it was abandoned and is now one of the most important industrial archaeological sites in the country. The MuFar 'Royal Bourbon Weapons Factory Museum', was inaugurated in the former armoury in 2013. Multimedia [...] factory's products on display. The Calabrian silk and liquorice industries are also described. A path leads through a classical archway to the industrial archaeological sites of the foundries, blast furnaces and [...] and iron ore mines of the "Calabrian Iron and Steel Industry Park".

Now it is one of the seven sites belonging to the LVR Industrial Museum. Supplemented by an exhibition in a new building built next door, the museum explains how clothes were made from wool and tells of

about 10 km from the Swiss border. Bottonera is situated on the north side of the town and was an industrial area built-up in the nineteenth century, with cotton mills, paper mills, corn mills, a brewery [...] grinding. The factory produced pizzoçeri , the famous pasta of the region which can be sampled at the museum.

specialized in cutlery opened in Albacete in 2001. The municipal museum, established in an old city palace in 2004, focuses on the cutlery industry as well. Its galleries feature an extraordinary collection [...] and Solingen (D), Albacete ranks among Europe’s most important cutlery manufacturing centers. The industrial quartes beyond the old city gates and in Madrigueras, a small town to the north, are home to about

back to 1930. The industrial buildings, their structure uninterrupted from east to west, enjoy a special status as a factory complex. Established in 1976, the Urban and Industrial Museum in Rüsselsheim presents [...] and ancient period right up to the 20th century and has been praised across Europe. One of the museum’s priority areas is the development of the Opel factory in the city. The German subsidiary of General

dwindled since the 1990s, but the museum, located in a three-storey former factory, provides through machines, displays of hats and photographs, evidence of a small-town industry that for some decades dominated

Munkfors is a community of great importance in the history of the Swedish iron industry. Mild steel was made there by the open hearth process for the first time in Sweden in 1868, and a building constructed [...] which worked until 1941, is preserved. The history of ironmaking in the town is portrayed in the museum, and also in a firm entitled Iron, commissioned by the Uddeholm company in 1936, which includes sequences

ornate brick building, designed by the Catalan architect Amargós i Samaranch, now houses an industrial museum. Its features have been perfectly preserved: the noisy engine room where the ancient engines [...] visitors directly into the activities that used to happen daily in this industrial monument. A stroll through the extensive museum garden highlights the intimate network of connections between the pumping

Vapriikki opened to the public in 1996, and the building was fully ready as a museum in 2000. The total floor area of the museum centre is approximately 14,000 m2, half of which is devoted to exhibition [...] in the 1970s, and industrial use of the last buildings by the rapids ceased in the 1990s. The Swedish word ‘fabrik’ became the Finnish ‘vapriikki’ in the last century, and the museum centre was named Vapriikki [...] Vapriikki is a versatile museum centre located by the Tammerkoski river, where visitors can explore over ten exhibitions on history, natural sciences and technology all at once. Together with other operators

The museum is in a beautifully converted nineteenth-century barn in a large green space in the centre of the village of Kammern. It shows the agricultural and industrial history of the region. The themes [...] themes covered by the museum are connected especially with mining, agriculture and the making of charcoal. The agricultural traditions of the region are shown by hand tools and utensils that were part of [...] life, and a threshing machine. Many other objects given or loaned by people are also on display. The museum has an exhibition about the geological history of the earth over 500 million years, with rock samples

are now linked by a bridge. The museum was comprehensively redeveloped in 2018. The focus is on the social, technological and environmental aspects of industrialization and the wider history of the city [...] This large, new museum brings together historical collections made in the town of Pritzwalk in north-east Germany since the 1930s. In 2002, the local council and the local history society opened the c [...] city. Original features of the museum’s buildings allow visitors to examine the history of brewing, cloth weaving and textile printing and to try some techniques for themselves. Other displays explore flour

The museum, located in the noble 17th century mansion that once belonged to the owner of a hammer mill, is devoted to the history of water supply and to the achievements in constructing the Vienna spring [...] egion feeds the Austrian capital with 217,000 cubic meters drinking water daily. The SpringWater Museum documents how the second Vienna spring water line was built and illustrates the city’s water supply [...] displays provide insights in major aspects of the region’s geology and the protection of springs. The museum of local history primarily deals with the largest trade union of Innerberg based in Wildalpen which

boom in the textile industry in the 19th century thanks to readily available hydroelectric power. Over time, the textile industry developed into the important Swiss engineering industry, with names such as [...] and Rüti (weaving machines). Since 1991 more than 70 volunteers have been running a unique museum of industrial culture in Neuthal. Visitors are immersed in a fascinating world and in a bygone age which

The museum of Oederan, a small village 20 km East of Chemnitz, presents the textile history of the Ore Mountains. Under the guidance of museum staff and on hand and power looms, visitors can learn various [...] spooling, as well as sectional and direct warping procedures. As the machinery and equipment park of the museum covers almost the entire history of weaving, from the simple handlooms of the early days via Jacquard

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

the Middle Ages through the period of industrialization to the twentieth century. The museum also explains the growth of Neumünster from a village to a large industrial town. Visitors can try many processes [...] centre of the town. The museum explains the whole process from the raw wool to the finished cloth. It has live demonstrations with spinning wheels and hand-looms and large-scale industrial machines for carding [...] The museum of cloth and technology explores how people have made woollen cloth for over 2,000 years, from the Iron Age to the present day. It occupies an impressive purpose-built building in the centre

The Museum of Municipal Engineering in Krakow was established in 1998 in a tram depot, built in 1882 and successively enlarged in 1896, 1900, 1913-4 and 1926-9. It is primarily a museum of public transport [...] cars, which includes most of the marques that were made in Poland. The museum is one of the major attractions on the Krakow Industrial Heritage Route that includes 15 other important sites in the city.

processing the ore with copper, and this formed the basis for the widespread growth of the metalworking industry in the Aachen region. Until the end of the 17th century the ore was quarried from open mines and [...] "the neutral area of Moresnet". Mining around La Calamine stopped in 1951. But memories remain. The Museum in La Calamine contains a permanent exhibition on the arduous working conditions which the miners [...] the ore. The long and colourful political history of the area is another theme dealt with in the museum. Visitors can see rare exhibits here, like the coins and stamps which were specially issued during

century and revolutionised the industrial manufacture of lace. The fascinating architectural ensemble is clearly a metaphor, not only of its ambitions as an industrial museum, but also as a shop window for [...] Gaultier, Pierre Cardin or Chantal Thomass. The latter is the patron of the Museum for Lace and Fashion in Calais too. The museum, which opened in 2009, is housed in a historic weaving and lace-making factory [...] to the 21st century, and a presentation of state-of-the-art manufacturing methods. In addition the museum has room for temporary exhibitions, a documentation centre, a room for fashion shows and spaces for

The Museum for the town of Apt in the south-east of France – also called the Musée de l'Aventure Industrielle – concentrates on the industries of the area. Three important industries grew up here based [...] associated with mining, processing and marketing of ochre are displayed. Finally, the museum traces the clay industries of Apt from the 17th century to the present, with hundreds of examples of pottery, bricks [...] based on three natural resources – fruit, ochre and clay. The museum is inside part of the factory of Marliagues founded in 1873 for making candied-fruit confectionary. It includes a complete workshop, displays