glasgow’s city engineer Alexander B McDonald. Since the 1940s it has housed a museum of social history, where artefacts, images, moving film and interactive displays tell the story of

Production ceased in the early 1960s, but the building has been restored and includes a small museum of industrial history and a display space for art exhibitions.

the use of 27 local plants and spices, and was carried out in the Palais on an industrial scale. The Palais is now a museum, partly devoted to Benedictine, showing the distillery in the cellars and the

to the idea of dealing with the topic of draught horse transport. Already for about 20 years, the museum has documented the global development of horse-driven transport.With its focus on the age of ind [...] before the beginning of the 20th century. The Zugpferdmuseum is about a type of ‘living and moving’ industrial history.

companies in the drilling and supply industry and service companies contributed to the economic strengthening of the Emsland. The Twist oil and natural gas museum provides information on the formation [...] drilling rigs and pipelines work. On the open-air site, large plant components from the oil and gas industry can be viewed.

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

technology prior to the Industrial Revolution: the Bologna-type silk-throwing machines. Not a single of them has survived, but a half-size reconstruction in the Museum of Industrial Heritage keeps them i [...] Galotti brickworks based here. On two further floors, the museum captures the panorama of a city which has successfully advanced several industries, including the manufacture of clothing and machine tools [...] well as a tortellini machine or products made by the cutting-edge packaging industry. The range of exhibits shows that industrial heritage in Bologna is well-rooted in history while still being relevant today

extra journeys. The Manuelskotten, a location of the Wuppertal Museum of Industrial Culture, is located in the immediate vicinity of the museum line. With its six-metre-tall overshot water wheel, it is open [...] during the days of travel and offers insights into the working world of the early mining small iron industry. In this Kotten, built around 1900, special knives are still ground manually by water power on working

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

railway enthusiasts who even today continue to run the industrial monument, restore and maintain buildings and equipment on an honorary basis. The museum train sets out from the Klostermansfeld/Benndorf station [...] transport. In the same year public passenger transport services began, but this time as part of the museum activities. This meant that a large part of the railway equipment could be saved from demolition

became a place of memory for the traditions of the steel industry in the Mała Panew Valley. Close to the Iron Bridge you can visit the iron museum, presenting product of the iron works and a model of the

It incorporates several conserved industrial heritage sites including the Route du Feu at Blegny, the Bois du Cazier Mine at Marcinelle, le Grand Hornu, the mining museum at Bar-de-Luc and the PASS science [...] the Netherlands. The trail incorporates 43 towns and villages, and 340 large pit heaps from the Industrial Revolution period or later, as well as numerous smaller tips. The trail incorporates the tracks

not far from Germany’s frontier with the Czech Republic. This area of eastern Bavaria has a long industrial history involving ironworking and the mining of iron ore (which ceased in 1987), the extraction [...] ores, ceramics and glass manufactures and the mining of lignite for electric power stations. The museum, established in 1978, is housed in Schloss Thueurn, a late Baroque mansion dating from 1781 which [...] formerly the home of the master of a hammer forge. There are indoor exhibitions about the history of industry in eastern Bavaria which illustrate the lives of miners, detailing their freedoms and obligations

The museum of pasta is located on the banks of the Taro river n the province of Parma between Collechio and Ozzaro Taro, 12 km from the city of Parma. It is one of several food museums in the region and [...] have been marketed and with the role of pasta in art and culture. The pasta museum shares its premises with a tomato museum, which opened in 2010. Visitors can learn about the different varieties of tomatoes [...] America, and the growth of the tomato processing industry which developed in the Parma region, canning the fruit and manufacturing tomato purée The two museums share the same website and email address.

the coast as a glistening white range of peaks. The history of the marble industry is comprehensively displayed in the museum in the town, opened in 1982, and visitors can take guided tours of the quarries [...] vary from three hours to a day, and incorporate displays of sculpture and other marble products, a museum quarry and parts of the ferrovia marmifera, the railway built in 1890 to convey marble from the workings

of the Val di Cornia and aims to give visitors an understanding of mining and the metallurgical industries from the Etruscan era to the present. The mines in the region principally extracted lead ores but [...] but also some copper and silver. The park incorporates an archaeological and mineralogical museum. Visitors can walk 360 m into the Miniera del Temperino, and see varied rocks and minerals as well as traces