city of Pforzheim. Because the jewellery and watchmaking industries not only have a long tradition in Pforzheim but are still active today, the museum also explores how this history is being perpetuated in [...] markets nowadays. The explanations by the museum’s staff are complemented by informational media that also enable visitors to find their way around the museum on their own. [...] The museum radiates an aura of vibrant activity; it smells like oil and metal in here, and the machines make a lot of noise! In the building of the former Kollmar & Jourdan jewellery manufactory, visitors

the local authority in 1953, and through the 1960s urged the formation of a museum of mining. After proposals to locate a museum in the surface buildings of one of the collieries proved unavailing, a new [...] the pits, and finally came to an end in 1958. Migrants from Poland played an important part in the industry, the first of them arriving in the area in the 1870s. An agreement of 3 September 1919 between the [...] France. By 1931 more than 400 Polish miners were working in the Ronchamp pits. The creation of the museum was due to Marcel Maulini (1913-83) who was born at Bresse in the Vosges to parents who had migrated

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

After the Second World War uranium ore was mined as well as coal, but the industry has now entirely closed down. The Mining Museum in Pécs opened in 1981. It includes a replica mine, 400 m long, created [...] There are displays of equipment including hydraulic props and wagons from underground railways. The museum holds a large minerals collection.

Västmanland in central Sweden, and a place of many industries. The Car & Technology Historical Society in Köping, established in 1987, manages a museum that displays a wide range of American and European

should be used for an open air museum. Fredriksdal includes both rural and urban buildings. The oldest farmhouse, from Lillarydsgården dates from the seventeenth century. Industrial buildings include an octagonal [...] Fredriksdal is 36 ha Skansen-type open air museum devoted to the social and architectural history of Skåne located in the grounds of a mansion built by Fredrik Coster in 1787 which passed into the possession [...] saw mill also dates from the nineteenth century, and there is a range of glovers’ workshops. The museum includes a 2-8-2 tank locomotive once used on the state railways that was built in Helsingborg by

employed seamers and stitchers to finish the garments they produced. The principal museum of the East Midlands knitting industry opened in 1971 at Ruddington 6 km south of Nottingham where there were 343 stocking [...] Framework knitting was a characteristic industry of the English East Midlands. The knitting frame was invented in 1589 by the Rev William Lee of Calverton. It was at first a simple machine, but was steadily [...] yarn imported from India. Samuel Unwin (1712-99) and Jedediah Strutt (1726-97), leading figures in Industrial Revolution in East Midlands, were both concerned with development of frames. By the 1830s some

interpret the area’s industrial heritage was launched in the mid-1990s whose objective was ‘to recognise, research, preserve and celebrate the rich mining heritage of Allihies’. A museum was opened by the [...] their ancestors. One section of the museum deals with emigration to the United States after the mine closed in 1885. Allihies is set in one of the most evocative industrial landscapes in Europe. There are

The museum was established in 1930, supported by the foundation that Hansen set up. Its national importance was recognised in 1979 by the government, which provides some support, although the museum remains [...] Hjerl Hede is an open air museum of the Skansen type at Vinderup in the municipality of Holstebro in West Jutland. 35 km W of Viborg. Hans Peter Hjerl Hansen (1870-1946), a successful industrialist, a [...] a small steam engine driving machines by line shafting and belts. One section relates to forest industries and another shows the importance in Jutland of peat bogs, exhibiting peat-cutting machinery and

The agricultural museum was established in Bratislava in 1922, moved to Nitra in 1960, and from 1978 was managed by the Agrokomplex company. It is now an open air museum of the Skansen type which since [...] traditional crafts and the development of the food industry, agricultural machines, aviation, and fire-fighting. The 22 buildings in the open air museum of folk architecture include a school, a co-operative [...] bakery, scotching and heckling mills for processing hemp, a tannery, a treadmill and a cooperage. The museum operates several traction engines and a narrow gauge railway with three steam locomotives.

The museum of Oederan, a small village 20 km East of Chemnitz, presents the textile history of the Ore Mountains. Under the guidance of museum staff and on hand and power looms, visitors can learn various [...] spooling, as well as sectional and direct warping procedures. As the machinery and equipment park of the museum covers almost the entire history of weaving, from the simple handlooms of the early days via Jacquard

stimulation of early industrial manufacturing and traditional lifestyles in the countryside. Located in the Salweytal, the museum portrays patterns of work in the small-scale iron industry. Its exhibits of [...] The display of the former iron industries in the Sauerland, backed by exhibitions on folk culture, a collection of steam engines and locomotives and a section dedicated to the mechanization of farming [...] of pre-industrial local trades are centred around iron foundries and chain forges. The agricultural section focuses on the transition from manual labour to mechanical production.

Friedrichshafen on shore of the Bodensee (Lake Constance) is best-known in industrial history as the manufacturing and operating base for the airships built by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838-1917) [...] areas of engineering, particularly the manufacture of hardware for space exploration. The Dornier Museum occupies a striking modern building and its 400 exhibits include twelve original aircraft and two [...] tour of the Bodensee in a flight simulator. There are joint ticketing arrangements with the Zeppelin museum and with the operators of the catamaran service from Konstanz to Friedrichshafen.

of the museum is also interesting. It is in the centre of the famous factory site at Diglis, to where it moved in the 1800s from its original home at Warmstry House not far away. Part of the museum building [...] This is a museum that can be appreciated at a number of levels. Dr John Wall, a surgeon and prominent local figure started the Worcester Porcelain Manufactory in 1751. At the time the country was in the [...] building was originally the school that served this industrial community. Some of the terraced housing occupied by the factory workers line surrounding streets. The site straddles the medieval walls of the

one of the largest working maltings in East Anglia, barley was once processed here for the brewing industry. The owners, the Gooderham family, bought the site in the 1960´s and set about its gradual restoration [...] the younger brother of Richard Garrett, who inherited the Garrett Works at Leiston (Now Longshop Museum). One of his daughters achieved fame as the remarkable Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, a suffragette [...] incorporate a new Heritage Centre to explain the all-important history of Snape and its maltings industry. Snape Maltings is well-known as an internationally famous concert venue but there is much more

visitors are able to join by appointment. The museum in the Market Square provides an introduction to the history of the town, including its industrial heritage.

impressively reflect the transition from handcraft to industrial mass production in the 19th century. Thonet is considered a pioneer of industrial design. Starting in 1819 he produced own designs using [...] icons made of bentwood and tubular steel as well as contemporary pieces of renowned designers. The museum is located on the premises of the Thonet company based in Frankenberg since 1889. It illustrates

department of Haute-Saône, is the most northerly community in France-Comté, and has a long history of industrial activity. Its population, now less than 700, has declined from a peak of 1,805 in 1851. The glass [...] Haute-Saône. Visitors can observe glass blowers at work and collections of past and present products. The museum shop is in a traditional seventeenth-century building. The works was given the distinction of an

ly important industrial region, has its headquarters at the open air museum of mining, the first of its kind, established in 1938 by Karl-Erik Forsslund and Gustaf Bjorkman. The museum’s emblem is a gigantic [...] gigantic waterwheel, and it demonstrates as well as any other museum in Europe the ways in which power was transmitted by wooden rods from waterwheels to operate pumps and other mining machinery. Other

opened as a museum the following year. Its displays feature many aspects of textile manufacturing, particularly hosiery production and weaving on Jacquard looms. The other theme of the museum is motor cycling [...] The adjoining towns of Hohenstein and Ernstthal west of Chemnitz in Saxony were formally united in 1898. Both have been associated with the manufacture of textiles over several centuries. Mining prospered [...] prospered in the area in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The textile industry expanded, particularly in the nineteenth century as the accessible veins of silver ore ran out. The area became