The Museum of Vierzon is housed in part of the former factory for the Société Française de Vierzon tractor company, which once extended for 7 hectares. It presents the story of industry and transport in [...] in the city of Vierzon in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Several industries became important in the area. There were about 10 porcelain factories at the beginning of the twentieth century, the [...] and tractors. Several of these are on show. The city was an important railway hub from 1847 and the museum has an important collection begun by Raymond Laumônier about the history of railways. This includes

Flanders), 40 km south of Ghent, that has long connections with textile manufacturing. The cottage-based industry declined from mid-nineteenth century as workers migrated to nearby French textile centres, such [...] decline in the 1960s. The community’s history is portrayed in two buildings in the village. In a museum visitors can wander at will and can gain an impression of the way of life of a domestic weaver. They

(1917-98), the pioneering industrial designer who designed the Renault 16 of 1965, as well as vehicles for Berliet and Ford. He was also responsible for various television sets. The museum is managed by an a [...] emphasis is on cars that were in everyday use by ordinary people. This museum prides itself in being one of the few French car museums not to have a Bugatti.

Bremerhaven, Ostend and Grimsby, was one of the industrial fishing ports that flourished in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The maritime museum in the city focuses on fishing, with displays [...] historical artefacts, models, and activities such as knot-tying in which visitors can take part. The museum is supported by annual grants from the city authority. The collection includes eight ships, chief [...] dredger of 1906, and St Gilles a tug built in 1958. Some vintage yachts are also displayed at the museum. Perhaps the great pleasure for visitors is sitting in the bistro bar on the top deck of France I

monuments. Limoges is still the principal centre of porcelain manufacture in France. The museum of the porcelain industry was founded in 1845 by the local archaeological and historical society. It was developed [...] porcelain factory in the area was opened in 1771, and taken over by the Sèvres company in 1784. The industry flourished in the 19th century, the number of factories increasing from 15 in 1827 to more than [...] which he had purchased, and acted as curator from 1865. He persuaded the local authority to allow the museum to be moved into a former lunatic asylum. In 1881, the year of his death, it was taken over by the

of the museum has subsequently expanded, and it was extensively renovated in 2012-13. It is responsible for several other museums in the region. It continues to show the importance of industry in this [...] stimulated by the opening of railways from 1871. The chemical industry became established around Sokolov on a substantial scale from 1927. A museum of the mining region was established in 1960, and is now located

strong industrial heritage is an important part of the exhibition. Also several changing ehxibitions take place at the museum every year. In Myllysaari one can also visit Finland's Football museum. Some [...] the most well known paper industrial cities in the country. Nowadays the old red brick factory building in the heart of the city, by the beautiful canal, is home for two museums and functions as a venue [...] venue for cultural events. In the museum there is a permanent exhibition that tells a story of the history of the Valkeakoski and Sääksmäki area. The journey takes the viewer from the pre-historic era to the

that the neighbouring port of Amlwch was bursting at the seams. Today it is the site of an industrial museum which is simultaneously the start of a circular trail through the area’s turbulent past. Amongst [...] Parys with its yawning abysses and ancient machinery. All this with stunning views over a unique industrial landscape.

of an industrial area within the concept of urban area to visitors. This is what the complex is different than its counterparts. Thus it creates a different experience than an ordinary museum. [...] Hasanpaşa Gasworks complex is an industrial site which is located in Anatolian part of İstanbul. The complex was constructed as a Gasworks in 1892 (Ottoman Era). The complex had produced gas from coal [...] long debated and the construction process had started in 2014. In 2021, Hasanpaşa Gasworks Park and Museum Complex started functioning as cultural center at the heart of İstanbul. Since then, the complex

made traditional Finnish cream cheese and buttermilk cheese, which is now a museum, showing the importance of the dairy industry in Finland. There are also sections showing how shoes and chairs were made

Agricultural Museum date from the World Fair (or Jubilee Exhibition) held in Prague in 1891. After the exhibition closed they were part of a museum of ethnography but the agricultural museum became a separate [...] displayed in various locations until a magnificent museum building was constructed in 1937-39 in the Letná area of Prague, close to the National Technical Museum. It was designed in the Modernist style by the [...] parts of the then Czechoslovakia. The museum returned to the building in 1994. It includes a permanent exhibition illustrating the history of the food industries in the Czech lands during the nineteenth

This museum holds one of Europe’s largest collections of historic motor cars, and is also notable for its innovative design and interpretation. It was formerly called the Ruffia Museum, and was established [...] established in 1932 by two pioneers of the Italian car industry, Cesare Goria Gatti (1860-1959) and Roberto Biscaretti di Ruffia (1878-1930). Since 2009 it has been transformed by architectural changes directed

and everyday vehicles. The collection was created by the industrial entrepreneur Dr Friedhelm Loh and opened to the public in 2023. The museum is a university campus for courses in car design and conservation [...] building was part of the workshops of the boiler manufacturer Omnical and displays introduce local industrial history. A curving ramp is a centrepiece to display competition cars and parking racks show a changing

collection of artefacts at the museum in Leicester is one of the largest and most important in Europe relating to the manufacture, distribution and domestic uses of gas. The museum was established by the na [...] change in the industry, when coal gas in the UK was being replaced by natural gas from the North Sea, with the objective of preserving the knowledge and skills that had sustained the industry. In 1997, when [...] when the privatised industry was de-merged, the museum passed into the care of a trust. The collection is located in the gatehouse of the Aylestone Road gasworks, which began production in 1878.

Nowadays “Lady Vic” is the headquarters of the Scottish Mining Museum, where visitors can get an insight into the highs and lows of an industry which was once the backbone of the Scottish economy. The 500 [...] 500 metre main shaft may have been filled in. But that’s no matter. For the museum has its own gallery with a genuine underground atmosphere. The driving wheel on the pit head gear may no longer turn. All [...] really appreciate the talents of the colliers who knew how to exploit gravity to their own ends. This museum is all about hands-on activities. All the guides are ex-miners who can give you good solid information

the food industry and the history of the Polish countryside, on rural transport, on veterinary science, and on soil science. Researchers at the museum study dialects and folk art. The museum incorporates [...] Polands National Museum of Agricultural is located at Komorniki, 10 km south of Poznań. The collection was established in 1964 and the museum gained national status in 1974. Its collection includes steam [...] incorporates the manor house and mausoleum of the former landowners the Bierbaum family. The museum has a branch at Uzrzewo, concerned with hunting set up in 1977, a branch centred on milling and water-power at

Few centres of wartime activity have had as much influence on the long term development of industry as Bletchley Park, a mansion adjacent to a railway junction, 60 miles north of London and now within [...] funding from English Heritage, Milton Keynes Council and the Heritage Lottery Fund. The National Museum of Computing, which opened at Bletchley Park in 2009 is the operating name of a separate charitable [...] a very large machine dependent for its operation on thousands of thermionic valves. The National Museum of Computing also has displays illustrating the development of computers from Colossus to the present

operations which were far less dangerous and hard than around 1870 when Luxembourg started its mining industries. In those days 70 to 90 miners worked up to 12 hours per shift without any safety precautions and [...] and social benefits in the wet and dark “mousetrap” as one of the pits on the mining museum’s site was infamously called. Former employees vividly explain to the visitors how they extracted the iron ore

completed in 1931. The Leonardo da Vinci Museum is located in a former convent, and covers many aspects of the history of science and technology, apart from the industrial history of Milan. It includes a re [...] Milan is the industrial and commercial capital of Italy, and for centuries has been one of the most important manufacturing centres in Europe, celebrated for textiles, motor cars, electrical engineer and

and the rate of extraction has been reduced. The National Museum of the Oil Industry was established in 1957, the centenary year of the industry. It holds extensive collections of machines and tools. [...] north of Bucharest, was one of the first communities in Europe to prosper from the growth of the oil industry, The first oil refinery in Romania, and the third in the world, was built by Marin Mehedinteanu [...] German pioneer of drilling technology, Anton Raky (1868-1943), which is displayed in the Deutsches Museum, Munich. Improvements in processing technology were incorporated in refineries opened at nearby Câmpina