continuously for some 700 years. The museum tells the stories of mining and the manufacture of coins and medals. The collection began in the 18th century and entered the museum in 1956. It was redeveloped in [...] in 2003 as a national Museum of Coins and Medals. It occupies an ancient house on the main square. In the basements visitors learn about the development of ore mining and processing with displays of minerals [...] tools, trucks, a furnace and testing and measuring instruments. The history of the city and its industries and crafts is explored on the ground floor. On the first floor visitors learn about the history

important centre for the plastics industry. Local farming families traditionally made hair-combs from wood or bone as a winter occupation. This craft grew into an export industry in the 19th century and the [...] well as research and education bodies. The museum, currently based in the Aragon Cultural Centre, preserves 16,000 objects and tells the story of local industry, the manufacture of combs and the technology

in four rooms, with a special focus on the history of the Hungarian electrical industry. The exhibitions of the museum highlight Hungary’s essential role in railway electrification, lighting technology [...] commemorates the history of light and lighting, and their power to form our society and culture. The museum can be found in a Bauhaus-style building in Kazinczy Street. The building, which was originally a [...] stretcher. In the unique exhibition entitled Neonparade, found in the stylish interior courtyard of the museum, light advertisements are presented, which count as artworks and serve as memories of the history

reclaimed from the river in the late nineteenth century. The museum, opened in 1990 and extensively renovated in 2006, is concerned both with industrial archaeology and with science, and particularly with questions [...] station. The museum also displays an extensive collection of electricity generating equipment from the 1930s to the 1950s, and holds large numbers of documents and photographs relating to the industry. It is [...] Portugal’s Museum of Electricity is located in the former Tejo (Tagus) power station, begun in 1908, with additions made up to 1951. Parts are in the Art Nouveau style. It is situated on land reclaimed

abandoned. The factory closed in 1972 when most of the machinery was cleared, but was revived as a museum which opened in 1997 with machines of the early 20th century brought in from elsewhere. Displays [...] fulling and other finishing processes are demonstrated, and to the dyehouse. The highlight of the museum is a section in which letters, parish documents, family traditions and photographs have been used [...] Gesche Thole, who migrated from Bremen to marry the master of the mill, portrays the period of the Industrial Revolution. Henrich Storch, describes the difficulties faced by a small-scale clothmaster at the

The museum is operated by the company JMV-Turismo Cultural in association with the municipality of Santiago do Cacém. It aims to preserve and disseminate the region’s rural and industrial heritage, including [...] The museum preserves a flour mill built in 1925 with all its equipment in working order – the Fábrica de Moagem de José Mateus Vilhena. It is located in the village of São Domingos in southern Portugal [...] Portugal, a rich area for grain production. The mill worked for 59 years. It opened to the public as a museum in 2014. The two-storey building was built simply, with brick and rammed-earth walls and zinc roofs

celebrated as the cradle of the Bohemian glass industry and as one of Europe’s principal centres for the manufacture of costume jewellery. Both industries developed in the eighteenth century, but were most [...] nineteenth century. The town was granted full municipal status within the Habsburg Empire in 1866. The museum has displays illustrating glass-making technology, as well as products of the region. There are extensive

The museum of Großalmerode, the „city of good clay”, takes its visitors on a trip through 800 years of clay work and glass-making, showing the development of local trades and their impact on the people [...] people involved, with a primary focus on the time from the beginning of the industrialization until the 1950s and 1960s. The exhibition illustrates the mining and processing of the clay that was taken from

The railway museum in Donetsk opened in 2000, the 130th anniversary of the arrival of the railway in what was to become the largest industrial city in the Ukraine. It occupies the former Uzovo locomotive

Today the Museum for Industrial Clock Making in the old factory features carefully restored and fully operational manufacturing machinery. „To relive industrial history“ is the aim of the museum’s founders [...] mass-produced clocks. In 2003 the Museum for Industrial Clock Making has won the Luigi Micheletti Prize dedicated by the European Museum Forum as the best technical museum of the year. [...] of the factory age. Enjoy a comprehensive, often humorous and sometimes playful look at the clock industry. Experts show the manufacture of a mechanical alarm clock. A colourful range of products from the

period. The toy and pencil industries, as well as the production of bicycles and motorcycles, were also leading in Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries. The Museum of Industrial Culture, housed in a former [...] centre of supra-regional long-distance trade. This was one of the reasons why the city became the industrial heart of Bavaria at the beginning of the 19th century. This was aided by the construction of Germany's [...] engine to the present day, combining technical, cultural and social history. Along the so-called Museum Street, 200 years of industrialisation are brought to life in historically recreated living and working

technology prior to the Industrial Revolution: the Bologna-type silk-throwing machines. Not a single of them has survived, but a half-size reconstruction in the Museum of Industrial Heritage keeps them impressingly [...] as a tortellini machine or products made by the cutting-edge packaging industry. The range of exhibits shows that industrial heritage in Bologna is well-rooted in history while still being relevant today [...] Galotti brickworks based here. On two further floors, the museum captures the panorama of a city which has successfully advanced several industries, including the manufacture of clothing and machine tools

small town in central Poland where industrial development was fostered in the nineteenth century by government of the Congress Kingdom of Poland. The industrial museum was established in 1981 in a five-storey [...] y, wooden-framed textile mill built in 1824-26 by the brothers Fiedler. The main emphasis of the museum is on textiles and a range of machinery is displayed, including knitting frames, an unusual embroidery [...] and Polish ceramics. The long-lived ‘Calisia’ piano factory was situated in nearby Kalisz, and the museum includes a collection of more than 50 pianos and similar keyboard instruments, as well as displays

The museum occupies a large woollen factory built in 1824 by Adolf Fiedler. The factory worked for over a hundred years. It is an impressive building in a Classical style, five-storeys high in two ranges [...] installed and by 1888 it had three steam engines and two waterwheels. Preservation began in 1981 and the museum opened in 1991. It now cares for some 12,000 objects. The galleries show steam engines and power

The museum in Agia Paraskevi on the island of Lesvos,a site of the Museum Network of the Cultural Foundation of the Piraeus Bank Group (PIOP), is located in a former communal oil mill, in which both a

The Museum of Industrial Railways is at the southern end of the restored narrow-gauge railway from Zastávka u Brna to Zbýšov. It opened in 1991. Trains run on the 5-kilometres of track. The railway was [...] coal from mines at Zbýšov to the main line at Zastávka, but it now operates at 600-mm gauge. The museum has a static display of rolling stock and regularly runs trains for passengers using its CKD 0-4-0T

The Museum of Industry in Ghent dedicates a whole storey to textile manufacture because cotton was the driving force behind the industrial development of the city. Not for nothing is the museum located [...] our industrial past. Families and schools are especially well catered for with educational display cases and hands-on museum games with which they can test their skills. The top storey of the museum can [...] offers the ideal framework for a splendid exhibition on the history of industrial society from 1750 to the present day . A tour of the museum introduces visitors to themes like child labour, the influence of

regeneration. A Museum of Industry and Labour has been established in a large single-storey parts warehouse constructed for the Breda engineering company in 1934, and in an adjacent industrial archaeological [...] Giovanni is an industrial community on the north-eastern side of Milan with a population of more than 75,000 which has displayed imagination and enterprise in adapting to the post-industrial world. A project [...] . The Museum holds the archives and the contents of the workshop of the designer and model-maker Giovanni Sacchi (1913-98) who was born and spent his whole life in Sesto San Giovanni. The Museum maintains

mill have been renovated. Museum includes also an area for temporary events, an audiovisual room and a space for laboratories. Museum of Iron is part of musil – Museum of Industry and Labor of Brescia, a [...] The Museum of Iron was opened in 1984, when the building was acquired by Civiltà Bresciana Foundation to be transformed in a museum-laboratory of industrial archaeology. It is located in the oldest pr [...] proto-industrial area of the city, but the hammer forge was in function until the end of the XX Century. In its external area, Museum of Iron shows the historic role of the water wheels: the canal provides

Częstochowa in southern Poland was the centre of the country’s iron ore mining industry. A museum was established in 1968 with displays illustrating mining techniques, and collections of winding equipment [...] lighting and ventilation systems, locomotives used underground and mining maps. Subsequently the museum was re-located to tunnels excavated in 1974-76 linking exhibition pavilions in the Stanislaw Staszic