social and economic history, urban, industrial and rural, of north-east England. Its most important industrial exhibits relate to the coalfield in which the museum is situated. Visitors can go underground [...] Beamish, once called the North of England Open Air Museum and now ‘the living museum of the north’, occupies a site of more than 100 ha 14 km north-west of Durham City. It was established in the 1960s [...] e practices of the North Eastern Railway are displayed at Rowley station, which was moved to the museum from its original situation. Beamish has a notable record in researching and interpreting the development

polder extends over some 7200 ha, and currently has a population of about 8,550. There is a small museum in the village of Middenbeemster. Beemster Cheese made from the milk of cows grazing on the polder [...] produced by CONO, a co-operative formed in 1901. The Beemster polder was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999 in acknowledgement of the achievement of Dutch engineers of the 17th century which

List Searching in History: The Industrial Revolution in Belgium Industrial Heritage in Belgium WIKIPEDIA: Economy of Belgium World Atlas: What are the biggest industries in Belgium? Grand Hornu. Mine and [...] ON THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF BELGIUM Listen The industrial age of the European continent began in Belgium, where conditions were similarly good to those in England: coal had been mined in the valleys of [...] soon other locomotive factories were established within the iron industry of Wallonia. For over a hundred years, a flourishing industrial belt stretched from Mons and Charleroi in the west through the valleys

manufacture and use of silk, and a museum shows all phases of silk production. The silk mill buildings and the associated housing form part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed in 1997.

Germany has a long history of the extraction, refining and use of lignite. The testimony of this industry that profoundly shaped the landscape will soon be nothing more but "blue spots" – that is lakes [...] technical achievements that were essential for lignite surface mining. The Bergbau-Technik-Park (open air museum for mining technology) lets visitors learn about the technical implications of lignite extraction

Conservation of the Industrial Heritage (TICCIH) at Lyon and Grenoble in 1981 which led to the setting up of a group responsible for establishing a national inventory of industrial heritage at the Ministry [...] Amongst his many publications, two of the most important are Industrial Heritage: a new territory (with Grace Dorel-Ferré, 1996) and Luxury Industries in France (1998) [...] Bergeron was a distinguished French scholar who did much to establish the value of the study of industrial heritage with international bodies such as ICOMOS and UNESCO. He was born in Strasbourg and studied

extra journeys. The Manuelskotten, a location of the Wuppertal Museum of Industrial Culture, is located in the immediate vicinity of the museum line. With its six-metre-tall overshot water wheel, it is open [...] during the days of travel and offers insights into the working world of the early mining small iron industry. In this Kotten, built around 1900, special knives are still ground manually by water power on working

ly important industrial region, has its headquarters at the open air museum of mining, the first of its kind, established in 1938 by Karl-Erik Forsslund and Gustaf Bjorkman. The museum’s emblem is a gigantic [...] gigantic waterwheel, and it demonstrates as well as any other museum in Europe the ways in which power was transmitted by wooden rods from waterwheels to operate pumps and other mining machinery. Other

Aviation and its facilities are complex systems comprising flying objects, maintenance, handling and service facilities, repair yards, large-scale storehouses, administrative tracts, shops, building s

ago? In the historic control center at the Olympia Stadium subway station, the Berlin Underground Museum provides a glimpse of the history, progress, and current operations of the subway system. In 1881 [...] increasing demand for innovations in transport systems. In the meantime, Berlin had become an aspiring industrial hub, with streets filled with horse-drawn carriages, trams and pedestrians. To solve the problem [...] streets on pedestals. The Berlin underground was one of the first projects of its kind in Germany. The museum provides a hands-on experience of many historic artefacts commemorating one century of underground

researches Berlin's industrial heritage, develops tourist attractions, designs educational formats for young and old, advises and moderates questions concerning industrial heritage in the city, supports [...] Center for Industrial Culture (bzi) is a joint institution of the Berlin University of Applied Sciences and the German Technical Museum Foundation Berlin. BZI networks actors of industrial culture in Berlin [...] supports preservation and conversion with ideas, concepts and advice, offers a platform for industrial culture at conferences, in publications and event series, is involved in supra-regional and international

barracks currently houses three museums, the regimental collection of the King’s Own Scottish Borderers, a display entitled ‘By Beat of Drum’ managed by English Heritage which tells the story of the British [...] British infantryman, and the Berwick-upon-Tweed Museum & Art Gallery, which is concerned with the social history of the town, and includes a collection of works of art from all over the world donated by

diversely designed panels on the wall of the blower house are an excellent starting point for industrial heritage enthusiasts and steel time travellers! Steel Time Travel in the Ruhr Area and South Westphalia [...] like this into ever new and exciting moments. They enable visitors to explore the entire history of industry - from its earliest beginnings to heavy industrialisation and all the way to these days - in a single

The manufacture of clocks and watches is perhaps the most celebrated of Switzerland’s industries. One of the best-known manufacturers is Beyer Chronometrie whose founder was Matthäus Beyer who began to [...] most fashionable shopping district, where they still remain, although not in the same building. The museum is on the ground floor of the company store. Its core is a collection acquired by Theodore Beyer

the workers seem tiny. Blaenavon owes its status as a cultural World Heritage Site to the sheer authenticity of its former industrial landscape. [...] small town – with a huge effect. The South Wales town of Blaenavon was once the spearhead of the industrial revolution. For 200 years everything revolved around coal and iron here in the Afon Lwyd Valley [...] past once more. The climax of this journey back in time is a visit to the Big Pit: National Coal Museum. Here visitors climb into a cage and descend 90 metres to the pit floor below. Former colliery workers

No one can grasp a proper understanding of the industrial heritage of the West Midlands without a visit to the Back to Backs in Birmingham. Here you can see the home workshops which generated the momentum [...] between the occupiers which at one point amounted to some 80 people. In its heyday it was a hive of industry. Each house was occupied by a skilled tradesman and his family (and often a lodger or two), attracted

mines. Since then the immense industrial plants have largely disappeared. Only the award-winning Black Country Living Museum is still deeply rooted in Victorian times. The Museum effortlessly transports visitors [...] century when the working of shallow coal seams and the vents of industrialization turned this area black. All the buildings of the open-air museum are original and have been moved here to save them from development [...] It was in the 1830s when the heavy industry conquered the area north and west of Birmingham. At that time, the Black Country already was known for its vast, partly near-surface coal layers. Now, iron mills

Close to Blaenavon Ironworks and Big Pit in the Blaenavon World Heritage Site is the Community Museum. It is inside the impressive Workmen’s Hall, which was built in 1895 by local workers to provide them [...] hall. The museum is run by volunteers to preserve artefacts and images connected with the history of the town of Blaenavon. The displays record the religious life of the community, its heritage of music [...] sport, education and worker organisation, and the role of shops and businesses, including the main industrial employers. There is a special display about the historical novelist Alexander Cordell (1914-1997)

Ancient Monument. The site is the main focus of the Blaenavon Industrial Landscape which was inscribed by UNESCO in December 2000 as a World Heritage Site. In the early 19th century Blaenavon Ironworks became

This is the first dedicated World Heritage Centre in the UK and is the focal point for the Blaenavon Industrial Landscape World Heritage Site. The Visitor Centre combines video presentations, interactive [...] wanting to know more about the features that make up the 33,000 hectares of heritage landscape around the Centre. The World Heritage Centre will be housed in the carefully restored Grade II* St. Peter’s School [...] to explain the leading role that Blaenavon and South Wales played in the formative years of the Industrial Revolution. The centre will be a fun and educational place to visit for families, educational groups