Canal allowed cheaper transport of silk from China. The museum is built up from the collection of a silk weaver and expert in the history of the industry M. Lançon. With ancient equipment it shows the whole

in four rooms, with a special focus on the history of the Hungarian electrical industry. The exhibitions of the museum highlight Hungary’s essential role in railway electrification, lighting technology [...] commemorates the history of light and lighting, and their power to form our society and culture. The museum can be found in a Bauhaus-style building in Kazinczy Street. The building, which was originally a [...] stretcher. In the unique exhibition entitled Neonparade, found in the stylish interior courtyard of the museum, light advertisements are presented, which count as artworks and serve as memories of the history

Basque Maritime Museum is located in one of the few buildings that survived when the city was burned to the ground by British and Portuguese troops after the siege of 1813. The museum has no permanent [...] exhibition but annually presents several large temporary exhibitions on the Basque maritime history and heritage and the relationship between mankind and the sea. The exhibitions are accompanied by a wide range

great heritage value of the facilities combines with the environment, resulting in an area marked by intense iron ore mining activities that, since 1865, contributed to the subsequent industrial development [...] passengers can see railway-related earthworks, platforms, quarries or dumps that make up an exceptional industrial landscape.

region. The cellar of the Bergisch Museum of Mining, Crafts and Trade in the Bergisch-Gladbach suburb of Bensberg keeps alive the memories of a once important branch of industry. Life between the palace and [...] variegated series of exhibitions housed here directly beneath the magnificent Bensberg Palace. The museum itself dates back to 1928 and is housed in the so-called “Little Tower House” adjacent to the local [...] local town hall. The exhibition is centred on people’s everyday life in the pre- and early industrial eras. What was life here like around 1700 when Duke Johann Wilhelm II built his magnificent palace along

AB Iggesund concentrated on forest products, wood, wood pulp, paper and hydro-electric power. The museum, sponsored by present owners, Holmen AB, provides access to the well-preserved buildings of the ironworks [...] show films of the works in operations, and also illustrates present-day activities in the paper industry.

has been re-developed, in part under the Bergslagen initiative which aims to transform historic industrial sites in Sweden’s mining region (i.e. Bergslagen) into centres for cultural activities and sustainable [...] The project is known as a Verket (which translates as ‘Agency’) and as an Invelsemuseum (‘empathy museum’). Visitors can now explore the blast furnaces and the Siemens-Martin steel plant, whose workings

The museum dealing with the history of the town and its industry was established in 1995 and moved to its present premises in the mill of Kloster & Gale in 2000. The town has a varied industrial history [...] to takeovers in the late twentieth century and ceased operation in 2012. The museum has displays concerning all the industries that flourished in the Moss region, including the ironworks, corn mills, pulp- [...] trails along which visitors can learn of the history of the many buildings that reflect Moss’s industrial heritage.

documents and examples of the many uses made of malt. The town museum occupies part of the ground floor and includes displays on local industries.

Anyway, they are witnesses of the industrial past and will lead visitors through the history of Luxembourg’s steel industry. In Rumelange, at the National Mining Museum , you will learn more about the mining [...] marked by the industrial culture but has managed to give itself a new identity over time, where the industrial past and new technologies melt into a unique mixture. On the former industrial site Belval, [...] iron ore was undoubtedly behind the success of the steel industry in the Grand Duchy back in the middle of the 19th century. Former industrial sites were partially preserved and renovated, or have become

host of different industries, corn mills, saw mills and paper mills. The town museum was established in 1987 and moved in 2002 to its present building, a factory with a long industrial history that was [...] premises in the area, the Papyrus paper mill, ceased working in 2006. The museum galleries tell the story of the various industries in Mőlndal, currently with particular emphasis on the Lindome furniture [...] century until the 1930s. Water still flows beneath many of the buildings in Kvarnbygaten, and the museum publishes a trail guide which details their past uses.

attracted strong support from former workers in the industry, and the first displays opened in 1990 were manned by a ‘group of eight’ ex-printers. The museum prospered and now has the support of more than 50 [...] the Fredriksdal open air museum. The starting point of the design was the printing works of the Helsingborg Dagblad (daily newspaper) which was demolished in 1913. This is a museum in which visitors can see [...] The printing museum in Helsingborg, the largest of its kind in Scandinavia, was established in 1988 during the celebrations of the centenary of the Graphic Workers Union in the city. The project attracted

Sciences et de l’Industrie is one of Europe’s most imaginative interactive science centres. It is also an outstanding example of the successful adaptation to new purposes of a large industrial building. The [...] 1974. The adaptation of the buildings as a museum began in 1979 under the direction of the architect Adrien Fainsilber, and le Cite des Sciences et de l’Industrie opened on 13 March 1986, when Halley’s Comet [...] with the exterior, with vegetation from the surrounding gardens extending into the buildings. The museum holds collections of machines and scientific instruments relating particularly to computer science

Wincor-Nixdorf AG still has its headquarters in Paderborn. The Heinz Nixdorf Museum is claimed to be the world’s largest museum of computers, although that claim is contested. It portrays with more than [...] principal emphasis is on the development of computers. The museum is located in an attractive modern building, and is part of the Heinz Nixdorf Museum Forum, which organises regular symposia on topics related [...] Even in the second half of the 20th century the location of industry owed much to the enterprise of individuals, and the concentration of computer companies in Paderborn is largely due to Heinz Nixdorf

2004, and has since received substantial funding from English Heritage, Milton Keynes Council and the Heritage Lottery Fund. The National Museum of Computing, which opened at Bletchley Park in 2009 is the [...] Few centres of wartime activity have had as much influence on the long term development of industry as Bletchley Park, a mansion adjacent to a railway junction, 60 miles north of London and now within [...] the operating name of a separate charitable foundation, the Codes & Cyphers Heritage Trust. Its outstanding exhibit is a functional replica of the Colossus computer, completed in 2007. Colossus was developed

Chelmsford Museum’s new Bright Sparks Exhibition gives a fascinating insight into the achievements of the late 19th century industrial pioneers Guglielmo Marconi, R.E.B.Crompton and the Hoffmann Manufacturing [...] Manufacturing Company who created global industries in the town. New hands-on exhibits vividly demonstrate the scientific principles involved. These inventors and technology pioneers put Chelmsford on the world [...] century. Three railway viaducts dating from 1843 provide a dramatic background to Chelmsford’s industrial tradition.

century waterway which linked the town to the copper port of Morwellham Quay on the River Tamar. The museum is located in the centre of the town and occupies two rooms above the historic Court Gate. It has [...] has a ground-level interpretation room with audio-visual equipment to shown films of the World |Heritage site, and local mining related topics. It has a collection of minerals from local mines as well as

and the Polish paper industry financed the museum project. Some objects and portraits relating to the history of papermaking are displayed, but the most important feature of the museum is that it preserves [...] built in 1605 has now been working for more than 400 years, although since 1968 it has operated as a museum. Some of the 17th and 18th century papermakers in the town were from Saxony and Bohemia. From 1742

The Klevfos museum, 20 km east of Hamar, is a conserved chemical wood pulp and paper mill, built in 1888, which once made 3000 tonnes pa of sulphate pulp that was used to make wrapping paper. Most of the

The cement museum at Donostia was established in 2000 by the company which now forms part of the Heidelberg group, and still has a plant in Donostia-San Sebastián. The museum occupies a modern building [...] displays tell the story of mortars from antiquity to the present day, with particular emphasis on the Industrial Revolution in the Basque country and the first cement factories in the region. The development [...] explained, and visitors have access through digital technology to an array of data relating to the industry. One section details the history of the Rezola company and its workers, and another analyses the