where wages were lower. The Living Textile Museum, established in 1989, is located in a four-storey former factory. Its displays illustrate the textile industry in the area since the early eighteenth century [...] demonstrated, and the museum also arranges temporary exhibitions on topical themes. There is close co-operation with parallel projects on the Czech side of the border, and the museum at Gross-Siegharts is [...] area and in the late nineteenth century there were six steam-powered mills in Gross-Siegharts. The industry still employed many people in the town in the 1980s, but the fall of the Iron Curtain led companies

centuries. Since 1972 visitors have been able to explore some of the most spectacular remains of the industry at the Llechwedd Slate Caverns. The ‘caverns’ are actually slate mines, although in the English [...] appropriately built in 1854. The location is part of the North West Wales Slate Landscape World Heritage Site.

t House , now a museum, which in the 19th century was the home of Don Guillermo Areny-Plandolit, one of the principal ironmasters in Andorra. There are numerous exhibits in the museum showing how loca [...] source of iron in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. One of the principal monuments of the iron industry is the ore mine at Llorts in the parish of Ordino, where guided tours are provided for visitors

czech brewing industry, is situated in Central Bohemian Region, some 60 km north of Prague. The village is located on the edge of Kokořínsko Natural Reserve and was declared a Rural Heritage Zone with the [...] wasn´t until the very end of the 19th century, when the owner had it rebuilt in the form of an industrial steam-powered production unit. The redevelopment project was authored by a renowned engineer, Johan [...] n, set up in October 2009, administers the premises seeking to preserve and revive this unique industrial monument, endeavouring to organize recurrent open days and cultural events and offering guided

The museum is a centre for documenting, preserving and communicating the industrial history of the town of Lohne and its region in Lower Saxony. The present museum opened in 2000 to bring together existing [...] collections. Some of the local industries were cardboard and box-making, cork processing, cigar making and brush making. Plastics processing is still a significant industry in the town. All of these sectors [...] family from about 1950 and an exhibition about rail transport. Nearby a museum store holds large equipment and machinery. The museum has a specialism in conserving waterlogged wood from prehistory as well

patent expired in 1732, the silk industry expanded in several places in England, especially, at Stockport and Macclesfield in Cheshire. The Derby Silk Mill is a museum on the site of the Lombe brothers’ [...] industrialists, including Richard Arkwright. The Lombe’s silk mill owed its success to John Lombe’s industrial espionage in Italy. He died aged only 29, possibly murdered for stealing trade secrets. The Lombe [...] machinery. The mill did not make good quality silk and it closed. The leading country in the silk industry was Italy, where aspects of the factory system were pioneered in the seventeenth century. In 1714

This museum of London buses is outside the capital near Weybridge in Surrey. The collection of buses opened in the large building at its present site in 2011, but its origins go back to 1929. The museum [...] museum aims to show the engineering heritage of the collection in its historical, social and technological context and puts each bus in a diorama of a London street scene of the same date. The displays follow

Welcome to the Long Shop Museum the home of the Garrett Collection and one of the first assembly line buildings in the world. The Museum, inaugurated in 1984, stands in the original 19th century works [...] business. As you tour the museum you will discover more to the Garrett story than you imagined. See, from the enormous range of Garrett products over 200 years, how the Industrial revolution forever changed [...] itself was built as a workshop for the manufacture of portable steam engines and is now restored as a museum. Garrett’s successful stand at the Great Exhibition in 1851 was a major landmark in the history of

known in previous locations as the Louwman Collection and the Nationaal Automobiel Museum (National Automobile Museum). It has been displayed since 2010 in a building designed by the American architect [...] The collection of vehicles now displayed in the Louwman Museum was begun in 1934 by a family closely involved in the motor trade in the Netherlands, who are currently importers of Lexus, Toyota and Suzuki [...] 230 cars and is chiefly important for the coverage it gives to the early years of the motor car industry. It includes more examples manufactured before 1910 than any other collection, the oldest being

motor-scooters. From 1991 the company was part of Mercedes-Benz. The museum is run by the local authority and focuses on the industrial history of Ludwigsfelde from 1936. Its primary exhibits are the engineering

complete blast furnace site in Germany. This was what an industrial plant looked like before the Ruhrgebiet stepped in to create an industrial landscape par excellence. The blast furnace is 10 metres high [...] Smoking chimneys and industrial spires towering into the heavens! Not here! The Luisenhütte in Balve-Wocklum looks almost cosy. No steel, no complicated tangles of pipes, no gigantic engine house. Instead [...] the furnace pond had its use. It drove the furnace blowing engine via a waterwheel. Visitors to the museum can see for themselves - live - how this worked. An ancient steam engine is also still in operation

huge Art Nouveau villa that houses the museum. They produced films and sold their technology with great success, beginning a revolution in the entertainment industry. Later they pioneered colour photography [...] The Lumière Museum is in the centre of Lyon, at the factory site of the brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière, world-famous pioneers of film and photography. Their father ran a photography business in Lyon [...] photography and stereoscopic cinematography. With unique collections and multimedia tools, the museum extends over three floors. The site of the factory is a garden with a wall of plaques to great film-makers

of how cast iron can be used for ornamental purposes. The Magma Museum preserves and presents the history of the regional iron industry from a technical, artistic and social point of view. The exhibition

The Marina Luz flour factory is in the village of Gordoncillo, 60 km south of León, in the wide agricultural plain known as ‘Tierra de Campos’ (land of fields), which is famous for growing cereal crop

The MIK Osnabrück Museum of Industrial Culture is located on the Piesberg in the UNESCO Nature and Geopark TERRA.vita. Sandstone and coal have been quarried on the Piesberg since early modern times. A [...] half of the 19th century onwards, coal was mined industrially in underground mines, but due to problems with water drainage, mining ceased in 1898. The museum opened in 1994 in the Piesberg colliery's listed

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.

publications on industrial topics. The museum manages three historical sites in Grimbergen, two of them are working watermills for grain. One mill is open during regular demonstrations. The museum also has two [...] and profession. The museum has an important and international collection of trade catalogues, many of which with an industrial character, partly digitalised and available on the site's website. The scientific [...] The MOT is a technology museum in Grimbergen near Brussels, which specialises since 1980 in techniques driven by natural power sources. The main collection is built around handheld tools of every era and

MUNA is short for ‘ammunition factory’ and this museum tells the story of production for the Luftwaffe near Grebenhain from 1936 to 1945. The museum opened in 2011 in the old village elementary school [...] as an industrial area, a NATO supply camp and a holiday camp. It also shows material related to the peace movement that protested against NATO’s nuclear weapons in the 1980s. In 2013, the museum opened

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.

inland port in the Netherlands. The museum tells the stories of the river and the Juliana Cana (completed 1935), shipping companies, the sand and gravel industries and pleasure boating. The changes in [...] started in 1985 and came to their present location in a former bank in 2014. In the harbour, the museum maintains a ship’s wheelhouse with a simulator for visitors to try and historic vessels, including