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.

first water-powered cotton-spinning factories. Industrial settlements associated with him are inscribed in the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage site. He grew up in Derbyshire in central England, where his [...] During the British Industrial Revolution Jedediah Strutt was among the fathers of the factory system. After making innovations in knitting stockings he worked with Richard Arkwright to build the first

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

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