This museum holds one of Europe’s largest collections of historic motor cars, and is also notable for its innovative design and interpretation. It was formerly called the Ruffia Museum, and was established [...] established in 1932 by two pioneers of the Italian car industry, Cesare Goria Gatti (1860-1959) and Roberto Biscaretti di Ruffia (1878-1930). Since 2009 it has been transformed by architectural changes directed

for enthusiasts for the history of the motor car industry when visiting Turin are likely to be the Lingotto factory and Italy’s National Motor Museum, but, although it is open only on Sundays, the Fiat

Austro-Prussian War of 1866 it belonged to the Habsburg Empire. The industrial monuments in the region are interpreted by the Open Air Museum which provides trails identifying the principal buildings and explaining [...] remained in the ownership of the Conte family until recent years, and is being adapted as a hotel. The industry was transformed by the activities of Lanificio Rossi, the woollen cloth company founded by Francesco [...] was completed in 1991, and the building now houses small businesses and craft workshops. Other industrial monuments in the Schio region include the Cazzola Woollen Mill of 1860 which is still operating

the town. The Petroleum Museum Park has exhibitions illustrating the history of oil extraction in the region but also displaying examples of the sustainable use of cultural heritage from other countries, [...] drawing attention to the ways in which new uses can be found for historic industrial buildings. Most of the surviving structures in the oilfield are inaccessible for safety reasons but guided tours can

history of industrial development and technical progress in Italy and in Europe, by showing real machines, scientific instrumentations and demonstrations of factory operations belonging to the industrial heritage [...] The MITI Museum rises from the Historic Workshops of Montani Technical College, situated in the town center of Fermo, well known for the remarkable views of the Marche region and landscape, it is a strategic [...] also set up, as well as meeting and other promotional events are held in the dedicated areas of the Museum.

manufacture of paper. Its guild (or corporation) of papermakers was formally established in 1326. The industry was developed by Pietro Miliani (1744-1817), who introduced new technology, and developed high quality [...] earthquakes. The Cartiere Miliani Fabricano company bears the name of the 18th century entrepreneur. The museum shows how paper making technologies developed in the late middle ages from those used in the making

most important industrial archaeological sites in Britain. Merthyr Tydfil’s important position as an Iron Town during the 19th century is strongly represented in the artefacts the museum holds. They show [...] Cyfarthfa Castle Museum & Art Gallery is one of the great “finds” of the South Wales Valleys. The castle was built in 1824 by the ironmaster William Crawshay the second. It overlooked his immensely successful [...] show the incredible progress in technology and innovation during the Industrial Revolution, and encapsulate the lives of the people who lived and worked here including the story of Trevithick’s Pen-Y-Darren

Flanders), 40 km south of Ghent, that has long connections with textile manufacturing. The cottage-based industry declined from mid-nineteenth century as workers migrated to nearby French textile centres, such [...] decline in the 1960s. The community’s history is portrayed in two buildings in the village. In a museum visitors can wander at will and can gain an impression of the way of life of a domestic weaver. They

Namur, not far from Belgium’s border with France. The Gambrinus Drivers’ Museum is one of Europe’s most specialised industrial museums. Located in a nineteenth century malting and brewery complex, it is devoted

Industrial-scale fishing ports, with fleets of steam vessels, ample facilities for landing fish, wholesale markets, ship repair yards and factories for processing both the edible and inedible parts of [...] fishing port in Belgium was Ostend, where the first fish auction was established in 1879. The fishing industry declined there in the late twentieth century, as in other countries. The number of fishermen employed [...] and returned to its home port for the last time on 3 March 1995. Since 2000 it has been moored as a museum ship on the Visserskaai (fish quay). Visitors are able to explore the whole ship, and can gain an

1909 to manufacture high-grade stationery. The industry has since declined but one mill remains in production, although in foreign ownership. The museum tells the story of papermaking through the centuries [...] Belgium’s national paper museum is at Malmedy, the German-speaking city of 11,000 inhabitants near the country’s eastern border. It is one of several organisations that, under the name Malmundarium, occupy [...] first paper mill in the region was established on the bank of the River Warchenne in 1726, and the industry was developed in the nineteenth century by the Steinbach family. In 1848 a mill in Malmedy produced

sold throughout Europe. The industry collapsed in the 1960s, and most of the 200 factories in the region have been demolished, but its history is portrayed in the TEXTURE, museum of flax and river Lys. There

of the shipbuilding museum are in the historic house of the Van Damme family, which dates from 1830 and has ceiling paintings of 1852 and Art Nouveau frescoes of 1895. The museum extends into the shipyard [...] second half of the nineteenth century the principal centre of shipbuilding was at Baasrode, where the industry was in the hands of the Van Damme and Van Proet families. Many of the craft they built were for

World War, but the ribbon industry revived in the 1920s. New technology was introduced in the 1960s and manufacturing continues in spite of successive economic crises. The museum dates from 1985 and displays [...] century, and by the seventeenth century local weavers specialised in the production of ribbons. The industry developed rapidly from the 1680s with the introduction of bar looms, with encouragement from Philippe [...] a working bar loom, rebuilt in 1993 following drawings in Diderot’s Encyclopedia. Visitors to the museum can learn not just about the technology of ribbon manufacture but about the social lives of the local

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

and has a complex political history. When part of the USSR it was a restricted area, but a local industrial combine was able to establish a wool manufacturing enterprise in the 1950s using wool from the [...] The enterprise closed in 1847 but was revived in 1992 by Tiiu and Jüri Valdma and their family. The museum, in a limestone building of 1841 that was originally the hay barn of Vaernla manor, displays a range

principal importance of the car museum, founded by Peeter Kalli, is its comprehensive collection of cars used in Estonia in the Soviet era, relics of the huge car industry of the USSR that has either disappeared

Constance) and the River Rhine. The entire town is on the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites. Typorama is a museum of the printing industry managed by the Typorama Foundation established in 2011 and largely run [...] and the museum houses a collection of nineteenth and twentieth century printing machines all of which are in working condition. Also in the town, and closely associated with its printing industry, is the [...] mill which was established in the nineteenth century and worked until 1984 which is listed as a heritage site of national significance.

Baden has been famous for its hot springs since Roman times. Baden Historical Museum is in a modern building beside the river Limmat. The exhibitions show the importance of the baths as a place where people [...] treatment for health in the twentieth century. They also examine the work of the city in crafts and industry. The electrical engineering company Brown, Boveri & Compagnie was founded in Baden in 1891 to make

tapes, fire engines and military vehicles. The museum holds documentary records of Sauber vehicles and has links with other industrial and transport museums around the shores of the Bodensee.