one of the mills in 1814, and now forms the only in situ exhibit in the open-air museum, which is part of the national museum, as is the mill at Brede. The latter is part of one of the best-preserved factory [...] of the reasons for the prosperity of the Danish capital. It has been called the Cradle of Danish Industry. The various mills were used for grinding grain, fulling woollen cloth, making gunpowder, working

1909 to manufacture high-grade stationery. The industry has since declined but one mill remains in production, although in foreign ownership. The museum tells the story of papermaking through the centuries [...] Belgium’s national paper museum is at Malmedy, the German-speaking city of 11,000 inhabitants near the country’s eastern border. It is one of several organisations that, under the name Malmundarium, occupy [...] first paper mill in the region was established on the bank of the River Warchenne in 1726, and the industry was developed in the nineteenth century by the Steinbach family. In 1848 a mill in Malmedy produced

from which mercury is obtained. The park displaying the monuments of the industry was established in 2002. The adjacent museum uses film footage to show working conditions in the mines, and has exhibitions

Heidelberg printing machines. The museum holds large numbers of blocks, metal and wooden type fonts and photographs, and also displays the products of the printing industry, books, pamphlets, magazines and [...] The National Print Museum collects, documents, preserves, exhibits, interprets and makes accessible the material evidence of the printing crafts and associated skills in Ireland since the introduction [...] the Easter Rising of 1916, and a Wharfedale machine similar to that on which it was printed. The museum maintains a lively programme of practical activities during which participants can learn about l

The National Science and Media Museum opened in 1983, is part of the Science Museum Group and occupies a seven-floor building in central Bradford. It includes three cinemas, one of them fitted for IMAX [...] and extensive archives from the Kodak Museum, the Royal Photographic Society and the Daily Herald newspaper. The latter includes numerous images relating to industrial history, including compelling pictures [...] and a huge collection of cameras and processing equipment. Long before the establishment of the Museum, Robert W Paul began the Cinematography collection in 1933. It now totals some 13,000 artefacts,

large-scale industrial processes undertaken by landowners and capital investors, which reshaped the agricultural landscape into an industrial centre for slate production during the Industrial Revolution [...] studies covering the wider extent of the slate quarrying industry and refined by consultation with historians and re-checked in the field by industrial archaeological specialists. The focus has centred on [...] among other things: „The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales illustrates the transformation that industrial slate quarrying and mining brought about in the traditional rural environment of the mountains

the forefront of industrial design. The National Museum has collections of machines, vehicles, clocks and cameras, but the departments of industrial design and of consumer industries, relating to office [...] equipment and household appliances, are of particular importance. The museum also takes responsibility for some industrial sites and museums in other parts of the republic.

mules and interactive weaving exhibits. The museum includes a demonstration centre for textile crafts. It is highly regarded by the modern textile industry and is frequently visited by delegates to conferences [...] companies were established and Sliven became a centre of textile production, as it still is. The museum was established in 1984 in a textile school built in the grounds of Jeliazkov’s factory in 1906.

the National Waterfront Museum in Swansea (Wales) prides itself on state-of-the-art computer technology. This is all about Wales and how to recount its unique and complex industrial history in as exciting [...] your life put at risk as a collier, and shortly afterwards bask in the fairy-tale wealth of an industrial tycoon. In this way you are able to endure noise and filth, experience repression and working-class [...] multi-facetted and astonishingly sharp picture of what life was once like in Wales and how the motor of industrial revolution has made Wales what it is today.

The Natural Gas Museum was opened in 2010 by the Romgaz company to mark a century since the first commercial natural gas well in Romania. It tells the story of the country’s gas industry. The building is [...] exploration, drilling, extraction, transportation and distribution of natural gas in one company. The museum displays historical photographs, examples of minerals, a model of a drilling rig, protective clothing

The Nene Valley Railway is an immensely impressive mixture of industrial landscape and steam nostalgia. British and European mainline steam and diesel locomotives run real services into the heart of P [...] turnpike of the early eighteenth century. Three station buildings are located at Wansford, with the museum itself housed in the "New" station building. The "Old" station building on Platform 3 was built in

Eisenach, was famous for the manufacture of cutlery. The principal monument of the Thuringian iron industry is the blast furnace at Weidebrunn, 3 km north of the centre of Schmalkalden, which is known as

Lapphyttan is a site of world importance in industrial archaeology and a place where you can go back in time to see an early furnace in action. Archaeological excavations from the 1970s proved this was [...] the end of the twelfth century. The discovery changed understanding about the history of the iron industry, showing that blast furnaces were older than people thought and began in Sweden and Germany. Near [...] a visitor centre, a children’s park, a reconstructed mine for iron ore and the Karlberg homestead museum.

Verona, near the southern tip of Lake Garda. The Nicolis Museum was the creation of Luciano Nicolis (1934-2012), who made a fortune from the paper industry, particularly from re-cycling paper, in Verona. Its [...] One outstanding exhibit is the Biciclo Michaux , exhibited at the Triennale di Milano 1865. The museum is accommodated in a specially-designed building in glass and steel, made possible by Luciano Nicolis

The museum of technology in Croatia was established as a result of the efforts of Dr Bonz Tezak, a professor at Zagreb University, and was formally constituted in 1954, although there was an earlier museum [...] Zagreb, which moved to a new site in 1956. There are seven principal departments. Those dealing with industrial heritage include transportation, whose collections include motor cars and railway locomotives,

Petersburg owned by the government. In the early 1850s the young Nobel studied and gained experience of industry in France, Italy, Germany and the United States. He began to develop nitroglycerine in 1859-60, [...] as synthetic fibres and dyestuffs. Seven buildings of Nobel’s factory of 1875 are preserved as a museum at Hurum in Norway, his laboratory and mansion, used in his last years, are preserved at Karlskroga

The development of the oil industry in the Caucasus region in the late nineteenth century was strongly supported by several of Europe’s leading industrial and banking families including the Rothchilds [...] the shores of the Black Sea at Batumi in Georgia. The museum in Batumi, which opened in 2007, has exhibits showing the development of the oil industry, the introduction of Chinese labour and the development

one of the homes, in his later years, of Alfred Nobel (1833-96) creator of the modern explosives industry. Nobel was also the owner from 1894 of the nearby Bofors engineering works. He spent much of his [...] Some of the outbuildings at the rear of the house and adjacent area of the grounds are occupied by a museum of the Bofors company. It originated as an ironworks authorised by the government in 1646, whose

named after the 1828 born scissor maker Nicolas Pierre Pelletier, opened in 1991 as a museum of the cutlery industry (Musée de la Coutellerie), displaying an excellent collection of typical products, tools [...] regularly organising special exhibitions. A guided tour provides insights into the region's rich industrial heritage

The municipal museum of Nordhorn is on three sites of industrial heritage: NINO-Hochbau, Povelturm and Museumsfabrik. It takes 15 minutes to walk between them. The town is on the border with the Netherlands [...] was an important centre for the cotton industry, which employed 12,000 people there in the 1960s. The NINO building was a five-storey cotton spinning mill. The museum opened on the first floor of the building [...] Hechter. The 'Povel tower' was a water tower built in 1906 for the Povel cotton mill and became a museum in 1994. It has exhibitions and films about the history of Nordhorn (and a cocktail bar on the roof)