and get to know the entire artisanal production process. The visit begins at the Municipal Filigree Museum, which has a diverse collection of tools and machinery donated by local goldsmiths who want to share

Peenemünde was once the embodiment of high-tech perfection – earlier and more modern than anywhere else in the world. Here in the extreme north-east of Germany the first long-distance rocket was set o

The principal museum of the Staropolski Industrial Region, where Stanislaw Staszic(1755-1826), Director of the Division of Industry and Mining of the Congress Kingdom of Poland between 1816 and 1824, and [...] all in the neo-classical style. It remained in operation until 1934, when it closed and became a museum. After it had been largely-destroyed during the Second World War, it was restored from 1956, and

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

mass-produced clocks. In 2003 the Museum for Industrial Clock Making has won the Luigi Micheletti Prize dedicated by the European Museum Forum as the best technical museum of the year. [...] Today the Museum for Industrial Clock Making in the old factory features carefully restored and fully operational manufacturing machinery. „To relive industrial history“ is the aim of the museum’s founders

pumping station has been lovingly renovated by a group of enthusiasts. Re-christened the Cambridge Museum of Technology which now is the home of the city’s industrial heritage, from the steam age to sem [...] ons) printing presses, power generation, food production: designed, made, used in Cambridge. The Museum offers a multi-sensory experience for visitors: hands-on exhibits, audio-visual displays, children’s [...] audio guides). Historic engines run in steam on open days. In association with its partners, the Museum hosts Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) and Arts projects.

The SAME archive and museum at Treviglio, 20 km south of Bergamo, provides documentary services to collectors of and researchers into tractors throughout Europe. The brothers Francesco and Eugenio Cassani [...] other archived items and 6,000 photographs of trade shows, product launches and field trials. The museum, opened in 2008, has a substantial display of agricultural machinery tractors including some made

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.

Volandia is one of the largest aeronautical museums in Europe, with around 100 aircraft. It is next to the entrance to Milan-Malpensa airport and uses offices and hangars of the pioneering aircraft ma [...] manufacturer Caproni. It opened in 2010. The museum aims to present the worldwide history of aviation but with a focus on Italian manufacturers such as Caproni, Fiat and Agusta. It relates the history of [...] simulators that allow visitors to experience what it is like to fly different aircraft. Since 2018 the museum has also housed a collection of 76 cars created by the Bertone company of designers, including models

they walk 1 km back to the surface, seeing photographs, tools and equipment and flooded caverns. A museum of lighting includes examples of 2,000 lamps. In 2008, Ski-Mine bought the nearby Lupi mine in V

The Water Museum of Thessaloniki is housed in the historical building complex of the first pumping station of the city. It was built in the late 19th century (1890-94) by Belgian engineers, being part [...] project implemented in Thessaloniki (railworks, lighting gas, port, tramways, electrification). The museum reflects this exact period when Thessaloniki was turning into a large industrial centre and shows [...] during a period when metal construction was at its peek across Europe and is an exhibit itself. The museum keeps a unique archive of historical maps, water supply project designs, old photographs and documents

forefront of electric traction and in a European context the museum’s electric locomotives and railcars are its most significant exhibits. The museum also displays the development of rack railways, like that [...] The Swiss Museum of Transport stands on the shores of the Vierwaldstädter See (Lake Lucerne) alongside the St Gotthard railway. Its collection of steam locomotives includes a replica of Limmat, built at [...] one of which, completed in 1871, was the first of its kind in Switzerland. Other sections of the museum are concerned with road transport and aviation. Steamers operating on Lake Lucerne include the Uri

de la vie sociale ( Museum of Textiles and Social Life) Fourmies was the principal centre of the woollen textile industry in France in the second half of the 19th century. The museum houses in the single-storey [...] the period 1880-1900, and from mills in the region. AMV - Atelier-Musée du verre (Glass Workshop Museum) The site of the glass factory in Trélon (Rue Clavon Collignon 12) is an outstanding heritage, one [...] e of the Eiffel type, has not been subject to any major requalification since it was opened as a museum in 1980. Its authenticity and its installations have been largely preserved. It is listed as a Historic

standing and forms the centrepiece of the industrial museum. Opened in May 2000, it covers an area of around 4,500 square metres. A visit to the museum takes you to the casting platform, overlooking the [...] shop and laboratory, the foreman's room, the underfurnace area, the old forge and the newly built museum building with its exhibition on the history of steel production in Brandenburg. Another exhibition

Cromford spinning mill in Ratingen in the Bergisch Land, now one of the on-site museums belong to the Rhineland Industrial Museum. Johann Gottfried Brügelmann, an extremely wealthy merchant and textile magnate [...] painstaking period of preparation the museum was finally opened in 1996. The original machines no longer exist. That said, the clattering machines now in operation in the museum have at least one thing in common [...] time at a very early stage in his life. One glance at his palatial villa – equally a part of the museum – is enough to give you an impression of his self-assured economic power. The metronome of the dawning

thanks to the "Premax" consortium that sucessfully established economic autonomy. The ethnographic museum opened in the 1980s and has a rich collection on the local cutlery industry, including products,

industrial history was stimulated by an exhibition Le Miniere in Valtrompia staged in 1985 at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Brescia, and local authorities in the area came together in 1997 to establish [...] Valle Trompia La Montagna e l'Industria (Trompia Valley Ecomuseum. The Mountains and Industry). The Museum also manages and interprets La Via del Ferro (the Iron Road) a series of sites in the region relating [...] history of mining and ironworking. Chief amongst them is the Museo Le Miniere di Pezzaze (the mining museum at Pezzaze) set in the Marzoli iron ore mine, opened in 1886 by the Fratelli Beretta company who

The textile museum at Busto Arsizio in the province of Vares is located in a three-storey building that was once the spinning department of the cotton company, Cotonificio Cario Ottolini. It dates from [...] windows and battlements, and is now surrounded by a public park. Production ceased in the 1970s and the museum opened in 1997. It displays machines used for carding, spinning and weaving, including Jacquard looms [...] while on the second floor the processes of dyeing and printing are demonstrated. One feature of the museum is a collection of specialised products made in the region, including suits for astronauts and racing

On the bank of Lake Como, the town of Abbadia Lariana has a civic museum of the manufacture of silk thread, an important industry in the region from the sixteenth century. The silk manufacturer Pietro [...] the machinery, including one of Monti’s machines of 1818. A large waterwheel was also restored. The museum opened fully in 1998. It shows working machinery around the buildings and has displays where visitors

the centre of Milan. The company originally established a museum in 1976 but it was open only by invitation, and closed in 2011. The present museum was established in 2015 as part of a wide-ranging re-launch [...] Interactive systems enable visitors to access details of each model. The principal sections of the museum relate to the role of workers in development of Alfa Romeo cars, the aesthetics of motor car design [...] on screens to illustrate aspects of Alfa Romeo history. There is a test drive track alongside the museum, which is also the base of the Scuderia del Portello Alfa Romeo sports club.