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 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.

end of the 1970s. Today it belongs to the open-air museum that was set up in the valley in 1988. Furthermore, the museum includes the ethnographic museum in Wegscheid, located in a 16th century forge and [...] Trattenbach, a municipality in Lower Austria's industrial district, has a long tradition of manufacturing so-called pocket ‚Feiteln‘ – simple pocket knives with only one blade. In the 16th century there

company operated on an industrial scale in the nineteenth century from premises at 155 Obere Markstrasse. It sold violins at low prices and exported instruments on a large scale. The industry declined in the [...] the 1920s and 30s, but was revived after the Second World War. The museum of violin-making was established in 1930 and since 1960 has occupied one of the oldest and most attractive buildings in Mittenwald [...] film and photographic evidence of the trade, together with recordings of some of instruments. The museum has a database of Mittenwald violin-makers based on well-preserved registers of baptisms, marriages

coaches, freight and passenger wagons, some locomotives, trams and special vehicles for the mining industry and steelworks, in the first half of the 20th century military vehicles and armaments were also [...] factory as well as scale replicas of the railway vehicles it produced are on display in the Wagon Museum, which is set up on three floors in the stuccoed interiors of the Studénka castle. Other exhibition

the museum, in a former leather works built in 1891. This is a history museum that still exudes the sights and smells of its industrial past. Demonstrators, who used to work in the leather industry, are [...] undisputed centre of that industry. In 1839 for instance, local workshops were producing output to equip 20,000 saddles and 200,000 sets of harnesses each year. The industry was virtually self sufficient [...] Walsall’s leather industry is relatively new compared with the much older lorinery trade that has existed in the town at least since the 1400s. This is the making of saddler’s ironmongery; hand forged

(railworks, lighting gas, port, tramways, electrification). The museum reflects this exact period when Thessaloniki was turning into a large industrial centre and shows that water history goes hand in hand with [...] The Water Museum of Thessaloniki is housed in the historical building complex of the first pumping station of the city. It was built in the late 19th century (1890-94) by Belgian engineers, being part [...] boiler room and the coal storage room, reflecting clearly the different energy phases of water supply industry. The director’s residence later completed the construction, getting us back to an era when directors

A visit to Weaver Hall Museum and Workhouse begins on the ground floor with a short introductory film in ‘The Regalette’ mini-cinema. You then walk through the Special Exhibitions Gallery to two other [...] Cheshire over 2,000 years, will be relaunched as the Working Life Gallery covering other important industries in the area including ship building, farming and chemicals. Old River Weaver Gallery is currently

weavers still worked in their own homes. The industry subsequently contracted, and the last domestic weavers ceased working about 1960.The idea of a museum of weaving in the village was put forward in [...] strike of weavers in Lyons in 1831 some manufacturers moved production to country areas, and the silk industry in Bussières began to flourish, reaching a peak of prosperity in the early 20th century. Some factories [...] increased. In 1993 the community acquired an old factory, once owned by the Braud company, and the museum occupied it from 1998. Visitors can now see displays about the history of silk weaving in Bussières

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

glassworks. Cobalt blue was exported widely, especially to Britain’s porcelain, glass, paint and paper industries. Wegner bought the company on behalf of an investment group and was made Director-General and co-owner [...] ultramarine led to bankruptcy in 1849. (The cobalt works and mines operated until 1893 and became a museum in 1971.) In 1835 Benecke and Wegner had purchased the Hassel iron ore mine and blast furnace in

of Weisswasser were employed in the glass industry. The village had become a town and the town the European centre of glass production. In 1996, a glass museum was opened in the former villa of the Gelsdorf [...] the Northeast of Saxony close to the German-Polish border, is intertwined closely with the glass industry. When the Berlin-Görlitz railway line was opened in 1866/67, the little village in the district

town of limited size, planned in advance, carefully zoned, and surrounded by a green belt, but its industrial growth in the 1920s was limited, and it developed more as a dormitory for London, easily accessed [...] 1950, 1963 and 1968, and the store became part of the John Lewis Partnership in 1983-84. The local museum for the Welwyn and Hatfield district is in an operational watermill at Mill Green.

furnace in Wenden were enclosed in huts to protect them from the weather. Here in the region of Olpe a museum has been opened to show the gradual growth of iron and steel manufacturing, the origins of which [...] a hundred years afterwards did people begin to realise that the disused works were an important industrial monument. Now work is afoot at preparing an exhibition on the history and background of the furnace

underground extension of the mines matches the urban area of Munich. The Werra Potash Mining Museum displays the industrial, mining, and social history of potash mining in the Hessian-Thuringian Werra region on

by Unesco as an intangible cultural heritage, to industrial production, from the art scene to high-tech ceramic research. At the Westerwald Ceramics Museum, visitors can learn all about the history and [...] became an object of desire in the Baroque period and how the region developed into an important industrial centre with a wide range of applications for modern high-tech ceramics. On the upper floor, a variety [...] illustrate the importance of ceramics in contemporary art. Visitors can get creative themselves in the museum's workshop.

culture of peasant society in a prosperous agricultural region in the period before the Industrial Revolution. The museum project was launched in 1960 and the site was opened to the public in the early 1970s [...] The open air museum at Detmold, capital of the former principality of Lippe-Detmold, is reckoned the largest of its kind in Germany. It extends over 90 ha and its collection totals more than a hundred [...] and a pottery with its clay warehouse. There are several impressive windmills and a water mill. The museum regularly demonstrates flour milling, blacksmithing and pottery manufacture, and illustrates important

the younger brother of John Wilkinson (1728-1808) the most prominent ironmaster of the British Industrial Revolution. Both William and John Wilkinson grew up in Cumbria, where their father was employed [...] inscribed ‘Wilkinson’ were depicted in a contemporary engraving, and one such cylinder remains in the museum at the latter. William Wilkinson met his brother at Namur in 1782. John Wilkinson had many links [...] received ?8000 in compensation. William Wilkinson never became a commanding figure in the British iron industry, but his role in transmitting new technologies to France was of great importance.

television sets could be bought on hire purchase. A further section of the museum illustrates the nature of industrial work. The museum includes a beer hall where visitors can sample typical Danish working-class [...] The workers’ museum is located in the assembly house of the strong trades union movement in Copenhagen that was built in 1878-79, and remained for many decades the focus of the Danish labour movement and [...] and a meeting point for Socialists from all over Europe. The museum was established in 1982. Parts of the building including the assembly hall have been restored to their 1913 appearance. Elsewhere displays

above it rises the remarkably genuine sound of crackling fire and bursting rock. The Rammelsberg Museum and Visitor Mine near Goslar stages 1,000 years of mining history; from the age-old method of mining [...] modern mining and conveying techniques during a trip on the colliery railway. A fine example of industrial architecture awaits visitors on the surface; the monumental processing plant designed by the architects