representative of the 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 [...] 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 [...] l’Indre. The museum contains more than 3,000 objects from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They include a wide range of road vehicles such as bicycles, motorcycles, cars, steamrollers, a double-decker

had ceased. In 1985 people began to reconsider the industrial history and traditions of the people of Mechernich. Over the following years a new museum with a permanent exhibition has been constructed on [...] "Knotten" (lead ore deposits). The tour takes place in the Eifel region, in the galleries of the mining museum in Mechernich. Mining started here under the Romans, and since the 13th century the main product [...] gallery has been converted into a visitors´ gallery, run by the Friends of the Mechernich Mining Museum. Here visitors can learn some interesting facts about regional mining history, and also view a section

After the Second World War uranium ore was mined as well as coal, but the industry has now entirely closed down. The Mining Museum in Pécs opened in 1981. It includes a replica mine, 400 m long, created [...] There are displays of equipment including hydraulic props and wagons from underground railways. The museum holds a large minerals collection.

from the 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

its row of four steel chimneys at one end of the building. The museum explores the importance of electricity in daily life and industrial production through photographs, documents, models, graphics and [...] The museum opened in 2012 in the electricity generating station of Bursa Merinos woollen factory. The factory was built in 1938 and the dedicated power station continued in use until 1973, fired by coal

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

Fozola from Wurzburg. Two branches of the National Technical Museum commemorate the history of the iron industry. The Central Metallurgical Museum is at Felsohamor, a village about 10 km from Miskolc, and [...] Baroque building of 1778-79, which served as an administrative and storage building for the iron industry. The collection includes a good range of nineteenth century machine tools. A blast furnace of 1813-14 [...] stack about 10 m high, is preserved at Ujmassa. It has been conserved since 1951, and was the first industrial monument in Hungary to receive legislative protection.

and why this place left its mark elsewhere in the world is a story told by the Metallurgic Park, a museum with several branches in the region. An elaborate multimedia show brings the almost intact historic [...] in size that takes visitors on a virtual trip through more than 3.000 years of the region’s iron industries, focusing on the heyday in the 19th and 20th centuries when skillfully casted fountains, statues

Housed in the five-storey Perienes canning factory, the Museum of Labour opened in 1995. It grew from a collection dedicated to the world of work that was gathered by students in a project supervised by [...] spaces of the former factory are filled with display panels and objects. The displays cover local industry, domestic work, agriculture, commerce and especially fish canning and lithographic printing of packaging [...] The second exhibition traces the canning production process and displays artifacts relating to the industry, including a large and colourful collection of printed packaging. Testimonies can be read from workers

production of electrical appliances for households as well as industry. To this day, the company is owned by the two founding families. The museum tells the success story of the company and presents the diverse

The Vienna Arsenal is a huge industrial complex that once supplied one of the largest European armies. Unlike the Arsenale in Venice, it has no ancient origins, having been established in 1849 on the [...] complex is a crenellated 36-bay engineering shop. Part of the site is occupied by the Austrian Military Museum whose displays illustrate the military history of the Habsburg Empire from c. 1600 until 1918, and

Avenue and its historic environment', which was inscribed to Unesco World Heritage List in 2002. The Underground Railway Museum is located in the former terminus station, which was converted to an exhibition [...] and photographs illustrating, amongst other things, the construction of Metro lines M2 and M3. The museum was renovated in 1996 in commemoration of the centenary of the Metro.

part of a museum dates from 1996 when proposals were made by the Frédéric Velge Foundation as part of a programme to revitalise the local economy after the closure of mines and other industries. The project [...] was supported by the Portuguese Association for Industrial Archaeology, and the centre was opened in its present form in 2010. The indoor part of the museum is located in the power station of 1934 that supplied

company. The mineralagical museum established by the Lavrion Studies Society (EMEL) in 1986 commemorates the work of the geologist and mining engineer A. Kordellas (1863-1909). The museum, in a building of 1873 [...] that was part of an ore-washing complex, displays 115 different metals, along with evidence of industrial processes, mining tools, lamps, lead ingots and slag specimens. Housing built by both the companies

not far from Germany’s frontier with the Czech Republic. This area of eastern Bavaria has a long industrial history involving ironworking and the mining of iron ore (which ceased in 1987), the extraction [...] ores, ceramics and glass manufactures and the mining of lignite for electric power stations. The museum, established in 1978, is housed in Schloss Thueurn, a late Baroque mansion dating from 1781 which [...] formerly the home of the master of a hammer forge. There are indoor exhibitions about the history of industry in eastern Bavaria which illustrate the lives of miners, detailing their freedoms and obligations

Beroum in the forest region 26 km south-west of Prague near to which are two important museums of the extractive industries that once flourished in the karst (limestone) region of Bohemia. To the north of the [...] some of the workings that remain accessible. A short distance south-west of Lodĕnice is an open air museum centred on the Parymple limestone quarries opened in 1916-18 to supply the chemical works at Neštemice [...] 1964. They were restored from 1993 by Společnost Barbara, a trust formed to preserve quarries and industrial monuments in the Czech Republic. Exhibits in the former office buildings and storehouses include

landscape. An interpretation centre for the industry has been created in the centre of Linares in the old goods shed of the Madrid railway station. The museum has information panels, historical objects [...] Lead mining was an important industry in the area around Linares in Andalucia. It began in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. After 1849 it developed with rail transport and new investment to become [...] objects and models and provides information about visiting the mining heritage of the region by car or on walks along well-marked trails, some of them on old railway lines. There are many mining sites with tall

vast former industrial area of Landek is protected natural heritage and combines beautiful nature with an exhibition mapping out the progress of humankind from Stone Age through the Industrial Revolution [...] The mining museum situated in Landek Park opened in 1993, but incorporating collections that date from 1905, is based in a range of red brick colliery buildings, designed by Viennese architects between [...] typical for the 20th century. The wide array of things to see is what makes Landek Park the unique museum that it is. Descend down into the oldest mine in Ostrava together with a retired miner. His moving

Cultural Meuseo Minero (Cultural Association for the Mining Museum) was established in 1986 as mining was finally coming to an end, and opened the museum in 2001. Its headquarters is in an old slaughterhouse [...] minerals. Guidance is provided to the monuments of the mining industry, open-cast pits, calcining kilns, ore-washing equipment and ropeways. The museum encourages research into mining operations and mining culture [...] from which siderite (iron carbonate) was extracted from the 1970s until its closure in 1993. The museum holds collections of tools, machines, oil lamps, dented helmets, miners’ footwear, drills and surveying

potash is an important material for use as a fertilizer and in the chemical, textile and glass industries. Deposits of potash were discovered in the Alsace region at Wittelsheim in 1904. Development of [...] 1924. Although mining stopped in 1966, today the shafts are used for the deep storage of waste. The museum is in the pit-head baths. Other building with new uses include winding-engine houses, a lamproom