Bokrijk is an open air museum in the tradition of Skansen, which reflects the social history and material culture of the Flemish provinces of Belgium. It was largely the creation of Dr J Weyns, its first [...] which was acquired by the Province of Limburg in 1938 and is now a recreational centre, of which the museum forms one element. Construction began in 1953 and the public were first admitted five years later [...] people who migrated each summer from Limburg to work in North Germany and Denmark. More strictly industrial buildings include two horse mills, a tower mill, two post mills, a water corn mill from Lummen-Rekhoven

are managed as one site. The adjacent Industrial Discovery Centre, with a captivating audio-visual presentation, provides an overview of Cornwall’s industrial heritage. There are few better places in which [...] Europe’s principal source of tin from classical times and an important source of copper during the Industrial Revolution period, and the ores of many other metals have been extracted from its mines. The two [...] road between Camborne and Redruth, are amongst the most impressive monuments of the Cornish mining industry. The East Pool mine was worked for copper from the early eighteenth century until 1784, and was

forestry and game office and at the years of industrialization as part of a spinning mill and even of an agricultural machinery factory. A department of the museum not directly connected with the castle's

dwindled since the 1990s, but the museum, located in a three-storey former factory, provides through machines, displays of hats and photographs, evidence of a small-town industry that for some decades dominated

was later taken over by the Krupp company. In this way the site of the Museum alone - it opened in 1995 – reflects the industrial traditions of the city. The exhibition is notable for its huge range of [...] If there is one feature which unites the exhibits in the Magdeburg Technical Museum, it is pioneering spirit. This is immediately obvious in the threshing equipment manufactured by the Magdeburg company [...] equipment combine. The exhibition hall itself was also a part of SKET. Until 1993 it was still an industrial site and contributed greatly to Magdeburg's reputation as an engineering construction centre. Before

Rammelsberg and Historic Town of Goslar World Heritage site. The mine began at the end of the Middle Ages and expanded from 1521. It closed in 1910 but reopened as a museum as long ago as 1950. Visitors go to the [...] the work of sixteenth-century miners. A museum contains models, documents, geological samples and artefacts related to mining in the region, and another museum is concerned with canaries and their use

range of activities offered by the museum. All this has only been made possible by the steadfast commitment of the Friends of the Museum who, after setting up the museum, are now responsible for running [...] opening of the Hugo Junkers Technology Museum on the site of the old Junkers works in Dessau marked the crowning moment of their efforts. The finest exhibit in the museum is a Ju 52/3m aircraft which was recovered [...] in his name. Until his property was confiscated by the Nazis he was the major influence on the industrial development of the town of Dessau and the Free State of Anhalt. In 1922 technology enthusiasts

had ceased. In 1985 people began to reconsider the industrial history and traditions of the people of Mechernich. Over the following years a new museum with a permanent exhibition has been constructed on [...] "Knotten" (lead ore deposits). The tour takes place in the Eifel region, in the galleries of the mining museum in Mechernich. Mining started here under the Romans, and since the 13th century the main product [...] gallery has been converted into a visitors´ gallery, run by the Friends of the Mechernich Mining Museum. Here visitors can learn some interesting facts about regional mining history, and also view a section

The location and the building fit the museum perfectly: an old industrial quarter somewhat away from the centre of Liège, a disused sheet metal factory, which was set up by the Dothée brothers in 1848 [...] an engine factory here. You can see a huge picture of him in the museum. Over the years the Cockerill dynasty set up further industrial plants, including the iron and steelworks on the upper Maas in Seraing [...] is a complete area dedicated to the Cockerill family dynasty, who played a decisive part in the industrial history of Liège. But more later … At the start, visitors enter another world. The room seems dark

history of jenever production. The museum’s master piece can be found in the distillation room: a complete 19th century steam distillery. You can see the museum’s master distiller at work and the listed [...] given a potted history of jenever from the mediaeval alchemist´s chamber to industrial production. As you will learn in the museum’s jenever academy, jenever should be sipped rather than drunk. A dummy de

The museum remembers the social and regional transformation that meant the settlement of a French company in this agricultural and livestock mountain area. From their industrial activity, it is interesting [...] cider press, or the carpentry workshop recalls the rural dimension of the settlement. The “Quirós industrial” area includes a permanent exhibition that discusses “obrero mixto”, "mixed workers", a term given

Although today gold is still being mined using industrial methods (in both Bueinás/Boinás, council of Belmonte de Miranda and in Carlés, council of Salas), the sport of gold panning is becoming increasingly [...] of this activity are exhibited in two charming facilities: the Museo del Oro de Asturias, the gold museum in Navelgas (Tineo), located in the old Casona Capalleja, enabling visitors to appreciate how gold

mining regions in Spain and the museum at El Entrego, 3 km south of Langreo, provides evidence of the role of the mining industry in the 19th and 20th centuries. The museum is located in a spectacular series

most striking elements of the museum. The underwater mine continued working until the Cantabrian Sea partially flooded it in 1915. Currently, visitors can enjoy a museum with modern exhibition facilities [...] mine's vaulted brick galleries. In the surroundings, workers' houses and facilities connected to the industrial past of the location are preserved, together with a historic zinc plant, which is still active

you can find the Küppersmühle museum, renowned for its top-class collection of contemporary art. A part of the exhibition on Duisburg history in the nearby Duisburg City Museum informs visitors about the [...] its reputation as the “breadbasket of the Ruhrgebiet”. Today it is a jewel of contemporary industrial heritage. [...] the creation of the milling industry in the inner harbour. Children can have a great time in the Legoland Discovery Centre. The “Garden of Memory”, an artistic response to the Nazi terror flanked by the vital

the National Waterfront Museum in Swansea (Wales) prides itself on state-of-the-art computer technology. This is all about Wales and how to recount its unique and complex industrial history in as exciting [...] your life put at risk as a collier, and shortly afterwards bask in the fairy-tale wealth of an industrial tycoon. In this way you are able to endure noise and filth, experience repression and working-class [...] multi-facetted and astonishingly sharp picture of what life was once like in Wales and how the motor of industrial revolution has made Wales what it is today.

waves. Thus, the world's largest steam pumping station has more than earned its reputation as world heritage site. The story how it contributed to keep the polder and the Frisian's feet dry for the last 100 [...] years is told by an innovative visitor centre right next door using all the rules of interactive museum experience.

and the rate of extraction has been reduced. The National Museum of the Oil Industry was established in 1957, the centenary year of the industry. It holds extensive collections of machines and tools. [...] north of Bucharest, was one of the first communities in Europe to prosper from the growth of the oil industry, The first oil refinery in Romania, and the third in the world, was built by Marin Mehedinteanu [...] German pioneer of drilling technology, Anton Raky (1868-1943), which is displayed in the Deutsches Museum, Munich. Improvements in processing technology were incorporated in refineries opened at nearby Câmpina

Steelworks. The museum includes an underground mining display, and an energy collection with steam engines and turbines, but it is most important for its displays of decorative wrought iron. The museum is also [...] The Slovak Technical Museum originated in 1948, and gained its present name in 1983. It is located in an 18th century Baroque mansion in Kosice, the second town of the old kingdom of Hungary, an important [...] also responsible for a preserved water-powered iron forge in nearby Mednev. The develop of heavy industry in east Slovakia owed much to migrant workers from Flanders and Germany, and the local dialect derives

in Madrid, but from the point of view of industrial heritage it consists of two separate stations which comprise one of the most extraordinary industrial heritage spectacles in Europe. It occupies the site