The museum is in a beautifully converted nineteenth-century barn in a large green space in the centre of the village of Kammern. It shows the agricultural and industrial history of the region. The themes [...] themes covered by the museum are connected especially with mining, agriculture and the making of charcoal. The agricultural traditions of the region are shown by hand tools and utensils that were part of [...] life, and a threshing machine. Many other objects given or loaned by people are also on display. The museum has an exhibition about the geological history of the earth over 500 million years, with rock samples

are now linked by a bridge. The museum was comprehensively redeveloped in 2018. The focus is on the social, technological and environmental aspects of industrialization and the wider history of the city [...] This large, new museum brings together historical collections made in the town of Pritzwalk in north-east Germany since the 1930s. In 2002, the local council and the local history society opened the c [...] city. Original features of the museum’s buildings allow visitors to examine the history of brewing, cloth weaving and textile printing and to try some techniques for themselves. Other displays explore flour

The museum, located in the noble 17th century mansion that once belonged to the owner of a hammer mill, is devoted to the history of water supply and to the achievements in constructing the Vienna spring [...] egion feeds the Austrian capital with 217,000 cubic meters drinking water daily. The SpringWater Museum documents how the second Vienna spring water line was built and illustrates the city’s water supply [...] displays provide insights in major aspects of the region’s geology and the protection of springs. The museum of local history primarily deals with the largest trade union of Innerberg based in Wildalpen which

the fine Sunday china are not missing in the living room. The museum flat is maintained and run on a voluntary basis by the Eisden Heritage Foundation (Stichting Erfgoed Eisden). [...] supervisors and workers. One of the housing estates, a semi-detached house built in 1925, houses the 'Museum Miners' House' in the left part of the building. The house, which fell into serious disrepair after [...] municipality, restored to its original condition at the insistence of the civil society and opened as a museum in 1995. It is furnished in the style of the 1920s and 1930s. The cooker, which can be heated with

boom in the textile industry in the 19th century thanks to readily available hydroelectric power. Over time, the textile industry developed into the important Swiss engineering industry, with names such as [...] and Rüti (weaving machines). Since 1991 more than 70 volunteers have been running a unique museum of industrial culture in Neuthal. Visitors are immersed in a fascinating world and in a bygone age which

Industrial-scale fishing ports, with fleets of steam vessels, ample facilities for landing fish, wholesale markets, ship repair yards and factories for processing both the edible and inedible parts of [...] fishing port in Belgium was Ostend, where the first fish auction was established in 1879. The fishing industry declined there in the late twentieth century, as in other countries. The number of fishermen employed [...] and returned to its home port for the last time on 3 March 1995. Since 2000 it has been moored as a museum ship on the Visserskaai (fish quay). Visitors are able to explore the whole ship, and can gain an

the Middle Ages through the period of industrialization to the twentieth century. The museum also explains the growth of Neumünster from a village to a large industrial town. Visitors can try many processes [...] centre of the town. The museum explains the whole process from the raw wool to the finished cloth. It has live demonstrations with spinning wheels and hand-looms and large-scale industrial machines for carding [...] The museum of cloth and technology explores how people have made woollen cloth for over 2,000 years, from the Iron Age to the present day. It occupies an impressive purpose-built building in the centre

which includes most of the marques that were made in Poland. The museum is one of the major attractions on the Krakow Industrial Heritage Route that includes 15 other important sites in the city. [...] The Museum of Municipal Engineering in Krakow was established in 1998 in a tram depot, built in 1882 and successively enlarged in 1896, 1900, 1913-4 and 1926-9. It is primarily a museum of public transport

processing the ore with copper, and this formed the basis for the widespread growth of the metalworking industry in the Aachen region. Until the end of the 17th century the ore was quarried from open mines and [...] "the neutral area of Moresnet". Mining around La Calamine stopped in 1951. But memories remain. The Museum in La Calamine contains a permanent exhibition on the arduous working conditions which the miners [...] the ore. The long and colourful political history of the area is another theme dealt with in the museum. Visitors can see rare exhibits here, like the coins and stamps which were specially issued during

century and revolutionised the industrial manufacture of lace. The fascinating architectural ensemble is clearly a metaphor, not only of its ambitions as an industrial museum, but also as a shop window for [...] Gaultier, Pierre Cardin or Chantal Thomass. The latter is the patron of the Museum for Lace and Fashion in Calais too. The museum, which opened in 2009, is housed in a historic weaving and lace-making factory [...] to the 21st century, and a presentation of state-of-the-art manufacturing methods. In addition the museum has room for temporary exhibitions, a documentation centre, a room for fashion shows and spaces for

The Museum for the town of Apt in the south-east of France – also called the Musée de l'Aventure Industrielle – concentrates on the industries of the area. Three important industries grew up here based [...] associated with mining, processing and marketing of ochre are displayed. Finally, the museum traces the clay industries of Apt from the 17th century to the present, with hundreds of examples of pottery, bricks [...] based on three natural resources – fruit, ochre and clay. The museum is inside part of the factory of Marliagues founded in 1873 for making candied-fruit confectionary. It includes a complete workshop, displays

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

models and drawings submitted by aspirant patentees. The museum’s Industrial Portfolio includes more than 20,000 drawings and paintings of industrial subjects, including notable 18th century drawings by Jacques [...] The principal museum of technology in France dates from 1794, the time of the French Revolution, when a national conservatory of arts and trades (Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers) was created [...] Jacques de Vaucanson (1709-82), the Grenoble-born inventor of automata. Selections from the museum’s collection of more than 80,000 artefacts are displayed in thematic rooms relating to such topics as

Bath is a World Heritage city famous for its Roman baths and Georgian architecture but it was also a working city. The museum tells the stories of its varied industries. Two thousand years of working life

well as Portugal itself. The museum tells the story of beer from the first century BC to the present with particular emphasis of the development of industrial-scale breweries in the nineteenth century. The [...] monastic brewery. This museum, like most of its kind, provides samples of beer for its visitors, but this is perhaps the only one to invite them to drink as they study the exhibits. The museum takes pride in the [...] The Museu da Cerveja (Museum of Beer) in Lisbon has displays relating to the beer brewed in all the Portuguese-speaking countries, Angola, Brazil, Mozambique, Cape Verde and San Tomé & Prince, as well

nineteenth centuries this was a domestic industry, but from the 1880s it came under the control of three large companies who concentrated production in factories. The museum is located in the factory opened by [...] corsets. In the late nineteenth century, under the management of his sons, it had 300 employees. The museum displays examples of historic machines associated with the manufacture of braids and laces including [...] Visitors can also see the 6 m diameter water wheel from which the factory originally drew its power. The museum also displays a great variety of sample fabrics.

traditions of both cardboard making and printing. The industry produced attractive printed boxes for diverse products all over France. This museum traces the methods of making and printing cardboard boxes [...] the Département Vaucluse acquired an old factory close to the town centre for the museum. The route around the museum traces the processes –making card, folding boxes, typography and lithography. There [...] Valréas in Provence is called the capital of the French cardboard-box industry. This began due to the need for perforated boxes for silkworms. From the mid-nineteenth century it brought together the local

centres in England for the manufacture of carpets in the modern sense, i.e. woven floor coverings. The Museum of Carpet, set up in the Stour Vale Mills, presents traditional cloth weaving techniques on 19th [...] own carpet projection, and demonstrations from volunteers with their own stories of working in the industry.

production, they have to go to Voigtsberg Castle. In the Carpet Museum, flying carpets transport them through the history of the mechanical and industrial production of carpets in Oelsnitz. From the gallery under [...] and the Oriental embroidery machine from the 1930s show the impressive development of the carpet industry.

coal industry. It is a museum of traditional form that shows a large number of significant objects in clearly presented cases with interpretive texts. They include high-quality models of industrial ins [...] Since 1963 the Museum of Chemistry has been in the fourteenth-century Thury Castle in the former coal-mining town of Várpalota, 80 km west of Budapest. The museum examines the history of chemistry, beginning