Solar Vinho do Porto. The Royal Wine Company museum displays many historical documents and oil pints relating to the trade: Royal Oporto Wine Company Museum, R Azevedo Magalhaes 314, Vila Nova de Gaia. [...] Oporto is a city of many industries, but is best known as the entrepot where merchants from many countries have traded in Port wine, brought down the River Douro in sailing barges that passed under Gustav [...] the Société Willbroeck of Brussels. The harbour area of the city, the Ribeira, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Fifty wine companies have their lodges (offices and warehouses) in the narrow streets of the

including Art Déco, Bauhaus and neoclassicism. Most important witnesses to the toy industry are the German Toy Museum, the New Townhouse as the Town of Toys’ representative office, and the former US-American [...] stores Kresge and Halbourne. Further highlights of Sonneberg are the German Teddy Bear Museum, the SOMSO Museum for anatomic models as part of the toy production, and St. Peter’s, an outstanding neo-Gothic [...] station square leads to 16 signposted stations and introduces visitors to the toy industry’s history, its architectural heritage and the life and work of Sonneberg’s inhabitants.

architectural prizes. The displays in the museum use models, artefacts, panels and 3-d animations to explain the technology of smelting iron and the history of industry in the region. A children’s playground [...] A new furnace was built in 1826 which worked for a few years but the site was closed in 1877. The museum is located in the former office and manager’s house next to the pond that supplied waterpower. The

closely simulate the former everyday operation and lead directly back to the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution. During their tour, the visitors meet the English cotton baron Richard Arkwright, often [...] of power by activating bigger or smaller gears. This factory, that much is clear, is not merely a museum, but a living place!

general idea of Leipzig's industrial heritage and its interconnections is to book a guided tour on a historic e-carriage. Along the way, the tour covers everything from the industrial pioneer Dr Carl Heine [...] ERIH sites are involved. The Brown Coal Processing Museum in the „Herrmannschacht“ Briquette Factory , for example, will be bringing the lignite industry to life: appearance, smell, transport and processing [...] that modern factories open their doors for a close-up look behind the scenes. Since Leipzig's industrial heritage is part of Central Germany, some of the event venues are located in Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia

The Krupka mining landscape is part of the Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region World Heritage site, where metal mining started in the twelfth century. Starý Martin (or Old Martin) was one of the most important [...] and excavation methods. The gallery has a low ceiling – some sections are only 1.4-m high. A mining museum displays tools, lamps and samples of minerals. Further mining equipment is displayed outside, including

cultivation and processing of silk has always been of importance in the Caucasus region. The silk museum in Tbilisi is part of the Caucasian Sericulturure Station, established in 1887 by Nikolay Shavrov [...] Shavrov (1858-1915) of the Moscow Agricultural Imperial Society, who gained experience of the silk industry all over Europe during a tour in 1884-86. Amongst other activities the Institute undertook studies [...] studies to determine the best mulberry seeds for Georgian silk producers. By 1930 it incorporated the museum, a library and was called the Transcaucasian Institute of Sericulture and Silk Production. Its future

stimulation of early industrial manufacturing and traditional lifestyles in the countryside. Located in the Salweytal, the museum portrays patterns of work in the small-scale iron industry. Its exhibits of [...] The display of the former iron industries in the Sauerland, backed by exhibitions on folk culture, a collection of steam engines and locomotives and a section dedicated to the mechanization of farming [...] of pre-industrial local trades are centred around iron foundries and chain forges. The agricultural section focuses on the transition from manual labour to mechanical production.

the citadel which dates from 1609-15 was adapted as a malthouse in 1879 and now accommodates the museum of beer. The malt kiln remains at one end of the three-storey building which was purchased by a group [...] Gallo-Roman times to the present, showing in particular how the manufacture of beer developed on an industrial scale in the nineteenth century. The centrepiece is a reconstructed brewing hall of 1921 from a [...] caps, pens, posters and other marketing materials. This is claimed to be one of the largest brewery museums in Europe.

still the leading centre for glassmaking in Portugal. The mansion Palácio Stephens is a museum of the glass industry. [...] In eighteenth-century Portugal, Guilherme (originally William) Stephens developed the glass industry and gained a national monopoly, with his brother João Diogo (originally John James, 1747–1826). Stephens

scheduled days, visitors can take a ride on a 1950s passenger steam train or heritage diesel locomotives, which run from the museum to Percy Main. [...] ideas that helped spread railways and locomotives across the world. The Stephenson Steam Railway Museum celebrates their achievements. It is located on a standard-gauge, single-track railway that runs

Centre at the Marston Vale Forest Centre, is an exhibition celebrating the history of this prodigious industry. The London Brick Company also dominated the landscape at Fletton south of Peterborough, where huge [...] brick clay has produced large numbers of dinosaur skeletons, some of which are found at Peterborough Museum, given to the City by Sir Harley Stewart.

developments in other European countries and further afield. Supposedly his mind was set on a career in industry by a visit at the age of 13 to a steam-powered textile mill in Enschede. Soon afterwards, in 1835 [...] d in 1827 by Paul van Vlissingen, (1797-1876), and products of both companies are displayed in a museum at Oostenburg, Amsterdam.

dwellings for 48 families in three blocks built around a courtyard in Streatham Street, near the British Museum, remains. Access to the apartments is by wrought-iron balconies, they are of fireproof construction [...] Parnell House and managed by the Peabody Trust. There is usually public access to some of the flats on Heritage Days each September.

brickworks. The af Forselles family owned the ironworks for 132 years until it was sold to the industrial entrepreneur Antti Ahlström in 1886. After 250 years, the ironworks ceased operations in 1950. [...] used charcoal for its fresh fire operation. It was in use until 1950. Since 1960, it has housed a museum where visitors can learn how historic ironworks were run, how the forge worked and what tools were [...] make iron objects such as nails and tools. The neighbouring sawmill, built in1887, is also used as a museum. The church in the ironworks settlement dates from to the early 1770s and there are still many workers'

approach. In addition to the exciting insights into industrial heritage, the agenda includes work in a restoration workshop and in museums: how are museum objects restored, what stories do the objects tell [...] of many industries helped preserve the often iconic architecture, which is now being used by brand new and young industries. The participants of the "Study & Work Camp" will trace the industrial history

almost completely preserved plant facilities are a unique record of German industrial heritage. No other site dedicated to the industrial extraction and processing of basalt owns more machines, tools and buildings [...] with the implementation of the first rock crusher and a train loading facility, thus launching industrial basalt extraction and providing Enspel, located in the economically underdeveloped Westerwald, [...] some of them added later to be used until 2001, are a representative example of the basalt working industry in the Westerwald region and beyond. In 1992 a small mammal with patagium (gliding membranes) was

to the objective of the "European Academy of Industrial Heritage" to encourage students to seek employment within the context of European industrial heritage and thereby generate well-trained staff for [...] by the 'European Academy of Industrial Heritage' made the students very aware of this – both in theory and in practice." ERIH project 'European Academy of Industrial Heritage' with video of the students' [...] the maintenance and management of the industrial legacy. The seminar included lectures by local and international experts as well as excursions to relevant industrial monuments. As a result, the students

management of industrial heritage requires a wide range of knowledge and skills. Industrial heritage is more than just industrial buildings and machinery, the "tangible" remains of industry. It also includes [...] as well as sector-specific social routines and intangible heritage. But this knowledge is in danger of being lost over time. Today, heritage organisations are increasingly facing the retirement of their [...] 2020 Annual Conference in Oberhausen. Under the theme 'Keeping the wheels turning. Making industrial heritage fit for generational change' , the conference showcased practical examples of preserving and

history museum in the buildings of the Certino sulphur mine and next to the Vittoria mineshaft. The mine closed in 1964 and it reopened as a museum in 1970, one of the first industrial heritage projects [...] projects in Italy. Sulphur is an element with many industrial uses, especially to make gunpowder, matches, fertilisers and insecticides. There was mining at Perticara in the seventeenth century. The present mine