and why this place left its mark elsewhere in the world is a story told by the Metallurgic Park, a museum with several branches in the region. An elaborate multimedia show brings the almost intact historic [...] in size that takes visitors on a virtual trip through more than 3.000 years of the region’s iron industries, focusing on the heyday in the 19th and 20th centuries when skillfully casted fountains, statues

harvest takes place every year in the town square outside the museum. The location is part of the 'Žatec and the Landscape of Saaz Hops' World Heritage Site. [...] around Zatek, a market town of about 20,000 inhabitants some 70 km north-west of Prague. The hop museum is located in a three-storey building of the late 19th century designed for the storage and packaging [...] by hand are displayed, together with examples of the machines developed for use in harvesting. The museum holds collections of handbooks giving advice on growing hops, and recipes detailing how they should

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

The Villa Petrolea contains a museum of the oil industry in the mansion of the Nobel family. When the Nobels from Sweden invested at Baku in 1879 the area was environmentally degraded and called ‘the black [...] dates from 1884. It was restored and opened to visitors in 2008 with a club, conference centre and museum.

areas. Although industry is the main activity, and its industrial heritage is wide, As Pontes features a large variety of natural, cultural and heritage resources. The town's industrial heritage can get known [...] walking or cycling an itinerary along the most representative points of the industrial landscape: the 'Ruta de la experiencia industrial' offers a short circular route (1 hour walking) and a slightly longer [...] Pontes is the venue of the biggest power production in Spain and consequently makes it a significant industrial core. To generate energy, the thermal power plant used lignite, which was extracted from the n

Iceland was supposedly established in Siglufjördur in 1910. The Herring Era Museum illustrates the importance of the herring industry in the early and mid-20th century, and consists of three principal buildings

The maritime museum in Reykjavik is situated in a former fish processing plant on the edge of the old harbour. Its displays illustrate many aspects of the history of the city and its links with the sea [...] were 6,000 inhabitants in 1900, a total which almost doubled in the next ten years as the fishing industry prospered. The harbour breakwaters were built between 1913 and 1917, and from the early 20th century [...] the first of which, the Coot, was acquired from Great Britain by the Faxaflői company in 1905. The museum illustrates the history of vessels used for shipping, from rowing boats, through sailing vessels

the museum that displays Roman antiquities found in the area, provide premises for science-based industries, and establish a museums campus in which the Museum of Ethnography, the National Museum of Technology [...] Technology, the Museum of Transport and a new Museum of Architecture will be located. Two areas of Garden City style housing, one designed for managers and the other for workers, remain adjacent to the [...] the Obuda Works. The present gas museum has extensive displays showing the construction of the Obuda works, and exhibits a steam locomotive that once shunted wagons there. The collection also includes many

Josiah Wedgwood (1730-95) was a leading figure in Britain’s Industrial Revolution, a successful entrepreneur in the ceramics industry, a promoter of canals, and a member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham [...] Waterford Wedgwood Royal Doulton, and the Victoria & Albert Museum, under which the collection will not be sold and will remain at Barlaston. The museum re-opened in 2015 as part of the World of Wedgwood attraction [...] 1938-40 production was moved to a garden setting at Barlaston, 8 km south of Etruria. The Wedgwood Museum collection dates from the eighteenth century, and currently consists of 80,000 works of art, ceramic

Terni became an important industrial city in the late nineteenth century with waterpower from the River Nera. The Terni arms factory was begun by the government in 1875 and opened in 1880 in an impressive [...] The complex of historic buildings is very large and located on the edge of the city centre. The museum is in one of the historic buildings of the factory. It displays hundreds of hand guns, rifles, swords

tones. Today both the painter and the place are world-famous. Hockney was born in the Northern industrial city of Bradford. And Salts Mill, an old textile factory, was built in Shipley just to the north [...] north of Bradford. Something unheard of occurred here in the mid 19th century. Saltaire Village, an industrial settlement which placed great value on the quality of life, was constructed in the beautiful Aire [...] village, which is still inhabited, has survived for over a century almost unscathed as a unique industrial monument. Today Salts Mill remains the undisputed centre of business. But it now houses electronics

Living industrial culture, modern art and nature come together in the historic factory site of Maste-Barendorf. Where brass was cast in the 19th century, an artists' and museum village now stretches out [...] Needle Museum, which is located in the factory village, is currently being completely overhauled and is expected to reopen in 2025. The grounds and the sculpture garden as well as the industrial-cultural [...] playful experience, are still freely accessible at all times. An exhibition area in the municipal museum is dedicated to needle production.

put to several new uses, part having been adapted as offices for English Heritage. Another part is occupied by the Steam museum whose collection includes several locomotives, among them the replica of

Lapphyttan is a site of world importance in industrial archaeology and a place where you can go back in time to see an early furnace in action. Archaeological excavations from the 1970s proved this was [...] the end of the twelfth century. The discovery changed understanding about the history of the iron industry, showing that blast furnaces were older than people thought and began in Sweden and Germany. Near [...] a visitor centre, a children’s park, a reconstructed mine for iron ore and the Karlberg homestead museum.

Outside the gates of Seraing, which is dominated by the huge industrial plant belonging the Cockerill-Sambre concern, lies a truly splendid building on the right bank of the River Maas: the former Cistercian [...] were erected on the site, which even included its own workers´ quarter. Nowadays visitors to the museum can go on an impressive guided tour which includes a demonstration of glass production at close quarters

the Middle Ages through the period of industrialization to the twentieth century. The museum also explains the growth of Neumünster from a village to a large industrial town. Visitors can try many processes [...] centre of the town. The museum explains the whole process from the raw wool to the finished cloth. It has live demonstrations with spinning wheels and hand-looms and large-scale industrial machines for carding [...] The museum of cloth and technology explores how people have made woollen cloth for over 2,000 years, from the Iron Age to the present day. It occupies an impressive purpose-built building in the centre

high up in the present. The entrance to the Hindenburg tower (built in 1934) in the Saarland Mining Museum in Bexbach is situated at a height of 40 metres. From here you can get an outstanding view of the [...] washrooms and the lamp room informs visitors about the region’s geology, mining techniques and the industrial history of mining in the Saar. Here you can take a ride into a 200 meter long mining gallery in [...] on request, with a “half shift” (a sausage and a roll) or a “coffee plate” (coffee and cake). The museum is surrounded by a flower garden, adjacent to which lies “Monte Barbara”, a disused greened over

Germany has a long history of the extraction, refining and use of lignite. The testimony of this industry that profoundly shaped the landscape will soon be nothing more but "blue spots" – that is lakes [...] technical achievements that were essential for lignite surface mining. The Bergbau-Technik-Park (open air museum for mining technology) lets visitors learn about the technical implications of lignite extraction

produced lead, zinc, tin, nickel, cobalt and uranium. The most substantial monuments of the mining industry are the Abrahamschacht, with pithead buildings of 1839, and the Alte Elisabeth, with structures [...] Pfaff of Chemnitz. The history of mining is comprehensively depicted in the Municipal and Mining Museum, and the technical university, that incorporates the mining academy established in 1765, has extensive

stretching over more than six square kilometres. This is what the future of industrial heritage looks like. In the Chemical Industry Estate in Marl, on the northern edge of the Ruhrgebiet, it is already part [...] relocation of chemical firms, thereby giving a fresh impulse to industry in the Ruhrgebiet. It’s working. Anyone who visits the Chemical Industry Estate in Marl will come away with a completely new idea of [...] connections and harbour, the nearby airport in Düsseldorf and of course power stations. For the chemical industry needs power more than anything else. This used to be delivered in the shape of coal from the local