processing quartz, feldspar and china clay. The end result is breakfast dishes. In the European Industrial Museum of China in the Bavarian town of Selb everything revolves around the so-called “white gold” [...] the present day. A complete range of machinery shows visitors how porcelain body comes into being. Museum workers form, cast, throw and press all sorts and varieties of vessels and objects. Passive infrared [...] contains working steam-engines. The most recent development has been the opening of the European Museum of Technical Ceramics containing everything from artificial hip replacements to heat shields used

is unrivalled by any other museum. Some 5,000 pieces are generally on display. The archaeology section of the museum is closely concerned with evidence of the ceramics industry that comes to light in excavations [...] The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery (formerly the City Museum) occupies a purpose-designed building opened in 1981. It contains a collection of Staffordshire ceramics of every possible kind, earthenwares [...] both planned and otherwise. The museum also includes sections on the decorative arts (chiefly costume and textiles), geology and natural history. In the centre of the museum is a Spitfire fighter aircraft

the waterworks museum whose collection dates from 1952. Displays illustrate the history of water supplies in Prague from the twelfth century, through the Renaissance and the industrial developments of [...] of the nineteenth century to the present. The museum includes paintings of the waterworks by Josef Lada (1887-1957), best-known as illustrator of Jaroslav Hašek’s (1883-1923) The Good Soldier Švejk , who

sucessfully established economic autonomy. The ethnographic museum opened in the 1980s and has a rich collection on the local cutlery industry, including products, tools and machines. It aims to keep the [...] an altitude of roughly 1,000 metres, is one of the most spectacular sites of the European cutlery industry. The narrow streets are home to countless small workshops, and nearly all families in this 2,50

Zollverein Mine World Heritage Site in Essen. It complements the multimedia information offered by the "Portal of Industrial Heritage", which presents the "Route of Industrial Heritage in the Ruhr Area" and [...] and other interesting industrial heritage sites in North Rhine-Westphalia as well as the industrial properties on UNESCO's World Heritage List and all ERIH Anchor Points in Europe. A mobile version of [...] with an Impact" illustrates the transformation of industrialized regions in Europe and gives an impression of the diversity of Europe's industrial heritage. This is realized on information boards, which as

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Tucked inside this tiny village, almost lost in the immense fenland landscape, is a fascinating industrial story. Prickwillow is a former diesel pumping station built to drain the fens. Man´s struggle to [...] metre below the outfall on the Wash in Norfolk, so pumps had to be efficient. On running days, the Museum powers up its original Mirlees pumping engine, dating from 1924 and believed to be the only blas

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PROJECTS ERIH INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE BAROMETER Since 2018 ERIH in cooperation with the Regionalverband Ruhr carries out surveys of industrial heritage sites in Europe. All industrial heritage sites are invited [...] develop skills and competences. more EUR ACADEMY OF INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE Aim of the project is to attract young people to European industrial heritage as a career option. For this ERIH organises courses [...] courses in cooperation with universities. more INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE SUMMER SCHOOL The 14-day Summer School for students from European universities combines interdisciplinary knowledge transfer with practice-oriented

The growth of manufacturing industry in Europe was sustained by the development of financial institutions that provided capital for entrepreneurs and a measure of security for the population at large. [...] at a meeting in Hatton Gardens, London, on 30 May 1848. Six years later the company set up an ‘Industrial Department’ that employed door-to-door agents to sell ‘penny policies’ in middle class and respectable [...] Victorian architects, best known for Manchester Town Hall, completed in 1877, and for the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, built between 1868 and 1880. The offices were commissioned during 1879, and c

completed, however, as the Industrial Conversion Decree was approved in 1983. After large mobilisations of the workers, the closure of the factory was imposed. As for the industrial heritage, buildings such as [...] No. 2 and the Spare Parts Warehouse have been preserved, which will become the future Museum of Industrial Heritage and the Workers' Memory of Puerto de Sagunto.

The museum preserves the former Pythagoras engineering works in an attractive group of low brick buildings around a courtyard. The works continued to be named after the Ancient Greek mathematician after

the tradition as Intangible Cultural Heritage. The textiles were produced in small workshops from the seventeenth century, then in larger workshops. The Kékfestő Museum at Pápa in western Hungary occupies [...] War it employed 50 people. In 1959 the entire contents were preserved and the buildings opened as a museum in 1962. The cellars include the washing room and the dyeing room with large vats into which textiles

The small town of Ribnitz-Damgarten on the Baltic coast has a heritage in the early aircraft industry that began in 1934 with the relocation there of the Walther Bachmann aircraft factory. This specialised [...] trained in flying boats and other aircraft. Soviet armed forces were based there from 1954 to 1991. The museum is on the airfield, housed mainly in impressive reinforced concrete aircraft hangers. It specialises

and Styal Estate with Styal Village is the most complete and least altered factory colony of the Industrial Revolution. It is of outstanding national and international importance. Founded in 1784 by a young [...] ocuments provide evidence about the life and work of the Greg family and their workforce. 3. A Living Museum Quarry Bank Mill and Styal Estate is still a working Cotton Mill producing over 9,000m (10,000 yards) [...] machines working and meet skilled Millworkers with years of experience of working in the cotton industry. 4. The Great Iron Waterwheel and two Steam Engines Quarry Bank Mill and Styal Estate now offers

de Bilbao. The industrial museum RIALIA (which takes its name from the river) occupies a building begun in 1993 which was intended for various projects that did not materialise. The museum opened there in [...] exhibits donated to the museum. The last room is used to offer temporary exhibitions, both by local artists and related to industrial, marine and nautical themes among others. The museum's collection includes [...] includes watercolours, oil paintings, instruments and materials used at work and related to industrial development. They offer a living reflection of the activity of the different workshops and installations

Eskilstuna is a planned industrial town of the mid-17th century, established for King Carl Gustaf in 1658 by Reinhold Rademacher. Twenty wooden smithy buildings, designed by the architect Jean de la Vallée [...] to the present day, and more recent products, particularly vehicles, are displayed in the Munktell Museum, which is linked with the Volvo company.

The majority of the industrialist donated Rahmi Koç Museum is an excellent example of how historic industrial buildings a new use can feed. In the former anchor foundry of the Arsenal House (the shipyards) [...] shipyards) on the Golden Horn, the Koç-Foundation has set up an industrial museum, that gathered beside the railway, aviation and shipping also developments in communications technology and astronomy. Walkable [...] Walkable captain bridges, a real submarine at the jetty and beautiful miniature railways make the museum interesting for children.

– an extraordinary symbol of conspicuous wealth. The castle and museum are part of the Slate Landscapes of Northwest Wales World Heritage site and owned by the National Trust.

had 15 of its own brands. The Ramirez 1853 Centre includes a museum that provides a comprehensive picture of the Portuguese fish canning industry. Its larger exhibits include tuna traps, the prototype of