d after 1993 into a cultural and business centre with several museums. Galleries in the former factory halls show the history of industry in Lapua through photographs and artefacts and explain the man [...] The museum represents the history of the manufacture of firearm cartridges in Lapua. The State Cartridge Factory (Lapuan Patruunatehdas, or Paukku) was established in 1923 to support Finland’s security

out here exclusively using water power. The building formed the nucleus of the industrial museum founded in 1992. The museum grounds, which cover some 3,600 square metres, contain 14 listed buildings, including [...] The Lauf Industrial Museum, located just 20 kilometres north-east of Nuremberg, is dedicated to the living and working environment of an industrialised society between 1900 and 1970. Lauf was already [...] economically important in pre-industrial times. Many businesses used the water power of the Pegnitz river, including the Engelhardt hammer mill. Its original equipment dates from the period between 1895

The Gueuze museum provides an unusual opportunity to see beer brewed in a traditional way on an industrial scale. The museum is a fully-operational brewery, worked by the Van Roy-Cantillon family whose

relocated two existing museums there – the local museum collections opened in 1949 and Museum of Leather created in 1954. The Can Boyer exhibitions show the long history of the tanning industry with leather objects [...] These museums concerned with the leather industry are in two adjacent buildings close to the town centre of Igualada, north-west of Barcelona. One was the nineteenth-century Boyer cotton factory and the [...] greased and polished. The displays have been developed continuously in collaboration with mNACTEC, the Museums of Science and Technology of Catalunya.

Ruhr was for long one of the chief leather working towns in Germany, and its industrial heritage is commemorated in a museum opened in 2003 in the former factory of the Abel company. Ultra-modern displays [...] displays feature tools used in tanning and leather-working, together with the varied products of the industry. Manufacturing methods are illustrated by documentary films.

which the site was purchased by Leeds City Corporation and opened as the city’s industrial museum in 1982. Visitors to the museum can see an array of textile machinery used and made in Leeds, together with [...] the city’s printing industry is the board game Monopoly developed by John Waddington from 1922. The museum also displays examples of the products of the city’s extensive leather industry, and a small cinema [...] woollen industry, and as the location of many woollen mills. It was also the principal flax-spinning town in England, and its mechanical engineering, tailoring, printing and leather industries were also

Leicester’s industrial museum is situated in a sewage pumping station of 1891 on the north side of the city, where the original engines, four 200 hp beam engines on the Woolf compound system, built by [...] by Gimson & Co, can be demonstrated. The museum includes displays relating to public health, and the consequences of the sanitary improvements of the 19th century, as well as to electricity, transport and

The museum preserves an intact kiln of the world-famous Limoges porcelain industry. The Les Casseaux district was an important centre of the industry from the 18th century, close to the River Vienne, which [...] carried fuel for the kilns. The museum is sited at the rear of the Royal Limoges factory, next to the shop. It was opened to the public by a local association for industrial history in 1992. It occupies three [...] the kiln and the others are filled with displays about the history, techniques and products of the industry. The kiln was built in 1900 and is 20m high and 8m in diameter with eight firing portals. A chimney

former fish factory opened in 2017 as a museum about the city of Fécamp and its fishing industry. It brings together pre-existing collections, including those of a museum created in 1899 for the fishery training [...] processed frozen herring until it closed in 1996. Visitors explore the evolution of the fishing industry from herring fishing in the middle ages to the exploitation of Newfoundland cod, together with subjects [...] processing. The story is presented through artifacts, models, photographs and interactive displays. The museum also has displays about history and archaeology, daily life in the region and fine art. A glass-sided

which continues to safeguard the unique qualities and architecture of the town. The important industrial architecture of Letchworth includes the spectacular Spirella building.Combining Arts and Crafts [...] first road Roundabout is located in Letchworth on Sollershott East. The First Garden City Heritage Museum tells the story of the Garden City Movement from its origins to the present day. It is housed in

displayed. Pavilion B traces the history of local industry up to and including the industries of the present day. It has a particular focus on the textile industry in Liberec since the Middle Ages and includes [...] Opened in 2014, Liberec Technical Museum is housed in four modern pavilions. Pavilion A is focused on transport and exhibits cars, motorcycles, bikes and railway locomotives, mostly manufactured in the

The Liebig Museum is the laboratory of the chemist Justus von Liebig (1803-1873), where he worked and taught from 1824 to 1852. Liebig was one of the founders of organic chemistry and made important c [...] contributions to agricultural science and the fertilizer industry. He was a pioneer of modern laboratory-based teaching. As Professor at the University of Gießen he was not permitted to teach about practical

highlight, the IndustrieWelt Liechtenstein was opened here in 2019. With many informative films, documentaries and statistics, it offers a profound insight into Liechtenstein's industrial history and today's [...] has always had some considerable concern with high-tech manufacturing. The Liechtenstein National Museum consists of two historical buildings dating back to the Middle Ages and a modern extension with a [...] today's industrial high-tech world. The special exhibition area presents exciting exhibitions of international standing on a wide range of topics. For children and families, there are various playful activities

south-east of Chemnitz, since the 16th century. The burning of limestone to make lime ceased in the area in 1975, although cement is still made by Geomin Erzgebirgische Kalkwerk GmbH. The museum opened in [...] the first successful kilns that were continuous rather than intermittent in their operation. The museum is also concerned with the geology and the natural history of the quarries, where many varieties

assembly plants, the Italian enthusiasm for concrete construction, and a futuristic conception of industry. Parts of the factory passed into other uses in the 1980s and production ceased entirely in the [...] Monday, visitors can test drive the first electric Fiat 500. It is provided by the 'Casa 500' car museum , which traces the history of the FIAT 500 in eight themed areas over 700 square metres and presents

did not initially force the construction of giant heavy industrial plants, but instead began to expand the established food and light industries. Lithuania did not experience a massive industrialisation [...] ON THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF LITHUANIA Listen All three Baltic nations lack deposits of raw materials, but Lithuania remained an agricultural country the longest. Since 1795, when the Russian Czars annexed [...] Memel with the port of Klaipėda and allowed mariners to circumvent the Curonian Lagoon. The first industrial enterprises were formed toward the end of the century, mainly for the processing of agricultural

until the early 1950s. The museum, one of the first in France to be devoted to coal mining, dates from 1902, and provides a broad picture of the archaeology of the industry. It is housed at the site of [...] iron mines in Normandy. The museum also features a video documentary on the history of the Littry mine and a reconstructed underground gallery 70 m long. At the end of the museum is an impressive working

The museum shows the history of production, the forms from different periods and the methods of decoration. Dinner services appear alongside decorative porcelain, utility products and industrial ceramics [...] new buildings soon afterwards. It still specialises in making high-quality porcelain by hand. The museum is in a building for firing after decoration and shows the electric ‘muffle’ kiln used. On display

machinery dating from the nineteenth century has been used to demonstrate the history of the woollen industry and the quality of French engineering. An annual Fête de la Laine is held in St Pierreville in August

where wages were lower. The Living Textile Museum, established in 1989, is located in a four-storey former factory. Its displays illustrate the textile industry in the area since the early eighteenth century [...] demonstrated, and the museum also arranges temporary exhibitions on topical themes. There is close co-operation with parallel projects on the Czech side of the border, and the museum at Gross-Siegharts is [...] area and in the late nineteenth century there were six steam-powered mills in Gross-Siegharts. The industry still employed many people in the town in the 1980s, but the fall of the Iron Curtain led companies