century. Mining began in the area in 1939 when the population was only 15,000. With the growth of the industry during and after the Second World War it increased to more than 21,000, and Oroszlány gained the [...] status of a town in 1954. In recent decades most coal has been extracted by open cast methods. The museum occupies a modernist group of pit-head buildings of reinforced concrete and glass at the XX (i.e

opened as a museum in 1992. The building is in the architectural tradition of the region but is the oldest surviving factory in Schwäbisch Gmünd, a city once reliant on the gold and silver industry. The museum [...] office equipment such as a telephone, calculator and typewriter. Children can make jewellery in the museum’s workshops.

How does a farming hamlet grow into an industrial town? The Educational Industrial Museum in Hengelo will give you the answer. Its theme is the industrial development of the town of Hengelo in the west [...] outstanding importance for this is a branch of industry which still flourishes in Hengelo, as is the model of a Dutch infrared satellite. A selection of the museum’s technical equipment is regularly put into [...] west of the Netherlands during the last 150 years. The museum starts with an exhibition of textile machines and a metal processing workshop dating back to around 1900. A steam engine and a range of diesel

ein Konzept für "Sounds of Industry: Industriekultur x Clubkultur" und zwei einzelne Studenten beschäftigten sich mit den Themen "Unabhängigkeit und Nachhaltigkeit in einem Museum" und einem Pitch für ein [...] Summer School durch spannende Exkursionen zu industriekulturellen Stätten in Berlin. Die "European Industrial Heritage Summer School" ist ein gemeinsames Programm von ERIH, dem Berliner Zentrum für Industriekultur [...] werden auf der ERIH-Jahreskonferenz im November präsentiert. Wir freuen uns, dass die Summer School "Industrial Heritage x Sustainability" mit dem Best Practices Award 2023 der Cultural Routes des Europarates

which used the Coats brand names. Thread manufacturing declined after the Second World War and the industry gradually contracted. Anchor Mills became a business centre from the 1980s, and production of thread [...] buildings have been demolished and replaced by car parks on sites of other buildings. The Thread Mill Museum (12 Seedhill Road, Paisley, PA1 1JS, Tel. +44 (0) 141 8471111 ) has a collection of characteristic

the nuclear power industry in other countries. A visitor centre opened in 1995, but three years early a museum collection was established with the aid of the National Technical Museum that was intended [...] intended to show the artefacts and images used in the nuclear power industry, particularly in its early decades. The museum opened to the public in 2012 and enables visitors to learn about such subjects as primary [...] primary and secondary circuits and radiation control. Some museum visits extend into operating areas of the plant.

the use of 27 local plants and spices, and was carried out in the Palais on an industrial scale. The Palais is now a museum, partly devoted to Benedictine, showing the distillery in the cellars and the

by the National Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia (MNACTEC) and is currently one of its branches and part of its Territorial System of 26 museums that explain industrialization in Catalonia. [...] The site is furnished with hand-tools, charcoal, metal and equipment. The Ethnographic Museum, a few streets away in Plaça de l’Abat Oliba, presents the history of the region and shows products from the

former workers to establish a cultural centre including a museum in the largest paper mill in the valley which was duly restored in 2005-07. The museum shows the history of papermaking from its beginnings until [...] fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, displays illustrating the mechanisation of production during the Industrial Revolution, and some of the machines used to make paper in the vicinity in the twentieth century

even around 3,000 people employed in the local industry. The Düren Paper Museum is housed in a building in the town centre behind the Leopold Hoesch Museum. Here visitors can learn more about the interesting [...] dates. One of the main themes in the museum is devoted to "Paper Art". Items are not only displayed here in the museum. Every two years the adjacent Leopold Hoesch Museum presents the "Paper Art Biennale" [...] important means of communicating culture. In Düren, a town with an important paper industry, there is a complete museum dedicated to the material. The fact that paper, alongside textiles and metals, played

to establish and run a communal coal mining museum in the immediate neighbourhood. In 2001 Carreau Wendel was officially recognised as a state industrial museum. [...] washeries, a power station and the vast network of railway lines add up to the very essence of an industrial landscape. At first sight Carreau Wendel looks like a typical coal mining site from the era between

sources of in France, and that coal was the basis of the city’s notable textile and engineering industries. The last mine ceased production in 1984, but visitors can experience the area’s mining heritage [...] machinery was operated by electric power. The site is dominating by a lofty steel headframe. The museum offers a demonstration gallery on the surface, some 350 m long, where visitors, after passing through

Exploitation on an industrial scale began in 1868 under the direction of Joao Texeira. The workings were abandoned in the late nineteenth century but re-started in 1930. The museum park includes open cast

The 180 ha Veenpark is an open-air museum of the peat-digging industry, based in a village established in the 19th century by poor farmers from Hanover, who made habitable a region of impassable bogs.

its principal industries. The peat-fired power station was dismantled in 1966 and replaced by a gas turbine power station which itself was demolished in 1995. The Peat and Colony Museum, created gradually [...] transport facilities. The purpose of the town was to enable the exploitation of peat reserves on an industrial scale, particularly to be used as fuel in a power station planned by Carl Friedrich von Siemens [...] the mid-18th century to the early 20th century. It also shows the history of the peat extraction industry in the region. Some buildings are original, some relocated here and some reconstructed based on

the National Railway Museum and can be heard online at "Railwaystories". The Pegler family home the mid-eighteenth century Arncott House at Retford has housed the Bassetlaw Museum since 1986. [...] India rubber belting, piping, matting and hoses, many of its products being used in the engineering industry. Alan Pegler gained a pilot’s licence while still at school, and used a light aircraft to chase

invention, that had such far-reaching consequences. Armed with these thoughts, a visit to the Pen Museum is an experience not to be missed. You can make your own steel pen nib exactly as was done by the [...] decline of pen making in Birmingham and hear the stories of the firms and the people who worked in the industry. The conditions that workers endured were appalling by today’s standards, yet each worker would

from the 1860s, and since 1905 the Società Petrolifera has been based in the town. The Petroleum Museum Park has exhibitions illustrating the history of oil extraction in the region but also displaying [...] from other countries, drawing attention to the ways in which new uses can be found for historic industrial buildings. Most of the surviving structures in the oilfield are inaccessible for safety reasons

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

The museum at Petrosani dates from 1961, but initially it was not strictly devoted to mining and its first temporary exhibition was devoted to the Cuban revolution. In 1966 the museum moved to its current [...] first headquarters of the SAR Patrosani company, and concentrated on interpreting the coal mining industry of the Jiu valley that dates from the 1840s. There are displays of miners’ tools, machines used