south of the border. The silk museum was established in 1953 in a seventeenth century lakeside reeling mill and has some claim to have been the first museum of industrial archaeology in Italy. It was [...] section on new research that is continually being carried out on silk. The museum is linked with other silk-working sites and museums around Lake Como, where silk has been made since the early fifteenth century [...] silk garments. Silk is now silk imported from China and Brazil, but the mulberry groves around the museum at Garlate are a reminder that it was once produced from silk worms raised in the locality.

Aberdeen Maritime Museum tells the story of the city's long relationship with the sea. It houses a unique collection on shipbuilding, fishing and port history. It is also the only museum in the UK dedicated [...] dedicated to the oil and gas industry. The highlight of the exhibition is the true-to-scale and detailed reproduction of the Murchison oil drilling platform.

network for industrial tourism and is particularly interested in sites still largely unknown. El Generador, a Basque tourism provider and host of the International Industrial Tourism Fair B-Industrial, develops [...] ideas and solutions in the travel and cultural sector while also focusing on industrial heritage projects. Turismo Industrial de S. João de Madeira designs and organises tours to historic and contemporary [...] of the respective region. El Generador and Turismo Industrial de São João de Madeira have already expressed their interest in including industrial heritage packages in Italy in their programmes. Following

The Ahlström works in Noormarkku is an industrial heritage site since 1806, offering a variety of services for tourists throughout the year. The history of the village of Noormarkku dates to the 15th century [...] century. The operation of the Makkarakoski sawmill, now functioning as a sawmill museum, began in 1753. The machinery and equipment of the current sawmill are mostly from the 1880s. The Ahlström family [...] Ahlström family and the Ahlström companies. The company's story is a significant part of Finnish industrial, architectural, art, and design history. The best way to explore it is through the Ahlström Voyage

of the municipality of Kihniö around 100 km north of Tampere, houses the only museum which exhibits the history of industrial-scale peat production in Finland. The extraction and use of peat for energy [...] of heavy Russian machinery. The museum presents a wide range of exhibits on the production and use of peat, as well as the history and development of the peat industry. The environmental management of [...] of peatlands is also addressed. Outside the museum, around sixty machines related to peat production are located in the woodland, the oldest of which date back to the 1940s. The landscape created by peat

interpret the area’s industrial heritage was launched in the mid-1990s whose objective was ‘to recognise, research, preserve and celebrate the rich mining heritage of Allihies’. A museum was opened by the [...] their ancestors. One section of the museum deals with emigration to the United States after the mine closed in 1885. Allihies is set in one of the most evocative industrial landscapes in Europe. There are

(or tourist) industry, hotels, wayside inns, motorway service stations, are readily recognised as part of the industrial heritage. One of the most significant innovations in the industry in the twentieth [...] The museum in the castle has displays on the history of the youth hostel movement, but also on the geology and history of the region, including its industrial history. The entrance to the museum lies [...] lies 300 m from the Deutsche Drahtmuseum (German wire museum).

the Rhineland Industrial Museum. The Museum of Heavy Industry opened its doors in 1997. Oberhausen, a traditional iron and steel town, is the ideal site for such a museum. Currently the museum is closed for [...] what a grinding job it was to operate the powerful hammer. Indeed the museum, one of the six sites of the Rhineland Industrial Museum, has a huge collection of discarded steel-making machines in its collection: [...] Heavy industry is heavy labour – for man and machines. A very clear example is the ten metre high steam forging hammer dating back to 1900, which stands in a museum on the site of the Altenberg zinc factory

Located in the Maurienne valley in the French Alps, this museum is devoted to the production and use of aluminium. Maurienne was once called the ‘valley of aluminium’ due to its six production plants opened [...] opened between 1892 and 1907 using hydroelectric power. The museum, which opened in 2007, occupies a new building in the centre of Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne. The first floor traces the discovery of aluminium [...] to the finished product. The second floor explores the evolution of working conditions and the industry’s impact on health and the environment. The collection includes art, toys, household appliances and

The museum at Amberley illustrates the history of industries of many kinds from south-east England, but it is particularly important for the evidence it provides of lime production, road transport and [...] and industrial railways. The museum occupies a 14.5 ha site that was once used from the 1840s by Pepper & Co for the quarrying of chalk that was burned in kilns to produce lime, that was used in agriculture [...] oldest of which dates from 1908, carry visitors on circuits round the museum, and make occasional appearances at events elsewhere. The museum also holds a substantial archive of documents relating to the Southdown

block was reserved for use as a museum. Earlier there had been proposals for an open air museum in Tampere but it was decided that it would be more appropriate to create a museum within a block of existing [...] Tampere is the principal industrial city in Finland which prospered in the nineteenth century with the growth of the textile industry. Amuri is a working class district in the city which in 1900 had a

cover the complete range of European industrial history. After that, they tell tourists what they can see at a local level. Visitors of all ages can relive their industrial heritage through fascinating guided [...] special historical importance in terms of industrial heritage which also offer a high quality visitor experience. They are the milestones of European Industrial Heritage. Acceptance as an Anchor Point is [...] and (ideally national) importance for Europe´s industrial history. However, if the site is not in a historic building or structure (for example in a new museum building), the attractiveness and the quality

son Pau Xavier founded Andorra’s first, albeit short-lived, museum in Ordino in 1903. Tobacco farming emerged as a further important industry at the end of the 17th century, not least on account of the [...] ON THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF ANDORRA Listen The Principality of Andorra boasts a unique economic history. On account of its inaccessible location high in the Pyrenees, far from any trade routes, and with [...] opened in the 1840s and closed in 1876 when the Andorran iron mines ceased production , is today a museum. The Areny family has also been active in the iron business since the 17th century. The family estate

port of Vigo where it opened a museum in 2004. Its purpose is to develop awareness of seafood and to show the significance of the canning industry in Galicia. The museum has four main sections. The first

This industrial museum occupies a huge complex of red-brick buildings that cross to an island over rapids on the river Kymijoki. It was built as a mill for manufacturing cardboard in 1872. It became a [...] a museum in 1997. The most important exhibit is the original continuous board mill, the first in Finland, which was made by Heinrich Füllner in Lower Silesia and continued in operation until 1978. The machine [...] Visitors also see the hydroelectric plant completed in the 1920s with its original turbines. The museum highlights the stories of nine individual people who worked at the plant. Models, photographs and

are a dream for fans of industrial history. Even though they have been considerably renovated everywhere, the town on the River Weser still exudes the charm of its past industrial history. As early as the [...] thereby introducing a „wool-spinning“ industrial revolution to Verviers shortly after 1800. Around 1850 there were roughly 18,000 workers employed in the wool industry! And by 1854 there were 212 steam engines [...] 143 of which were in the wool industry! The factories in Verviers were widely acknowledged as a stronghold in introducing technical innovations into the wool cloth industry: indeed they were regarded as

was closed in 1982 it mainly supplied water to the neighbouring industrial plants. In 1992 the RWW opened the Aquarius Industrial Museum in the redesigned tower and since then it has received several awards [...] polluted. That is easy to forget. But not if you pay a visit to the Aquarius Water Museum in Mülheim an der Ruhr. The museum is housed in a listed redbrick water tower in the suburb of Styrum. Two lifts take

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

The Metallurgy Museum explores the heritage of the Ardennes mountain range as a former heartland of the iron industry. Opened in 1986, it occupies a large factory built in 1884, which produced nuts, bolts [...] bolts and fittings for the railway industry. The museum takes visitors on a journey through the evolution of iron making, beginning in the Middle Ages, when nails were forged by hand on the banks of the [...] steam hammer are also on display and photographs, models and digital animations help reconstruct the industry. From the twenty-first century, visitors see the new world of 3D printing with the demonstration

ON THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF ARMENIA Listen Civilisation in Armenia is thousands of years old, but the high mountains and deep valleys of the Lesser Caucasus are a major obstacle to economic development [...] Moscow intensified the mining of copper and molybdenum in Alaverdi, and established a diversified industrial landscape in Yerevan, Gyumri and Vanadzor: chemical combines sprang up, factories for mechanical [...] in Yerevan developed into one of the largest European producers of aluminium foil. By the 1930s, industry was already generating most of Armenia's economic output. From the 1950s onwards, electrical engineering