This is a museum, re-opened in 2015 after a comprehensive re-display of its exhibits, which is commended for the authentic smells which greet the visitor at reception, as well as for the appropriate dishes [...] walk-through re-creations of underwater habitats, displays illustrating the long history of the fishing industry in Norway and its exports to the rest of Europe and exhibitions showing the ways of life of past [...] availability of rowing boats and kayaks in which visitors can explore nearby parts of the harbour. The museum is linked with the centre of the Tysksebryggen (German Quay) by a small ferry boat the Beffen .

The Norwegian Folk Museum was founded in 1894 by Dr Hans Aall (1867-1946) and opened its collection of re-erected buildings on the island of Bygdoy, not far from the centre of Oslo, in 1902. It now contains [...] of linen cloth and the making and decoration of chests, cupboards and other items of furniture. Industrial buildings include a late 19th century fulling mill from Nordfjord, and 18th century sawmill from [...] candle-making are demonstrated, and there are ten mileposts, some in cast-iron scattered about the museum.

The Norwegian Forest Museum, on the banks of the River Glomma, is concerned with all aspects of the country’s forests, with ecology and hunting, as well as with forest industries. It is one of the best [...] hunters, and more modern prefabricated wooden buildings. A bridge over the river links the forest museum to the Glomdalsmuseum, an open-air collection of buildings from the Glomma valley, established in

now been transformed into a museum. Thanks to ten still existing Pelton turbines the power station was the largest of its type in the world when it was completed. The museum documents the huge changes that [...] built in 1911, with which the Norsk Hydro company catapulted the rural parish of Rjukan into the industrial era. There is nothing to indicate that between 1942 and 1944 this location right beneath the Hardanger

were the first to be used in the timber processing industry. Today, the building houses the Norwegian Sawmill Museum. Here visitors can experience industrial history live – on running saws and planing machines [...] turned the industrial monument into a lively venue. At the same time they have been able to preserve the working skills that were necessary to run the mill successfully in early industrial times, despite [...] Hauka and Oter, lie tied up at the banks of the directly adjacent fjord. They also belong to the museum.

island of Gomalandet on the west coast of Norway, 130 km south-west of Trondheim. The principal industry of the communities along the fiords and on the islands of this region was for centuries the drying [...] from 1730. Many of the early entrepreneurs in the trade were Scots. The first of the piers where the museum is located was built by William Gordon in 1749, and the galleried warehouse which is its main building [...] merchant called Walter Miln. The principal indoor displays consist of photographs taken when the industry still prospered, many of them by the photographer Ernst Schwitter (1918-96) who recorded activities

history museum. In the stables behind it is the Nottingham Industrial Museum. This was set up by a voluntary group in 1964 and opened in 1971. It has five galleries telling the story of industries of special [...] horse-gin for lifting coal up a shaft. The collection of working steam and diesel engines contains the museum’s first object, a beam engine of 1858 from Basford pumping station, which supplied drinking water

sustainability criteria more closely to key aspects of industrial heritage, such as conservation and conversion. How can sites steeped in industrial culture become the cradle of a new age of economic activity [...] interpretation of lectures and discussions. The excursion on Saturday will take participants to industrial heritage sites in Berlin that are committed to sustainability, including the Malzfabrik, the ufaFabrik [...] new networks in the region and beyond. As always, the event is hosted by the Berlin Centre for Industrial Culture (bzi). This year, the Forum will be hybrid: face-to-face at the HTW Berlin, Campus Wil

of the Streetcar Museum in Porto. All participants in “Linking Europe” can also be viewed in our virtual exhibition. If you have a linking Europe story to tell at your industrial heritage site and have not [...] and the wider picture of European industrial development. Participating sites will focus on objects that illustrate the European, and also global, dimension of industrial development. Smaller objects may [...] PROJECT SHOWING THE INTERRELATIONSHIPS OF THE HISTORY OF EUROPEAN INDUSTRIALISATION Listen Europe's industrial development has always been characterised by cross-border trade in raw materials and commodities

and the area of the old city in which it stands were designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the following year. The Museum of the Old Bridge occupies the 5-storey Tara Tower, one of the towers that a [...] d the bridge keepers, and also served as arsenals for the storage of weapons and ammunition. The museum consists of three sections devoted to the archaeology of the surrounding area, the restoration project

“Alte Dombach” paper mill in Bergisch Gladbach, one of the six sites belonging to the Rhineland Industrial Museum. The sole theme here is paper. From a path lined with a selection of plants which provide the [...] predecessor the “Alte Dombach” mill whose historic buildings were at first used for housing. The industrial museum opened in 1999 and also covers modern aspects of paper-making such as the mass production of

Bielsko-Biala was sometimes called the ‘Silesian Manchester’. The city’s museums portray many aspects of the history of the textile industry, and perhaps show more clearly than in any other European city the [...] pattern of the history of Bielsko-Biala is displayed in the museum in Sulkowski’s Castle, which is the headquarters of the municipal museum service that manages the two textile sites. The domestic stages [...] of the 18th century, and a late 19th century domestic weaver’s workshop. The Museum of Technology and the Textile Industry has been located since 1979 in a wool textile factory, whose nucleus was a workshop

became a place of memory for the traditions of the steel industry in the Mała Panew Valley. Close to the Iron Bridge you can visit the iron museum, presenting product of the iron works and a model of the

elaborately restored buildings house, amongst others, a multimedia museum illustrating the history of the Lower Silesian coal industry. The exhibits feature mining equipment and machines as well as the [...] contemporary Polish art whereas the former pithead baths accommodate the municipal centre for cultural heritage and Wałbrzych's dance company and choral group.

generator and transmission shafts. The reality of GDR industry is documented in the canteen and infirmary. The Oldisleben Sugar Factory Cultural Heritage Foundation took over the technical monument from Südzucker [...] domestic beets contained the same sugar as sugar cane. Breeding increased the sugar content until the industrial production of sugar from beet was developed around 1800. The first beet sugar factory was built [...] Union created favourable economic conditions for the cultivation of sugar beet and the beet sugar industry. By 1900, more than 600 beet sugar factories had been established in Germany, including the Oldisleben

Island of Rügen, the museum traces German automotive history from 1949 to 1989. It focuses on cars but also displays railway vehicles, fire-engines, trams, bicycles and models. The museum opened in 1994. It [...] and apartments as well as the museum. A collection of cars compares development in the divided East and West of Germany before Reunification in 1990. The communist industry of the East was more focused [...] focused on practicality and the industry of the West on performance and appearance. A star exhibit is the Volvo 264 TE, the imported car often used by officials of the German Democratic Republic. Locomotives

typewriters, calculators and computers and is still a global brand. Ivrea is a World Heritage site, where both the Laboratory-Museum and the Olivetti Historical Archive present Olivetti’s story. [...] Chicago for the International Electrical Congress. Meeting Thomas Edison and observing American industrial methods made strong impressions on him. As a result he remained in the United States and for a

town and its surrounding landscape with relics of mining and smelting activities have been a World Heritage Site since 1993. New techniques were introduced in mining here earlier than elsewhere: for example [...] castles, outstanding Renaissance houses and the Kammerhof, where the ores were tested. The open-air museum of mining, opened in 1974, displays many surface structures from old mines, and includes a 1300 m

villages were united under a programme of industrialisation. The museum of coal mining opened in 1988. It is called an open air museum, although most of the buildings stand on their original sites and

part of Greece in 1912. Its silk industry prospered in the early twentieth century, but manufacturing has declined in recent decades. The municipality has developed a museum, opened in 2000, that tells the