The technology and maritime museum in Malmö, Sweden’s third largest city, illustrates many aspects of engineering, particularly those relating to transport. It is housed in a building of the 1950s which [...] is also a tiny 2-2-0T tank locomotive made in Trollhättan in 1888. There are special sections on industries that flourished in Malmö.

about half-way between the towns of Borovnica and Vrhnika. The headquarters of Slovenia’s technical museum, which was founded in 1951, is a mansion in the centre of an estate that was once a Carthusian monastery [...] Josip Broz Tito (1892-1980) president of Yugoslavia. Another section displays Slovenia’s forest industries and includes saw mills, workshops of carpenters, wheelwrights and coopers, and collections of

The museum is about the industrial history and biodiversity of the River Ter, which runs through the town of Manlleu north of Barcelona. It occupies the three-storey Sanglas cotton factory, built in 1841 [...] and sustainable management of the Mediterranean rivers. The museum was opened by the city council in 2004 and is part of mNACTEC, the Museums of Science and Technology of Catalunya. [...] on the riverside. Many textile factories used waterpower here from the mid-nineteenth century. The museum shows the process of cleaning, carding and spinning to make cotton yarn with examples of surviving

The textile industry began to grow in the Vosges region of north-eastern France in the early nineteenth century, attracted by water for power. By the 1840s, numerous spinning and weaving factories were [...] were established across the Vosges mountain range, including four in the village of Ventron. The museum is housed in a four-storey weaving mill built in 1855 that is typical of the textile factories from [...] dry summer months. The mill closed in 1952 and was left complete and undisturbed until it became a museum thirty years later. The steam engine and its boiler room are on display. An array of machines and

building and the machinery it housed has largely remained intact and represents a time capsule of industrial heritage. Consequently a whole range of working pumping equipment can still be seen and on steam days [...] the oldest working triple expansion stream engine in the UK. Most engines are in working order. The Museum is set in a beautiful setting beside the River Wye in large grounds.

lectures. And from here you are free to visit the seven other fascinating museum sites administered by the LWL Museums of Industrial Culture. [...] families is the primary theme of the exhibition at this, the central site of the Westphalian Industrial Museum. The one thing you cannot do here is travel underground. The pit has been filled in on safety [...] darkness and audiovisual projections that convey authentic impressions of the miners' working world. The museum's experience programme is rounded off by a programme of events including festivities, film evenings

manufacture became a large-scale industry from the early nineteenth century, after which the spirit became popular all over Europe. The museum which tells the story of the industry is located in a mansion house [...] can see how trees were protected from rodents and other pests, and how the fruit was harvested. The museum displays show how kirsch was manufactured and marketed. Visitors can see oak barrels and copper stills

the town of Seiffen, 32 km south of Freiburg, has been one of the principal centres of the industry. The museum originated in a collection accumulated at the technical school for toy-makers, the Spielz [...] figures. The museum also features the products of the firm of S F Fischer, who pioneered the manufacture of toy building materials that reflected the theories of Friedrich Froebel. The museum holds extensive [...] of documents and photographs relating to the toy-making industry. In 1973 the Spielzeugmuseum took responsibility for the nearby open air museum in which 14 buildings illustrate the social history of the

the cutlery industry is home to so many local cutlery shops. A newly established information centre, "La Cité des Couteliers", provides museum-like information about today's cutlery industry. The Musée [...] The industrialization attracted the establishment of numerous factories, and around 1900, the trade employed 15,000 to 18,000 people. Following the Second World War, however, the cutlery industry in Thiers [...] exquisite cutlery, and its concept of integrated workshops is a model of its kind, added by industrial heritage trails in the valley of the Durolle.

Europe’s leading industrial cities and its diverse manufacturing enterprises played a significant part in the early Industrial Revolution. Thinktank is the city’s museum of science and industry, which was [...] instrumentation, gun-making, clockmaking, car manufacturing and computing among other fields. The museum also holds natural science collections and examines environmental issues. One reason for the city’s [...] reputation as the ‘workshop of the world’ was the innovative Boulton and Watt engineering company. The museum features many items made by Boulton and Watt, including the Smethwick pumping engine of 1779 - the

impressively reflect the transition from handcraft to industrial mass production in the 19th century. Thonet is considered a pioneer of industrial design. Starting in 1819 he produced own designs using [...] icons made of bentwood and tubular steel as well as contemporary pieces of renowned designers. The museum is located on the premises of the Thonet company based in Frankenberg since 1889. It illustrates

the mines and quarries of the English Lake District. The granite quarry that is the centre of the museum was opened in 1870 to provide ballast for the railway from Penrith to Keswick. It continued to supply [...] 800 m. Vintage excavators and other machines are displayed within the quarry together with some industrial steam locomotives. Visitors can go on guided tours of a reconstructed lead and copper mine, and [...] opportunities to pan minerals from waste tips. The Vintage Excavator Trust has its headquarters at the museum.

wage-earners in textile mills? What were the reasons for the decline of the textile industry at the end of the 1950s? The museum will give you the answers to these and other questions because it all happened [...] in the Province of North Brabant has traditionally been an important centre of the Dutch textile industry. Its mills were one of the major employers in the region until the 1960s. After that thousands of [...] to lose their jobs, mainly because of foreign competition from outside Europe. The Dutch Textile Museum takes up this story in a very palpable fashion. What was it like to be a Tilburg weaver one hundred

jukebox in the local bar are so real you might even think you’re a part of the scene. The Electricity Museum, housed in an handsome old transformer station in Recklinghausen, takes visitors back on a journey [...] could deliver just enough electricity to service a few houses and street lamps. It was above all industry which recognised the potential inherent in electricity and began to exploit it at an early stage [...] at a much later stage. The first fully automatic washing machine was only introduced in 1951. The museum shows the developments and improvements by means of a tour of lifelike everyday scenes and encourages

building would be an appropriate location for a museum to tell the story of Great Yarmouth and its herring industry. The aroma of herring still lingers in the museum´s buildings, providing a unique experience [...] community of the one-time importance of the herring industry and the employment it provided. It dates from the period of fast growth in the herring fishing industry during the nineteenth century. Used primarily [...] primarily for non-mechanised fish processing, this complex of industrial buildings has been designated a Scheduled Monument. Containing important industrial archaeology, its an almost unique survival of a curing

the collection came from the Frankenberg vehicle museum, which was open from 1996 to 2019. Original exhibits include objects from the textile industry and carpet weaving, a printing press from 1845 that [...] At Frankeberg near Chemnitz in Saxony the Time-Work-City Experience (ZeitWerkStadt) is a museum about technical inventions that affected the life of the region – an exploration of pioneering spirit. It

has since 2010 has been the site of Spain’s army museum, an amalgamation of several institutions the earliest of which was the Royal Military Museum founded in Madrid in 1803 to support the teaching of [...] centuries. The Royal Arms Factory was established here in 1761. Toledo was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1986. The Alcázar, a military academy in the 18th and 19th centuries, and a notorious symbol [...] new galleries revealed archaeological remains of Roman, Visigoth and Moorish fortifications. The museum includes six restoration workshops. The Royal Arms Factory, whose role had for several decades been

closed in 1981. Dimitrios Nomikos, now a public company, now has factories on the Greek mainland. The museum is in the company’s factory at Vlichada built after 1945 but it includes some machinery that dates

closely associated with L T C Rolt (1910-74), biographer of several of the leading engineers of the Industrial Revolution period, whose voyage of 1939 described in the book Narrow Boat began at Banbury, and [...] ‘Cressy’, was maintained at Tooley’s Boatyard in Banbury, which is now conserved as part of Banbury Museum. The yard dates from circa the late eighteenth century and includes a dry dock and a smithy, both [...] the opposite side of the canal from the boat yard, with which it is linked by a bridge, is Banbury Museum, housed in a modern buildings. Its collection includes exhibits, amongst them a loom, relating to

witnesses of industrial history as North Rhine-Westphalia. A tight network of more than 60 industrial museums and visitor mines, almost 200 museums and facilities presenting the industrial history of NRW [...] NRW, and an even larger number of industrial and technology monuments characterises the region. The central objectives of Tourismus NRW e.V. - the touristic umbrella association for North Rhine-Westphalia [...] lia - include the promoting the image of (industrial) tourism as a future-orientated business factor, the optimization of general conditions for touristic marketing and the promotion of touristic cooperation