Eskilstuna is a planned industrial town of the mid-17th century, established for King Carl Gustaf in 1658 by Reinhold Rademacher. Twenty wooden smithy buildings, designed by the architect Jean de la Vallée [...] to the present day, and more recent products, particularly vehicles, are displayed in the Munktell Museum, which is linked with the Volvo company.

The majority of the industrialist donated Rahmi Koç Museum is an excellent example of how historic industrial buildings a new use can feed. In the former anchor foundry of the Arsenal House (the shipyards) [...] shipyards) on the Golden Horn, the Koç-Foundation has set up an industrial museum, that gathered beside the railway, aviation and shipping also developments in communications technology and astronomy. Walkable [...] Walkable captain bridges, a real submarine at the jetty and beautiful miniature railways make the museum interesting for children.

had 15 of its own brands. The Ramirez 1853 Centre includes a museum that provides a comprehensive picture of the Portuguese fish canning industry. Its larger exhibits include tuna traps, the prototype of

including the ERIH Anchor Points National Waterfront Museum in Swansea, World Heritage Big Pit National Coal Museum in Blaenavon and National Slate Museum World Heritage Site in Llanberis. A number of five-minute [...] National Lottery's Heritage Fund Wales, and Steph Mastoris, Head of Museums at Amgueddfa Cymru, a charity that incorporates seven national museums and a collections centre based in different regions of Wales [...] e project updates provided specific examples of local industrial monuments. The following sites were presented in detail: Cyfarthfa Castle Museum & Art Gallery in Merthyr Tydfil, the castle-like mansion

cellar with its scouring and dying rooms and their rinsing channels. Nowadays the Red House is a museum which visitors may view on guided tours. It is not only the sole remaining representative building [...] firms experienced in expanding their businesses in the narrow Rur valley resulted in the cloth industry gradually moving away from the area. Now the Red House, more than anything else, stands as a reminded

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

preserved as a monument. The Regional History Museum was established in 1924 and was originally concerned with the development of mining and the iron and steel industry. It later developed programmes of arch [...] reflect many aspects of the city’s history, although they continue to illustrate the origins of heavy industry in the region in the late 19th century.

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

lignite. But it was mainly the chemical industry and its processes that needed oil, which was obtained from the Soviet Union. In order to build up its own oil industry, the country was traversed by test drillings [...] In 1994, the Reinkenhagen Oil Museum opened in the social building of the former field headquarters. It is owned by the municipality of Sundhagen, but the only oil museum in the former GDR is operated [...] d panels, documents and relics from GDR times trace the development of the region's oil and gas industry and the history of a former state-owned oil company from 1962 to 2001. Numerous original tools and

ancourt, about 3 km downstream from the Eiffel Tower, was an icon of 20th century manufacturing industry in Europe. Louis Renault (1877-1944) began to build motor cars in a small workshop on the bank of [...] the area. The buildings on the island were cleared in 2002-04 and were to have been replaced by a museum of modern art designed by the Japanese architect Tadao Ando to house the collection of the entrepreneur

the mining and quarrying of slate from the 15th century until the last workings ceased in 1975. The museum was established around the headstock of the former Longchamps mine by the Perrayeurs Mayennais, the [...] massive electric motor of 1904 that powered winding apparatus and air compressors remains in place. The museum holds a particularly notable collection of tools. Displays show the methods used in mines and quarries [...] workings, which are of great interests to ecologists and geologists as well as to those concerned with industrial heritage.

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

The Ribbon Weaving Museum began in 1989 and is now part of the Museum Industiekultur Wuppertal. In 2020 it moved to the Nordstadt district, where it is housed in part of a five-storey former ribbon-weaving [...] half the working population of Wuppertal at that time were employed in the textile and clothing industries, of which ribbon weaving and braiding was an important part. The factory was owned by Villbrandt [...] . Products on show include ribbons, labels, shoelaces and specialist items for sport, medicine, industry and personal protection. Visitors can go around with an audio tour or a personal guide.

Steam power was one of the critical innovations of the industrial revolution, allowing mechanical power to be concentrated wherever it was needed. The evolution of the technology relied on many inventors [...] pumping engine of 1813 for the mine at Eisleben operated until 1885 and is preserved in the Deutsches Museum at Munich – it is the oldest surviving steam engine in Germany.

distinction in mechanical engineering and played a large part in the development of the textile industry in Germany, but his principal achievement was to contribute substantially to the establishment of [...] the German armed forces by 1918. He was a member of the committee that established the Deutsches Museum in Munich.

The Riga Motor Museum holds the largest collection of historic cars in the Baltic states. It was founded in 1989 at the initiative of the Latvia Antique (Historic) Automobile Club (AAK) and now displays [...] displays more than 100 vehicles. Riga was one of the principal industrial cities of the Russian Empire in the years before the First World War, with important companies involved in mechanical engineering, chemicals [...] significant scale in 1908, and one of the two Russo-Baltic cars that survive is displayed in the museum. There are examples of cars imported during the 1920s & 30s from the United States including a Packard

needed its own generating station to ensure a regular supply of power. Visitors explore the large industrial spaces to see the huge coal-fired steam boilers (later converted to oil), the steam turbines, the [...] as a heritage site in 2014, with the collaboration of former workers. It is part of MNACTEC, the Museums of Science and Technology of Catalunya.

and roof support. A very rare feature is that the processing plant is fully restored as a museum of industrial archaeology where the whole process can be seen of crushing, washing and flotation. Miners’ [...] copper until it closed in 1980. Many of the buildings have been preserved and now combine in an eco-museum with artefacts and open-air archaeological remains. A gallery displays a collection of minerals and

The maritime museum at the Hanseatic port of Rostock was founded in 1968 and has the best collection of 20th century merchant ships in Europe. The vessel now called the “Frieden” (in full “Traditionschiff [...] hiff Typ Frieden”) is the centrepiece of the museum, and has been moored on the bank of the River Warnow opposite the port of Rostock since 1970. She is a freighter of 10,000 tons, commissioned by the [...] which are concerned with the history of shipbuilding along the Baltic coast, and the revival of the industry in the early years of the DDR. The crafts used in building wooden ships in the 18th century are

electrical industry. The local historical society, the Historische Verein Roth, was established in 1908, and in 1986 began to establish a museum commemorating the town’s principal industry, that was opened [...] km south of Nürnberg, which became the principal centre for the manufacture of leonine wares. The industry expanded in the 19th century making use of the water power of the Rednitz and Roth rivers, and then [...] drawing wire, but which was occupied by a manufacturer of sequins in the early 20th century. The museum shows how leonine wares were made in the early 20th century, and includes a working Jacquard loom