includes photographs, prints, barrels and other utensils used in winemaking. The same industry features in another museum in Funchal, the Sao Franciso Cellars, in a former monastery, a collection of ancient [...] island, 1100 km south-west of Lisbon. The history of wine production in the island is celebrated in a museum established by the Institute of Wine in a building that once belonged to Henry Veitch, English consul

some of the world’s first oil wells. The area became the cradle of the Polish oil industry. The centrepiece of the museum is the drilling tower, a conical structure of timber with an external staircase that [...] The museum is in the area of early oil exploitation at Gorlice, south-east of Kraków, on the site of the former Magdalena oil well. After Ignacy Lukasiewicz invented the kerosene lamp at Kyiv in Ukraine [...] collection tanks, a ‘nodding donkey’ pump, a steam pump and a covered wagon for collecting oil drums. The museum was created in 2012 by former oil worker Kazimierz Dudek with the support of a voluntary association

was later taken over by the Krupp company. In this way the site of the Museum alone - it opened in 1995 – reflects the industrial traditions of the city. The exhibition is notable for its huge range of [...] If there is one feature which unites the exhibits in the Magdeburg Technical Museum, it is pioneering spirit. This is immediately obvious in the threshing equipment manufactured by the Magdeburg company [...] equipment combine. The exhibition hall itself was also a part of SKET. Until 1993 it was still an industrial site and contributed greatly to Magdeburg's reputation as an engineering construction centre. Before

basket making and violin making. The open-air museum effectively displays the architecture (chiefly wooden), arts and material culture of Gudbrandsdalen. Industrial buildings include a corn mill, a dyehouse [...] traversed by the ancient route from Oslo to Trondheim. On the edge of the town is Maihaugen, an open-air museum incorporating the collections of Anders Sandvig (1862-1950), son of a local fishermen, who studied [...] collecting buildings and artefacts, following the example of Artur Hazelius (1833-1901) who opened the museum at Skansen in Stockholm in 1891. Sandvig first displayed his collection to the public in 1904. He

du-Guard was employed in the silk industry and there were 23 producers. The museum stands in a park in the centre of a block between Rue de l’Industrie, Grand Rue and the river – the pedestrian entrance [...] entrance is at 5 Rue de l’Industrie and the car park is off Grand Rue. The museum focuses on the social history and traditional culture of the Cévennes from the seventeenth century to twentieth. It began with [...] and the museum opened there in 2017 after a large redevelopment project that combined sensitive conservation of the fine original architecture with striking new interventions. Many silk-industry artefacts

government subsidies, the port industry proved to be a chronic loss-maker and new sectors were developed, particularly in the areas of electronics and pharmaceuticals. However, industry accounts for only a small [...] ON THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MALTA Listen Malta and its surrounding islands have very little in the way of natural resources. Only the limestone, which is suitable for making cement. Additionally, the [...] it for a major role in naval matters in particular. For several centuries, a profitable textile industry also developed on the basis of cotton, which the Arabs brought to Malta in the 9th century. The

tile works and their workers and information about the continuing industry in the area. A complete tile kiln stands outside the museum. [...] The tile museum at the town of Onda, 50km north of Valencia, was started in 1968. It moved recently to a purpose-built and spacious gallery and was renamed for the Onda artist and ceramicist Manolo Safont [...] Safont (1928-2005). The museum is focused on architectural ceramics in Valencia. Onda is famous for its decorative tiles and ceramic murals and also for its decorated earthenware plates, bowls, jugs and

Bages’ agricultural, industrial and urban development. Ribbon manufacture: An extraordinary collection of machines exhibited in zones shows the evolution of the narrow textile industry from silk to the modern [...] The museum occupies the Dipòsits Vells (Old Cisterns) which collected and stored 12,000 m3 of water from the Sèquia canal and which were built by the civil engineer Marià Potó between 1861 and 1865. Nowadays [...] Nowadays, the museum has two permanent exhibitions spaces. The Sèquia and water: This exhibit demonstrates great importance of the Sèquia, a work of medieval engineering unique to Catalonia and Spain which

of this industrial heritage without the "Association pour la Sauvegarde du Klingenthal" (Association for the preservation of Klingenthal), which worked on the establishment of an exemplary museum since 1994 [...] Opened in 2007, the museum illustrates the production of bladed weapons by elaborately reconstructed workshops and a relevant collection of tools and products. An industrial heritage trail with displays

Stefan, Mietek, Dolores and Ziuta are names that are close to the hearts of the local museum guides. For behind these names are four extant historic weaving looms that are regularly used to demonstrate [...] of the 19th century. Demonstrations are part of the interactive tour for visitors to the factory museum in the Manufaktura shopping complex which traces the path of cotton from the cotton bolls to the [...] works in Europe. Its founder, a Jewish entrepreneur by the name of Israel Poznanski, set up an industrial empire that was brought to a cruelly abrupt end by Hitler’s barbaric Nazi regime. Astonishingly

the local authority in 1953, and through the 1960s urged the formation of a museum of mining. After proposals to locate a museum in the surface buildings of one of the collieries proved unavailing, a new [...] the pits, and finally came to an end in 1958. Migrants from Poland played an important part in the industry, the first of them arriving in the area in the 1870s. An agreement of 3 September 1919 between the [...] France. By 1931 more than 400 Polish miners were working in the Ronchamp pits. The creation of the museum was due to Marcel Maulini (1913-83) who was born at Bresse in the Vosges to parents who had migrated

The porcelain factory Margarethenhütte produced insulators for the electrical industry until 1991. The museum is located in the oldest part of the factory, dating from 1885. Bricks and pottery were made

The Maritime Museum is the most ancient shipping Museum in the Netherlands. Since the establishment in 1874 it developed itself from a modest showroom to a large museum with contemporary exhibitions. The [...] The extensive Museum Collection belongs to the most important in the world. Meanwhile the number of Museum assets increased to more than half a million objects. The Nedlloyd Collection plays an important [...] important permanent role. Together with the Harbour Museum it is considered as Maritime Quarters Rotterdam. The collection of the Harbour Museum consists of working objects. These objects are connected by a

The Asturian Maritime Museum in Luanco, opened in 1948, is the oldest museum in Asturias. Its current exhibition is housed in a new building constructed between 1998 and 2001. Four sections present life [...] in and with the sea, shipbuilding and navigation, fishing and fish processing and the (canning) industries that developed with it. The marine biology department introduces the world under water. The marine

Venetian Works of Defence World Heritage site. It is on a narrow channel off the Adriatic. In the eighteenth century 300 ships worked from the port. The Maritime Museum of Montenegro is in the centre of [...] of the walled city. The museum was begun in about 1880 by the Boka Marine Fraternity and opened to the public in 1900. In 1938 it moved to the eighteenth-century Baroque palace that it still occupies,

existing society is the history of class struggles’ have shaped the vocabulary of many accounts of industrial development, even those written by writers with philosophies directly opposed to Marxism. Karl [...] g regular contacts with Engels. He spent much of his time studying in the library of the British Museum and wrote a succession of lengthy works on philosophy and political economy, some of which remained [...] particularly through the First International, formed in 1864. His analysis of economic history, that industrial capitalism had created a proletariat, whose members could only live by selling their labour, has

stone. The mining museum is located in the town’s central square by the cathedral, but it provides a focus for the interpretation of the area’s industrial heritage. Tours from the museum guide visits to

Richard Arkwright (1732-92) at Cromford in what is now designated as the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site. While the first Cromford Mills complex, begun in 1771, was built in local stone and drew its [...] mansion. It remained in use for textile manufacturing into the 1990s, and was subsequently adopted as a museum of textiles, a conference centre and a shopping village.

Living industrial culture, modern art and nature come together in the historic factory site of Maste-Barendorf. Where brass was cast in the 19th century, an artists' and museum village now stretches out [...] Needle Museum, which is located in the factory village, is currently being completely overhauled and is expected to reopen in 2025. The grounds and the sculpture garden as well as the industrial-cultural [...] playful experience, are still freely accessible at all times. An exhibition area in the municipal museum is dedicated to needle production.

The rocky south-west coast of Sardinia combines natural beauty and impressive industrial heritage. The Miniera di Masua and Porto Flavia are within the Geological Mining Park of Sardinia. Mining at Masua [...] through the tunnels to a tall archway and a tower built into the cliff. The mining village and a museum of mining machinery can be seen at Masua.