everyday life in the north German Wool Combing and Worsted Spinning Mill in Delmenhorst. The huge industrial site covering more than 25 hectares of land was one of the largest of its type in Europe and for [...] and modern living quarters, offices and leisure facilities. At the centre is the Nordwolle Factory Museum housed in the ornamented red brick building of the old turbine house which used to be the central

There are few more remote industrial heritage sites than the Norwegian fishing industry museum at Melbu on the island of Hadseløya, 236 km west of Narvik. Christian Fredriksen (1865-1929), who made a fortune [...] performances, and the museum regularly stages temporary exhibitions from elsewhere in Norway, film shows and multi-media presentations. It is part of a larger project for museums in Nordland and has links [...] in Melbu from circa 1890. A large fish-processing plant continues to operate on the island. The museum, opened in 1991, and is located in the substantial buildings of the former Neptun Sildoljefabrik

This is a museum, re-opened in 2015 after a comprehensive re-display of its exhibits, which is commended for the authentic smells which greet the visitor at reception, as well as for the appropriate dishes [...] walk-through re-creations of underwater habitats, displays illustrating the long history of the fishing industry in Norway and its exports to the rest of Europe and exhibitions showing the ways of life of past [...] availability of rowing boats and kayaks in which visitors can explore nearby parts of the harbour. The museum is linked with the centre of the Tysksebryggen (German Quay) by a small ferry boat the Beffen .

The Norwegian Folk Museum was founded in 1894 by Dr Hans Aall (1867-1946) and opened its collection of re-erected buildings on the island of Bygdoy, not far from the centre of Oslo, in 1902. It now contains [...] of linen cloth and the making and decoration of chests, cupboards and other items of furniture. Industrial buildings include a late 19th century fulling mill from Nordfjord, and 18th century sawmill from [...] candle-making are demonstrated, and there are ten mileposts, some in cast-iron scattered about the museum.

The Norwegian Forest Museum, on the banks of the River Glomma, is concerned with all aspects of the country’s forests, with ecology and hunting, as well as with forest industries. It is one of the best [...] hunters, and more modern prefabricated wooden buildings. A bridge over the river links the forest museum to the Glomdalsmuseum, an open-air collection of buildings from the Glomma valley, established in

now been transformed into a museum. Thanks to ten still existing Pelton turbines the power station was the largest of its type in the world when it was completed. The museum documents the huge changes that [...] built in 1911, with which the Norsk Hydro company catapulted the rural parish of Rjukan into the industrial era. There is nothing to indicate that between 1942 and 1944 this location right beneath the Hardanger

were the first to be used in the timber processing industry. Today, the building houses the Norwegian Sawmill Museum. Here visitors can experience industrial history live – on running saws and planing machines [...] turned the industrial monument into a lively venue. At the same time they have been able to preserve the working skills that were necessary to run the mill successfully in early industrial times, despite [...] Hauka and Oter, lie tied up at the banks of the directly adjacent fjord. They also belong to the museum.

island of Gomalandet on the west coast of Norway, 130 km south-west of Trondheim. The principal industry of the communities along the fiords and on the islands of this region was for centuries the drying [...] from 1730. Many of the early entrepreneurs in the trade were Scots. The first of the piers where the museum is located was built by William Gordon in 1749, and the galleried warehouse which is its main building [...] merchant called Walter Miln. The principal indoor displays consist of photographs taken when the industry still prospered, many of them by the photographer Ernst Schwitter (1918-96) who recorded activities

history museum. In the stables behind it is the Nottingham Industrial Museum. This was set up by a voluntary group in 1964 and opened in 1971. It has five galleries telling the story of industries of special [...] horse-gin for lifting coal up a shaft. The collection of working steam and diesel engines contains the museum’s first object, a beam engine of 1858 from Basford pumping station, which supplied drinking water

and the wider picture of European industrial development. Participating sites will focus on objects that illustrate the European, and also global, dimension of industrial development. Smaller objects may [...] factory of the Streetcar Museum in Porto. All participants in “Linking Europe” can also be viewed in our virtual exhibition. If you have a linking Europe story to tell at your industrial heritage site and have [...] PROJECT SHOWING THE INTERRELATIONSHIPS OF THE HISTORY OF EUROPEAN INDUSTRIALISATION Listen Europe's industrial development has always been characterised by cross-border trade in raw materials and commodities

“Alte Dombach” paper mill in Bergisch Gladbach, one of the six sites belonging to the Rhineland Industrial Museum. The sole theme here is paper. From a path lined with a selection of plants which provide the [...] predecessor the “Alte Dombach” mill whose historic buildings were at first used for housing. The industrial museum opened in 1999 and also covers modern aspects of paper-making such as the mass production of

Bielsko-Biala was sometimes called the ‘Silesian Manchester’. The city’s museums portray many aspects of the history of the textile industry, and perhaps show more clearly than in any other European city the [...] pattern of the history of Bielsko-Biala is displayed in the museum in Sulkowski’s Castle, which is the headquarters of the municipal museum service that manages the two textile sites. The domestic stages [...] of the 18th century, and a late 19th century domestic weaver’s workshop. The Museum of Technology and the Textile Industry has been located since 1979 in a wool textile factory, whose nucleus was a workshop

became a place of memory for the traditions of the steel industry in the Mała Panew Valley. Close to the Iron Bridge you can visit the iron museum, presenting product of the iron works and a model of the

elaborately restored buildings house, amongst others, a multimedia museum illustrating the history of the Lower Silesian coal industry. The exhibits feature mining equipment and machines as well as the

Island of Rügen, the museum traces German automotive history from 1949 to 1989. It focuses on cars but also displays railway vehicles, fire-engines, trams, bicycles and models. The museum opened in 1994. It [...] and apartments as well as the museum. A collection of cars compares development in the divided East and West of Germany before Reunification in 1990. The communist industry of the East was more focused [...] focused on practicality and the industry of the West on performance and appearance. A star exhibit is the Volvo 264 TE, the imported car often used by officials of the German Democratic Republic. Locomotives

villages were united under a programme of industrialisation. The museum of coal mining opened in 1988. It is called an open air museum, although most of the buildings stand on their original sites and

part of Greece in 1912. Its silk industry prospered in the early twentieth century, but manufacturing has declined in recent decades. The municipality has developed a museum, opened in 2000, that tells the

The museum, a site of the Museum Network of the Cultural Foundation of the Piraeus Bank Group (PIOP), is close to a celebrated beauty spot called Kefalari-tou Al-Yanni. All the restored industrial buildings

optical industry is explored in a museum in the Kulturzentrum Rathenow (Rathenow Cultural Centre) at the town of Rathenow in north-east Germany. The pioneer of optics, who brought the future industry to Rathenow [...] mid-nineteenth century many optics companies were established in the town and by 1896 there were 163. The museum examines the history of optics locally and internationally – it includes telescopes, lighthouse lanterns [...] publicity. There are also displays about the history of the town from the Middle Ages through the industrial revolution to the Second World War and the communist era.

founded grew to become one of Norway’s most solid industrial undertakings and the precursor of the present Orkla Group. Orkla lndustrial Museum preserves industrial and technical pieces of historical interest [...] that an industrial-scale mining fully developed. The architect Christian Thams was the initator of the Orkla Grube-Aktiebolag (Orkla Mining Company), and he started one of the largest industrial enterprises [...] The local community Løkken Verk has developed during more than 300 years of mining industry. The ore in the Løkken field was discovered in 1652 and the mines put into operation in 1654. Later this find