was the founder-director of Beamish, the museum’s inspiring genius, and an influential advocate over many years for the conservation of the industrial heritage of North-East England. He was born at Mapplewell [...] tour of open air museums in Scandinavia and he took inspiration that lasted for the rest of his life from Skansen and other museums that he saw. In 1958 he became curator of the Bowes Museum at Barnard Castle [...] determined to follow a career in museums. He studied science at the University of Sheffield, after which he was employed for a time in a coke works before obtaining a job at the museum at Wakefield. In 1952 he

in Madrid, but from the point of view of industrial heritage it consists of two separate stations which comprise one of the most extraordinary industrial heritage spectacles in Europe. It occupies the site

forerunners of paper to the modern paper industry. The setting is provided by the unique ambience of the former Steyrermühl paper mill, hosting several museums and exhibitions side by side. Visitors are [...] collect hands-on experiences, for example by making their own hand-made paper as in pre-industrial times. The printing museum, showcasing machines that are still functional, offers the opportunity of operating [...] seamless wire: this is what the world's first paper machine looks like. Visitors to the Laakirchen Museum of Papermaking and Print can see its replica in action. The technical relic is part of an exciting

The Autoworld museum displays about 200 hundred historic motor cars in one of the Cinquantenaire exhibition halls built for the exhibition of 1880 that commemorated the 50th anniversary of the establishment [...] States. It has a comprehensive selection of cars vehicles made by Belgian manufacturers before the industry came to be dominated by international companies. There are vehicles by Fondu (1906-12), Germain

Azerbaijani textiles were inscribed by UNESCO on the list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2010. A museum of carpets and other applied arts was opened within a fifteenth century mosque while [...] while Azerbaijan was part of the USSR in 1967, and the displays were later moved to the Lenin Museum. A new five-storey building, designed by the Austrian architect Franz Janz, opened in 2014. It is one [...] Kuba, Baku, Shirvan, Karabagh and Tabris. There are demonstrations of carpet weaving techniques. The museum also includes displays of jewellery, copper goods, shoes and traditional clothes.

WIKIPEDIA: Economy of Azerbaijan WIKIPEDIA: Petroleum industry in Azerbaijan History of development of oil industry World Atlas: The biggest industries in Azerbaijan Neft Daşları. Oil platform Azerbaijan [...] ON THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF AZERBAIJAN Listen The industrial history of Azerbaijan is largely a story of petroleum. Although the earth beneath this nation also holds iron, copper and other ores, their [...] metropolis, Robert and Ludvig Nobel erected the imposing Villa Petrolea, which today houses an oil industry museum. Like their better-known brother Alfred, the Nobels were both entrepreneurs and inventors: they

one of the most complete industrial history documentations in Switzerland. The Ballyana Foundation is committed to the preservation of this historical heritage. The Ballyana Museum is located in the former [...] first-class architecture, archives, machines and a unique shoe collection are witnesses to a long industrial history. The legacies also include an enormous wealth of documents, pictures, photographs, promotional [...] production hall of the Bally ribbon weaving mill. Here visitors can get an authentic grasp of an industrial labourer’s working day in the past. The Sulzer steam engine and many textile and shoe production

weighing less than 600 kilograms? Three ERIH sites also feature in the Industrial Heritage Days of Northern Hesse. The Immenhausen Glass Museum is holding a glass and porcelain flea market and is also hosting [...] Hessian museums, associations, initiatives and companies are involved. With guided tours, factory visits, exhibitions, hikes, experiments and open days, they breathe life into North Hessen's industrial heritage [...] generate electrical energy exactly 100 years ago. The Thonet Museum in Frankenberg, which documents the transition from craftsmanship to industrial mass production in the 19th century, draws visitors to its

of the shipbuilding museum are in the historic house of the Van Damme family, which dates from 1830 and has ceiling paintings of 1852 and Art Nouveau frescoes of 1895. The museum extends into the shipyard [...] second half of the nineteenth century the principal centre of shipbuilding was at Baasrode, where the industry was in the hands of the Van Damme and Van Proet families. Many of the craft they built were for

important from the mid-nineteenth century. The museum, established in 1989, is located in a nineteenth-century textile warehouse, tells the story of the cotton industry in the valley, with particular emphasis [...] and twentieth centuries includes examples from England, France, Spain and the United States. The museum also organises visits to local textile enterprises that are still operating.

Baden has been famous for its hot springs since Roman times. Baden Historical Museum is in a modern building beside the river Limmat. The exhibitions show the importance of the baths as a place where people [...] treatment for health in the twentieth century. They also examine the work of the city in crafts and industry. The electrical engineering company Brown, Boveri & Compagnie was founded in Baden in 1891 to make

is easily ground into ‘talcum powder’, which has been used since 1894 to absorb moisture and has industrial uses, for example in paper, ceramics, paints and pharmaceuticals. The mine was opened by the Società [...] trucks and acetylene lights are shown. There is also a lathe for carving soapstone into vessels. A museum contains panels with information and photographs and examples of the tools used.

The Scotsman John Baildon was one of the pioneers of industrial development in Upper Silesia, now in Poland but in Baildon’s lifetime part of Prussia. He was born at Larbert in Stirlingshire and studied [...] metallic ores. In 1798 he was appointed government technical adviser for the development of the iron industry in Upper Silesia and, again with Reden, built the Königshütte (Royal Ironworks) at Chorzów. He spent [...] an Italian merchant at Gleiwitz (Gliwice) in 1804 and their children continued to be involved in industry in Silesia after their father’s death. The family mansion was at Pogrzebien, and his Gothic-style

Bakehouse Museum in Sopron is one of Europe’s livelier museums of the food industry. In Sopron, as in many other cities, bakers traditionally lived in a quarter outside the city wall. The museum is based [...] incorporated within the museum. Visitors can also see the adjoining flour store which became a sweet shop catering for Sunday afternoon walkers in the late nineteenth century. The museum is recognisable by

Sammlung Industriekultur' (Ballyane Collection of Industrial Culture), an exhibition about the company and the Bally family, its history and industrial shoe and ribbon production. In addition to textile [...] than 3,000 by 1900 when it was manufacturing two million pairs of shoes per annum. The company’s museum at Schönenwerd, a small town in the canton of Solothurn in northern Switzerland, was opened in 1942 [...] leather. Themes such as the use of shoes as status symbols and shoe fetishes are explored in the museum, and there are also displays of shoes of all sizes modelled in porcelain, glass, wood and other materials

into the United Kingdom’s National Museum of International Modern Art is one of the outstanding examples in Europe of the imaginative adaptation to new uses of an industrial building. The power station was

Basque Maritime Museum is located in one of the few buildings that survived when the city was burned to the ground by British and Portuguese troops after the siege of 1813. The museum has no permanent [...] exhibition but annually presents several large temporary exhibitions on the Basque maritime history and heritage and the relationship between mankind and the sea. The exhibitions are accompanied by a wide range

a historic steam engine? If that' s your dream, the Basque Railway Museum in Azpeitia is the place to be. It is operating a heritage train every weekend on a five-kilometre narrow-gauge line right through [...] through the Urola Valley in the Basque mountains. The ride is the highlight of a museum tour that takes visitors back to a time when the railway was the number one means of transport in the Basque Country [...] two unique collections to be discovered on the upper floors of the station building. Up there, the museum displays a kind of history of trainman's fashion - a collection of over 100 railway uniforms from

now a museum, which uses multi-media techniques to show how the culture of beer-drinking has evolved through the centuries, and how industrial-scale breweries work. The site also includes museums of baking [...] or Tadcaster in England. The town was famous for its beer from the middle ages, and the brewing industry was stimulated by the opening of the Bavarian north-south railway in 1846. In the mid-twentieth

the site. In the old Diesel Power Station the Baía do Tejo Industrial Museum is installed. The museum houses a significant collection of industrial equipment of various kinds, explains the former CUF man [...] opposite Lisbon was the largest chemical industrial center of one of the biggest Portuguese business groups in the 20th century. The construction of the industrial complex began in 1907 and the first factory [...] conversion and reuse of the former industrial site into the Barreiro Business Park. On the site, several partly listed buildings and facilities related to CUF's industrial and social activity recall the history