were built in the area in the 1820s. The Museum of Art and Industry, moved to a new location in 2001, and has comprehensive displays relating to local industries, particularly ribbons, of which it has 300 [...] Saint-Etienne is one of France’s most notable industrial cities. Nearby coal mines stimulated the growth of ironworking, glassmaking, textiles, particularly ribbons, and the manufacture of armaments in

models and drawings submitted by aspirant patentees. The museum’s Industrial Portfolio includes more than 20,000 drawings and paintings of industrial subjects, including notable 18th century drawings by Jacques [...] The principal museum of technology in France dates from 1794, the time of the French Revolution, when a national conservatory of arts and trades (Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers) was created [...] Jacques de Vaucanson (1709-82), the Grenoble-born inventor of automata. Selections from the museum’s collection of more than 80,000 artefacts are displayed in thematic rooms relating to such topics as

its Roman baths and Georgian architecture but it was also a working city. The museum tells the stories of its varied industries. Two thousand years of working life are on display, including a Victorian i

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

nineteenth centuries this was a domestic industry, but from the 1880s it came under the control of three large companies who concentrated production in factories. The museum is located in the factory opened by [...] corsets. In the late nineteenth century, under the management of his sons, it had 300 employees. The museum displays examples of historic machines associated with the manufacture of braids and laces including [...] Visitors can also see the 6 m diameter water wheel from which the factory originally drew its power. The museum also displays a great variety of sample fabrics.

traditions of both cardboard making and printing. The industry produced attractive printed boxes for diverse products all over France. This museum traces the methods of making and printing cardboard boxes [...] the Département Vaucluse acquired an old factory close to the town centre for the museum. The route around the museum traces the processes –making card, folding boxes, typography and lithography. There [...] Valréas in Provence is called the capital of the French cardboard-box industry. This began due to the need for perforated boxes for silkworms. From the mid-nineteenth century it brought together the local

centres in England for the manufacture of carpets in the modern sense, i.e. woven floor coverings. The Museum of Carpet, set up in the Stour Vale Mills, presents traditional cloth weaving techniques on 19th [...] own carpet projection, and demonstrations from volunteers with their own stories of working in the industry.

production, they have to go to Voigtsberg Castle. In the Carpet Museum, flying carpets transport them through the history of the mechanical and industrial production of carpets in Oelsnitz. From the gallery under [...] and the Oriental embroidery machine from the 1930s show the impressive development of the carpet industry.

coal industry. It is a museum of traditional form that shows a large number of significant objects in clearly presented cases with interpretive texts. They include high-quality models of industrial ins [...] Since 1963 the Museum of Chemistry has been in the fourteenth-century Thury Castle in the former coal-mining town of Várpalota, 80 km west of Budapest. The museum examines the history of chemistry, beginning

continuously for some 700 years. The museum tells the stories of mining and the manufacture of coins and medals. The collection began in the 18th century and entered the museum in 1956. It was redeveloped in [...] in 2003 as a national Museum of Coins and Medals. It occupies an ancient house on the main square. In the basements visitors learn about the development of ore mining and processing with displays of minerals [...] tools, trucks, a furnace and testing and measuring instruments. The history of the city and its industries and crafts is explored on the ground floor. On the first floor visitors learn about the history

important centre for the plastics industry. Local farming families traditionally made hair-combs from wood or bone as a winter occupation. This craft grew into an export industry in the 19th century and the [...] well as research and education bodies. The museum, currently based in the Aragon Cultural Centre, preserves 16,000 objects and tells the story of local industry, the manufacture of combs and the technology

in four rooms, with a special focus on the history of the Hungarian electrical industry. The exhibitions of the museum highlight Hungary’s essential role in railway electrification, lighting technology [...] commemorates the history of light and lighting, and their power to form our society and culture. The museum can be found in a Bauhaus-style building in Kazinczy Street. The building, which was originally a [...] stretcher. In the unique exhibition entitled Neonparade, found in the stylish interior courtyard of the museum, light advertisements are presented, which count as artworks and serve as memories of the history

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

abandoned. The factory closed in 1972 when most of the machinery was cleared, but was revived as a museum which opened in 1997 with machines of the early 20th century brought in from elsewhere. Displays [...] fulling and other finishing processes are demonstrated, and to the dyehouse. The highlight of the museum is a section in which letters, parish documents, family traditions and photographs have been used [...] Gesche Thole, who migrated from Bremen to marry the master of the mill, portrays the period of the Industrial Revolution. Henrich Storch, describes the difficulties faced by a small-scale clothmaster at the

visitors. The museum is operated by the company JMV-Turismo Cultural in association with the municipality of Santiago do Cacém. It aims to preserve and disseminate the region’s rural and industrial heritage [...] The museum preserves a flour mill built in 1925 with all its equipment in working order – the Fábrica de Moagem de José Mateus Vilhena. It is located in the village of São Domingos in southern Portugal [...] Portugal, a rich area for grain production. The mill worked for 59 years. It opened to the public as a museum in 2014. The two-storey building was built simply, with brick and rammed-earth walls and zinc roofs

celebrated as the cradle of the Bohemian glass industry and as one of Europe’s principal centres for the manufacture of costume jewellery. Both industries developed in the eighteenth century, but were most [...] nineteenth century. The town was granted full municipal status within the Habsburg Empire in 1866. The museum has displays illustrating glass-making technology, as well as products of the region. There are extensive

The museum of Großalmerode, the „city of good clay”, takes its visitors on a trip through 800 years of clay work and glass-making, showing the development of local trades and their impact on the people [...] people involved, with a primary focus on the time from the beginning of the industrialization until the 1950s and 1960s. The exhibition illustrates the mining and processing of the clay that was taken from

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

Today the Museum for Industrial Clock Making in the old factory features carefully restored and fully operational manufacturing machinery. „To relive industrial history“ is the aim of the museum’s founders [...] mass-produced clocks. In 2003 the Museum for Industrial Clock Making has won the Luigi Micheletti Prize dedicated by the European Museum Forum as the best technical museum of the year. [...] of the factory age. Enjoy a comprehensive, often humorous and sometimes playful look at the clock industry. Experts show the manufacture of a mechanical alarm clock. A colourful range of products from the

period. The toy and pencil industries, as well as the production of bicycles and motorcycles, were also leading in Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries. The Museum of Industrial Culture, housed in a former [...] centre of supra-regional long-distance trade. This was one of the reasons why the city became the industrial heart of Bavaria at the beginning of the 19th century. This was aided by the construction of Germany's [...] engine to the present day, combining technical, cultural and social history. Along the so-called Museum Street, 200 years of industrialisation are brought to life in historically recreated living and working