first industrial heritage sites to be preserved in Britain. A campaign to protect it as part of the heritage of steelmaking in Sheffield began in 1933. It is now run by Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust

by repute, the town’s shoe industry began when redundant soldiers began to sell simple shoes called schlabbe, made from leather parts of their uniforms. The shoe industry prospered while Pirmasens was [...] Europe, the industry has declined as production has been transferred to countries where wage costs are lower, although Pirmasens remains a centre for research into leather technology. The shoe museum is one

the industrialisation and a must-have-seen for everybody who is interested in the history of the industry: The 5-storey 55 m long red brick building at the northern suburbs of Shrewsbury was the first [...] of iron and steel. The use of iron beams and columns were an important progress for the textile industry because their buildings were always under thread of fire. The building was erected in 1796-97 for [...] subsequently been much uncertainty over the building’s future, but in 2005 it was purchased by English Heritage, and agreements with a developer for its future use were finalised in 2007. Since then a lot of

glass industries. The area was the most important producer of cobalt in the world from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. It is part of the Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region World Heritage site. [...] Schneedberg council since 1990. In the town centre, at Ob. Zobelgasse 1, the council runs a museum of mining folk art (Museum für bergmännische Volkskunst).

Other museums are in preparation, including the Silesian Porcelain Museum in Tułowice near Opole, the Museum of Agricultural Techniques in Piotrowice Śląskie near Świdnica, the Railway Museum in Dzierżoniów [...] the liquidation of many historic industrial branches, in some cases entire industrial districts. The Foundation addresses this development with research on the industrial history of Silesia, hands-on protection [...] protection of the tangible industrial heritage and education on the economic factors underlying the threat to industrial relics. The most important activity of the Foundation is the protection of specific

remain in the region. The industry is commemorated in the museum at Saint Hippolyte du Fort, a small town on the River Vidourie, which provided power for throwing mills. The museum portrays all the processes

the silk industry. It now houses exhibitions exploring the properties of silk, design education, Macclesfield´s diverse textile industries, workers´ lives and historic machinery. The Silk Museum follows [...] audio-visual presentation tells of the development of the industry in the town from the perspective of various people involved in the silk industry. The story of silk comes to an end as we consider how silk

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

border with Turkey in 1922 cut off Soufli from areas that had been its hinterland. The museum is a site of the Museum Network of the Cultural Foundation of the Piraeus Bank Group (PIOP). It has displays [...] the manufacture of silk fabrics and thread. A further section places the rise and decline of the industry in the region in its broader political and economic context.

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as a „working textile museum" were launched. Government funds made it possible to purchase a majority of the shares, restore machines and buildings; and maintain the old industrial craftmanship. The spirit [...] driven by our water power station with a turbine from 1913. A visit to Sjølingstad Woollen Mill Museum during the summer season gives you the possibility to get a guided tour around the factory. You learn

Skansen is the open air museum that has given its name to museums in many European countries. For 70 years it has attracted more than two million visitors per annum. It was founded in 1891 by the ethnographer [...] present-day museum extends over 30 ha and includes more than 150 buildings. Hazelius’s purpose had been to display Swedish culture in the era before industrialisation, but there are many industrial buildings [...] doing research for a dictionary of the Swedish language. In 1872 he established the ethnographical museum that has involved into the present-day Nordiska Museet, and Skansen was a move from collecting artefacts

gave access to underground chambers, drained by steam engines. The museum has developed from the work of the Friends of the Slate Industry, an association established in 1979. A sixteenth century house, the [...] tools, machines and working models. One display features the work of women employees in the slate industry. Other displays illustrate the uses of slate, and former miners demonstrate splitting techniques

later industrialisation. The industries then contributed decisively to the next wave of colonialism in the late 19th century. This created a huge demand in later industrial nations such as France and the [...] supply the new industrial cities. Towards the end of the century, demand diversified as the electrical engineering, chemical and mechanical engineering sectors expanded in the "Second Industrial Revolution": [...] imperialist sabre-rattling of the powerful industrial nations, which increasingly rivalled aggressively for colonies, were the needs of the dominant industries. Industrialisation also changed the ideological

Steelworks. The museum includes an underground mining display, and an energy collection with steam engines and turbines, but it is most important for its displays of decorative wrought iron. The museum is also [...] The Slovak Technical Museum originated in 1948, and gained its present name in 1983. It is located in an 18th century Baroque mansion in Kosice, the second town of the old kingdom of Hungary, an important [...] also responsible for a preserved water-powered iron forge in nearby Mednev. The develop of heavy industry in east Slovakia owed much to migrant workers from Flanders and Germany, and the local dialect derives

The agricultural museum was established in Bratislava in 1922, moved to Nitra in 1960, and from 1978 was managed by the Agrokomplex company. It is now an open air museum of the Skansen type which since [...] traditional crafts and the development of the food industry, agricultural machines, aviation, and fire-fighting. The 22 buildings in the open air museum of folk architecture include a school, a co-operative [...] bakery, scotching and heckling mills for processing hemp, a tannery, a treadmill and a cooperage. The museum operates several traction engines and a narrow gauge railway with three steam locomotives.

was adapted to accommodate ironworks clerks and their families. The museum, established in 1954, illustrates the iron and steel industry of the region around Jesenice, including the process of charcoal burning [...] The ironworking museum in Jesenice in northern Slovenia is situated in the Ruardowa graščina (the Bucelleni-Ruard Manor House), one of four ‘ironworks castles’ that were formerly the homes of the families [...] furnace, as well as the social and cultural life of the ironworkers. Other sections display the museum’s collections of local fossils and minerals.

the main malting buildings. This will incorporate a new Heritage Centre to explain the all-important history of Snape and its maltings industry. Snape Maltings is well-known as an internationally famous [...] one of the largest working maltings in East Anglia, barley was once processed here for the brewing industry. The owners, the Gooderham family, bought the site in the 1960´s and set about its gradual restoration [...] the younger brother of Richard Garrett, who inherited the Garrett Works at Leiston (Now Longshop Museum). One of his daughters achieved fame as the remarkable Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, a suffragette

Mining and Industrial Museum in El Entrego • The Asturian Railway Museum in Gijón • The Railway Industry Museum in Langreo The Asturian Tourist Board has set itself the aim of marketing the industrial heritage [...] other industrial enterprises, all of which contributed to making the region a pioneer in the industrialisation of Spain, alongside Catalonia and the Basque country. All these branches of industry have left [...] these industrial monuments and expressions of a bygone engineering technology are part of the landscape which they once radically transformed. Some of the sites have been turned into industrial museums

modernised in the 1960s and the company still produces salt today. The old plant is now a museum. The Solana Museum tells the story of salt production from the Neolithic period to the present day. It displays [...] Salt is an essential material for preserving food and for many industrial processes. It was produced from brine springs at Tuzla in prehistoric, Roman and medieval times. In 1884 a large new salt works