Gaultier, Pierre Cardin or Chantal Thomass. The latter is the patron of the Museum for Lace and Fashion in Calais too. The museum, which opened in 2009, is housed in a historic weaving and lace-making factory [...] fascinating architectural ensemble is clearly a metaphor, not only of its ambitions as an industrial museum, but also as a shop window for contemporary fashion trends. Visitors arrive in a 3.000 square metre [...] to the 21st century, and a presentation of state-of-the-art manufacturing methods. In addition the museum has room for temporary exhibitions, a documentation centre, a room for fashion shows and spaces for

the park is in the southwest of the island. This is also where most of the mining monuments and museums that are open to tourists are located, some of which are presented on the ERIH website: Carbonia [...] Zurfuru Mining Site Guspini. The Mines of Montevecchio Iglesias. Masua Mines and Porto Flavia Iglesias. Museum of the Arts of Mining Narcao. Rosas Mining Ecomuseum

marsh cultivation and mixed soil cultivation of sand and peat). All of them are displayed in the museum. The outdoor area covers 1.5 hectares and includes an experimental garden with 90 species of plants [...] the narrow-gauge steam locomotive "Katharina" and a steam tractor. Moored in the canal next to the museum are a traditional flatboat from 1900 (named Tjalk), the reconstruction (2002) of another traditional

work was tough and often dangerous, especially for those who worked at the wharfs. Today the port museum Speicher XI revisits the heyday of Bremen's freeports by displaying the jobs involved in general

Association was founded in 1964. The first restored steam-powered trains ran in 1966 - as Germany's first museum railway. Today, the association operates a 7.8-kilometre-long line with its 1,000-millimetre gauge

but the former dyeshop of the cotton mill houses Työväenmuseo Werstas - the Finnish Labour Museum. The Museum tells the over two-hundred-year-old story of Tampere’s industry. The exhibition describes how [...] Tampere became the largest industrial city in the country, “the Manchester of Finland”. Impressive museum artefacts and photographs introduce visitors to the industrial enterprises and factory workers of [...] of Tampere. A large 1650 hp Sulzer steam engine with an 8 m flywheel is preserved in the museum.

technical achievements that were essential for lignite surface mining. The Bergbau-Technik-Park (open air museum for mining technology) lets visitors learn about the technical implications of lignite extraction

parts of southern Norway until 1984. In 1986 the idea of reopening the mill as a „working textile museum" were launched. Government funds made it possible to purchase a majority of the shares, restore machines [...] driven by our water power station with a turbine from 1913. A visit to Sjølingstad Woollen Mill Museum during the summer season gives you the possibility to get a guided tour around the factory. You learn

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 pre-industrial local

reloading point for a seemingly inexhaustible supply of iron ore from Kiruna in neighboring Sweden. Museum Nord - Narvik tells the story of the rapid emergence of Narvik as a result of the demand for iron [...] million tons of Swedish iron ore have been transported since it’s opening in 1902. When visiting the museum you can view the model of the historical Norddal Bridge, with its great steel structure hanging over [...] laid the foundation for today's Narvik. Among the highlights of the exhibition is a film that gives museum visitors the sensation of a train journey along the Ofoten Railway. For those who would like to

as does the textile mill which has been adapted as housing. The town’s history is illustrated in a museum in the Court House, which dates from 1773. The birthplace in Church Street of Hugh Miller (1802-56)

1964 as the Ulster Folk Museum at Cultra Manor, 8 km north-east of Belfast. In 1998, with the Ulster Museum and the Ulster-American Folk Park, it became part of the National Museums and Galleries of Northern [...] The museum originated as a traditional open air museum following the pattern of Skansen, portraying chiefly the social life of the northern counties of Ireland in the early twentieth century. It was e [...] Northern Ireland. Several of the buildings in the 68-hectare folk museum illustrate vividly the history of traditional textile manufacturing in Ireland. They include a water-powered scotching mill from Gorticashel

history in the purpose-built museum and gallery called The Beacon Museum, which opened in 1996. Along the cliffs to the south of the harbour the Haig Colliery Mining Museum was located in the surface buildings [...] buildings of a colliery which closed in 1986; the museum closed in 2016. The headstock still stands together with the winding engine house in which are two Bever Dorling steam engines.

‘Cressy’, was maintained at Tooley’s Boatyard in Banbury, which is now conserved as part of Banbury Museum. The yard dates from circa the late eighteenth century and includes a dry dock and a smithy, both [...] the opposite side of the canal from the boat yard, with which it is linked by a bridge, is Banbury Museum, housed in a modern buildings. Its collection includes exhibits, amongst them a loom, relating to

Partition in 1922, and coal traffic diminished during the 1950s. The line was closed in 1959, but a museum was established in the former narrow gauge station at Dromod in 1993. The engine shed and water tower [...] Stephenson & Co in 1887 have been preserved, No 2 at Cultra Manor, Belfast, and No 3 at the New Jersey Museum of Transportation.

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! They [...] Hauka and Oter, lie tied up at the banks of the directly adjacent fjord. They also belong to the museum.

example, at the innovation centre CIVON where visitors are invited to be key players of an interactive museum experience. Eight displays guide them through all stages of manufacture in the iron industry: from

Chelmsford Museum’s new Bright Sparks Exhibition gives a fascinating insight into the achievements of the late 19th century industrial pioneers Guglielmo Marconi, R.E.B.Crompton and the Hoffmann Manufacturing

and it is regularly opened. The textile museum is on the most important museum of this kind in Italy. Covering an area of 2,400 square metres, the Textile Museum displays an extensive range of textiles [...] trading in 1994. The work of the factory rehabilitation begun in 2000. In May 2003 Prato Textile Museum (just operating since 1975) has been definitively housed in the converted Campolmi textile mill.

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 [...] and marvel at traditional manufacturing techniques employed using original historical machines. The Museum showcases the technology involved in jewellery and watch production in its historical context, h