The museum consists of the "1900 machining workshop", "the smithy" and the exhibition and learning room, where the technological evolution of the industry is shown in an educational and documentary way [...] , technical descriptions and practical examples with real machining operations. In addition, the Museum serves as a didactic guide to show young generations the origin and evolution of the different t

5th floor of the former arms factory 'Aguirre y Aranzabal' the museum gives visitors an insight into the evolution of the town's industrial past and technological developments dating from the 14th century [...] to the present day. Among the exhibits on display in the museum are an extensive collection of arms originally housed in the Armoury School museum and a wide variety of products manufactured in Eibar like

landscape. An interpretation centre for the industry has been created in the centre of Linares in the old goods shed of the Madrid railway station. The museum has information panels, historical objects [...] Lead mining was an important industry in the area around Linares in Andalucia. It began in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. After 1849 it developed with rail transport and new investment to become [...] objects and models and provides information about visiting the mining heritage of the region by car or on walks along well-marked trails, some of them on old railway lines. There are many mining sites with tall

that time the museum had no collections. It was recognised as a national museum in 1990 and from 1991 began to co-ordinate the work of 16 museums in other parts of Serbia. In 2005 the Museum was offered [...] well as a documentation centre that holds materials on many aspects of industrial and technological history in Serbia. The Museum is a location on the cultural route 'Tesla Ways'. [...] The Museum of Science and Technology in Serbia was formally constituted on the initiative of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts in 1989, although many proposals for such a project had been put forward

manages the train service. Several other organisations have museums or facilities along the route. The West Somerset Steam Railway has a small museum at Blue Anchor, and the Somerset & Dorset Railway Trust [...] The West Somerset Railway prides itself in being the longest standard gauge heritage railway in the United Kingdom, and scenically is amongst the most attractive. Regular service operate over the 33 km [...] closed by British Rail in 1971, but there were immediately demands that it should be adapted as a heritage railway, and the first trains ran on re-opened sections in 1976. The railway property is now owned

This journey into the industrial past is a good 25 km long and leads through the heart of England. The Severn Valley Railway operates almost throughout the year with a huge variety of historic steam trains [...] tower – with Kidderminster, a former carpet-making centre and now the site of a fascinating railway museum. The railway line follows the twists and turns of the Severn through an idyllic rural valley almost

world class landmark in industrial housing provision. Take a trip to the Back-to-Backs, then stroll round the beautiful Bournville Village and visit the Cadbury Collection museum at the factory, which charts

building would be an appropriate location for a museum to tell the story of Great Yarmouth and its herring industry. The aroma of herring still lingers in the museum´s buildings, providing a unique experience [...] community of the one-time importance of the herring industry and the employment it provided. It dates from the period of fast growth in the herring fishing industry during the nineteenth century. Used primarily [...] primarily for non-mechanised fish processing, this complex of industrial buildings has been designated a Scheduled Monument. Containing important industrial archaeology, its an almost unique survival of a curing

instruments and equipment used in the local cotton, silk and man-made fibre industries and ancillary trades. Bolton Museum & Art Gallery´s displays chart the story of Bolton and the people who have lived [...] The textile machinery collection is an extremely important one. The museum began collecting textile machines in the 19th century and amongst the items at the heart of this collection is the only surviving [...] spinning jenny - which are also represented in the collections. The Bolton connection with the textile industry has been developed in more recent years with the acquisition of a range of early 20th century, mainly

works has been developed as a heritage site, with displays that since 2003 have been located in the former foundry. Forsvik Industriminnen is also the focus for industrial conservation projects elsewhere [...] lock, dug in 1813, and of an iron bridge of the same date the crosses the waterway. It has been an industrial community for many centuries. A royal charter issued in 1686 enabled Anton von Boij to establish [...] of wood pulp. A mechanical pulp plant was established in Forsvik in 1871. All the traditional industries in the town closed in the last 60 years of the 20th century, the pulp mill in 1940, the flour mill

opened up the beauty of Poppyland to generations of holidaymakers. Today the North Norfolk Poppy Line heritage railway still runs on M&GN tracks for five and a half miles from Sheringham via Weybourne to Holt [...] Holt, which has spacious car parking facilities. It is also home to the William Marriott Railway Museum that tells the story of the line, located in the rebuilt goods shed. The line was originally opened

mid-nineteenth century several of the warehouses were converted into corn mills. The boat-building industry flourished at Shardlow, in the nineteenth century, and several marinas built, maintain and accommodate [...] modern pleasure craft. The Salt Warehouse, the oldest canal warehouse in the village, now houses a heritage centre, where there are displays featuring the history of the canal and those who worked on it,

metal working industries. This made Saxony the cradle of the German automotive engineering and home to renowned automobile manufacturers until today. The Saxon Route of Industrial Heritage" developed by [...] TMGS illustrates the industrial history of the region with a selection of 51 sites, including exciting museums as well as active plants. Leading sectors are mining, textile industry, vehicles and transport [...] transport, food and beverage, and the printing industry. Outstanding architecture is part of the route, too.

manufacture became a large-scale industry from the early nineteenth century, after which the spirit became popular all over Europe. The museum which tells the story of the industry is located in a mansion house [...] can see how trees were protected from rodents and other pests, and how the fruit was harvested. The museum displays show how kirsch was manufactured and marketed. Visitors can see oak barrels and copper stills

2011. It shows current developments in the city of Hanau as a site of research and industry as well as its industrially influenced past. Historical machines made by the company Josef Bautz, scythes, a mobile [...] The Großauheim Museum has been housed in the former power station and in the historical bathhouse since 1983. It has been fundamentally overhauled and its contents given a new direction in the past few [...] Groكauheim, and painter August Peukert, originally from Hanau. The newly-designed exhibition on industrial history has been on show in the halls of the former power station and fire brigade since December

a welcome change to the every day life of the museum. The path of clay to the unglazed clay body, to "Obernai" faience plates is traced in the New Museum of Faience Techniques in the Blies Mill. The methods [...] The French Revolution was followed by the Industrial Revolution: in 1790 three merchants from Strasbourg arrived at Sarreguemines in Lorraine in order to exploit water, fire and earth for their own purposes [...] contrast, the old residence of Paul de Geiger is elegant and colourful. It now houses the Faience Museum. The heart of the house contains a winter garden, a mecca for lovers of the culture of representation

The Museum tells the story of the social history of the Cynon Valley from 1800 to the present. Audio visual presentations in the gallery include films on the iron industry around 1830 and the Miner’s Strike [...] to be used for educational visits. The temporary exhibition gallery houses displays based on the museums collections and the Art Gallery has a programme of contemporary art and design, bringing works and

Centre at the Marston Vale Forest Centre, is an exhibition celebrating the history of this prodigious industry. The London Brick Company also dominated the landscape at Fletton south of Peterborough, where huge [...] brick clay has produced large numbers of dinosaur skeletons, some of which are found at Peterborough Museum, given to the City by Sir Harley Stewart.

the production of art castings under the direction of a German founder, C F J W Mertens (d 1882). A museum, open in the summer months, in a small 18th century building displays products of the works including [...] foundries in several European countries. Finspong remains an important centre for the engineering industries, and de Geer’s castle is now occupied by the Siemens corporation. The castle, the rushing water [...] the park, with its iron temple and bridges of the 1850s, comprise one of Sweden’s best-preserved industrial landscapes.

Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet is one of Britain’s most atmospheric industrial heritage sites. It was a water-powered works for making steel scythes – essential tools for cutting crops by hand. The site was