du-Guard was employed in the silk industry and there were 23 producers. The museum stands in a park in the centre of a block between Rue de l’Industrie, Grand Rue and the river – the pedestrian entrance [...] entrance is at 5 Rue de l’Industrie and the car park is off Grand Rue. The museum focuses on the social history and traditional culture of the Cévennes from the seventeenth century to twentieth. It began with [...] and the museum opened there in 2017 after a large redevelopment project that combined sensitive conservation of the fine original architecture with striking new interventions. Many silk-industry artefacts

government subsidies, the port industry proved to be a chronic loss-maker and new sectors were developed, particularly in the areas of electronics and pharmaceuticals. However, industry accounts for only a small [...] ON THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MALTA Listen Malta and its surrounding islands have very little in the way of natural resources. Only the limestone, which is suitable for making cement. Additionally, the [...] it for a major role in naval matters in particular. For several centuries, a profitable textile industry also developed on the basis of cotton, which the Arabs brought to Malta in the 9th century. The

tile works and their workers and information about the continuing industry in the area. A complete tile kiln stands outside the museum. [...] The tile museum at the town of Onda, 50km north of Valencia, was started in 1968. It moved recently to a purpose-built and spacious gallery and was renamed for the Onda artist and ceramicist Manolo Safont [...] Safont (1928-2005). The museum is focused on architectural ceramics in Valencia. Onda is famous for its decorative tiles and ceramic murals and also for its decorated earthenware plates, bowls, jugs and

Bages’ agricultural, industrial and urban development. Ribbon manufacture: An extraordinary collection of machines exhibited in zones shows the evolution of the narrow textile industry from silk to the modern [...] The museum occupies the Dipòsits Vells (Old Cisterns) which collected and stored 12,000 m3 of water from the Sèquia canal and which were built by the civil engineer Marià Potó between 1861 and 1865. Nowadays [...] Nowadays, the museum has two permanent exhibitions spaces. The Sèquia and water: This exhibit demonstrates great importance of the Sèquia, a work of medieval engineering unique to Catalonia and Spain which

of this industrial heritage without the "Association pour la Sauvegarde du Klingenthal" (Association for the preservation of Klingenthal), which worked on the establishment of an exemplary museum since 1994 [...] 1994. Opened in 2007, the museum illustrates the production of bladed weapons by elaborately reconstructed workshops and a relevant collection of tools and products. An industrial heritage trail with displays

Stefan, Mietek, Dolores and Ziuta are names that are close to the hearts of the local museum guides. For behind these names are four extant historic weaving looms that are regularly used to demonstrate [...] of the 19th century. Demonstrations are part of the interactive tour for visitors to the factory museum in the Manufaktura shopping complex which traces the path of cotton from the cotton bolls to the [...] works in Europe. Its founder, a Jewish entrepreneur by the name of Israel Poznanski, set up an industrial empire that was brought to a cruelly abrupt end by Hitler’s barbaric Nazi regime. Astonishingly

the local authority in 1953, and through the 1960s urged the formation of a museum of mining. After proposals to locate a museum in the surface buildings of one of the collieries proved unavailing, a new [...] the pits, and finally came to an end in 1958. Migrants from Poland played an important part in the industry, the first of them arriving in the area in the 1870s. An agreement of 3 September 1919 between the [...] France. By 1931 more than 400 Polish miners were working in the Ronchamp pits. The creation of the museum was due to Marcel Maulini (1913-83) who was born at Bresse in the Vosges to parents who had migrated

The porcelain factory Margarethenhütte produced insulators for the electrical industry until 1991. The museum is located in the oldest part of the factory, dating from 1885. Bricks and pottery were made

The Asturian Maritime Museum in Luanco, opened in 1948, is the oldest museum in Asturias. Its current exhibition is housed in a new building constructed between 1998 and 2001. Four sections present life [...] in and with the sea, shipbuilding and navigation, fishing and fish processing and the (canning) industries that developed with it. The marine biology department introduces the world under water. The marine

existing society is the history of class struggles’ have shaped the vocabulary of many accounts of industrial development, even those written by writers with philosophies directly opposed to Marxism. Karl [...] g regular contacts with Engels. He spent much of his time studying in the library of the British Museum and wrote a succession of lengthy works on philosophy and political economy, some of which remained [...] particularly through the First International, formed in 1864. His analysis of economic history, that industrial capitalism had created a proletariat, whose members could only live by selling their labour, has

stone. The mining museum is located in the town’s central square by the cathedral, but it provides a focus for the interpretation of the area’s industrial heritage. Tours from the museum guide visits to

Living industrial culture, modern art and nature come together in the historic factory site of Maste-Barendorf. Where brass was cast in the 19th century, an artists' and museum village now stretches out [...] Needle Museum, which is located in the factory village, is currently being completely overhauled and is expected to reopen in 2025. The grounds and the sculpture garden as well as the industrial-cultural [...] playful experience, are still freely accessible at all times. An exhibition area in the municipal museum is dedicated to needle production.

The rocky south-west coast of Sardinia combines natural beauty and impressive industrial heritage. The Miniera di Masua and Porto Flavia are within the Geological Mining Park of Sardinia. Mining at Masua [...] through the tunnels to a tall archway and a tower built into the cliff. The mining village and a museum of mining machinery can be seen at Masua.

representative of the industrial world. The museum opened in 1992 and has welcomed over 600,000 visitors. It occupies a water-powered paper mill dating from around 1820, sited at a weir on the River l’Indre [...] This large technological history museum was established by Maurice Dufresne, a blacksmith and later an engineering entrepreneur and a specialist in salvage. Dufresne saved objects he believed to be re [...] l’Indre. The museum contains more than 3,000 objects from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They include a wide range of road vehicles such as bicycles, motorcycles, cars, steamrollers, a double-decker

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

After the Second World War uranium ore was mined as well as coal, but the industry has now entirely closed down. The Mining Museum in Pécs opened in 1981. It includes a replica mine, 400 m long, created [...] There are displays of equipment including hydraulic props and wagons from underground railways. The museum holds a large minerals collection.

from the region’s coal mines represent the industry. The Mine Museum is part of the ‘Museums of Mequinenza’ with the Mequinenza History Museum and the Museum of the Prehistoric Past. [...] The Mequinenza Mine Museum presents over 170 years of mining history. Coal mining began in this area of north-east Spain in the late nineteenth century. The museum is housed in the underground workings

its row of four steel chimneys at one end of the building. The museum explores the importance of electricity in daily life and industrial production through photographs, documents, models, graphics and [...] The museum opened in 2012 in the electricity generating station of Bursa Merinos woollen factory. The factory was built in 1938 and the dedicated power station continued in use until 1973, fired by coal

The woollen factory called Merinos at Bursa was a state-funded project to advance industry in Turkey. It was opened by President Atatürk in person in 1938. The plan was to use fine-quality fleeces of merino [...] merino sheep imported from Australia. Bursa is now the fourth largest city in Turkey. The museum opened in 2011 in the restored factory. The displays follow the processes all the way from raw wool to carding [...] factory, one of the preserved sections is the laboratory for testing fibres, yarns and fabrics. The museum also has a section on silk manufacturing, which has a very long history in Bursa. The displays follow

Fozola from Wurzburg. Two branches of the National Technical Museum commemorate the history of the iron industry. The Central Metallurgical Museum is at Felsohamor, a village about 10 km from Miskolc, and [...] Baroque building of 1778-79, which served as an administrative and storage building for the iron industry. The collection includes a good range of nineteenth century machine tools. A blast furnace of 1813-14 [...] stack about 10 m high, is preserved at Ujmassa. It has been conserved since 1951, and was the first industrial monument in Hungary to receive legislative protection.