The museum gives an insight into the living conditions of working people in the new industries of Finland from around 1900 until the 1960s. The forestry and papermaking company Tornator began a factory [...] the 1960s but the river-side site with two remaining buildings was given to the city of Imatra. The museum opened in 1975. One building displays the furnished interiors of working-class homes in around 1900

Housed in the five-storey Perienes canning factory, the Museum of Labour opened in 1995. It grew from a collection dedicated to the world of work that was gathered by students in a project supervised by [...] spaces of the former factory are filled with display panels and objects. The displays cover local industry, domestic work, agriculture, commerce and especially fish canning and lithographic printing of packaging [...] The second exhibition traces the canning production process and displays artifacts relating to the industry, including a large and colourful collection of printed packaging. Testimonies can be read from workers

feel: entering the former Knappenrode briquette factory means to explore 100 years of Lusatian industrial history with all your senses. The visit starts by climbing the 22-metre open staircase. From up [...] landscape where former open-cast lignite mines have been transformed into attractive lakes. In the museum itself, visitors breathe the smell of pressed briquettes as if the final shift only ended yesterday

Industry is very important in S. Joao da Madeira. And, more recently, industrial history as well. This combination makes the city and its surroundings an exciting destination for fans of industrial heritage [...] presentations of industrial history. The shoe production, for instance, is represented by a museum, an academy for shoe design and two successfully working enterprises. The hat museum is accompanied by [...] information about locations and guided tours. In the factory next door, visitors can experience a museum of contemporary art, as well as an exhibition on the history of the Oliva company and its outstanding

Gas Industry Museum keeps alive the memory of the heyday of oil production. Various models are used to illustrate the process of oil production. On display are production instruments and industrial equipment [...] were dug in the area around Borysƚaw alone, 70 km southwest of Lviv (Lviv) in what is now Ukraine. Industrial production began around 1865, when deep drilling technology was used to reach depths of up to 1 [...] and collections of paraffin and oil lamps and medals and emblems associated with the gas and oil industry.

acquired the colliery in 1810. Today, Grand Hornu is a true gem of European industrial heritage as well as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a major attraction for visitors from all over the world thanks to [...] to its "Centre for Innovation and Design" (CID) and the Contemporary Art Museum (MACS) of the Federation Wallonia-Brussels.

combines such different attractions as the "watchmaker´s cottage" in Vöhrenbach, with the Clock Industry Museum in Schwenningen, whose many fully-working machines tell visitors about everyday life in the factory [...] And on your way, if you want, you can watch cuckoo-clock makers at work. Finally the German Clock Museum in Furtwangen offers visitors a comprehensive overall view of clock making in the region. Its 15 [...] collection of its type in the whole world. Along with its rich stock of international clocks, the museum provides a multifaceted picture of the history and technology of the phenomenon of time.

spoil heaps and opencast mines. To visit the Museum of Mining Heritage at the village of Katydata you must make an appointment at least one day before. The museum is in an old court-house near the church of [...] The Cyprus Copper Route is a self-drive itinerary of copper-mining heritage. Cyprus was the largest supplier of copper to the ancient world. Even the word ‘copper’ comes from the name of the island. One

The Museum of Industry in Ghent dedicates a whole storey to textile manufacture because cotton was the driving force behind the industrial development of the city. Not for nothing is the museum located [...] our industrial past. Families and schools are especially well catered for with educational display cases and hands-on museum games with which they can test their skills. The top storey of the museum can [...] offers the ideal framework for a splendid exhibition on the history of industrial society from 1750 to the present day . A tour of the museum introduces visitors to themes like child labour, the influence of

Hungary and Romania. This small railway museum among the ridges of the Carpathian mountains aims to save surviving elements of the Transcarpathia railway heritage. The museum consists of a single train with an [...] Visitors see exhibits largely in the condition in which they were rescued. Around the museum is the open-air village museum, which preserves over 20 buildings, among them a forge house of the 1930s, a carpenter’s

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.

company. The mineralagical museum established by the Lavrion Studies Society (EMEL) in 1986 commemorates the work of the geologist and mining engineer A. Kordellas (1863-1909). The museum, in a building of 1873 [...] that was part of an ore-washing complex, displays 115 different metals, along with evidence of industrial processes, mining tools, lamps, lead ingots and slag specimens. Housing built by both the companies

Located just off the Champs-Élysées, the Grand Palais is part of the 'Banks of the Seine' World Heritage site. It was built for the Paris world’s fair of 1900: the Exposition Universelle. Following an [...] art but the Exposition Universelle was an influential showcase for technological innovations and industrial products, including optics, escalators and moving pavements, trolleybuses, diesel engines, electric

former fish factory opened in 2017 as a museum about the city of Fécamp and its fishing industry. It brings together pre-existing collections, including those of a museum created in 1899 for the fishery training [...] processed frozen herring until it closed in 1996. Visitors explore the evolution of the fishing industry from herring fishing in the middle ages to the exploitation of Newfoundland cod, together with subjects [...] processing. The story is presented through artifacts, models, photographs and interactive displays. The museum also has displays about history and archaeology, daily life in the region and fine art. A glass-sided

potash is an important material for use as a fertilizer and in the chemical, textile and glass industries. Deposits of potash were discovered in the Alsace region at Wittelsheim in 1904. Development of [...] 1924. Although mining stopped in 1966, today the shafts are used for the deep storage of waste. The museum is in the pit-head baths. Other building with new uses include winding-engine houses, a lamproom

neoclassical architect Denis Antoine on the Quai de Conti. It is part of the Banks of the Seine World Heritage site. The 177-metre building that faces the quay contained the offices, while courtyards behind [...] employed 1,900 people. Guided tours show visitors workshops where currency and medals are still made. A museum explains the process of making coins and medals and their significance. Around 2,000 pieces are on [...] s give visitors opportunities to touch artefacts, hear experts talk and even see and smell the industrial processes of carving, stamping and casting.

experience the many facets of the Vogtland textile industry with all its highlights, but also its dark sides. In addition to exhibits from the museum's rich collection, the thematic diversity is also presented [...] was well-known, and in 1828 more than 2,000 people were employed in whitework embroidery. The industrialization of the craft proceeded just as quickly. The first hand embroidery machines in the Vogtland still [...] around 40 mostly small companies operating in the Vogtland. The history of the Vogtland textile industry, and Plauen lace in particular, has been presented in the 'Factory of Threads' since the end of

motor-scooters. From 1991 the company was part of Mercedes-Benz. The museum is run by the local authority and focuses on the industrial history of Ludwigsfelde from 1936. Its primary exhibits are the engineering

and everyday vehicles. The collection was created by the industrial entrepreneur Dr Friedhelm Loh and opened to the public in 2023. The museum is a university campus for courses in car design and conservation [...] building was part of the workshops of the boiler manufacturer Omnical and displays introduce local industrial history. A curving ramp is a centrepiece to display competition cars and parking racks show a changing

The ENTER Museum takes its name from the 'Enter' key on a computer keyboard and the English word for 'enter'. It is a museum of computers and consumer electronics that was created from private collections [...] collections brought together in the 1990s and has been on display since 2010.. In 2023, the museum moved into a new building in Derendingen to the east of Solothurn, where, in addition to the exhibition, an academy [...] dedicated to the history and future of technology was set up with the aim of preserving cultural heritage and inspiring young people for technical professions. In over 10,000 square metres of interactive