sewing-machines. At its peak 3,000 women worked in the industry locally, making products for famous brands such as Pierre Cardin and Christian Dior. The museum is in Brillaud’s factory on the bank of the river [...] folding, packing and dispatch. An association to preserve the shirt-making heritage of the town was started in 1982 and the museum opened with the help of the local authority in 1993.

with industrial buildings. Shortly behind the sign telling you that you are entering Sprimont there is another smaller sign pointing the way to the Museum of Stone. The road leading to the museum opens [...] glass-fronted buildings rise into the sky in the background. Is this a museum or do people still work here? It is the Sprimont Museum of Stone, housed in the former central power station of the quarry, which [...] fossils. The stone is primarily used in the building industry; but sculptors also like working on it, as can be seen from the many artworks in the museum´s courtyard and the old power station. The central

Finland's Museum of Technology, founded in 1969 and opened in 1975, is housed in the historic waterworks buildings that were built in the 1870s for the Helsinki Water Board and closed in the 1960s. They [...] are spectacularly located on the island of Kuninkaankartano at the mouth of the Vantaa River. The museum uses interactive exhibits to tell the story of Finland's development from an agrarian society to [...] development. Among other things, visitors can learn about the history of the printing and chemical industries, sugar production, the processing of forest products and metallurgy. A large part of the exhibition

Premià de Mar, built in 1884, is the only museum in Spain that specialises in textile printing. Some buildings of the gas works remain alongside the purpose-built museum, which opened in 2002. It explains the [...] of textile printing, its history since the eighteenth century and its significance in the industrialization of Catalunya as a leading centre of textile printing from the 1930s. It shows processes from [...] collection of thousands of examples of printed textiles and an archive and library. It is also a museum for local history and archaeology from prehistory to the present.

ancient city of Toruń in central Poland is a World Heritage site. The tradition of making gingerbread there goes back a thousand years. Opened in 2015, the museum is located in the Weese gingerbread factory in [...] was exporting worldwide. A new factory outside the town was built in 1913. The museum is operated by the district museum in collaboration with the Kopernik confectionary firm. There are interactive displays

well-known and popular part of the museum, and a speciality of the shop is the provision of Walloon delicacies including chocolate, pékèt (alcohol) and sirop de Liège. The museum holds many documents relating [...] Gustave Marissaux (1872-1929) of mining subjects. Marissaux was born in the nearby industrial community of Seraing. The museum is located in a former monastery near the centre of Liège. [...] The Musée de la Vie Wallone (Museum of Walloon Life) portrays many aspects of the social history of the French-speaking community in Belgium from the early nineteenth century onwards. Its collection of

remain include a foundry and a machine shop with cast-iron columns. Part of the site is occupied by a museum of armaments displaying many guns made on the site. Torre Annunziata, only 5 km from Pompeii, was [...] Poppea, destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD is part of the Pompeii and Herculaneum World Heritage Site, designated in 1997.

Most demonstrators worked in the textile industry. They take commissions and produce items for sale such as cotton bath towels, tea-towels and tablecloths. The museum shows a collection of fabrics and provides [...] Geldrop was an important centre for textile manufacture in the nineteenth century, especially wool. The museum occupies the buildings of a woollen factory on the river Kleine Dommel at the site of a medieval [...] company name: ‘van den Heuvel & Zoon’. Through a large collection of looms and other machines the museum shows how to weave in different textiles and how processes have changed. It demonstrates weaving

like to card, spin and weave wool with your own hands. In order to fully grasp the diverse industrial heritage that is scattered throughout the city with its factories, drying yards, chimneys, machines [...] of the past weaving the future“: in line with its motto, the three neighbouring locations of the Museum of Woollen Textiles in Covilhã explore the traces of local wool processing over the centuries. There

multiple waterfalls. On its seven floors the museum is centred around people - the ones who drudged at the machines, including many women and children, and the museum's visitors coming to see the exhibitions [...] libraries, and workshops, thus looking into how the industrial society affected people's lives over the past 100 years. People are also focused in the Town Museum featuring textile machines and a weaving mill [...] Walking the streets of Norrköping is like a promenade through 400 years of industrial history. The town centre is literally scattered with former factories. Most of them were built between 1850 and 1920

printed cotton goods, and subsequently became a leading centre of the textile and engineering industries. The museum of printing on fabrics began with the establishment of an archive of fabric designs by the

variety of museums, some belonging to the state and some privately-operated. They include a museum of wax figures, a museum of emigration and two museums of weapons. The industrial heritage of the region [...] region can best be appreciated in the Museum of Agriculture, Culture and Traditions in and around the house of Fabrica in Montecchio. The house was first recorded in 1770, and it was restored by the state

production has moved to modern factories in newly established industrial zones. On the other hand, the awareness of the traditions of industrial heritage has been growing ever since. Thanks to that, the ancient [...] ‘Museo dell' Arte fabbrile e delle coltellerie’ industrial museum in 2009. Covering two spacious floors, the exhibition tells the story of the cutlery industry from its beginnings to the present day. With [...] production as well as product diversity and design history and, not least, the cultural history of the industry.

efforts were made to establish new industrial and armaments plants at a 'safe distance' from the borders with Germany and the Soviet Union. This 'Central Industrial District' (Polish: Centralny Okręg [...] country's industrial production, modernise the infrastructure of the densely populated region and reduce unemployment. The history, development and current situation of the COP are told at the Museum of the [...] the Central Industrial District in Stalowa Wola, a town built in 1937 in just 26 months and 26 days as part of the COP project together with the Huta Stalowa Wola steelworks. The museum's permanent exhibition

fallen into ruin. Their aim was to preserve the industrial heritage for future generations. Today, one of the renovated houses used as a small mining museum where miners’ tools are displayed, among which [...] The restored colliery site of the Katzenberg Mine with the museum of the Cockerill Mine, the adjacent nature reserve and the Nature Conservation Centre Ellergronn is a particular jewel with a very rich

mechanised weaving. Many earlier examples of equipment are also preserved in the museum. Displays show the impact of the industry on the landscape and the history of the exploitation of silk from the silkworm [...] exhibitions and cultural events are held. Visitors to the museum can also collect information to help them take walking tours of the local heritage.

coffee roasters and hair curlers. Displays show something of the history of the gas industry in Warsaw. The museum has a large and important collection of gas street lamps. [...] succeeded in restoring supplies by July 1945. The last gas was produced at the plant in 1978. The museum was established the previous year. It conserves and interprets the nineteenth- and twentieth-century

This brick warehouse is one of the prestigious museums in the Ironbridge World Heritage site. It was built in 1840 by the Coalbrookdale company to store iron products ready for shipment down the River [...] architect Samuel Cookson as a public showpiece for the iron company in the Gothic Revival style. The museum is increasingly affected by floods and a scale model of the Severn Gorge has been removed for safekeeping

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 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.