whole line as a heritage railway. Some small locomotives typical of those that worked on the line in the 1920s and 30s are employed, but one locomotive comes from Norway. There is a museum describing the

educational programmes the Irish linen industry and the history and heritage of Lisburn and district’. For more than two centuries Lisburn was an important centre of linen manufactures. William Coulson [...] This museum is managed by the local authority and based in Lisburn’s seventeenth century market hall. Its purpose is ‘to present, preserve and interpret through collection, research, exhibitions and e [...] 1830s under his sons. Both branches continued into the twentieth century but closed in the 1950s. The museum has a permanent exhibition ‘Flax to Fabric – the story of Irish Linen’ and there are practical d

Calderdale which was centred on Halifax opened an industrial museum in the mid-1980s. It was one of the last of a succession of conventional indoor industrial museums developed in large towns and cities in the [...] a body of enthusiasts, the Calderdale Industrial Museum Association, and from 2017 was again open to the public but on Saturdays only. The museum is located in the former Albion Works in the centre of [...] the United Kingdom from the 1960s. The museum was initially successful but attendances dwindled and it soon closed. After a long period when it was inaccessible to the public it was leased from 2014 by a

between 1873 and 1926. Four are normally in traffic, two are in the museum, and one is sectioned in the Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester. The line is usually open during the tourist season between [...] passed through many changes in ownership but is now managed by the Manx government. The railway’s museum at Port Erin, displays two locomotives, the Queen’s coach and the governor’s saloon, together with

(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.

nineteenth centuries this was a domestic industry, but from the 1880s it came under the control of three large companies who concentrated production in factories. The museum is located in the factory opened by [...] corsets. In the late nineteenth century, under the management of his sons, it had 300 employees. The museum displays examples of historic machines associated with the manufacture of braids and laces including [...] Visitors can also see the 6 m diameter water wheel from which the factory originally drew its power. The museum also displays a great variety of sample fabrics.

Jujurieux is a small town in the department of Ain, which formed part of the silk-working industry whose centre was Lyon. C J Bonnet founded a company at Lyon in 1810, and established a factory at Jujurieux [...] suffered from the successive recessions of the twentieth century and ceased production in 2001. The museum displays the paternal aspects of C J Bonnet et Cie, including the provision of food shops for employees

was confined to a wheelchair but nevertheless continued to fly. Since 2008 the museum has held the Swedish military heritage collection. Aircraft on display include Draken and Viggen fast jets and several [...] Aeroseum, located in what was once a secret underground military base dating from 1955, is principally a museum of military aircraft of the Cold War period but it includes some exhibits relating to civilian air

Gnosjö Industrimuseum (Gnosjö Industrial Museum) is the collective name given to the museums and conserved monuments relating to metal-working around the small town of Gnosjö, 65 km south-west of Jönköping [...] the municipality of Gnosjö and the two principal museums. The Töllstorp open air museum includes a farmstead and a working corn mill, but its industrial focus is a series of wire mills most of which have [...] one of the largest industrial concerns in Sweden, manufacturing a variety of wooden, metal and leather products. The factory at Gnosjö closed in 1974, and was conserved as a museum by the Stiftelsen J

ditches were dug in order to generate energy using water wheels. This meant that an attractive industrial heritage landscape developed which can still be seen at many sites today. There were once 48 forges

which used the Coats brand names. Thread manufacturing declined after the Second World War and the industry gradually contracted. Anchor Mills became a business centre from the 1980s, and production of thread [...] buildings have been demolished and replaced by car parks on sites of other buildings. The Thread Mill Museum (12 Seedhill Road, Paisley, PA1 1JS, Tel. +44 (0) 141 8471111 ) has a collection of characteristic

to pan for gold or lead ore. The Museum is the focus for the Peak District Mines Historical Society’s underground trips in Derbyshire, and the starting point for heritage walks. It is also responsible for [...] The Peak District Mines Historical Society established its museum in the pump room of the former spa of Matlock Bath, which was immensely popular in nineteenth century after the opening of the Midland

scenic route. The line closed in 1968, but a 5.6 km section has been re-opened by Peak Rail as a heritage line. The Peak District Railway Preservation Society was established in 1975 at Buxton, achieved [...] Rowsley South in 1997. Visitors can travel from Matlock station to Darley Dale where there is a railway museum and Rowsley South where the company has a newly-built station with a buffet and a 28 acre (ha) depot [...] Renown Repulse Locomotive Group which is restoring two class 50 main line diesel locomotives, and the Heritage Shunters Trust, which has a collection of small shunting locomotives both steam and diesel.

Ruhr was for long one of the chief leather working towns in Germany, and its industrial heritage is commemorated in a museum opened in 2003 in the former factory of the Abel company. Ultra-modern displays [...] displays feature tools used in tanning and leather-working, together with the varied products of the industry. Manufacturing methods are illustrated by documentary films.

When people talk about "cathedrals of industrial heritage", we sometimes have to take this literally. The huge buildings offered enough space to accommodate factories in the middle of the 18th century [...] the porcelain museum, alongside the chamber pots made for emperors and kings, and contemporary tableware complete with fully laid tables for all occasions. The multimedia tour of the museum is spoken by [...] century. These were the original forms of industrial architecture: a good example is the Benedictine abbey which was turned into a centre of porcelain production by the Boch company. The global company Villeroy

Cefn Coed Colliery Museum is situated in the heart of the picturesque Dulais Valley and tells the story of colliery life from Victorian times to the 1950s. The museum is housed in the original colliery [...] now electrically driven. As well as many fascinating artefacts from the mining industry such as tools and equipment, the museum also houses a restored and unique gas tram, which ran in Neath until 1920. [...] stalls, pit props, tramways and other equipment used underground. One of the many highlights of the museum is the distinctive boiler house with its suite of six Lancashire steam boilers and the magnificent

television sets could be bought on hire purchase. A further section of the museum illustrates the nature of industrial work. The museum includes a beer hall where visitors can sample typical Danish working-class [...] The workers’ museum is located in the assembly house of the strong trades union movement in Copenhagen that was built in 1878-79, and remained for many decades the focus of the Danish labour movement and [...] and a meeting point for Socialists from all over Europe. The museum was established in 1982. Parts of the building including the assembly hall have been restored to their 1913 appearance. Elsewhere displays

located in the east of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape WHS. The hill has a rich mining heritage and its ornate feature chimney, a reminder of its mining past, dominates the landscape for miles [...] around. The area is now a country park extending to 152 hectares where the combined natural and industrial landscapes can be fully appreciated. There are views from the elevated position (334 metres above

The Swanage Railway is a heritage line in the Isle of Purbeck, now managed by the Swanage Railway Trust. It currently operates trains over 9.7 km from a park-and-ride station at Norden to the seaside resort [...] Passenger services ceased in 1972, but there was immediately public pressure to re-open the line as a heritage railway, and a local society for that purpose was granted facilities at Swanage station from 1975 [...] standard locomotives of the 1950s. The Swanage Railway Trust also operates the Purbeck Mineral & Mining Museum at Norden station.

by river from Munkenmose near Anderson’s childhood home to Fruen Bøge near the museum. Industrial buildings in the museum include a large watermill, a Dutch-style windmill, a weaver’s house, a horse gin [...] Den Fynske Landby (The Funen Village) is a Skansen-style open air museum in Denmark’s second city which displays about thirty buildings from Funen and nearby islands, ranging in date from the seventeenth