important producer of shoes and several factories are still important employers. The Museum of Footwear and Industry of Inca is housed in an army barracks built in 1910. There is a comprehensive collection [...] The museum and its current exhibition reopened in 2018 following a project of co-creation with the community of Mallorca to identify what they wanted from their heritage. It won the European Museum of the [...] for example for pattern making, leather cutting, assembling, finishing and packaging. Ancillary industries that supplied footwear makers are also represented, such as leather tanning, heel-making and the

it is easy to overlook the variety of industrial buildings from all periods and particularly the nineteenth century that lie within the city centre. The industrial economy of Norwich was built on the diverse [...] former monastic brew house dating from the medieval period. The Bridewell Museum, hosting an outstanding collection of industrial and social memories, is itself housed in a former shoe factory and one-time [...] textiles, shoe manufacture, food production and pharmaceuticals. Textiles were an important medieval industry in East Anglia employing thousands of outworkers to spin the yarn for the Norwich weavers. As late

and the Polish paper industry financed the museum project. Some objects and portraits relating to the history of papermaking are displayed, but the most important feature of the museum is that it preserves [...] built in 1605 has now been working for more than 400 years, although since 1968 it has operated as a museum. Some of the 17th and 18th century papermakers in the town were from Saxony and Bohemia. From 1742

warehouses and goods offices. The buildings now house the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. As soon as you start your tour of the museum you are assailed by the noise of old spinning and weaving [...] communications and emphasise its role in the motor-car and aeronautics industry. All in all this is one of the largest science and industry museums in the world. [...] Manchester was one of the very first industrial cities in the world. It is a byword for unrestrained capitalism and appalling social poverty; but also for its pioneering achievements. One of these was

Canal allowed cheaper transport of silk from China. The museum is built up from the collection of a silk weaver and expert in the history of the industry M. Lançon. With ancient equipment it shows the whole

represented in large collections of artefacts. There are several churches in the museum of which the oldest dates from 1742. The museum is divided into two principal sections, one showing traditional rural life [...] changes that came with the modernisation of agriculture and industry, and the cherishing of old traditions. Unusually for this kind of museum some buildings are displayed which were built as recently as [...] This is a Skansen type museum concerned with the history of the people of the Dnieper plains. It was established in 1969, opened in 1976 and now extends over 150 ha to the south-west of Kyiv. In common

With its extensive collection on everyday culture in the GDR, the 'Museum Utopie und Alltag' (Museum of Utopia and Daily Life Museum) aims to demonstrate what life was like for ordinary people in the former [...] the mid-20th century, an expression of the belief of Communist economists in the primacy of heavy industry. It stands on the River Oder, close to the point where it is joined by the Oder-Spree Canal, 25

The Netherlands Open Air Museum is one of several national museums inspired by the example of Skansen in Stockholm, that were established in north European countries in the decades before the First World [...] restored, but in the 1980s the museum was threatened with closure by cuts in public spending, and from 1991 became the responsibility of an independent foundation. The museum displays 85 buildings from all [...] but a substantial proportion relate to industrial heritage. Wind power has always been important in the history of The Netherlands, and it is fitting that the museum should include several windmills, amongst

in previous periods of economic and industrial change. Related Links ERIH Link List WIKIPEDIA: Economy of the Netherlands World Atlas: What are the biggest industries in the Netherlands? Haarlemmermeer [...] ON THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS Listen Industrialisation came late: on the one hand, because the Netherlands had only small deposits of the key raw materials coal and iron ore, and on the [...] and Haarlem, also fell behind the British competition; only the highly specialised silk weaving industry was able to hold its own. The pillars of the economy were the highly productive agriculture sector

Witten was one of the first deep-pit mines on the Ruhr – a good enough reason for the LWL Museums of Industrial Culture to erect one of its eight sites here. Visitors can walk along a 100 metre gallery [...] brickworks which operated until 1963. The museum was opened in 2003 and tells the story of the birth of mining in the Ruhr valley at the start of the industrial revolution. [...] coal on the river you can go aboard a 35 metre life-size replica of an original sailing barge. The museum has yet another replica construction: a small pit from which coal was hauled in buckets which shows

the largest pre-industrial enterprise in Norway in the 18th century. The Baroque church of 1761 at the old market square symbolises the significance of the Silver Works. The mining museum is situated in

again and was the centrepiece of the museum when it opened to the public in 1914. It now comprises 75 buildings from 20 towns, most of them in Jutland. Early industry is represented by a water-powered wool [...] pottery, and the theme of textile production can be followed throughout the museum. The Old Town is one of the most popular museums in Denmark and is visited by some 3.5 million visitors a year. [...] The Old Town in Arhus, the principal city of Jutland, is unusual amongst European open air museums in that it consists largely of urban buildings rather than farmsteads that have been removed from their

employed 1,900 people. Guided tours show visitors workshops where currency and medals are still made. A museum explains the process of making coins and medals and their significance. Around 2,000 pieces are on [...] s give visitors opportunities to touch artefacts, hear experts talk and even see and smell the industrial processes of carving, stamping and casting.

presented to the city after the International Exhibition of Science, Art and Industry in 1888 by Sir Henry Doulton (1820-97). The museum also has displays of pottery, textiles, glass and metal castings. [...] 1898 and designed by Glasgow’s city engineer Alexander B McDonald. Since the 1940s it has housed a museum of social history, where artefacts, images, moving film and interactive displays tell the story of

technological museums in the Greek provinces: - Silk Museum, Soufli - Open Air Museum of Water Power, Dimitsana (Peloponnese) - Museum of the Olive and Greek Olive Oil, Sparta (Peloponnese) - Museum of Industrial [...] Brickworks Museum N. & S. Tsalapatas, Volos (Central Greece) - Museum of Marble Crafts, Tinos (Cyclades) - Chios Mastic Museum - The Environment Museum of Stymphalia - The Silversmithing Museum

Austro-Prussian War of 1866 it belonged to the Habsburg Empire. The industrial monuments in the region are interpreted by the Open Air Museum which provides trails identifying the principal buildings and explaining [...] remained in the ownership of the Conte family until recent years, and is being adapted as a hotel. The industry was transformed by the activities of Lanificio Rossi, the woollen cloth company founded by Francesco [...] was completed in 1991, and the building now houses small businesses and craft workshops. Other industrial monuments in the Schio region include the Cazzola Woollen Mill of 1860 which is still operating

The technology and maritime museum in Malmö, Sweden’s third largest city, illustrates many aspects of engineering, particularly those relating to transport. It is housed in a building of the 1950s which [...] is also a tiny 2-2-0T tank locomotive made in Trollhättan in 1888. There are special sections on industries that flourished in Malmö.

about half-way between the towns of Borovnica and Vrhnika. The headquarters of Slovenia’s technical museum, which was founded in 1951, is a mansion in the centre of an estate that was once a Carthusian monastery [...] Josip Broz Tito (1892-1980) president of Yugoslavia. Another section displays Slovenia’s forest industries and includes saw mills, workshops of carpenters, wheelwrights and coopers, and collections of

The museum is about the industrial history and biodiversity of the River Ter, which runs through the town of Manlleu north of Barcelona. It occupies the three-storey Sanglas cotton factory, built in 1841 [...] and sustainable management of the Mediterranean rivers. The museum was opened by the city council in 2004 and is part of mNACTEC, the Museums of Science and Technology of Catalunya. [...] on the riverside. Many textile factories used waterpower here from the mid-nineteenth century. The museum shows the process of cleaning, carding and spinning to make cotton yarn with examples of surviving

The textile industry began to grow in the Vosges region of north-eastern France in the early nineteenth century, attracted by water for power. By the 1840s, numerous spinning and weaving factories were [...] were established across the Vosges mountain range, including four in the village of Ventron. The museum is housed in a four-storey weaving mill built in 1855 that is typical of the textile factories from [...] dry summer months. The mill closed in 1952 and was left complete and undisturbed until it became a museum thirty years later. The steam engine and its boiler room are on display. An array of machines and