The Cement Museum is a not-for-profit organisation under the Secil Group, a leading international cement and concrete producer. It aims to present the history of the Leiria Cement Company, which was founded [...] founded in 1923, and the Maceira-Liz plant. The museum opened in 1991 in the headquarters building and displays documents, photographs and films of the works from the 1930s. An observation point gives views

The Metallurgy Museum explores the heritage of the Ardennes mountain range as a former heartland of the iron industry. Opened in 1986, it occupies a large factory built in 1884, which produced nuts, bolts [...] bolts and fittings for the railway industry. The museum takes visitors on a journey through the evolution of iron making, beginning in the Middle Ages, when nails were forged by hand on the banks of the

this museum explores the history of glass and crystal-making from antiquity to the present day. Many of the processes of manufacture have changed little since the eighteenth century. The museum shows

industrial world. The museum opened in 1992 and has welcomed over 600,000 visitors. It occupies a water-powered paper mill dating from around 1820, sited at a weir on the River l’Indre. The museum contains more [...] This large technological history museum was established by Maurice Dufresne, a blacksmith and later an engineering entrepreneur and a specialist in salvage. Dufresne saved objects he believed to be re

extracted from shaft mines that gave access to underground chambers, drained by steam engines. The museum has developed from the work of the Friends of the Slate Industry, an association established in 1979

did not recover its prosperity until 1930. The slate mine finally closed in 1997 and the present museum was opened in 2008 in the building from which the mines were managed, which also accommodated a power

the mining and quarrying of slate from the 15th century until the last workings ceased in 1975. The museum was established around the headstock of the former Longchamps mine by the Perrayeurs Mayennais, the [...] massive electric motor of 1904 that powered winding apparatus and air compressors remains in place. The museum holds a particularly notable collection of tools. Displays show the methods used in mines and quarries

of war in 1914. The last open quarry in the area ceased work in 1920. The mine was re-opened as a museum in 2007. Visitors see an introductory film explaining the geology of the area, and the quality of

Haut Martelange lies near the French frontier on the western border of Luxembourg. The museum occupies the premises of a former slate-working enterprise comprising 22 buildings across an 8 ha site. It [...] organisation Le Réseau Ardoise d’Ardenne and the trail guide La Route d’Ardoise with similar slate museums at Alle-sur-Semois and Bertrix in Belgium and Rimogne in France.

are available in the museum shop. Au Coeur de l’Ardoise is linked through the organisation Le Réseau Ardoise d’Ardenne and the trail guide La Route d’Ardoise with similar slate museums at Alle-sur-Semois [...] Belgian Ardennes notable for its large number of slate-faced buildings. Au Coeur de l’Ardoise is a museum concerned with the heritage of the slate industry in the region. Visitors can go on a 75-minute

organisation Le Réseau Ardoise d’Ardenne and the trail guide La Route d’Ardoise with similar slate museums at Bertrix in Belgium, Rimogne in France and Haut-Martelange in Luxembourg.

The Cement Museum traces 100 years of cement production at Slemmestad. In 1888, a German-Swedish company began quarrying the region’s limestone deposits for cement production and in 1892, the business [...] In total, some 29 million tonnes of cement were produced before the factory closed in 1989. The museum was created in 1991 by former employees. It occupies the building in the centre of the town where

was an important source of iron ore, and mining is the principal topic illustrated in the town’s museum, although it also has remains and photographs of a Zeppelin airship which crashed nearby in 1910

Other museums are in preparation, including the Silesian Porcelain Museum in Tułowice near Opole, the Museum of Agricultural Techniques in Piotrowice Śląskie near Świdnica, the Railway Museum in Dzierżoniów [...] is mainly carried out by converting the object in question into a museum. Currently, the Foundation operates the Silesian Railway Museum in Jaworzyna Śląska - an ERIH anchor point - established in 2005 [...] Dzierżoniów as a branch of the Museum in Jaworzyna Śląska, and the former Hilbert flour factory in Dzierżoniów. The Silesian Cultural Award has been bestowed by the federal state of Lower Saxony since 1977

Muzej Stara Livnica (formerly the Museum of the Crvena Zastava Institute) was started as long ago as 1953, to celebrate the centenary of the Zastava arms factory. The foundry cast its first cannon in 1853 [...] the factory now produces smaller arms under the name Zastava Arms and exports them worldwide. The museum occupies the former gun foundry, which closed in 1968. The foundry was rebuilt in the 1880s in the [...] form of two tall, well-lit halls with rooflights, clerestory windows and aisles on either side. The museum traces the factory’s history as part of Kragujevac’s economic, social and cultural development. Zastava

survive in the twentieth century, and those in Amalfi were damaged by a catastrophic flood in 1954. The museum was established in 1959 by a papermaker, Nicola Milano. It is located in a mill that retains its [...] and exhibits include a Hollander first used there in 1745. There is an extensive library and the museum has many international links.

dates. One of the main themes in the museum is devoted to "Paper Art". Items are not only displayed here in the museum. Every two years the adjacent Leopold Hoesch Museum presents the "Paper Art Biennale" [...] 000 people employed in the local industry. The Düren Paper Museum is housed in a building in the town centre behind the Leopold Hoesch Museum. Here visitors can learn more about the interesting history [...] of communicating culture. In Düren, a town with an important paper industry, there is a complete museum dedicated to the material. The fact that paper, alongside textiles and metals, played such an important

region’s coal mines represent the industry. The Mine Museum is part of the ‘Museums of Mequinenza’ with the Mequinenza History Museum and the Museum of the Prehistoric Past. [...] The Mequinenza Mine Museum presents over 170 years of mining history. Coal mining began in this area of north-east Spain in the late nineteenth century. The museum is housed in the underground workings

Shortly after the Civil War, Spain’s Ministry of the Air planned to open a museum to commemorate the Air Force and Spanish aviation history. The delayed project opened in May 1981. Located in Spain’s first [...] military airfield, the Cuatro Vientos Air Base near Madrid, this is one of Europe’s top aeronautical museums due to its large collection. Around 200 aircraft are on display, largely planes and helicopters used

and other industrial facilities to theatre plays and film screenings, and of course also include museum exhibitions. With a few exceptions, all offers are free of charge. Week van de Industriecultuur