Historama is a large transport museum at Ferlach in the south of Austria. It is one of a network of heritage projects by the non-profit organisation Die Nostalgiebahnen in Kärnten (Nostalgia Railways of

are conserved in the historic dockyard which also contains several buildings of significance in industrial history. The dockyard visitor centre co-ordinates facilities. HMS Victory, the flagship of Admiral [...] steam propelled warships, on the gun deck, on the open decks and in the engine room. The National Museum of the Royal Navy is also in the Dockyard, and tells the story of Britain’s fighting ships and those

building there is a heritage park of steam machinery where visitors can experience the time when steam-powered drainage pumps, winding gear and locomotives revolutionized the mining industry. Those who have [...] place. Back to the surface, visiting the pit bank of the "Angel" shaft nowadays used as a mining museum, the one-hour trip to the historical silver mine of Tarnowskie Góry appears to be like a glimpse

Starapolski Industrial Region developed in the early 19th century by Stanislaw Staszic (1755-1826), was built in the mid-19th century but following practices of the 18th century. It became a museum in 1961

Coal mining is a dominant feature of the industrial and social history of the Saarland. But in Düppenweiler they used to mine copper. In 1723 a peasant came upon a lump of cupriferous rock whilst ploughing [...] shafts, and how the copper ore was processed. In the former administrative building the Friends of the Museum have set up a small restaurant. In the future they are aiming to install a smeltery and a “knocking”

In 1983 Dyno Industrier A/S opened a museum which formed part of their plant at Hurum, 12 miles south-east of Drammen, on the site of the factory established in 1875-76 by Alfred Nobel (1833-96). The [...] inauguration of the museum marked the 150th anniversary of Nobel’s birth. Subsequently the factory closed, the voluntary association that staffed the museum ceased to function, and the Australian company [...] formed part of the factory, of which 12 were used by the museum, were taken under the protection of the county of Buskerud, but the future of the museum remains uncertain. The buildings are characteristic of

focus is on the city’s industrial heritage. Some spinning and weaving machines are still in place and there are also displays concerning the celebrated Dürkopp sewing machines that were made in the city, on [...] the Ravensberger Spinnerei. Mechanical engineering and other industries followed. The Ravensberger mill closed in 1974 and the Historical Museum opened on the premises in 1994. [...] The historical museum tells the story of Bielefeld from its foundation by Count Hermannn of Ravensberg in 1214 to the present. It is located in the former Ravensberger spinning mill and its main focus

that was used for the manufacture of buttons and buckles. The main focus of the industrial exhibits in the historical museum is on the making of buttons and buckles, not just those that included iron wire [...] demonstrations of metal-working and every August a smithy day is held to honour blacksmiths. The museum has links with Phänomenta, an interactive science and technology centre which is located nearby.

preserved creamery in the village of Hjedding, managed by the museum at Olgod, is a monument of a particular stage in the development of the food industry not just in Denmark but in Europe as a whole. In the late

The museum was established in 1930, supported by the foundation that Hansen set up. Its national importance was recognised in 1979 by the government, which provides some support, although the museum remains [...] Hjerl Hede is an open air museum of the Skansen type at Vinderup in the municipality of Holstebro in West Jutland. 35 km W of Viborg. Hans Peter Hjerl Hansen (1870-1946), a successful industrialist, a [...] a small steam engine driving machines by line shafting and belts. One section relates to forest industries and another shows the importance in Jutland of peat bogs, exhibiting peat-cutting machinery and

restored. Since 1989 it has functioned as an outside branch of the Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum in Hagen. The “Museum of the Hagen Impulse”, as it is now called, contains a huge number of legacies of local [...] the man who commissioned the work was a young banker’s son, patron and founder of the world’s first museum of contemporary art, Karl Ernst Osthaus. Both these men were responsible for making the Hohenhof [...] he considered the united power of art to be the basic instrument with which to transform modern industrial society. He thought that in so far as art arouses an awareness of beauty and reveals interconnections

diversity of living and working environments in a metropolitan setting that combines industry and culture. The Industrial Culture Week perfectly reflects this symbiosis with its multi-faceted programme. The [...] boat tours and a visit to a recycling plant and other industrial facilities to theatre plays and film screenings, and of course also include museum exhibitions. With a few exceptions, all offers are free [...] 43-kilometre canal, designed for seagoing vessels, makes Amsterdam and its port a leading European industrial hub. It takes advantage of its wide range of businesses, excellent infrastructure on land, on water

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Archibald Hood was one of the mining engineers who transformed the coal industry in Europe in the course of the 19th century. He was born at Kilmarnock, Scotland, the son of a colliery overman. His family [...] Lothian Coal Co, which in the same year began to sink the Lady Victoria pit, now the Scottish Mining Museum. The colliery came to employ 1200 men and had a 91 year working life. The company controlled 5700 [...] village of Newtongrange alongside the Lady Victoria pit. Hood was also a prominent figure in the coal industry of South Wales. In 1862 he established the Glamorgan Coal Co, and from 1867 was resident in Cardiff

the main steelfactories in Europe. The complex is not accessible to the public. The Blast Furnace Museum has been set up outside the plant in the historic former pipeline building and tells the story of [...] old documents, photographs and film footage. For who admires the spectaclular scenery of heavy industry, this is a must-see. There are no facilities for the public. The complex can be viewed from different

harvest takes place every year in the town square outside the museum. The location is part of the 'Žatec and the Landscape of Saaz Hops' World Heritage Site. [...] around Zatek, a market town of about 20,000 inhabitants some 70 km north-west of Prague. The hop museum is located in a three-storey building of the late 19th century designed for the storage and packaging [...] by hand are displayed, together with examples of the machines developed for use in harvesting. The museum holds collections of handbooks giving advice on growing hops, and recipes detailing how they should

begun in the sixteenth century, was bought by the city in 1932. The Hosiery Museum opened in 1948. It traces the industrial and social history of textiles in the region. The collections include knitting [...] The Hotel de Vauluisant contains two departments of the museums of the city of Troyes – one for art and one for hosiery (‘bonneterie’ in French). Troyes became a leading centre of knitted textiles in the

history. Within it are four museums. The town museum shows how refugees moved to the Pürten camp and found ways of making their livings in the Bavarian forests. The glass museum reflects the traditions of [...] paintings and handicraft products. This museum holds the archives of the Freundekreises Sudentdeutsch Wandervogel, the friends of the Sudeten German refugees. The fourth museum in the House of Culture is concerned [...] of Syros, is a town where refugees arrived in poverty and within decades established prosperous industries. In the late 1930s the defence contracting company Chemie GmbH established an explosives factory

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 [...] craftspeople. Objects, images, films and documents are used in a permanent exhibition about the industrial and social history of leather. A collection of thousands of skins donated in 2019 from the showroom

The leather tannery district is part of the World Heritage site of the Historic Centre of Guimarães and Couros Zone. The industrial importance of the city was as a centre for leather manufacturing, represented [...] the region from prehistory to the present, covering not just the medieval past and the leather industries but textile manufacturing, international trade, community and society. The displays utilise text