The Riga Motor Museum holds the largest collection of historic cars in the Baltic states. It was founded in 1989 at the initiative of the Latvia Antique (Historic) Automobile Club (AAK) and now displays [...] displays more than 100 vehicles. Riga was one of the principal industrial cities of the Russian Empire in the years before the First World War, with important companies involved in mechanical engineering, chemicals [...] significant scale in 1908, and one of the two Russo-Baltic cars that survive is displayed in the museum. There are examples of cars imported during the 1920s & 30s from the United States including a Packard

The mission of the Estonian Road Museum is to collect and interpret the heritage of roads, road building and traffic since ancient times. It also aims to improve road safety. Outdoor displays of 1.5 hectares [...] displays ask questions about changing attitudes to cars. It has a collection of vehicles. A children’s museum looks at travel in fairy-tales, the nature of time and the geography of Estonia.

ship and workshops for the production of needles and pins. A museum, demanded by the workers when the factory was recognised as a heritage site, now occupies two storeys of a former warehouse. It includes [...] safety pins and pins with coloured glass heads. It played a significant role in the lace-making industry in the region. From 1860 manufacturing was concentrated in a 24-bay, three-storey main building [...] includes some nineteenth-century machines and has nine principal themes, including the industrial context in Normandy, the valley of the River Risle, the Bohim Company, the workers at Saint-Surplice-sur-Risle

The railway museum in Donetsk opened in 2000, the 130th anniversary of the arrival of the railway in what was to become the largest industrial city in the Ukraine. It occupies the former Uzovo locomotive

Solar Vinho do Porto. The Royal Wine Company museum displays many historical documents and oil pints relating to the trade: Royal Oporto Wine Company Museum, R Azevedo Magalhaes 314, Vila Nova de Gaia. [...] Oporto is a city of many industries, but is best known as the entrepot where merchants from many countries have traded in Port wine, brought down the River Douro in sailing barges that passed under Gustav [...] the Société Willbroeck of Brussels. The harbour area of the city, the Ribeira, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Fifty wine companies have their lodges (offices and warehouses) in the narrow streets of the

the railway museum, situated at the local station, is on railway freight operations. Most of the steam locomotives in the collection were built before 1939 either for shunting at industrial premises, many [...] Berlin in 1876. There are some diesel locomotives and an early diesel railcar built in Germany. The museum also includes freight wagons of various kinds, and equipment used for loading and unloading them

The Museum of Industrial Railways is at the southern end of the restored narrow-gauge railway from Zastávka u Brna to Zbýšov. It opened in 1991. Trains run on the 5-kilometres of track. The railway was [...] coal from mines at Zbýšov to the main line at Zastávka, but it now operates at 600-mm gauge. The museum has a static display of rolling stock and regularly runs trains for passengers using its CKD 0-4-0T

Starapolski Industrial Region developed in the early 19th century by Stanislaw Staszic (1755-1826), was built in the mid-19th century but following practices of the 18th century. It became a museum in 1961

was adapted to accommodate ironworks clerks and their families. The museum, established in 1954, illustrates the iron and steel industry of the region around Jesenice, including the process of charcoal burning [...] The ironworking museum in Jesenice in northern Slovenia is situated in the Ruardowa graščina (the Bucelleni-Ruard Manor House), one of four ‘ironworks castles’ that were formerly the homes of the families [...] furnace, as well as the social and cultural life of the ironworkers. Other sections display the museum’s collections of local fossils and minerals.

designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979. It suffered severely from shelling during the wars of the early 1990s, but much of the damage has since been restored. The Maritime Museum originated as early [...] it was managed by the Yugoslav Academy of Arts and Sciences (JAZU), but became part of the city’s museum service from 1987. It occupies the first and second floors of St John’s Fortress, while a notable

The maritime museum at the Hanseatic port of Rostock was founded in 1968 and has the best collection of 20th century merchant ships in Europe. The vessel now called the “Frieden” (in full “Traditionschiff [...] hiff Typ Frieden”) is the centrepiece of the museum, and has been moored on the bank of the River Warnow opposite the port of Rostock since 1970. She is a freighter of 10,000 tons, commissioned by the [...] which are concerned with the history of shipbuilding along the Baltic coast, and the revival of the industry in the early years of the DDR. The crafts used in building wooden ships in the 18th century are

nineteenth century sailors, and the role of the fishing industry on the west coast of Sweden. The principal architectural feature of the museum, the Maritime Tower, commemorates the 690 Swedish sailors [...] The maritime museum in Goteborg was founded in 1913 by the city’s Nautical Society, and presents detailed pictures of many aspects of the relationships between the city and the sea from the seventeenth [...] h century to the present. The history of shipbuilding is described in some detailed. The museum is located in an area where wooden ships were constructed until 1893 when the last of the yards, Varfret

aristocratic Solages family, who in the 19th century installed steam engines and developed a glass industry. The miners of Carmaux went on strike in 1892 and were famously supported in their struggle against [...] socialist politician Jean Jaurès (1859-1914), who is commemorated by a statue in the town. The mining museum at Cagnac les Mines, 10 km south of Carmaux, with a show mine in which visitors can go 350 m underground [...] colossal machines used in open-cast mining in the late 20th century are displayed. There is also a glass museum at Carmaux (Musée du Verre) in a building called the ‘Orangerie’, not an appendage of an aristocratic

century. Mining began in the area in 1939 when the population was only 15,000. With the growth of the industry during and after the Second World War it increased to more than 21,000, and Oroszlány gained the [...] status of a town in 1954. In recent decades most coal has been extracted by open cast methods. The museum occupies a modernist group of pit-head buildings of reinforced concrete and glass at the XX (i.e

of the city’s notable textile and engineering industries. The last mine ceased production in 1984, but visitors can experience the area’s mining heritage at the Couriot pit that worked between 1913 and [...] machinery was operated by electric power. The site is dominating by a lofty steel headframe. The museum offers a demonstration gallery on the surface, some 350 m long, where visitors, after passing through

named after the 1828 born scissor maker Nicolas Pierre Pelletier, opened in 1991 as a museum of the cutlery industry (Musée de la Coutellerie), displaying an excellent collection of typical products, tools [...] regularly organising special exhibitions. A guided tour provides insights into the region's rich industrial heritage

the cutlery industry is home to so many local cutlery shops. A newly established information centre, "La Cité des Couteliers", provides museum-like information about today's cutlery industry. The Musée [...] The industrialization attracted the establishment of numerous factories, and around 1900, the trade employed 15,000 to 18,000 people. Following the Second World War, however, the cutlery industry in Thiers [...] exquisite cutlery, and its concept of integrated workshops is a model of its kind, added by industrial heritage trails in the valley of the Durolle.

region in 1885. It was on an important route connecting the growing industrial region of Silesia with the port of Gdańsk. The museum was begun in 1992 and is continuing to develop. Its collection of vehicles [...] The Railway Museum in Kościerzyna has a large and growing collection of rail vehicles with historic locomotive sheds, workshops and a 1930s office building. The original locomotive depot was built when

Natural Park of Salinas, where salt water has been evaporated for centuries to make salt. The small museum that shows with original equipment and displays the process of extraction of salt in the past and [...] important habitat for wildlife that has been protected partly because it was needed for the salt industry.

books and in calendars and greetings cards. A museum was established in the mill in 1987 displaying a collection that originated in the National Technical Museum in the 1950s. It shows the classic methods [...] was registered as a National Monument in 2001-02, and the mill has been proposed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.