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

the English Channel, was established in the late 17th century, and re-named Devonport in 1823. The museum has evolved through several stages since the Second World War as the dockyard has contracted. Its [...] 150 years until its closure in 1992. Most of the surviving buildings are listed Grade I by English heritage. The ships’ biscuit bakery, the brewery, the abattoir and other buildings have been adapted as galleries

The Nene Valley Railway is an immensely impressive mixture of industrial landscape and steam nostalgia. British and European mainline steam and diesel locomotives run real services into the heart of P [...] turnpike of the early eighteenth century. Three station buildings are located at Wansford, with the museum itself housed in the "New" station building. The "Old" station building on Platform 3 was built in

commitment and passion made Fortuna Mine what it is today." The mine's outstanding value for industrial heritage is enhanced by its role as a geological information centre in the National GEOPARK Westerw [...] safeguard the cultural heritage for the region and for the whole of Hesse in the long term. On our way to becoming an information and documentation centre for Hesse's iron industry, however, a lot of money

Lapphyttan is a site of world importance in industrial archaeology and a place where you can go back in time to see an early furnace in action. Archaeological excavations from the 1970s proved this was [...] the end of the twelfth century. The discovery changed understanding about the history of the iron industry, showing that blast furnaces were older than people thought and began in Sweden and Germany. Near [...] a visitor centre, a children’s park, a reconstructed mine for iron ore and the Karlberg homestead museum.

particularly rich in industrial history and makes it available on video? And where can I find trailers of industrial UNESCO World Heritage Sites or regional events focusing on industrial heritage? Answers are [...] Czech Dolní Vítkovice industrial complex or first impressions of the industrial monuments in the province of León in northern Spain. If you are looking for fresh industrial heritage adventures, you can find [...] playlists over at "ERIH - European Route of Industrial Heritage" on YouTube. And of course there are also links to the channels of related European industrial heritage organisations and networks. ERIH on YouTube

Verona, near the southern tip of Lake Garda. The Nicolis Museum was the creation of Luciano Nicolis (1934-2012), who made a fortune from the paper industry, particularly from re-cycling paper, in Verona. Its [...] One outstanding exhibit is the Biciclo Michaux , exhibited at the Triennale di Milano 1865. The museum is accommodated in a specially-designed building in glass and steel, made possible by Luciano Nicolis

provided by the City Information Centre. A small museum has been established in a former public wash house at No 4 Rymarska Street, a department of the Museum of the History of Katowice. The 'Association Factory [...] (Stowarzyszenie Fabryka Inicjatyw Lokalnych) dedicades to Niciszowiec's tangible and intangible heritage, specializing in development of the settlement with the local community.

which moved to a new site in 1956. There are seven principal departments. Those dealing with industrial heritage include transportation, whose collections include motor cars and railway locomotives, geology [...] The museum of technology in Croatia was established as a result of the efforts of Dr Bonz Tezak, a professor at Zagreb University, and was formally constituted in 1954, although there was an earlier museum

appointed to the first professorial chair in industrial heritage research at the University of Uppsala where she established the Nordic/Baltic Industrial Heritage Platform, an international programme for training [...] attending an industrial archaeology conference in Bath, and, as a result of contacts made there, was a delegate in 1973 at the First International Congress on the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage (FICCIM) [...] Stockholm and was involved with numerous initiatives recording industrial heritage in Sweden, with ironworks, water power, forest industries, and pulp and paper mills. In 1976 she wrote guides to the ironworks

Petersburg owned by the government. In the early 1850s the young Nobel studied and gained experience of industry in France, Italy, Germany and the United States. He began to develop nitroglycerine in 1859-60, [...] as synthetic fibres and dyestuffs. Seven buildings of Nobel’s factory of 1875 are preserved as a museum at Hurum in Norway, his laboratory and mansion, used in his last years, are preserved at Karlskroga

The development of the oil industry in the Caucasus region in the late nineteenth century was strongly supported by several of Europe’s leading industrial and banking families including the Rothchilds [...] the shores of the Black Sea at Batumi in Georgia. The museum in Batumi, which opened in 2007, has exhibits showing the development of the oil industry, the introduction of Chinese labour and the development

one of the homes, in his later years, of Alfred Nobel (1833-96) creator of the modern explosives industry. Nobel was also the owner from 1894 of the nearby Bofors engineering works. He spent much of his [...] Some of the outbuildings at the rear of the house and adjacent area of the grounds are occupied by a museum of the Bofors company. It originated as an ironworks authorised by the government in 1646, whose

named after the 1828 born scissor maker Nicolas Pierre Pelletier, opened in 1991 as a museum of the cutlery industry (Musée de la Coutellerie), displaying an excellent collection of typical products, tools [...] regularly organising special exhibitions. A guided tour provides insights into the region's rich industrial heritage

The municipal museum of Nordhorn is on three sites of industrial heritage: NINO-Hochbau, Povelturm and Museumsfabrik. It takes 15 minutes to walk between them. The town is on the border with the Netherlands [...] was an important centre for the cotton industry, which employed 12,000 people there in the 1960s. The NINO building was a five-storey cotton spinning mill. The museum opened on the first floor of the building [...] Hechter. The 'Povel tower' was a water tower built in 1906 for the Povel cotton mill and became a museum in 1994. It has exhibitions and films about the history of Nordhorn (and a cocktail bar on the roof)

everyday life in the north German Wool Combing and Worsted Spinning Mill in Delmenhorst. The huge industrial site covering more than 25 hectares of land was one of the largest of its type in Europe and for [...] and modern living quarters, offices and leisure facilities. At the centre is the Nordwolle Factory Museum housed in the ornamented red brick building of the old turbine house which used to be the central

North Duisburg Landscape Park. This 200 hectare area is a clear example of how nature and industrial heritage cam match each other to perfection. On a site where workers were once pouring pig iron you [...] rambling trails running through a unique landscape park. If you like you can even book yourself an industrial guided tour, a torch-light tour, or an ecological ramble. There’s a lot more going on here. The

opened up the beauty of Poppyland to generations of holidaymakers. Today the North Norfolk Poppy Line heritage railway still runs on M&GN tracks for five and a half miles from Sheringham via Weybourne to Holt [...] Holt, which has spacious car parking facilities. It is also home to the William Marriott Railway Museum that tells the story of the line, located in the rebuilt goods shed. The line was originally opened

displayed in sheds which are flooded twice daily by the tides, thus ensuring their preservation. The museum displays the many-layered clothing worn by seafarers in northern Norway, the nets and block-and-tackle [...] Nordnorsk Fartøyvernsenter is one of three established in Norway by the Directorate for Cultural Heritage in 1996, the others being the Bredalsholmen Dokk Fartøyverbsenter at Kristiansand and the Hardanger

There are few more remote industrial heritage sites than the Norwegian fishing industry museum at Melbu on the island of Hadseløya, 236 km west of Narvik. Christian Fredriksen (1865-1929), who made a fortune [...] performances, and the museum regularly stages temporary exhibitions from elsewhere in Norway, film shows and multi-media presentations. It is part of a larger project for museums in Nordland and has links [...] in Melbu from circa 1890. A large fish-processing plant continues to operate on the island. The museum, opened in 1991, and is located in the substantial buildings of the former Neptun Sildoljefabrik