significant percentage of the population. The Terracotta Museum preserves and displays the rich cultural heritage that grew from this industry. It is housed in a former pottery factory enhanced by impressive [...] exhibition is divided into four sections: raw materials and environmental conditions, pre-industrial ceramics, industrial-era ceramics and artistic ceramics. The collection, which is displayed throughout the [...] Temporary exhibitions show the works of established makers. Visitors can purchase local pottery from the museum’s shop.

his generation, remembered for his contributions to electrical power – the basis for the second industrial revolution. Among his multiple discoveries and inventions were the rotating magnetic field, multiphase [...] from 1893 and quickly dominated the new market for flexible and convenient electric motors for industrial use. This began a revolution in mechanical power, in which designs were continuously improved and [...] hotels he was effectively bankrupt. Westinghouse helped to support him for the rest of his life. Museums in Serbia and Croatia celebrate Tesla’s legacy and there are monuments to him in many countries.

P W Blancke in Hinsberg. The history of the city’s textile industries is illustrated with numerous photographs. Mönchengladbach’s art museum was established in 1904 and built up a comprehensive collection [...] Hollein (1934-2014), opened in 1982 and was re-constructed in 2006-07. The museum fosters links between the city’s textile industries and practising artists and it holds collections of textile patterns and [...] imported into Germany because of Napoleon’s Continental System. In 1863 Mönchengladbach’s textile industry was said to be flourishing greatly, and it was sometimes called the ‘Manchester of the Rhineland’

nowadays host the Textile Industry Museum. The multi-part building with its workshops bathed in light is located at the Salhus Fjord right to the north of Bergen. Tours of the museum start in the oldest part [...] were the working conditions like and how did they affect the employees? At the end the well-stocked museum shop invites everyone to buy the same socks and scarfs he or she just watched being produced.

stadium and theatre. The Museum of Textile Machinery is in part of the laboratories of the V. E. Marzotto Industrial Technical Institute, a training college for the textile industries that was started in 1936 [...] top-lit spaces. The museum opened in 2000. It displays spinning and weaving machines of different eras that were installed for training and research purposes. The textile industries represented are not [...] not just wool but also cotton, silk and synthetic fibres. The museum also tells the story of the textile industries in Valdagno and their development.

opened as a museum the following year. Its displays feature many aspects of textile manufacturing, particularly hosiery production and weaving on Jacquard looms. The other theme of the museum is motor cycling [...] The adjoining towns of Hohenstein and Ernstthal west of Chemnitz in Saxony were formally united in 1898. Both have been associated with the manufacture of textiles over several centuries. Mining prospered [...] prospered in the area in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The textile industry expanded, particularly in the nineteenth century as the accessible veins of silver ore ran out. The area became

The collection of the old museum at 32 Museumgade was closed in June 2014 and transferred to the Textilmuseum. In the museum park behind the old museum is a small open air museum with a farmhouse, yard, [...] of hosiery, long-established in the area as a domestic industry, was re-organised on a factory basis. The Textilforum, part of the mid-Jutland Museum Service, is based in a hosiery factory of 1876, a red [...] town a shirt factory of circular design now accommodates the city’s art museum, and a former dress factory houses the Danish museum of photography.

produced here and in 1835 the first enamelled tableware factory in Europe was founded. The ironworks museum was founded in 1986 to mark the 300th anniversary of the Thale ironworks. It shows the development [...] of iron smelting and iron processing from a modest sheet metal works in 1686 to the large-scale industrial operation of the 20th century. The basic processes are illustrated by models. The environmental

members on the Regional Route of Silesian Industrial Monuments, including the ERIH Anchor Points "Guido" Coal Mine and Queen Louise Adit in Zabrze, the Brewery Museum in Zywiec and the Historic Silver Mine [...] are the Zinc Rolling Mill and the Nikiszowiec Workers' Settlement in Katowice, the Bread and School Museum in Radzionków and the Ignacy Historical Mine in Rybnik. All visitors are invited to join in discovering

festival is "Art (in) Industry". Indeed, INDUSTIRADA draws many exciting connections between the two sectors. One of the outstanding architectural achievements of the industrial age in Silesia, for example [...] INDUSTRIADA illuminates the diverse interrelationships between industry and art and thus once again highlights the rich experience of Silesia's industrial heritage. Industriada 2023 [...] (1870-1937) Zillmann from Charlottenburg, which is also part of the ERIH network. Another ERIH site, the Museum of Metallurgy in Chorzów, provided the inspiration for Adolph von Menzel's socio-critical painting

plant, once used to supply electricity to the Leroy wallpaper factory. A monument to the town’s industrial history, the building has been converted into a cultural centre. It houses a cinema and hosts live [...] Visitors can also learn about the history of the former Leroy wallpaper factory in the centre’s museum. Pictures and interactive tools trace the factory’s 140-year history, from its origins in 1842 in [...] former employees. The centre hosts creative workshops where adults and children can learn about industrial history, printing techniques and the visual arts. The village created by Leroy for the factory

Beacon Museum, which opened in 1996. Along the cliffs to the south of the harbour the Haig Colliery Mining Museum was located in the surface buildings of a colliery which closed in 1986; the museum closed [...] ed flax industry grew up in the town. The Barracks Mill, an iron-framed building of 1809, has been adapted as housing. There are displays relating to local history in the purpose-built museum and gallery

Jujurieux is a small town in the department of Ain, which formed part of the silk-working industry whose centre was Lyon. C J Bonnet founded a company at Lyon in 1810, and established a factory at Jujurieux [...] suffered from the successive recessions of the twentieth century and ceased production in 2001. The museum displays the paternal aspects of C J Bonnet et Cie, including the provision of food shops for employees

adapted as the national museum of the gas industry in Denmark and opened in 2002. The first gas plant for public supply in the country opened in Odense in 1857. At the industry’s peak there were 112 works [...] features of the museum. The galleries illustrate the development of the industry in Denmark, from its use in lighting homes to its application to other household tasks and its role in industry. Displays illustrate

the architecture and landscape of one of the most remarkable communities to have been created by industry in wartime. A fireless steam locomotive of the kind used in the factory is displayed outside the

Ramsden, an industrialist and co-owner of the Furness Railway. The museum, which originated in 1907, tells the story of the industrial and urban growth of Barrow, and of the Furness Railway, but also looks [...] Barrow-in-Furness was one of the few wholly new towns that grew up during Britain’s Industrial Revolution. In the early nineteenth century it was a hamlet in the parish of Dalton with a tiny population

centre of the doll-making industry in Spain since the late nineteenth century. It still has many traditional manufacturers and produces goods for the Playmobil brand. The museum is in one of the fine houses [...] including Antonio Juan, Mariquita Pérez, Así, Berjuan, Famosa, Falca, Rauber and Nines d'Onil. The museum arranges visits to some of the local doll factories.

stationary diesel, oil or petrol engines were an important power source in agriculture and industry. The museum exhibits over 450 engines, most of which were made in Denmark in the golden age from 1890 [...] Located near the town of Grenå on the Djursland peninsula, the museum holds northern Europe’s largest collection of stationary internal combustion engines. After the heyday of the steam engine and before [...] largest engine manufacturer, which in 1930 had a 50-per cent share of the global marine diesel-engine industry. Engines by foreign companies such as Bamford, Berg and Deutza (from the United Kingdom, France

it was well prepared for the new industry. Since the late 19th century the area has produced glasses on a large scale. In a beautiful new building of glass, the museum explains the technologies for making [...] the history of the workers in this labour-intensive industry. The important topic of vocational training is also explored, from the first industrial college in the 19th century to the National Optical [...] Morez claims to be the birthplace of the industrial production of spectacles when, in 1796, a nail-maker called Pierre-Hyacinthe Ceaux used wire to make frames for lenses. The history of metalworking at

cultural and crative industries. This project has following areas: La Harinera Museum focuses on preservation, restoration and the provision of information on the heritage of the flour industry. La Harinera Creative [...] multifunctional space which recognises and values industrial heritage and contemporary cultural creation. It is an integrated site, made up of a museum, a cultural space and accommodation, provides a reference [...] La Harinera combines industrial heritage, cultural innovation and contemporary creation in an old bread and plour factory. Is main aim is to promote and inspire creativity in a sustainable way and with