first industrial heritage sites to be preserved in Britain. A campaign to protect it as part of the heritage of steelmaking in Sheffield began in 1933. It is now run by Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust

The Museum of the Industrial Quarter was established in 1982.by Karl Flanner (1920-2013), a welder in the city’s famous locomotive factory, who endured slave labour under the Nazis, was imprisoned in [...] n in the decades after the Second World War, and was respected as an historian. The museum describes the industrial history of Weiner Neustadt and the southern part of Lower Austria in recent times. One [...] the notorious branch of the Wiener Neustadt locomotive factory which employed slave labour. The museum includes a research and study centre.

finest exhibits in the Rhineland Industrial Museum which has taken over the grounds and old factory buildings as one its six sites. “Under Tension” is the motto of the museum and its fascinating programme [...] own needs. It was finally closed down in 1979 only to reopen as an industrial museum in 1987. A short walk away from the main museum site there is the Oelcheshammer, an old water-driven smithy which is [...] the son of a Wuppertal textile manufacturer, visited Manchester during the early years of the industrial revolution he was shocked by the working conditions in the factories. In 1848 he and Karl Marx

“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

company operated on an industrial scale in the nineteenth century from premises at 155 Obere Markstrasse. It sold violins at low prices and exported instruments on a large scale. The industry declined in the [...] the 1920s and 30s, but was revived after the Second World War. The museum of violin-making was established in 1930 and since 1960 has occupied one of the oldest and most attractive buildings in Mittenwald [...] film and photographic evidence of the trade, together with recordings of some of instruments. The museum has a database of Mittenwald violin-makers based on well-preserved registers of baptisms, marriages

No one can grasp a proper understanding of the industrial heritage of the West Midlands without a visit to the Back to Backs in Birmingham. Here you can see the home workshops which generated the momentum [...] between the occupiers which at one point amounted to some 80 people. In its heyday it was a hive of industry. Each house was occupied by a skilled tradesman and his family (and often a lodger or two), attracted

have been used for storing the products of the wine industry that has flourished in the region since the Second World War. The wine centre includes a museum which displays methods of growing grapes and making

production, they have to go to Voigtsberg Castle. In the Carpet Museum, flying carpets transport them through the history of the mechanical and industrial production of carpets in Oelsnitz. From the gallery under [...] and the Oriental embroidery machine from the 1930s show the impressive development of the carpet industry.

worked in their own homes. The museum, supported by a voluntary association, the Forderverein Esche-Museum eV, was established in 2001. It tells the story of the hosiery industry from the time when it was entirely [...] 19 km. west of Chemnitz and 36 km. east of Zwickau, is one of the historic centres of the textile industry in Saxony, and is particularly important for its role in the development of hosiery technology. [...] in 1719. His family continued to manage factories in Limbach-Oberfrohn and the present-day Esche-Museum is located in a three-storey hosiery factory built in 1854 by Ernste Reinhold Esche (1817-73), where

Fozola from Wurzburg. Two branches of the National Technical Museum commemorate the history of the iron industry. The Central Metallurgical Museum is at Felsohamor, a village about 10 km from Miskolc, and [...] Baroque building of 1778-79, which served as an administrative and storage building for the iron industry. The collection includes a good range of nineteenth century machine tools. A blast furnace of 1813-14 [...] stack about 10 m high, is preserved at Ujmassa. It has been conserved since 1951, and was the first industrial monument in Hungary to receive legislative protection.

cultural and crative industries. This project has following areas: La Harinera Museum focuses on preservation, restoration and the provision of information on the heritage of the flour industry. La Harinera Creative [...] multifunctional space which recognises and values industrial heritage and contemporary cultural creation. It is an integrated site, made up of a museum, a cultural space and accommodation, provides a reference [...] La Harinera combines industrial heritage, cultural innovation and contemporary creation in an old bread and plour factory. Is main aim is to promote and inspire creativity in a sustainable way and with

clean and germ-free drinking water for almost 100 years from 1893 onwards. Since 2011, the museum, industrial monument and nature park have been inviting visitors to experience a part of the city's modern [...] island was abandoned for many years. The Water Art opened in 2011 and, in addition to a nature and museum education programme, offers a variety of guided tours and workshops for all age groups.

coal fires. Low wages and appalling living conditions made the town a nightmare for generations of industrial workers. All this was a stark contrast to the exquisite china and the luminous glazed pottery and [...] world-famous for its pottery manufacture. Nowadays potters are still at work in the Gladstone Pottery Museum, which is housed in an original old pottery factory. Here they model clay on the historic potters’

the museum, in a former leather works built in 1891. This is a history museum that still exudes the sights and smells of its industrial past. Demonstrators, who used to work in the leather industry, are [...] undisputed centre of that industry. In 1839 for instance, local workshops were producing output to equip 20,000 saddles and 200,000 sets of harnesses each year. The industry was virtually self sufficient [...] Walsall’s leather industry is relatively new compared with the much older lorinery trade that has existed in the town at least since the 1400s. This is the making of saddler’s ironmongery; hand forged

side of the town, in 1939. It now combines three museums, the Shoe Museum, whose collections include examples of footwear from all over the world, the Museum of Applied Art which demonstrates how leather [...] centuries by craftsmen and designers, and the Ethnological Museum, which concentrates on the use of leather Africa, America and Asia. The museum organises special exhibitions on many leather-related topics [...] The leather industry flourished in the town of Offenbach on the River Main 10 km east of Frankfurt over many years. From the eighteenth century small firms called ‘Babbscher’ produced high quality purses

ancourt, about 3 km downstream from the Eiffel Tower, was an icon of 20th century manufacturing industry in Europe. Louis Renault (1877-1944) began to build motor cars in a small workshop on the bank of [...] the area. The buildings on the island were cleared in 2002-04 and were to have been replaced by a museum of modern art designed by the Japanese architect Tadao Ando to house the collection of the entrepreneur

the furnaces is the town museum, founded in 1969 and accommodated in the Plavec House, which dates from the early 17th century. Its principal displays concern the iron industry which flourished in the area [...] objects. When the industry was at its peak some 62 forges were working in the vicinity of Železniki. One of the principal exhibits is a large-scale model of a hammer forge. The museum also explains the [...] the relationship between the iron industry and the woodlands which line the valley sides, showing the making of charcoal, the operation of water-powered sawmills and the manufacture of the barrels in which

The logging of trees in the forests is one of the old industries of the Slovak mountains. The construction of narrow gauge railways (most are 76 cm) that could go into the mountains helped to increase [...] take trains from Čierny Balog for long and short journeys. At the Čierny Balog station is a small museum of forest railways with a working model that children can operate, equipment and photographs. Outside

This museum in the Auvergne region preserves the heritage of coal mining and railways at the site of the St Louis coal mine, which operated from 1928 to 1988. Mining began in the area in 1768. In 1931

remain in the region. The industry is commemorated in the museum at Saint Hippolyte du Fort, a small town on the River Vidourie, which provided power for throwing mills. The museum portrays all the processes