technology prior to the Industrial Revolution: the Bologna-type silk-throwing machines. Not a single of them has survived, but a half-size reconstruction in the Museum of Industrial Heritage keeps them i [...] Galotti brickworks based here. On two further floors, the museum captures the panorama of a city which has successfully advanced several industries, including the manufacture of clothing and machine tools [...] well as a tortellini machine or products made by the cutting-edge packaging industry. The range of exhibits shows that industrial heritage in Bologna is well-rooted in history while still being relevant today

small town in central Poland where industrial development was fostered in the nineteenth century by government of the Congress Kingdom of Poland. The industrial museum was established in 1981 in a five-storey [...] y, wooden-framed textile mill built in 1824-26 by the brothers Fiedler. The main emphasis of the museum is on textiles and a range of machinery is displayed, including knitting frames, an unusual embroidery [...] and Polish ceramics. The long-lived ‘Calisia’ piano factory was situated in nearby Kalisz, and the museum includes a collection of more than 50 pianos and similar keyboard instruments, as well as displays

The museum occupies a large woollen factory built in 1824 by Adolf Fiedler. The factory worked for over a hundred years. It is an impressive building in a Classical style, five-storeys high in two ranges [...] installed and by 1888 it had three steam engines and two waterwheels. Preservation began in 1981 and the museum opened in 1991. It now cares for some 12,000 objects. The galleries show steam engines and power

The museum in Agia Paraskevi on the island of Lesvos,a site of the Museum Network of the Cultural Foundation of the Piraeus Bank Group (PIOP), is located in a former communal oil mill, in which both a

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

The Museum of Industry in Ghent dedicates a whole storey to textile manufacture because cotton was the driving force behind the industrial development of the city. Not for nothing is the museum located [...] our industrial past. Families and schools are especially well catered for with educational display cases and hands-on museum games with which they can test their skills. The top storey of the museum can [...] offers the ideal framework for a splendid exhibition on the history of industrial society from 1750 to the present day . A tour of the museum introduces visitors to themes like child labour, the influence of

regeneration. A Museum of Industry and Labour has been established in a large single-storey parts warehouse constructed for the Breda engineering company in 1934, and in an adjacent industrial archaeological [...] Giovanni is an industrial community on the north-eastern side of Milan with a population of more than 75,000 which has displayed imagination and enterprise in adapting to the post-industrial world. A project [...] . The Museum holds the archives and the contents of the workshop of the designer and model-maker Giovanni Sacchi (1913-98) who was born and spent his whole life in Sesto San Giovanni. The Museum maintains

mill have been renovated. Museum includes also an area for temporary events, an audiovisual room and a space for laboratories. Museum of Iron is part of musil – Museum of Industry and Labor of Brescia, a [...] The Museum of Iron was opened in 1984, when the building was acquired by Civiltà Bresciana Foundation to be transformed in a museum-laboratory of industrial archaeology. It is located in the oldest pr [...] proto-industrial area of the city, but the hammer forge was in function until the end of the XX Century. In its external area, Museum of Iron shows the historic role of the water wheels: the canal provides

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

products of the industry which is backed up with a substantial reserve collection. The Museum holds a photographic archive, and has an extensive library devoted to the textile industry and particularly [...] is a small town in the northern part of Limburg province where the museum is concerned chiefly with the lace and embroidery industry that once flourished in the region. There are displays of tools, machines [...] local history are covered in a varied collection of historical artefacts in the Antiquity Room. The Museum is the starting point for several cycling routes along which visitors can learn more of the history

The Museum of Liverpool is one of the group of national museums in the city that includes the International Slavery Museum and the Maritime Museum. It covers topics from prehistoric archaeology to The [...] historic waterfront as the Museum of Liverpool Life in 1993 and moved in 2011 to a new building conceived by the Danish architects 3XN. The ground-floor displays focus on the industrial revolution and the commercial [...] The social history collections include many objects related to working life in the port and its industries.

using the original materials. The city’s industrial museum opened in the building in 1974. A major investment project led to it reopening in 2021 as The Museum of Making. Some 30,000 objects are used to [...] The museum of industry in Derby stands on the site of a water-powered five-storey mill built in around 1721 by John and Thomas Lombe to accommodate silk-throwing technology that they had observed in Italy [...] made. Galleries act as a gateway to textile history in the World Heritage site and explain the silk industry and how the original mill machines were laid out. Other displays tell the story of the Rolls Royce

the coast as a glistening white range of peaks. The history of the marble industry is comprehensively displayed in the museum in the town, opened in 1982, and visitors can take guided tours of the quarries [...] vary from three hours to a day, and incorporate displays of sculpture and other marble products, a museum quarry and parts of the ferrovia marmifera, the railway built in 1890 to convey marble from the workings

closed down in the 1990's. The museum is located in the former power plant building of the iron and steelworks. It tells the story of the Silesian iron and steel industry. The focus of the exhibition entitled [...] In the 19th century todays Chorzów was one of the hot spots of the Industrial Revolution. Königshütte/Kościuszko ironworks was put into operation in 1802. It was one of the first steam-powered steelworks

1884. At that time, this area was an industrial zone on the Łyna River with sawmills, breweries, a mustard factory, a foundry and a gasworks. Since 2019 the museum has expanded into a 1940s trolleybus [...] The Museum of Modernity opened in 2014 in a former sawmill on the edge of the Central Park of Olsztyn. (It also known as the Centre for Technology and Regional Development of Olsztyn Municipal Cultural

The region is filled with almond trees. The museum is owned by a confectionary company and is located in the southern corner of the ‘City of Turrón’ industrial estate in the factory of the companies El Lobo

manufacture of paper. Its guild (or corporation) of papermakers was formally established in 1326. The industry was developed by Pietro Miliani (1744-1817), who introduced new technology, and developed high quality [...] earthquakes. The Cartiere Miliani Fabricano company bears the name of the 18th century entrepreneur. The museum shows how paper making technologies developed in the late middle ages from those used in the making

The museum of pasta is located on the banks of the Taro river n the province of Parma between Collechio and Ozzaro Taro, 12 km from the city of Parma. It is one of several food museums in the region and [...] have been marketed and with the role of pasta in art and culture. The pasta museum shares its premises with a tomato museum, which opened in 2010. Visitors can learn about the different varieties of tomatoes [...] America, and the growth of the tomato processing industry which developed in the Parma region, canning the fruit and manufacturing tomato purée The two museums share the same website and email address.

and tools which have shaped our industrial and social environments. The Industrial Revolution has never really stopped, its pace has quickened over the years. The Museum is aiming to provide safe exhibition [...] in Essex and during the Industrial Revolution people across the county utilised a mixture of wells and surface streams to get the water they needed for domestic and industrial uses. Water companies were [...] machinery, equipment and tools which have been used to develop the industrial and social conditions we enjoy today. The second aim of the Museum is to provide any opportunity for the restoration and preservation

It presents a few thousand exhibits related to power engineer­ing: from an iron and one-hundred-year-old booth of a street transform­er from Bytom, machines and power generators, measuring and lightin