wear any special protective clothing. 14 former miners demonstrate the machinery underground, and tell visitors about their turbulent working life. But visitors do not only learn about mining: they can

The road from Theux is lined with industrial buildings. Shortly behind the sign telling you that you are entering Sprimont there is another smaller sign pointing the way to the Museum of Stone. The road [...] stone industry in Sprimont. Historic photos, tools and a replica of a simple wooden quarryman´s hut tell of the hard lives and arduous working conditions endured by the men, women, and children working in

is the handsome wooden building of the first match factory of Jönköping, built in 1848. The museum tells the stories of the people who worked in the factory, how it functioned, and how matches became a major

sudden growth of industry there in the nineteenth century. IMI, the Interactive Museum of Industry, tells the story of its wide range of trades – leather production, weaving, pottery, iron forging, carpentry

authentic replica workings built by the mining company for training purposes in the 1960s. The museum tells the story of mining in the region, first documented in 1434. It explains geology and displays many

amethyst, malachite and quartz among others. There are also displays of equipment, maps and lamps that tell the story of mining in the area from the Middle Ages onwards.

ports. Model ships and original wooden ships, paintings, documents and hundred of other exhibits will tell you more about slave ships and luxury liners, poverty-stricken emigrants and seafaring pioneers, of

was one of the most important coal mining areas in northern Spain. Numerous abandoned mines still tell of the former importance of this area and the old machinery and facilities form a kind of open-air

for paper-making and printing, the power plant and displays extending through sixteen galleries telling the mill’s history, and describing the social lives of the workers. There are regular workshops teaching

traditional beers in Poland is brewed in this small pretty town, and the local Brewery Museum will tell you how this came about. On your visit you will be expressly requested to do things which are mostly

has housed a museum of social history, where artefacts, images, moving film and interactive displays tell the story of Glasgow’s people from 1750 until 2000. There is extensive coverage of trade unions and

boat hall and an auditorium seating 200 people. Its main exhibition ‘North Star: Southern Cross’ tells the story of seafaring in Finland, explaining the nature of trading by sea, the achievements of explorers

Hoffmann kiln, which was in operation between 1887 and 1966, provides the architectural setting and also tells the story of the former Galotti brickworks based here. On two further floors, the museum captures

the history of the Rotterdam Harbour. The collection is sub divided in themes and is presented in telling stories. It is an ‘open museum’ also accessible outside opening hours for a walk along the quay and

fabbrile e delle coltellerie’ industrial museum in 2009. Covering two spacious floors, the exhibition tells the story of the cutlery industry from its beginnings to the present day. With its impressive exhibits

the shipowners of Genova and migration to and from Italy by sea. The exhibition about emigration tells the story of the transatlantic liners to New York with a simulator showing a journey from the Strait

The displays at Schneeberg Passeier, which can only be reached on foot from the Passeier Valley, tell the story of lead and zinc mines that were worked from the middle ages until 1967. The museum also

The Museo dell’Acqua e del Gas (Museum of Water and Gas) tells the story of the two public utilities in the city of Genoa. From the early thirteenth century some of the city’s water was delivered by the

has since declined but one mill remains in production, although in foreign ownership. The museum tells the story of papermaking through the centuries, with particular emphasis on what is now the Belgian

Trout adit is made on... boats. The guide takes tourists across from one shaft to the other while telling mining stories.