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

sold or scrapped, and locomotives and carriages had to be obtained from elsewhere. Operation as a heritage railway began in 1987, at first with diesel traction, but some steam locomotives were used from [...] while guest workers arrived in the 1970s to take jobs in construction, forestry and the tourism industry.

A visit to Weaver Hall Museum and Workhouse begins on the ground floor with a short introductory film in ‘The Regalette’ mini-cinema. You then walk through the Special Exhibitions Gallery to two other [...] Cheshire over 2,000 years, will be relaunched as the Working Life Gallery covering other important industries in the area including ship building, farming and chemicals. Old River Weaver Gallery is currently

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 [...] historically-important it´s been declared a Scheduled Monument and carefully managed by the Museum and English heritage. There are two stories to tell at Langford, one of fresh water and one of power. You can [...] 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

The Industrial Revolution transformed popular entertainment. Nothing displays this more clearly than the development of mechanical rides at fairs from the mid-nineteenth century. Fairground rides across [...] engines made in England by Burrell and Fowler could be found in many countries. Dingle’s Fairground Heritage Collection displays a wide variety of rides and associated fairground equipment from the United [...] painted maroon, and examples of the heavy lorries that were adapted for the use of showmen. The indoor museum includes a gallery of fairground art, a feature of which is ‘Salome and the Dance of the Seven Veils’

Cold War housed in an innovative building opened in 2007. The museum is important in several respects in the wider context of European industrial history. The ‘Test Flight’ section consists principally of [...] The principal objective of the museum at Cosford is to educate present and future generations about the Royal Air Force. The principal displays are of the aircraft flown since 1939 by the RAF, its allies [...] for the last time in 1964, its endurance time having been proved to be no more than 25 minutes. The museum displays several aircraft of the types used by civilian airlines in the years between the end of

be seen as part of a growing nationwide awareness in the United Kingdom that the nation’s industrial heritage was under threat. The Society’s object was to collect examples of characteristic steam engines [...] Bolton, a huge spinning mill complex, where there were once 400,000 spindles and 2,000 employees. A museum displaying re-constructed engines to the public, was opened in 1983. The future of the collection [...] accommodated 7,000 bales of cotton. All the engines had to be dismantled, moved and re-erected, but the museum was re-opened from 2006. Some 29 engines are currently displayed. One of the most notable is the

Ramsden, an industrialist and co-owner of the Furness Railway. The museum, which originated in 1907, tells the story of the industrial and urban growth of Barrow, and of the Furness Railway, but also looks [...] Barrow-in-Furness was one of the few wholly new towns that grew up during Britain’s Industrial Revolution. In the early nineteenth century it was a hamlet in the parish of Dalton with a tiny population

building designed by Joan de Villanueva, that has been described as ‘one of the most emblematic industrial buildings in Europe’. In subsequent years La Granja produced Venetian-style glass of exquisite [...] Fondacion Centro Nacional del Vidrio (National Glass Foundation) was established in 1982 and the present museum was opened in 1991. Its most important exhibits are the buildings of the late eighteenth century

centre of the doll-making industry in Spain since the late nineteenth century. It still has many traditional manufacturers and produces goods for the Playmobil brand. The museum is in one of the fine houses [...] including Antonio Juan, Mariquita Pérez, Así, Berjuan, Famosa, Falca, Rauber and Nines d'Onil. The museum arranges visits to some of the local doll factories.

tin ore. The Parque Minero de la Unión (Mining Park at La Unión) is an open air museum commemorating the mining industry whose principal feature is the mine called the Mina Agrupa Vincenta which is registered [...] multi-media displays on the history of the area. A train them takes them through a landscape full of industrial monuments to the Mina Agrupa Vincenta. Amongst the features of the landscape are a lake of ochre-tinted [...] generations of coal miners in Murcia, and can learn something of other mines in the vicinity. The museum stages an annual festival of music and flamenco dancing called the Cante de las Minas. >>> Currently

bath house, once used as a stable but now part of the museum displays. Two sections of the museum are of particular relevance to the theme of Industry and War. There is a room illustrating the Great Siege [...] in extent, has many military and naval monuments that reflect on the relationship between war and industry. The Royal Navy maintained extensive facilities at Gibraltar from the 18th century until almost [...] victualling store of 1807. Responsibility for historic artefacts rests with the Gibraltar National Museum, established in 1930 by the then Governor General Sire Alexander Godley. It occupies Ordnance House

The Churnet Valley Railway is a heritage line on part of the former North Staffordshire Railway that was opened in 1849 and lost its passenger services in 1965, although it remained open for freight trains [...] trains carrying limestone and sand until 1988. The copper industry of the Churnet Valley was once of great importance and the limestone quarries at Cauldon Low were some of the most productive in England [...] formed in 1992, and the first trains under its auspices ran in 1996. The society’s engine shed and museum are located near Cheddleton station which remains in its original nineteenth-century condition. The

essentially a museum of the applied arts, but its collections are an illuminating resource for anyone concerned with the industrial history of Europe. It was founded, as the South Kensington Museum, in the year [...] 1856, and the museum became the first to provide a restaurant for its visitors the following year. In 1858 gas lighting enabled evening openings, giving access for working people. The museum has more than [...] Crystal Palace amongst the exhibits from the Habsburg Empire in 1851. Museums of this kind place the artefacts produced by industry in Europe in the context of the material cultures of civilisations from

The woollen factory called Merinos at Bursa was a state-funded project to advance industry in Turkey. It was opened by President Atatürk in person in 1938. The plan was to use fine-quality fleeces of merino [...] merino sheep imported from Australia. Bursa is now the fourth largest city in Turkey. The museum opened in 2011 in the restored factory. The displays follow the processes all the way from raw wool to carding [...] factory, one of the preserved sections is the laboratory for testing fibres, yarns and fabrics. The museum also has a section on silk manufacturing, which has a very long history in Bursa. The displays follow

Aberdeen Maritime Museum tells the story of the city's long relationship with the sea. It houses a unique collection on shipbuilding, fishing and port history. It is also the only museum in the UK dedicated [...] dedicated to the oil and gas industry. The highlight of the exhibition is the true-to-scale and detailed reproduction of the Murchison oil drilling platform.

restored and promoted by the industrial museum which opened in May 12, 2000. The exceptional industrial heritage of Syros invites the interested visitor to an exciting and informative tour. [...] building iron ships. The museum: Built in 1888, the building first housed a lead shot factory before becoming a paint and dye works in 1909. A significant part of Syros’ industrial history is kept, restored [...] Hermoupolis is an industrial community with an astonishing history. The island of Syros is relatively barren, has few classical antiquities of note, and had a population of only about 4000 in 1800. From

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

The museum at Amberley illustrates the history of industries of many kinds from south-east England, but it is particularly important for the evidence it provides of lime production, road transport and [...] and industrial railways. The museum occupies a 14.5 ha site that was once used from the 1840s by Pepper & Co for the quarrying of chalk that was burned in kilns to produce lime, that was used in agriculture [...] oldest of which dates from 1908, carry visitors on circuits round the museum, and make occasional appearances at events elsewhere. The museum also holds a substantial archive of documents relating to the Southdown

and Frederiksvaerk became the leading town of modern heavy industry in Denmark. The powder works closed in 1965, and has ever since been a museum whose main feature is the intact and working machinery from [...] , New Lanark and Saltaire. Based on waterpower Frederiksvaerk once housed the national armament industry and was a worldwide supplier of military equipment. In the 1720s an agate polishing mill was built [...] gh was made in the 1760s by the general J.F. Classen who developed the place into a prosperous industrial society. The Gun Foundry, an extensive powder works and a large number of dwellings in combination