built by the Czech Tomas Bata to provide both work and housing in a garden village setting. The Bata Museum and Reminicence Centre is located at East Tilbury Library in the midst of the Bata Estate. Tomas

hall and a post office which in 2001 became the museum of the Amsterdam Expressionist School. Apart from displaying drawings and photographs the museum arranges exhibitions by artists, and tours by boat

and the Kruonis pumped storage plant. Other museum sections are dedicated to the history of Vilnius industry as well as hands-on exhibits for children. The museum opened in 2003. [...] The Energy and Technology Museum in Vilnius is housed in a former power plant launched in 1903 and shut down in 1998. The power plant was damaged during World War II but was subsequently rebuilt, and much [...] much of the original equipment can still be seen at the museum. The power plant included three turbines by AEG (1911), MAN (1913) and Brown Boveri (1925), three generators, a control panel made in Poland

began in 1861 and in 1903 had 3,000 employees. The building was carefully restored and opened as a museum of clocks and watches in 2018. It displays an important collection of clocks and watches made in

operate push-tow vessels. The lift opened in 1975, before the completion of the canal. There is a museum on the site from which visitors can embark in trip boats.

The municipal museum of Nordhorn is on three sites of industrial heritage: NINO-Hochbau, Povelturm and Museumsfabrik. It takes 15 minutes to walk between them. The town is on the border with the Netherlands [...] employed 12,000 people there in the 1960s. The NINO building was a five-storey cotton spinning mill. The museum opened on the first floor of the building in 2011 with an exhibition of textile history, including [...] Hechter. The 'Povel tower' was a water tower built in 1906 for the Povel cotton mill and became a museum in 1994. It has exhibitions and films about the history of Nordhorn (and a cocktail bar on the roof)

cars and motorcycles produced in Chemnitz, are now largely forgotten. One of the objectives of the Museum of Saxon Road Vehicles is to perpetuate the memory of companies like Heros and Presto, together with [...] nal Modern style, built in 1928 when the motor industry in Saxon was at its most prosperous. The museum displays more than 200 motorcycles and cars manufactured in Saxony by more than 40 companies.

The site of the coal mine at Noyan-d’Allier is preserved by an association of friends that began in 1988. The mine was built in 1920 and coal production finished in 1943. The buildings were large and

waterworks. During the reconstruction in the 1990s new accommodation was provided for the waterworks museum whose collection dates from 1952. Displays illustrate the history of water supplies in Prague from [...] through the Renaissance and the industrial developments of the nineteenth century to the present. The museum includes paintings of the waterworks by Josef Lada (1887-1957), best-known as illustrator of Jaroslav

the pharmacy as well as doctors' surgeries and shops are still in existence. Museum "Das Rote Wien im Waschsalon" A museum has been set up in the rooms of Laundromat No. 2, whose permanent exhibition presents

station shut down, it has been completely renovated and integrated into the Kraftmuseet (Norwegian Museum of Hydropower and Industry). The monumental architecture highlights the highly developed aesthetic

supply systems. He formed the Broadstairs Water Company in 1859, and its waterworks now houses a museum which is largely devoted to his life story. Its centrepiece is a 24.38 m high crenelated flint water [...] documentary and pictorial records of local railways, electric trams, motor buses and industries. The museum includes seven working model railways and also serves as the starting point for guided tours of a

The museum of technology and labour in Mannheim opened in 1990 in a Modernist building designed by the Berlin architect Ingeborg Kuhler. Its objective is to illuminate the process of industrialisation [...] nuclear energy and products of the chemical industry. The ship Mannheim is an outstation of the museum in the nearby harbour on the River Neckar. The approach is interactive, and throughout the displays

The technical museum in Vienna holds many artefacts of significance to the industrial history of Europe. It was formally established in 1908, with Dr Ludwig Erhard as its director, as part of the jubilee [...] jubilee celebrations of the Emperor Franz Josef, but it was not opened until 1918. The museum has an original model of a Watt engine of 1795, with several nineteenth-century steam engines, including one of

Kensington in 1857, from which, in due course the Science Museum, the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Natural History Museum all evolved. The Science Museum had a separate formal identity from 1909, and the principal [...] The Science Museum in London holds one of Europe’s greatest collections of artefacts relating to the history of science and industry. A collection of objects from the Great Exhibition of 1851was put on

Baekeland, was one of the most important plastics of the first half of the twentieth century. The museum at Williton, located in a former water mill, has the largest collection of vintage plastic artefacts

manufacture of sulphuric acid, chlorine, alkali, and a range of associated products. The Catalyst museum is based in a tower, once the office of a soap-manufacturing company, that provides wide-ranging

Some of the outbuildings at the rear of the house and adjacent area of the grounds are occupied by a museum of the Bofors company. It originated as an ironworks authorised by the government in 1646, whose

the company museum of the Michelin company which has been in business since 1889. It is situated next to the company’s factory in Clermont Ferrand. It is a lively and light-hearted museum in which much

from 1662 until 1945. The scope of the museum has subsequently expanded, and it was extensively renovated in 2012-13. It is responsible for several other museums in the region. It continues to show the [...] 1871. The chemical industry became established around Sokolov on a substantial scale from 1927. A museum of the mining region was established in 1960, and is now located in a chateau in the Renaissance