Heidelberg printing machines. The museum holds large numbers of blocks, metal and wooden type fonts and photographs, and also displays the products of the printing industry, books, pamphlets, magazines and [...] The National Print Museum collects, documents, preserves, exhibits, interprets and makes accessible the material evidence of the printing crafts and associated skills in Ireland since the introduction [...] the Easter Rising of 1916, and a Wharfedale machine similar to that on which it was printed. The museum maintains a lively programme of practical activities during which participants can learn about l

Eperon d’Or (the ‘golden spur’) is a museum in a factory of fine-quality shoes in the traditional centre of Belgian shoemaking. The company was started by Emiel Vandommele in 1863. It became the official [...] built in 1910 and an office in Art Deco style was added in 1930 by the architect Charles Laloo. The museum displays the whole production line of shoemaking in the 1950s, a large collection of beautiful shoes [...] stories of the workers and a hall of fame of local people. It also tells the story of another local industry, making hairbrushes and fine brushes for other purposes. Close by are the preserved steam engines

Musée Bolo is the Swiss Museum of Computer Science, Digital Culture and Video Games. It occupies Building INF of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Faculty of Computer Science and Com [...] Communications. The collection was begun in 1995 by the engineer, Yves Bolognini and it became a museum in 2002, now run by the foundation Mémoires Informatiques. The diverse collections include several thousand [...] 1980s and 1990s, the Cray-2 (of which only 29 were built) and the IBM Blue Gene. The Swiss computer industry is well represented, for example by the Lilith workstation created at the Zurich Polytechnic School

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

to science and industry, comparable with those of the Science Museum, London, the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers in Paris and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. The museum was founded in [...] The Deutsches Museum von Meisterwerken der Naturwissenschaft und Technik (German Museum of the Masterpieces of Natural Science and Technology) holds one of the world’s most important collections of artefacts [...] stations to customers. The museum was severely damaged by bombing during the Second World War and was re-opened in stages, beginning with the library, from November 1945. The museum’s aeronautical exhibits

Witten was one of the first deep-pit mines on the Ruhr – a good enough reason for the LWL Museums of Industrial Culture to erect one of its eight sites here. Visitors can walk along a 100 metre gallery [...] brickworks which operated until 1963. The museum was opened in 2003 and tells the story of the birth of mining in the Ruhr valley at the start of the industrial revolution. [...] coal on the river you can go aboard a 35 metre life-size replica of an original sailing barge. The museum has yet another replica construction: a small pit from which coal was hauled in buckets which shows

century, and the city has always been the leading centre for the industry, in which Italians made many important innovations. The museum shares the premises of the Setificio, the textile school, and includes

kilns, used from about 1870, dominate the landscape of the region. The museum which interprets the history of the brick-making industry is based in the former Frateur works.

known in previous locations as the Louwman Collection and the Nationaal Automobiel Museum (National Automobile Museum). It has been displayed since 2010 in a building designed by the American architect [...] The collection of vehicles now displayed in the Louwman Museum was begun in 1934 by a family closely involved in the motor trade in the Netherlands, who are currently importers of Lexus, Toyota and Suzuki [...] 230 cars and is chiefly important for the coverage it gives to the early years of the motor car industry. It includes more examples manufactured before 1910 than any other collection, the oldest being

1935. Leonida modelled the museum on the Deutsches Museum in Munich that he visited when studying in Germany, but as the founder of a pioneering training school for electricians and mechanics, he saw its [...] company Brush in 1882, as well as motors made in Romania. The museum is set in a parkland landscape in the vicinity of several important industrial monuments including the Filanet railway station of 1869 and [...] Romania’s technical museum was established in 1928 by the engineer Dimitrie Leonida (1883-1965), and has been located in its present building, a pavilion from the Bucharest World Fair of 1906, since 1935

mills for the woollen and flax industries were built, notably by Wendisch in 1827 and Gayers in 1835. However, tariffs between Poland and Russia caused the industries to decline. When tariffs were removed [...] Karl (or Karol) Scheibler learned about the mechanised textile industries in several parts of Europe and took his knowledge to Łodz in Poland. The factory he built there in 1855 was one of the biggest [...] biggest in the world, covering 168 hectares. The population of Łodz as an industrial city grew from 18,000 in 1851 to 100,000 in 1878. It became one of the most important textile manufacturing cities in Europe

both the French and Industrial Revolutions by specialising in the luxury product of lead crystal, and witness England as a pioneer of early industrial mass production. Some of the museums focus on the hard [...] Village , widely regarded as one of the best-preserved glassworks in Europe, and the Immenhausen Glass Museum . The very beginning of post-antique European glass production is marked by the Venetian island of [...] dirty. Despite all the differences, the featured sites have one thing in common: they illustrate an industry that was once dominated by highly specialised craftspeople, and bring their art back to life with

weavers of Lyon called themselves ‘canuts’, which is how the museum gets its name. It is an early example in Europe of preserving industrial heritage: it was set up by a weavers’ cooperative in 1970 to [...] Lyon. The collections now belong to the city of Lyon and the building to a cooperative company. The museum reopened after a major refurbishment in 2009. The exhibitions explain the history of making silk

samples by hand. There is also a display about workers and entrepreneurs in the industry. In the other building, the museum preserves the wool carding and spinning equipment of the factory, a wooden hand [...] Cima is a small town near Castelo Branco in central Portugal, on the border with Spain. MUTEX is a museum in the factory of the Corga wool carding and spinning company, now owned by the local authority.

one of the mills in 1814, and now forms the only in situ exhibit in the open-air museum, which is part of the national museum, as is the mill at Brede. The latter is part of one of the best-preserved factory [...] of the reasons for the prosperity of the Danish capital. It has been called the Cradle of Danish Industry. The various mills were used for grinding grain, fulling woollen cloth, making gunpowder, working

history of the town of Tramagal, which itself became a brand name. The museum opened in 2017 in the former MDF factory in Tramagal. The museum follows the history of the MDF company from when it was established [...] engineering who founded the company Metalúrgica Duarte Ferreira (MDF). It made agricultural equipment, industrial machinery, safes, enamel ware and commercial vehicles among other products. Ferreira had an important

from which mercury is obtained. The park displaying the monuments of the industry was established in 2002. The adjacent museum uses film footage to show working conditions in the mines, and has exhibitions

completed, however, as the Industrial Conversion Decree was approved in 1983. After large mobilisations of the workers, the closure of the factory was imposed. As for the industrial heritage, buildings such [...] Furnace No. 2 and the Spare Parts Warehouse have been preserved, which will become the future Museum of Industrial Heritage and the Workers' Memory of Puerto de Sagunto.

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

Chelmsford Museum’s new Bright Sparks Exhibition gives a fascinating insight into the achievements of the late 19th century industrial pioneers Guglielmo Marconi, R.E.B.Crompton and the Hoffmann Manufacturing [...] Manufacturing Company who created global industries in the town. New hands-on exhibits vividly demonstrate the scientific principles involved. These inventors and technology pioneers put Chelmsford on the world [...] century. Three railway viaducts dating from 1843 provide a dramatic background to Chelmsford’s industrial tradition.