as a „working textile museum" were launched. Government funds made it possible to purchase a majority of the shares, restore machines and buildings; and maintain the old industrial craftmanship. The spirit [...] driven by our water power station with a turbine from 1913. A visit to Sjølingstad Woollen Mill Museum during the summer season gives you the possibility to get a guided tour around the factory. You learn

Skansen is the open air museum that has given its name to museums in many European countries. For 70 years it has attracted more than two million visitors per annum. It was founded in 1891 by the ethnographer [...] present-day museum extends over 30 ha and includes more than 150 buildings. Hazelius’s purpose had been to display Swedish culture in the era before industrialisation, but there are many industrial buildings [...] doing research for a dictionary of the Swedish language. In 1872 he established the ethnographical museum that has involved into the present-day Nordiska Museet, and Skansen was a move from collecting artefacts

gave access to underground chambers, drained by steam engines. The museum has developed from the work of the Friends of the Slate Industry, an association established in 1979. A sixteenth century house, the [...] tools, machines and working models. One display features the work of women employees in the slate industry. Other displays illustrate the uses of slate, and former miners demonstrate splitting techniques

later industrialisation. The industries then contributed decisively to the next wave of colonialism in the late 19th century. This created a huge demand in later industrial nations such as France and the [...] supply the new industrial cities. Towards the end of the century, demand diversified as the electrical engineering, chemical and mechanical engineering sectors expanded in the "Second Industrial Revolution": [...] imperialist sabre-rattling of the powerful industrial nations, which increasingly rivalled aggressively for colonies, were the needs of the dominant industries. Industrialisation also changed the ideological

Steelworks. The museum includes an underground mining display, and an energy collection with steam engines and turbines, but it is most important for its displays of decorative wrought iron. The museum is also [...] The Slovak Technical Museum originated in 1948, and gained its present name in 1983. It is located in an 18th century Baroque mansion in Kosice, the second town of the old kingdom of Hungary, an important [...] also responsible for a preserved water-powered iron forge in nearby Mednev. The develop of heavy industry in east Slovakia owed much to migrant workers from Flanders and Germany, and the local dialect derives

The agricultural museum was established in Bratislava in 1922, moved to Nitra in 1960, and from 1978 was managed by the Agrokomplex company. It is now an open air museum of the Skansen type which since [...] traditional crafts and the development of the food industry, agricultural machines, aviation, and fire-fighting. The 22 buildings in the open air museum of folk architecture include a school, a co-operative [...] bakery, scotching and heckling mills for processing hemp, a tannery, a treadmill and a cooperage. The museum operates several traction engines and a narrow gauge railway with three steam locomotives.

was adapted to accommodate ironworks clerks and their families. The museum, established in 1954, illustrates the iron and steel industry of the region around Jesenice, including the process of charcoal burning [...] The ironworking museum in Jesenice in northern Slovenia is situated in the Ruardowa graščina (the Bucelleni-Ruard Manor House), one of four ‘ironworks castles’ that were formerly the homes of the families [...] furnace, as well as the social and cultural life of the ironworkers. Other sections display the museum’s collections of local fossils and minerals.

one of the largest working maltings in East Anglia, barley was once processed here for the brewing industry. The owners, the Gooderham family, bought the site in the 1960´s and set about its gradual restoration [...] the younger brother of Richard Garrett, who inherited the Garrett Works at Leiston (Now Longshop Museum). One of his daughters achieved fame as the remarkable Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, a suffragette [...] incorporate a new Heritage Centre to explain the all-important history of Snape and its maltings industry. Snape Maltings is well-known as an internationally famous concert venue but there is much more

Mining and Industrial Museum in El Entrego • The Asturian Railway Museum in Gijón • The Railway Industry Museum in Langreo The Asturian Tourist Board has set itself the aim of marketing the industrial heritage [...] other industrial enterprises, all of which contributed to making the region a pioneer in the industrialisation of Spain, alongside Catalonia and the Basque country. All these branches of industry have left [...] these industrial monuments and expressions of a bygone engineering technology are part of the landscape which they once radically transformed. Some of the sites have been turned into industrial museums

modernised in the 1960s and the company still produces salt today. The old plant is now a museum. The Solana Museum tells the story of salt production from the Neolithic period to the present day. It displays [...] Salt is an essential material for preserving food and for many industrial processes. It was produced from brine springs at Tuzla in prehistoric, Roman and medieval times. In 1884 a large new salt works

Solar Vinho do Porto. The Royal Wine Company museum displays many historical documents and oil pints relating to the trade: Royal Oporto Wine Company Museum, R Azevedo Magalhaes 314, Vila Nova de Gaia. [...] Oporto is a city of many industries, but is best known as the entrepot where merchants from many countries have traded in Port wine, brought down the River Douro in sailing barges that passed under Gustav

including Art Déco, Bauhaus and neoclassicism. Most important witnesses to the toy industry are the German Toy Museum, the New Townhouse as the Town of Toys’ representative office, and the former US-American [...] stores Kresge and Halbourne. Further highlights of Sonneberg are the German Teddy Bear Museum, the SOMSO Museum for anatomic models as part of the toy production, and St. Peter’s, an outstanding neo-Gothic [...] Sonneberg, the town of toys, was founded in the Gründerzeit (Wilhelminian era) as an industrial settlement with checker-board pattern streets, composing a structure of urban blocks. Over 90 percent of

architectural prizes. The displays in the museum use models, artefacts, panels and 3-d animations to explain the technology of smelting iron and the history of industry in the region. A children’s playground [...] A new furnace was built in 1826 which worked for a few years but the site was closed in 1877. The museum is located in the former office and manager’s house next to the pond that supplied waterpower. The

perfectly preserved Oakdale Miners Institute dating from 1906 provide architypical buildings from the industrial society of the time.

closely simulate the former everyday operation and lead directly back to the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution. During their tour, the visitors meet the English cotton baron Richard Arkwright, often [...] of power by activating bigger or smaller gears. This factory, that much is clear, is not merely a museum, but a living place!

general idea of Leipzig's industrial heritage and its interconnections is to book a guided tour on a historic e-carriage. Along the way, the tour covers everything from the industrial pioneer Dr Carl Heine [...] ERIH sites are involved. The Brown Coal Processing Museum in the „Herrmannschacht“ Briquette Factory , for example, will be bringing the lignite industry to life: appearance, smell, transport and processing [...] processing of bulk material into solid briquettes are all part of the exciting guided tour. The Museum of Printing Arts , on the other hand, revives several centuries of printing and media history with some

cultivation and processing of silk has always been of importance in the Caucasus region. The silk museum in Tbilisi is part of the Caucasian Sericulturure Station, established in 1887 by Nikolay Shavrov [...] Shavrov (1858-1915) of the Moscow Agricultural Imperial Society, who gained experience of the silk industry all over Europe during a tour in 1884-86. Amongst other activities the Institute undertook studies [...] studies to determine the best mulberry seeds for Georgian silk producers. By 1930 it incorporated the museum, a library and was called the Transcaucasian Institute of Sericulture and Silk Production. Its future

stimulation of early industrial manufacturing and traditional lifestyles in the countryside. Located in the Salweytal, the museum portrays patterns of work in the small-scale iron industry. Its exhibits of [...] The display of the former iron industries in the Sauerland, backed by exhibitions on folk culture, a collection of steam engines and locomotives and a section dedicated to the mechanization of farming [...] of pre-industrial local trades are centred around iron foundries and chain forges. The agricultural section focuses on the transition from manual labour to mechanical production.

the citadel which dates from 1609-15 was adapted as a malthouse in 1879 and now accommodates the museum of beer. The malt kiln remains at one end of the three-storey building which was purchased by a group [...] Gallo-Roman times to the present, showing in particular how the manufacture of beer developed on an industrial scale in the nineteenth century. The centrepiece is a reconstructed brewing hall of 1921 from a [...] caps, pens, posters and other marketing materials. This is claimed to be one of the largest brewery museums in Europe.

still the leading centre for glassmaking in Portugal. The mansion Palácio Stephens is a museum of the glass industry. [...] In eighteenth-century Portugal, Guilherme (originally William) Stephens developed the glass industry and gained a national monopoly, with his brother João Diogo (originally John James, 1747–1826). Stephens