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.

level in 1910, and ceased in 1962. The Almond Valley Heritage Centre has displays about the history of the industry, and is the starting point for a heritage trail through the shale-working villages. [...] locally as ‘bings’, dominate the landscape of the Lothians. They are the legacy of the shale oil industry. Some can be seen from the approaches to the Forth Bridge. Production of oil from shales was begun

which includes the 36-meter-high Staszic Hall equipped with a panoramic elevator, the 1.5-kilometer "Museum Route" at a depth of 135 meters illustrating the development of salt mining from simple wedges and [...] hitherto inaccessible places of the mine. Unsurprisingly, the Wieliczka Salt Mine is listed as a World Heritage Site, as is the neighbouring historic castle with its unique collection of salt shakers and a vaulted

The Museum of the Hungarian Petroleum Industry displays many large machines chiefly of the 20th century. Machines relating to the extraction of crude oil include drilling rigs, boring engines, beam pumps [...] of the industry is illustrated by a distillation column and plant for producing lubricating oil. Other exhibits relate to pipeline technology. Outstanding figures in the history of the industry are co

the first institute of oil technology opened in the area. The museum at Merkwiller-Pechelbronn is concerned with the history of the industry. It explains the geology of the region, the ways in which prospecting

19th-century Mulino Nuovo (New Mill) industrial complex. The mill underwent major renovation and today, along with the Freidano Ecomuseum, it houses the Ethnographic Museum, dedicated to the trades that once [...] river. The Freidano Ecomuseum develops research projects that focus on the local landscape and industrial heritage, and organizes workshops and events for schools and families, and visits for the public. The [...] The Freidano Ecomuseum takes its name from the canal that provided the energy for the earliest industrial activities in the area that lies between Torino and the suburb of Chivasso along the left bank

The award-winning Scottish Maritime Museum at Irvine and Dumbarton is home to Scotland's seafaring heritage. At two sites in the west of Scotland you can learn about Scotland’s importance to maritime history [...] and Brothers’ innovative and experimental approach to shipbuilding made waves in the shipbuilding industry from the 1800s to 1963. See the world’s first commercial ship model experiment tank. Enter the world

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 award-winning Scottish Maritime Museum at Irvine and Dumbarton is home to Scotland's seafaring heritage. At two sites in the west of Scotland you can learn about Scotland’s importance to maritime history

Summerlee is a heritage park with a large exhibition hall whose aim is ‘to preserve and interpret the history of the local coal, iron, steel and engineering industries, and of the communities that depended

The Musem is a National Museum, telling the story of the Scottish fishing industry, its boats, harbours and communities. It displays cover virtually every aspect of the industry and community, both at sea [...] domestic equipment and artworks. Housed in historic buildings, the Museum was founded in the late 1960s. At the centre of the Museum is a cobble stone courtyard. Explore the fascinating range of historic [...] The Scottish Fisheries Museum is in a spectacular location opposite the harbour in the fishing village of Anstruther, in the beautiful East Neuk of Fife. From the earliest recorded history of Anstruther

Close to Blaenavon Ironworks and Big Pit in the Blaenavon World Heritage Site is the Community Museum. It is inside the impressive Workmen’s Hall, which was built in 1895 by local workers to provide them [...] hall. The museum is run by volunteers to preserve artefacts and images connected with the history of the town of Blaenavon. The displays record the religious life of the community, its heritage of music [...] sport, education and worker organisation, and the role of shops and businesses, including the main industrial employers. There is a special display about the historical novelist Alexander Cordell (1914-1997)

Energía, an Art Nouveau building in Plaça del Gas, the Gas Museum takes visitors on a journey through the development of the gas and electricity industries in the 19th and 20th centuries. Reviewing the social

In 1983 Dyno Industrier A/S opened a museum which formed part of their plant at Hurum, 12 miles south-east of Drammen, on the site of the factory established in 1875-76 by Alfred Nobel (1833-96). The [...] inauguration of the museum marked the 150th anniversary of Nobel’s birth. Subsequently the factory closed, the voluntary association that staffed the museum ceased to function, and the Australian company [...] formed part of the factory, of which 12 were used by the museum, were taken under the protection of the county of Buskerud, but the future of the museum remains uncertain. The buildings are characteristic of

depicted by Georgius Agricola that were widely practiced in northern Europe before the Industrial Revolution. The island museum service has a seaweed farm, with a mill constructed from timbers of wrecked ships

Munkfors is a community of great importance in the history of the Swedish iron industry. Mild steel was made there by the open hearth process for the first time in Sweden in 1868, and a building constructed [...] which worked until 1941, is preserved. The history of ironmaking in the town is portrayed in the museum, and also in a firm entitled Iron, commissioned by the Uddeholm company in 1936, which includes sequences

fallen into ruin. Their aim was to preserve the industrial heritage for future generations. Today, one of the renovated houses used as a small mining museum where miners’ tools are displayed, among which [...] The restored colliery site of the Katzenberg Mine with the museum of the Cockerill Mine, the adjacent nature reserve and the Nature Conservation Centre Ellergronn is a particular jewel with a very rich

diversity, it resolutely pursues these objectives, acting as an interface between heritage institutions (archives, libraries, museums), the voluntary sector, research, and the general public. The CDMH collects [...] The Document Centre for Human Migrations (CDMH) has a particular interest in the heritage associated with migration and highlights this aspect by presenting it through specific itineraries.Established [...] CDMH is to make known the history of the inhabitants of the “Italie” district on the context of a “museum without walls”. It is in this context that the CDMH regularly organises trips in the district to

of this industrial heritage without the "Association pour la Sauvegarde du Klingenthal" (Association for the preservation of Klingenthal), which worked on the establishment of an exemplary museum since 1994 [...] Opened in 2007, the museum illustrates the production of bladed weapons by elaborately reconstructed workshops and a relevant collection of tools and products. An industrial heritage trail with displays

Mining Museum from 1980. The Mining museum is unique technical museum of coal mining in Serbia, but it also presents assets and social history of Senjski Rudnik. The most attractive part of the museum is still [...] June 2009 the project of rehabilitation of the site and transformation of the Museum to modern national industrial heritage centre has been started, supported by the EU and Council of Europe. [...] Rudnik, established in 1853, is Serbia’s oldest active brown coal mine and the oldest preserved industrial heritage site. Located in eastern Serbia, 150 km southeast of Belgrade, this small town is surrounded