produced here and in 1835 the first enamelled tableware factory in Europe was founded. The ironworks museum was founded in 1986 to mark the 300th anniversary of the Thale ironworks. It shows the development [...] of iron smelting and iron processing from a modest sheet metal works in 1686 to the large-scale industrial operation of the 20th century. The basic processes are illustrated by models. The environmental

Częstochowa in southern Poland was the centre of the country’s iron ore mining industry. A museum was established in 1968 with displays illustrating mining techniques, and collections of winding equipment [...] lighting and ventilation systems, locomotives used underground and mining maps. Subsequently the museum was re-located to tunnels excavated in 1974-76 linking exhibition pavilions in the Stanislaw Staszic

important from the mid-nineteenth century. The museum, established in 1989, is located in a nineteenth-century textile warehouse, tells the story of the cotton industry in the valley, with particular emphasis [...] and twentieth centuries includes examples from England, France, Spain and the United States. The museum also organises visits to local textile enterprises that are still operating.

vessels used on the Tagus, and trips on the river are amongst the museum’s activities. The museum is a member of European Maritime Heritage, which promotes the operation of traditional ships. [...] Lisbon, and has been the home to a variety of industries, the monuments of several of which are preserved by the Municipal Ecomuseum. The maritime museum practices and teaches the techniques used in building [...] The maritime museum at Seixal keeps alive Portugal’s ancient traditions of wooden ship-building. Seixal is the centre of a heavily industrialised region at the mouth of the River Tagus, 14 km south of

commemorate the whaling industry in a museum in the 1960s and a temporary museum was opened in 1979. The history of the museum is now covered in two museums. The Museum of the Whaling Industry in the village of [...] the exterior of the building is a sculptor of a whaler with a harpoon in a small boat. The Whaler’s Museum (Rua de Baleeiros 13; 9930-143 Lajes de Pico) in the village of Lajes is located in a set of three

had 15 of its own brands. The Ramirez 1853 Centre includes a museum that provides a comprehensive picture of the Portuguese fish canning industry. Its larger exhibits include tuna traps, the prototype of

La Fonderie is the Museum of Industry and Labour for Brussels as a leading industrial city. It is in the Molenbeek area, known as ‘the Belgian Manchester’. The museum uses the foundry buildings of the [...] present the main industrial sectors of Brussels: metal, wood, textiles, food, car manufacturing and hat making. They look at technology, business, working conditions and trade. The museum provides guided [...] guided tours of the industrial heritage of Brussels on foot and by boat on the Willebroek canal. There are temporary exhibitions and an archive.

The Autoworld museum displays about 200 hundred historic motor cars in one of the Cinquantenaire exhibition halls built for the exhibition of 1880 that commemorated the 50th anniversary of the establishment [...] States. It has a comprehensive selection of cars vehicles made by Belgian manufacturers before the industry came to be dominated by international companies. There are vehicles by Fondu (1906-12), Germain

the Philippines. Particular emphasis is placed on the development of the chocolate industry in Belgium. The museum’s methods of interpretation include documentary films, demonstrations and tastings, and [...] have long been celebrated for the quality of their products, and their skills are celebrated in this museum in the centre of Bruges. It is located in the Maison de Croon, a four-storey brick building of 1480 [...] to Europe as a drink, and the evolution of the chocolate bar as manufacturing developed on an industrial scale. Other exhibitions show the origins of the cocoa beans used by present-day manufacturers

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.

part of a museum dates from 1996 when proposals were made by the Frédéric Velge Foundation as part of a programme to revitalise the local economy after the closure of mines and other industries. The project [...] was supported by the Portuguese Association for Industrial Archaeology, and the centre was opened in its present form in 2010. The indoor part of the museum is located in the power station of 1934 that supplied

reclaimed from the river in the late nineteenth century. The museum, opened in 1990 and extensively renovated in 2006, is concerned both with industrial archaeology and with science, and particularly with questions [...] station. The museum also displays an extensive collection of electricity generating equipment from the 1930s to the 1950s, and holds large numbers of documents and photographs relating to the industry. It is [...] Portugal’s Museum of Electricity is located in the former Tejo (Tagus) power station, begun in 1908, with additions made up to 1951. Parts are in the Art Nouveau style. It is situated on land reclaimed

and understanding of the communications heritage. The earliest parts of the collections date back to 1878 and have been continuously expanded. The present museum opened in 1997. The artefacts range from [...] The Museum of Communications in Lisbon is operated by the Portuguese Communications Foundation, which is a collaboration between the National Communications Authority, the Portuguese Postal Services and

well as Portugal itself. The museum tells the story of beer from the first century BC to the present with particular emphasis of the development of industrial-scale breweries in the nineteenth century. The [...] monastic brewery. This museum, like most of its kind, provides samples of beer for its visitors, but this is perhaps the only one to invite them to drink as they study the exhibits. The museum takes pride in the [...] The Museu da Cerveja (Museum of Beer) in Lisbon has displays relating to the beer brewed in all the Portuguese-speaking countries, Angola, Brazil, Mozambique, Cape Verde and San Tomé & Prince, as well

in geometrical patterns on the mountain side. There are displays relating to the industry in the archaeological museum at Fundao. [...] horizons of mineralisation, and specimens from the Panasqueira mine are displayed in geological museums throughout the world. The landscape is dominated by large-scale modern plant, but conservation work

The salt industry at Figuera de la Foz, a seaport and resort on the Mondego estuary, dates from the eleventh century AD, but many of the traditional salinas are being converted to fish farms. The salt [...] Corredore de Cobra, the reconstruction of a traditional salt warehouse, and the establishment of a salt museum.

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.

Exploitation on an industrial scale began in 1868 under the direction of Joao Texeira. The workings were abandoned in the late nineteenth century but re-started in 1930. The museum park includes open cast

north of Lisbon, is well known for its Cistercian abbey of Santa Maria, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and has a huge kitchen with a pyramid-shaped chimney of circa 1750 resting on eight cast-iron [...] cast-iron in Europe. The region is celebrated for its fine red and white wines, and the National Museum of Wine was established in 1968 under the patronage of the Portuguese Institute of Vineyards and

The Lithuanian Maritime Museum is located at the end of the 98 km long Curonian Spit Peninsula, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, shared by Lithuania and Russia, of which the detached city and oblast [...] oblast of Kaliningrad (Kőnigberg) are part. The museum occupies the Nerija Fort, built in nineteenth century to protect the approaches to the seaport of Klaipēda. The fortress was largely destroyed in the [...] the Second World War but was restored for museum use in 1979. Displays in the fortress illustrate the history of Lithuanian shipping, and the nature of the sea, focussing particularly on the achievement