Summerlee is a heritage park with a large exhibition hall whose aim is ‘to preserve and interpret the history of the local coal, iron, steel and engineering industries, and of the communities that depended

The Swanage Railway is a heritage line in the Isle of Purbeck, now managed by the Swanage Railway Trust. It currently operates trains over 9.7 km from a park-and-ride station at Norden to the seaside resort [...] Passenger services ceased in 1972, but there was immediately public pressure to re-open the line as a heritage railway, and a local society for that purpose was granted facilities at Swanage station from 1975 [...] standard locomotives of the 1950s. The Swanage Railway Trust also operates the Purbeck Mineral & Mining Museum at Norden station.

The museum shows the importance of the Swiss financial sector in everyday life, but also the significance of raising capital via shares at that time for railroad construction or the textile industry. The [...] In a multimedia exhibition, the Swiss Finance Museum explains the origins of the economic system and the role of the stock market. Visitors can find out all there is to know about the Swiss financial market

Porsche factory, electric power, nuclear energy and products of the chemical industry. The ship Mannheim is an outstation of the museum in the nearby harbour on the River Neckar. The approach is interactive [...] The museum of technology and labour in Mannheim opened in 1990 in a Modernist building designed by the Berlin architect Ingeborg Kuhler. Its objective is to illuminate the process of industrialisation [...] Amongst its 16 principal themes are paper-making and printing, textiles and particularly the cotton industry in south-west Germany, engineering including the construction of locomotives, the manufacture of

sold throughout Europe. The industry collapsed in the 1960s, and most of the 200 factories in the region have been demolished, but its history is portrayed in the TEXTURE, museum of flax and river Lys. There

metal working industries. This made Saxony the cradle of the German automotive engineering and home to renowned automobile manufacturers until today. The Saxon Route of Industrial Heritage" developed by [...] TMGS illustrates the industrial history of the region with a selection of 51 sites, including exciting museums as well as active plants. Leading sectors are mining, textile industry, vehicles and transport [...] transport, food and beverage, and the printing industry. Outstanding architecture is part of the route, too.

principal importance of the car museum, founded by Peeter Kalli, is its comprehensive collection of cars used in Estonia in the Soviet era, relics of the huge car industry of the USSR that has either disappeared

Talyllyn Railway claims to be world’s first preserved railway and it certainly set the pattern for the heritage railway movement in the United Kingdom. It owes its origin to the Bryn Eglwys slate quarry, once [...] in 1976, and in 2005 the terminus station at Tywyn Wharf was extending, creating more space for a museum of narrow gauge railways established in the early years of the preservation project in 1954. Two

km. south of Gera in Thuringia, is one of the best preserved monuments of the traditional leather industry in Europe. Friedrich Francke began the works in 1844 and it continued to use natural substances [...] Subsequently, at the wish of the last owner, it was taken over by the municipal authority as a technical museum. Every phase of the traditional tanning process is preserved in the works. There are machines to

century waterway which linked the town to the copper port of Morwellham Quay on the River Tamar. The museum is located in the centre of the town and occupies two rooms above the historic Court Gate. It has [...] has a ground-level interpretation room with audio-visual equipment to shown films of the World |Heritage site, and local mining related topics. It has a collection of minerals from local mines as well as

The technical museum in Vienna holds many artefacts of significance to the industrial history of Europe. It was formally established in 1908, with Dr Ludwig Erhard as its director, as part of the jubilee [...] jubilee celebrations of the Emperor Franz Josef, but it was not opened until 1918. The museum has an original model of a Watt engine of 1795, with several nineteenth-century steam engines, including one of

north-east of Reykjavik. The technical museum that illustrates many aspects of the history of the region has three principal exhibits that relate to the industrial heritage. The mechanical engineering workshop [...] a line from the terminal of the undersea cable to Reykavik. The third principal component of the museum is Fjardarselsvirkjun, the first hydro-electric power station in Iceland, erected in 1913. The turbine

1935. Leonida modelled the museum on the Deutsches Museum in Munich that he visited when studying in Germany, but as the founder of a pioneering training school for electricians and mechanics, he saw its [...] company Brush in 1882, as well as motors made in Romania. The museum is set in a parkland landscape in the vicinity of several important industrial monuments including the Filanet railway station of 1869 and [...] Romania’s technical museum was established in 1928 by the engineer Dimitrie Leonida (1883-1965), and has been located in its present building, a pavilion from the Bucharest World Fair of 1906, since 1935

textile industry stimulated the development of engineering, and companies in Brno came to manufacture steam engines, turbines, motorcars, armaments and telegraphic equipment. The technical Museum has displays [...] Brno grew from the late 18th century to be one of the principal industrial cities in Europe. The manufacture of woollen cloth was introduced by a state-sponsored company in 1764. The German Wilhelm Mundy

city of Pforzheim. Because the jewellery and watchmaking industries not only have a long tradition in Pforzheim but are still active today, the museum also explores how this history is being perpetuated in [...] markets nowadays. The explanations by the museum’s staff are complemented by informational media that also enable visitors to find their way around the museum on their own. [...] The museum radiates an aura of vibrant activity; it smells like oil and metal in here, and the machines make a lot of noise! In the building of the former Kollmar & Jourdan jewellery manufactory, visitors

ng in Großröhrsdorf, near Dresden, since the seventeenth century. It remained a mainly domestic industry until the early nineteenth century, when larger workshops were established. In 1855 the factory [...] producer in Europe, with 5,000 employees. Since privatisation, many mills continue in the town. The museum was opened by the council in 1998. It is housed in an impressive four-storey mill, built in the 1890s

The Industrial Gas Museum operates in the premises of Athens gasworks. When entering the museum, the visitor can get general information on industrial history and industrial heritage. Inside the museum [...] an industrial complex. The scale of the buildings, once used for producing gas for the city, is as eloquent a statement of the significance of the industry as any of the displays in the Gas Museum. [...] waterheater etc.). In New Watergas building visitors may visit Museum’s Gift Shop and watch documentaries on Athens gasworks. The Gas Museum, which opened in 2013, is part of Technopolis (Gazi) a large cultural

and Lysbuen is part of the Rjukan–Notodden World Heritage Site. Located in mountains and river valleys, this commemorates the world’s first industrial production of mineral fertilizer in 1905, from nitrogen [...] population. Telemarksgalleriet and the World Heritage Center in the company town of Notodden tell this story and show art exhibitions in a monumental industrial building of the early twentieth century. The

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

significant percentage of the population. The Terracotta Museum preserves and displays the rich cultural heritage that grew from this industry. It is housed in a former pottery factory enhanced by impressive [...] exhibition is divided into four sections: raw materials and environmental conditions, pre-industrial ceramics, industrial-era ceramics and artistic ceramics. The collection, which is displayed throughout the [...] Temporary exhibitions show the works of established makers. Visitors can purchase local pottery from the museum’s shop.