-Puch, which made bearings, bicles and motorcars. The Museum of the Industrial World, in a 19th century small arms factory, interprets industrial history from the workers’ perspective, and displays many [...] Steyr is a city with long industrial traditions, particularly in the working of iron. When its fortunes were declining in the 19th century, they were revived by Josef Werndll (1831-99) who established

settlement and a colliery. The Ferrería itself has turned to be a museum telling the story of the pioneers of the Spanish steel industry. Original machines and their replicas show visitors how the pig iron [...] historical context is illustrated by a large model that traces the development of the regional mining industry from its beginnings in 1830 to the closure of the last pit in 1991.

The museum consists of the "1900 machining workshop", "the smithy" and the exhibition and learning room, where the technological evolution of the industry is shown in an educational and documentary way [...] , technical descriptions and practical examples with real machining operations. In addition, the Museum serves as a didactic guide to show young generations the origin and evolution of the different t

500 workers. It closed in the 1920s. The impressive industrial buildings have a water-power canal between them. The chain shop is 90m long. A museum displays large-scale models, images and original artefacts

Gas Industry Museum keeps alive the memory of the heyday of oil production. Various models are used to illustrate the process of oil production. On display are production instruments and industrial equipment [...] were dug in the area around Borysƚaw alone, 70 km southwest of Lviv (Lviv) in what is now Ukraine. Industrial production began around 1865, when deep drilling technology was used to reach depths of up to 1 [...] and collections of paraffin and oil lamps and medals and emblems associated with the gas and oil industry.

Portugal’s first museum of the paper industry is in the community of Santa Maria da Feira, south of Oporto. People in the region were engaged in the making of paper from the early eighteenth century, but [...] but the last mills stopped working before the end of the twentieth century. The museum is owned by the local municipality and is located in two former paper Mills, the Azvedos Mill, and the Custódio factory

purpose-built Museum of the Petroleum Industry, opened in 1999, show the technology of oil exploration and pumping, the way of life of those who worked on the platforms, and the effects of the industry on Norwegian [...] From 1971 the Norwegian offshore oil industry provided Europe with a significant portion of its energy, and Stavanger, once a centre for fish-canning, became the principal base for exploration and for

level in 1910, and ceased in 1962. The Almond Valley Heritage Centre has displays about the history of the industry, and is the starting point for a heritage trail through the shale-working villages. [...] locally as ‘bings’, dominate the landscape of the Lothians. They are the legacy of the shale oil industry. Some can be seen from the approaches to the Forth Bridge. Production of oil from shales was begun

1916 and rebuilt in 2012, when the maritime museum Santurtzi Itsasoa Museoa opened its doors in the old basement that was once used as a warehouse. The museum is dedicated to the local history and its [...] importance of the sea in Santurtzi: Professionally, socially (not forgetting that much of the maritime heritage lies in the people), culturally and recreationally. The first third of the 20th century brought [...] one of the last of the traditional wooden fishing vessels left on our coasts, forming part of our heritage. In this guided tour we will visit a fishing ship from the inside, know about the hard life of the

famous helix-shaped chimney. The museum is a branch of the National Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia (MNACTEC) and is part of its Territorial System of 26 museums that explain industrialisation [...] The Sedó Colony was the first and largest company town in the textile industry of Catalunya. It was begun in 1846 by Miquel Puig i Catasús and expanded under Antoni Sedó i Pàmies, whose name it takes. [...] in 1980. It was integrated from spinning the cotton yarn to finishing and dyeing the textile. The museum of the colony is in part of the factory. Visitors go inside an enormous turbine of 1899 and its water

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commemorate the whaling industry in a museum in the 1960s and a temporary museum was opened in 1979. The history of the museum is now covered in two museums. The Museum of the Whaling Industry in the village of [...] the exterior of the building is a sculptor of a whaler with a harpoon in a small boat. The Whaler’s Museum (Rua de Baleeiros 13; 9930-143 Lajes de Pico) in the village of Lajes is located in a set of three

In the exhibition area you can see 19th and 20th century quarrying technology, including a stonegate saw and a fully equipped forge. An 1100-metre long nature trail leads around the Kesselbruch. Displ

and Noirmont which provided the spruce trees which were the raw material of the area’s principal industry. The production of wooden artefacts for distant markets had its origins in the sixteenth century [...] introduction of cardboard cartons for soft cheeses in the 1960s began a period of steady decline. The museum is located in a restored sawmill alongside the River Orbe which over the centuries provided power [...] power for cutting and shaping wood. A steam-powered saw is demonstrated from time to time. The museum displays tools used for sawing, boring and cleaving wood, but its chief attraction is the astonishingly

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

French fashion industry is explored. Further displays are concerned with the history of the related trades of lace-making and embroidery. The museum is descended from the Museum of Art and Industry, established [...] pre-eminent silk-working city. The industry’s origins in the city go back centuries before the Industrial Revolution, and it is fitting that the displays in the museum take a long view of silk-manufacture [...] 18th century mansion of the Villeroy family, which it shares with the city’s museum of decorative arts. In 1985 the museum established the first workshop in France for the restoration of ancient fabrics

a welcome change to the every day life of the museum. The path of clay to the unglazed clay body, to "Obernai" faience plates is traced in the New Museum of Faience Techniques in the Blies Mill. The methods [...] The French Revolution was followed by the Industrial Revolution: in 1790 three merchants from Strasbourg arrived at Sarreguemines in Lorraine in order to exploit water, fire and earth for their own purposes [...] contrast, the old residence of Paul de Geiger is elegant and colourful. It now houses the Faience Museum. The heart of the house contains a winter garden, a mecca for lovers of the culture of representation

The Museum of Vierzon is housed in part of the former factory for the Société Française de Vierzon tractor company, which once extended for 7 hectares. It presents the story of industry and transport in [...] in the city of Vierzon in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Several industries became important in the area. There were about 10 porcelain factories at the beginning of the twentieth century, the [...] and tractors. Several of these are on show. The city was an important railway hub from 1847 and the museum has an important collection begun by Raymond Laumônier about the history of railways. This includes

Flanders), 40 km south of Ghent, that has long connections with textile manufacturing. The cottage-based industry declined from mid-nineteenth century as workers migrated to nearby French textile centres, such [...] decline in the 1960s. The community’s history is portrayed in two buildings in the village. In a museum visitors can wander at will and can gain an impression of the way of life of a domestic weaver. They

(1917-98), the pioneering industrial designer who designed the Renault 16 of 1965, as well as vehicles for Berliet and Ford. He was also responsible for various television sets. The museum is managed by an a [...] emphasis is on cars that were in everyday use by ordinary people. This museum prides itself in being one of the few French car museums not to have a Bugatti.