Aircraft Factory. The Farnborough Air Sciences Trust (FAST) was started in 1993 to preserve the heritage of aerospace research. FAST has an important library and archive as well as collections of models [...] simulator allows visitors to find out what it would be like to fly such an early aircraft. Outside the museum, visitors can take a guided tour of the wind tunnels used to test aerodynamics.

This museum of London buses is outside the capital near Weybridge in Surrey. The collection of buses opened in the large building at its present site in 2011, but its origins go back to 1929. The museum [...] museum aims to show the engineering heritage of the collection in its historical, social and technological context and puts each bus in a diorama of a London street scene of the same date. The displays follow

as a „working textile museum" were launched. Government funds made it possible to purchase a majority of the shares, restore machines and buildings; and maintain the old industrial craftmanship. The spirit [...] 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

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

Venetian Works of Defence World Heritage site. It is on a narrow channel off the Adriatic. In the eighteenth century 300 ships worked from the port. The Maritime Museum of Montenegro is in the centre of [...] of the walled city. The museum was begun in about 1880 by the Boka Marine Fraternity and opened to the public in 1900. In 1938 it moved to the eighteenth-century Baroque palace that it still occupies,

Finnish paper industry and art. The museum believes in the power of narrative and tells touching tales from history and today. The story of G. A. Serlachius, a legend in Finnish paper industry is presented [...] Serlachius Museum Gustaf is located in Mänttä-Vilppula, a beautiful lakeside town of about 10,000 people in West Finland, 90 km north-east of Tampere. Museum Gustaf’s exhibitions feature the history of [...] office in 1986 following the merger of the G. A. Serlachius company and was opened as a museum in 2003. The industrial development of the locality set off when mill founder G. A. Serlachius built a pulp mill

designed by young Norwegian architects in the Jugendstil – the German form of Art Nouveau. The fisheries museum occupies a white warehouse of 1861 on the mole at the entrance to the harbour which escaped the fire [...] displays illustrated the manufacture of cod liver oil for medicinal purposes, which was a significant industry in Ålesund, and the processing of klippfish (bacalao or stockfish), the traditional means of cutting

warehouses and goods offices. The buildings now house the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. As soon as you start your tour of the museum you are assailed by the noise of old spinning and weaving [...] communications and emphasise its role in the motor-car and aeronautics industry. All in all this is one of the largest science and industry museums in the world. [...] Manchester was one of the very first industrial cities in the world. It is a byword for unrestrained capitalism and appalling social poverty; but also for its pioneering achievements. One of these was

Göttelborn created under the aegis of a company called the "IndustrieKultur Saar GmbH". Projects are developed in a new building, the "industrial heritage workshop"; and the adjacent guesthouse, "Flöz", offers [...] latest state of technology; yet it has already taken on a museum function. On the other hand the housing settlement that looks like an open air museum is still a part of everyday life. The rise of the Göttelborn [...] offers guests overnight accommodation right in the midst of this industrial environment and growing trading estate. Right through the middle runs the "mining tip circular trail" that leads walkers up to "Heaven´s

Opening in 2000, Hat Works is the UK’s only museum dedicated solely to the hatting industry, hats and headwear! The museum was developed in Stockport, one of Manchester´s leading hatting towns. It is an [...] thriving hat factory. Hat Works focuses on the development of the hatting industry from its humble beginnings in the cottage industry to the mass production of the early 19th century. Live demonstrations of [...] thematic displays in the museum, with an approximately equal but ever-growing number of hats in store, waiting to take their place on display. One of the most atmospheric parts of the museum is the recreation

1935. Leonida modelled the museum on the Deutsches Museum in Munich that he visited when studying in Germany, but as the founder of a pioneering training school for electricians and mechanics, he saw its [...] company Brush in 1882, as well as motors made in Romania. The museum is set in a parkland landscape in the vicinity of several important industrial monuments including the Filanet railway station of 1869 and [...] Romania’s technical museum was established in 1928 by the engineer Dimitrie Leonida (1883-1965), and has been located in its present building, a pavilion from the Bucharest World Fair of 1906, since 1935

quality table glass and lighting products. The glass industry, as well as the associated coal mines and chemical plants, is well illustrated in the town museum which was established in a former elementary school

Mining and Industrial Museum in El Entrego • The Asturian Railway Museum in Gijón • The Railway Industry Museum in Langreo The Asturian Tourist Board has set itself the aim of marketing the industrial heritage [...] other industrial enterprises, all of which contributed to making the region a pioneer in the industrialisation of Spain, alongside Catalonia and the Basque country. All these branches of industry have left [...] these industrial monuments and expressions of a bygone engineering technology are part of the landscape which they once radically transformed. Some of the sites have been turned into industrial museums

that the neighbouring port of Amlwch was bursting at the seams. Today it is the site of an industrial museum which is simultaneously the start of a circular trail through the area’s turbulent past. Amongst [...] Parys with its yawning abysses and ancient machinery. All this with stunning views over a unique industrial landscape.

level in 1910, and ceased in 1962. The Almond Valley Heritage Centre has displays about the history of the industry, and is the starting point for a heritage trail through the shale-working villages. [...] locally as ‘bings’, dominate the landscape of the Lothians. They are the legacy of the shale oil industry. Some can be seen from the approaches to the Forth Bridge. Production of oil from shales was begun

which includes the 36-meter-high Staszic Hall equipped with a panoramic elevator, the 1.5-kilometer "Museum Route" at a depth of 135 meters illustrating the development of salt mining from simple wedges and [...] hitherto inaccessible places of the mine. Unsurprisingly, the Wieliczka Salt Mine is listed as a World Heritage Site, as is the neighbouring historic castle with its unique collection of salt shakers and a vaulted

The Museum of the Hungarian Petroleum Industry displays many large machines chiefly of the 20th century. Machines relating to the extraction of crude oil include drilling rigs, boring engines, beam pumps [...] of the industry is illustrated by a distillation column and plant for producing lubricating oil. Other exhibits relate to pipeline technology. Outstanding figures in the history of the industry are co

the first institute of oil technology opened in the area. The museum at Merkwiller-Pechelbronn is concerned with the history of the industry. It explains the geology of the region, the ways in which prospecting

19th-century Mulino Nuovo (New Mill) industrial complex. The mill underwent major renovation and today, along with the Freidano Ecomuseum, it houses the Ethnographic Museum, dedicated to the trades that once [...] river. The Freidano Ecomuseum develops research projects that focus on the local landscape and industrial heritage, and organizes workshops and events for schools and families, and visits for the public. The [...] The Freidano Ecomuseum takes its name from the canal that provided the energy for the earliest industrial activities in the area that lies between Torino and the suburb of Chivasso along the left bank

The award-winning Scottish Maritime Museum at Irvine and Dumbarton is home to Scotland's seafaring heritage. At two sites in the west of Scotland you can learn about Scotland’s importance to maritime history [...] and Brothers’ innovative and experimental approach to shipbuilding made waves in the shipbuilding industry from the 1800s to 1963. See the world’s first commercial ship model experiment tank. Enter the world