collection of artefacts at the museum in Leicester is one of the largest and most important in Europe relating to the manufacture, distribution and domestic uses of gas. The museum was established by the na [...] change in the industry, when coal gas in the UK was being replaced by natural gas from the North Sea, with the objective of preserving the knowledge and skills that had sustained the industry. In 1997, when [...] when the privatised industry was de-merged, the museum passed into the care of a trust. The collection is located in the gatehouse of the Aylestone Road gasworks, which began production in 1878.

Nowadays “Lady Vic” is the headquarters of the Scottish Mining Museum, where visitors can get an insight into the highs and lows of an industry which was once the backbone of the Scottish economy. The 500 [...] 500 metre main shaft may have been filled in. But that’s no matter. For the museum has its own gallery with a genuine underground atmosphere. The driving wheel on the pit head gear may no longer turn. All [...] really appreciate the talents of the colliers who knew how to exploit gravity to their own ends. This museum is all about hands-on activities. All the guides are ex-miners who can give you good solid information

the food industry and the history of the Polish countryside, on rural transport, on veterinary science, and on soil science. Researchers at the museum study dialects and folk art. The museum incorporates [...] Polands National Museum of Agricultural is located at Komorniki, 10 km south of Poznań. The collection was established in 1964 and the museum gained national status in 1974. Its collection includes steam [...] incorporates the manor house and mausoleum of the former landowners the Bierbaum family. The museum has a branch at Uzrzewo, concerned with hunting set up in 1977, a branch centred on milling and water-power at

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

operations which were far less dangerous and hard than around 1870 when Luxembourg started its mining industries. In those days 70 to 90 miners worked up to 12 hours per shift without any safety precautions and [...] and social benefits in the wet and dark “mousetrap” as one of the pits on the mining museum’s site was infamously called. Former employees vividly explain to the visitors how they extracted the iron ore

completed in 1931. The Leonardo da Vinci Museum is located in a former convent, and covers many aspects of the history of science and technology, apart from the industrial history of Milan. It includes a re [...] Milan is the industrial and commercial capital of Italy, and for centuries has been one of the most important manufacturing centres in Europe, celebrated for textiles, motor cars, electrical engineer and

north of Lisbon, is well known for its Cistercian abbey of Santa Maria, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and has a huge kitchen with a pyramid-shaped chimney of circa 1750 resting on eight cast-iron [...] cast-iron in Europe. The region is celebrated for its fine red and white wines, and the National Museum of Wine was established in 1968 under the patronage of the Portuguese Institute of Vineyards and

and the rate of extraction has been reduced. The National Museum of the Oil Industry was established in 1957, the centenary year of the industry. It holds extensive collections of machines and tools. [...] north of Bucharest, was one of the first communities in Europe to prosper from the growth of the oil industry, The first oil refinery in Romania, and the third in the world, was built by Marin Mehedinteanu [...] German pioneer of drilling technology, Anton Raky (1868-1943), which is displayed in the Deutsches Museum, Munich. Improvements in processing technology were incorporated in refineries opened at nearby Câmpina

one of the mills in 1814, and now forms the only in situ exhibit in the open-air museum, which is part of the national museum, as is the mill at Brede. The latter is part of one of the best-preserved factory [...] of the reasons for the prosperity of the Danish capital. It has been called the Cradle of Danish Industry. The various mills were used for grinding grain, fulling woollen cloth, making gunpowder, working

1909 to manufacture high-grade stationery. The industry has since declined but one mill remains in production, although in foreign ownership. The museum tells the story of papermaking through the centuries [...] Belgium’s national paper museum is at Malmedy, the German-speaking city of 11,000 inhabitants near the country’s eastern border. It is one of several organisations that, under the name Malmundarium, occupy [...] first paper mill in the region was established on the bank of the River Warchenne in 1726, and the industry was developed in the nineteenth century by the Steinbach family. In 1848 a mill in Malmedy produced

from which mercury is obtained. The park displaying the monuments of the industry was established in 2002. The adjacent museum uses film footage to show working conditions in the mines, and has exhibitions

Heidelberg printing machines. The museum holds large numbers of blocks, metal and wooden type fonts and photographs, and also displays the products of the printing industry, books, pamphlets, magazines and [...] The National Print Museum collects, documents, preserves, exhibits, interprets and makes accessible the material evidence of the printing crafts and associated skills in Ireland since the introduction [...] the Easter Rising of 1916, and a Wharfedale machine similar to that on which it was printed. The museum maintains a lively programme of practical activities during which participants can learn about l

The National Science and Media Museum opened in 1983, is part of the Science Museum Group and occupies a seven-floor building in central Bradford. It includes three cinemas, one of them fitted for IMAX [...] and extensive archives from the Kodak Museum, the Royal Photographic Society and the Daily Herald newspaper. The latter includes numerous images relating to industrial history, including compelling pictures [...] and a huge collection of cameras and processing equipment. Long before the establishment of the Museum, Robert W Paul began the Cinematography collection in 1933. It now totals some 13,000 artefacts,

large-scale industrial processes undertaken by landowners and capital investors, which reshaped the agricultural landscape into an industrial centre for slate production during the Industrial Revolution [...] Apart from the Welsh slate region around the Snowdon Massif, the World Heritage Committee has designated further industrial heritage sites and monuments: the Cordouan Lighthouse in France, the Roșia Montană [...] In its statement the World Heritage Committee notes, among other things: „The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales illustrates the transformation that industrial slate quarrying and mining brought about

slate tiles on almost every roof in Britain had been mined and cut by Welshmen.The National Slate Museum in Llanberis gives visitors a vivid impression of their masterly skills. It is located in the Victorian

the forefront of industrial design. The National Museum has collections of machines, vehicles, clocks and cameras, but the departments of industrial design and of consumer industries, relating to office [...] equipment and household appliances, are of particular importance. The museum also takes responsibility for some industrial sites and museums in other parts of the republic.

mules and interactive weaving exhibits. The museum includes a demonstration centre for textile crafts. It is highly regarded by the modern textile industry and is frequently visited by delegates to conferences [...] companies were established and Sliven became a centre of textile production, as it still is. The museum was established in 1984 in a textile school built in the grounds of Jeliazkov’s factory in 1906.

the National Waterfront Museum in Swansea (Wales) prides itself on state-of-the-art computer technology. This is all about Wales and how to recount its unique and complex industrial history in as exciting [...] your life put at risk as a collier, and shortly afterwards bask in the fairy-tale wealth of an industrial tycoon. In this way you are able to endure noise and filth, experience repression and working-class [...] multi-facetted and astonishingly sharp picture of what life was once like in Wales and how the motor of industrial revolution has made Wales what it is today.

The museum focuses on the history of the Serra da Estrela Hydroelectric system. This has six operational power plants and two decommissioned ones, dating from between 1909 and 2003. The Museum occupies [...] began supplying electricity to Seia, 6 km away. It went out of production in 1994 and opened as a heritage centre in 2011 in a partnership between the power company EDP and the Municipality of Seia. The [...] building is in a traditional style with red-tile roofs and a modernist block in concrete nearby. The museum relates the history of electricity and its production. Visitors see the imported generator sets and

The Natural Gas Museum was opened in 2010 by the Romgaz company to mark a century since the first commercial natural gas well in Romania. It tells the story of the country’s gas industry. The building is [...] exploration, drilling, extraction, transportation and distribution of natural gas in one company. The museum displays historical photographs, examples of minerals, a model of a drilling rig, protective clothing