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.

-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