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

The museum was begun by the master-printer Maurice Audin in 1964 and celebrated its half century with a major renovation in 2014. It occupies the Hôtel de la Couronne, a Renaissance house that became Lyon's [...] explores the expansion of printing books and images in Lyon in the Renaissance. Changes in the Industrial Revolution included railway transport and greater mechanisation in printing, for example the invention

World War, but the ribbon industry revived in the 1920s. New technology was introduced in the 1960s and manufacturing continues in spite of successive economic crises. The museum dates from 1985 and displays [...] century, and by the seventeenth century local weavers specialised in the production of ribbons. The industry developed rapidly from the 1680s with the introduction of bar looms, with encouragement from Philippe [...] a working bar loom, rebuilt in 1993 following drawings in Diderot’s Encyclopedia. Visitors to the museum can learn not just about the technology of ribbon manufacture but about the social lives of the local

of the museum is also interesting. It is in the centre of the famous factory site at Diglis, to where it moved in the 1800s from its original home at Warmstry House not far away. Part of the museum building [...] This is a museum that can be appreciated at a number of levels. Dr John Wall, a surgeon and prominent local figure started the Worcester Porcelain Manufactory in 1751. At the time the country was in the [...] building was originally the school that served this industrial community. Some of the terraced housing occupied by the factory workers line surrounding streets. The site straddles the medieval walls of the

made at Oderwitze, and the Presto cars and motorcycles produced in Chemnitz, are now largely forgotten. One of the objectives of the Museum of Saxon Road Vehicles is to perpetuate the memory of companies [...] building in the International Modern style, built in 1928 when the motor industry in Saxon was at its most prosperous. The museum displays more than 200 motorcycles and cars manufactured in Saxony by more [...] land or state, once the kingdom, of Saxony was home to one of Europe’s most innovative engineering industries in the first half of the twentieth century, and a leading centre for the production of motor vehicles

that time the museum had no collections. It was recognised as a national museum in 1990 and from 1991 began to co-ordinate the work of 16 museums in other parts of Serbia. In 2005 the Museum was offered [...] well as a documentation centre that holds materials on many aspects of industrial and technological history in Serbia. The Museum is a location on the cultural route 'Tesla Ways'. [...] The Museum of Science and Technology in Serbia was formally constituted on the initiative of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts in 1989, although many proposals for such a project had been put forward

Sweden’s national museum of science and technology was founded in 1924 under the patronage of several of the country’s leading learned societies and industrial organisations. It is located in a building [...] in 1946, and has received state funding since 1964. The displays portray many aspects of Swedish industry. A substantial permanent exhibition called Ferrum illustrates the importance of iron-making in Sweden [...] the workings of an electric arc furnace. Other galleries have displays on electric power, forest industries and mining, and the development from its infancy of information technology. An extensive model

is an important industrial centre with a wide range of industries, especially mechanical engineering, chemicals and food. The Museum of Science and Technology and the Museum of Industrial Design are part [...] part of the Adrenalin City complex of cultural and entertainment venues. The museums were established in 2013 with the involvement of the IT Step Computer Academy. The collections include over 1,500 objects [...] presented in a way intended to interest visitors and inspire the designers of the future. The Korsaks’ Museum of Ukrainian Contemporary Art is also part of the Adrenalin City complex.

sewing-machines. At its peak 3,000 women worked in the industry locally, making products for famous brands such as Pierre Cardin and Christian Dior. The museum is in Brillaud’s factory on the bank of the river [...] dispatch. An association to preserve the shirt-making heritage of the town was started in 1982 and the museum opened with the help of the local authority in 1993.

with industrial buildings. Shortly behind the sign telling you that you are entering Sprimont there is another smaller sign pointing the way to the Museum of Stone. The road leading to the museum opens [...] glass-fronted buildings rise into the sky in the background. Is this a museum or do people still work here? It is the Sprimont Museum of Stone, housed in the former central power station of the quarry, which [...] fossils. The stone is primarily used in the building industry; but sculptors also like working on it, as can be seen from the many artworks in the museum´s courtyard and the old power station. The central

Finland's Museum of Technology, founded in 1969 and opened in 1975, is housed in the historic waterworks buildings that were built in the 1870s for the Helsinki Water Board and closed in the 1960s. They [...] are spectacularly located on the island of Kuninkaankartano at the mouth of the Vantaa River. The museum uses interactive exhibits to tell the story of Finland's development from an agrarian society to [...] development. Among other things, visitors can learn about the history of the printing and chemical industries, sugar production, the processing of forest products and metallurgy. A large part of the exhibition

Premià de Mar, built in 1884, is the only museum in Spain that specialises in textile printing. Some buildings of the gas works remain alongside the purpose-built museum, which opened in 2002. It explains the [...] of textile printing, its history since the eighteenth century and its significance in the industrialization of Catalunya as a leading centre of textile printing from the 1930s. It shows processes from [...] collection of thousands of examples of printed textiles and an archive and library. It is also a museum for local history and archaeology from prehistory to the present.

well-known and popular part of the museum, and a speciality of the shop is the provision of Walloon delicacies including chocolate, pékèt (alcohol) and sirop de Liège. The museum holds many documents relating [...] Gustave Marissaux (1872-1929) of mining subjects. Marissaux was born in the nearby industrial community of Seraing. The museum is located in a former monastery near the centre of Liège. [...] The Musée de la Vie Wallone (Museum of Walloon Life) portrays many aspects of the social history of the French-speaking community in Belgium from the early nineteenth century onwards. Its collection of

Most demonstrators worked in the textile industry. They take commissions and produce items for sale such as cotton bath towels, tea-towels and tablecloths. The museum shows a collection of fabrics and provides [...] Geldrop was an important centre for textile manufacture in the nineteenth century, especially wool. The museum occupies the buildings of a woollen factory on the river Kleine Dommel at the site of a medieval [...] company name: ‘van den Heuvel & Zoon’. Through a large collection of looms and other machines the museum shows how to weave in different textiles and how processes have changed. It demonstrates weaving

of the past weaving the future“: in line with its motto, the three neighbouring locations of the Museum of Woollen Textiles in Covilhã explore the traces of local wool processing over the centuries. There [...] feels like to card, spin and weave wool with your own hands. In order to fully grasp the diverse industrial heritage that is scattered throughout the city with its factories, drying yards, chimneys, machines