its principal industries. The peat-fired power station was dismantled in 1966 and replaced by a gas turbine power station which itself was demolished in 1995. The Peat and Colony Museum, created gradually [...] transport facilities. The purpose of the town was to enable the exploitation of peat reserves on an industrial scale, particularly to be used as fuel in a power station planned by Carl Friedrich von Siemens [...] the mid-18th century to the early 20th century. It also shows the history of the peat extraction industry in the region. Some buildings are original, some relocated here and some reconstructed based on

The leather tannery district is part of the World Heritage site of the Historic Centre of Guimarães and Couros Zone. The industrial importance of the city was as a centre for leather manufacturing, represented [...] the region from prehistory to the present, covering not just the medieval past and the leather industries but textile manufacturing, international trade, community and society. The displays utilise text

The two museums of Charlieu are housed in the former Hôtel-Dieu de Charlieu hospital, built in the 18th century. One is the Hospital Museum, which displays the historical men's ward, operating theatre [...] In 1992 the former women's ward became the Silk Museum. The town has been a centre for making high-quality silk fabrics since the 18th century. The museum includes several working textile machines for silk [...] Part of the museum is devoted to the history of the Charlieu corporation of weavers, which is now the last that is active in France. A final audiovisual gives a flavour of the textile heritage that is still

The Museum for the town of Apt in the south-east of France – also called the Musée de l'Aventure Industrielle – concentrates on the industries of the area. Three important industries grew up here based [...] associated with mining, processing and marketing of ochre are displayed. Finally, the museum traces the clay industries of Apt from the 17th century to the present, with hundreds of examples of pottery, bricks [...] based on three natural resources – fruit, ochre and clay. The museum is inside part of the factory of Marliagues founded in 1873 for making candied-fruit confectionary. It includes a complete workshop, displays

The Conservatoire is run by L'Aventure, an association dedicated to the heritage of the car makers DS, Peugeot and Citroën. It is situated near Le Bourget airport north of Paris in a modern building of [...] premium brand that takes the name DS is represented in vehicles made since 2010. L’Aventure’s other museum is for a Peugeot collection at Sochaux in eastern France.

sewing-machines. At its peak 3,000 women worked in the industry locally, making products for famous brands such as Pierre Cardin and Christian Dior. The museum is in Brillaud’s factory on the bank of the river [...] folding, packing and dispatch. An association to preserve the shirt-making heritage of the town was started in 1982 and the museum opened with the help of the local authority in 1993.

The workers’ colony of Eisenheim in Oberhausen became one of the first international industrial archaeological causes célèbres in the mid-1970s. Ironworking in the area began in 1758, and the principal [...] the oldest surviving workers’ colony in the Ruhrgebeit. The LVR-Industriemuseum maintains a small museum in one of the houses, displaying the history of Eisenheim, adjacent to which are play facilities

the many different influences of early industrial practice on traditional crafts and trades. A long walk around the two and a half kilometre grounds of the museum thus becomes a trip back into the history [...] the major craft industries in the region. For centuries a huge number of blade-grinders’ forges were in operation in the woods around Hagen. This explains why the local open-air museum also houses the [...] the German Forge Museum. The small iron trade contributed greatly to making the region more industrialised than the neighbouring Ruhrgebiet until around 1850. The museum takes account of this tradition. Visitors

Hattingen, one of eight sites of the LWL Museums of Industrial Culture, is centred around. Visitors are invited to discover the varied aspects of the industrial monument by following several theme routes [...] further steps of steel production. The green path traces the very specific flora and fauna of the industrial wasteland, and the path of the rat offers exciting experiences for children. But there is even

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 museum was founded in 2010. It is an independent museum which preserves the transport heritage of the city of Dundee and the surrounding areas. It is currently temporarily housed in a modern industrial [...] depot, a group of buildings dating from 1901, and hopes to restore the buildings and rehouse the museum there. Vehicles on show are either held in the collection or brought in for themed days. Visitors [...] of local businesses, military vehicles, motorbikes, emergency vehicles, buses or other transport heritage. The theme of future transport is explored through concept cars and vehicles once considered futuristic

The museum is based in the large railway station in the village of Bergün. The Albula narrow-gauge line is part of the Rhaetian Railway (RhB) and is a World Heritage site. It was completed in 1903/4 after [...] tunnels. It was built at a gauge of 1,000mm with steam locomotives but it was electrified in 1919. The museum, which opened in 2012, tells the story of the construction of the railway using maps, plans, photographs

porcelain at the same location in the town and port of Porsgrunds in south-east Norway. The museum occupies an industrial building on the waterfront of the Skien river or Porsgrunnselva. It is next to the working [...] profiled who have contributed designs to the factory, such as Nora Guldbrandsen and Odd Nerdrum. The museum also gives visitors an opportunity to try making porcelain for themselves. The Auction Hall nearby

The Museum is one of nine sites of the Memorial Museum of A. Baranauskas and A. Monk-Žukauskas, which was established in 1927 to preserve the heritage of the Anykščiai region. It is located in the station [...] engine, passenger cars and freight wagons. There is also a display of restored vintage cars. The museum allows visitors to climb onto the rolling stock and to ride a rail tricycle.

century for the growing chemical industries. Trabia Tallarita mine was started in the 1830s and employed 3,000 people at its peak in 1920. It closed in 1975 and became a museum in 2010. The main displays are [...] The museum is at the site of the Trabia Tallarita sulphur mine, about 7km west of Riesi on the Strada Statale 190 towards Sommatino. Central Sicily was the most important region in Europe for production

1999 and it now houses a museum of the silk industry. The three-storey building appears like a palace, with grand staircase towers at the corners and courtyards inside. The museum has carefully recreated

The town of Cairo Montenotte in North-west Italy became home in the early 20th century to an industry manufacturing photographic film. This began in 1917 when the firm SIPE collaborated with the French [...] items. The American company 3M invested in Ferrania until the late 1990s but it closed in 2017. The museum opened in 2018 in Palazzo Scarampi in the centre of Cairo Montenotte. It explores the century-long [...] of objects related to research and development, production, working life and the Italian movie industry. The objects include filming and editing equipment, scientific instruments, photographs, audiovisuals

cotton spinning and weaving mills sold products across the Ottoman Empire and beyond. The Industrial Heritage Centre is housed in a former woollen factory built in 1907. Under the name ERIA it produced [...] 36-m chimney survive. The exhibition History Threads presents the history of the city's textile industry. Spinning and weaving machines are displayed alongside social material that ensures a focus on people

The Ribbon Weaving Museum began in 1989 and is now part of the Museum Industiekultur Wuppertal. In 2020 it moved to the Nordstadt district, where it is housed in part of a five-storey former ribbon-weaving [...] half the working population of Wuppertal at that time were employed in the textile and clothing industries, of which ribbon weaving and braiding was an important part. The factory was owned by Villbrandt [...] . Products on show include ribbons, labels, shoelaces and specialist items for sport, medicine, industry and personal protection. Visitors can go around with an audio tour or a personal guide.

large-scale opencast mining machine for the industry is now a landmark. ‘Excavator 1452’ was preserved in 2001. This 33.5m-tall giant is the star exhibit in the museum. It has long steel booms and moves on