With its extensive collection on everyday culture in the GDR, the 'Museum Utopie und Alltag' (Museum of Utopia and Daily Life Museum) aims to demonstrate what life was like for ordinary people in the former [...] the mid-20th century, an expression of the belief of Communist economists in the primacy of heavy industry. It stands on the River Oder, close to the point where it is joined by the Oder-Spree Canal, 25

but a substantial proportion relate to industrial heritage. Wind power has always been important in the history of The Netherlands, and it is fitting that the museum should include several windmills, amongst [...] The Netherlands Open Air Museum is one of several national museums inspired by the example of Skansen in Stockholm, that were established in north European countries in the decades before the First World [...] restored, but in the 1980s the museum was threatened with closure by cuts in public spending, and from 1991 became the responsibility of an independent foundation. The museum displays 85 buildings from all

in previous periods of economic and industrial change. Related Links ERIH Link List WIKIPEDIA: Economy of the Netherlands World Atlas: What are the biggest industries in the Netherlands? Haarlemmermeer [...] ON THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS Listen Industrialisation came late: on the one hand, because the Netherlands had only small deposits of the key raw materials coal and iron ore, and on the [...] and Haarlem, also fell behind the British competition; only the highly specialised silk weaving industry was able to hold its own. The pillars of the economy were the highly productive agriculture sector

Witten was one of the first deep-pit mines on the Ruhr – a good enough reason for the LWL Museums of Industrial Culture to erect one of its eight sites here. Visitors can walk along a 100 metre gallery [...] brickworks which operated until 1963. The museum was opened in 2003 and tells the story of the birth of mining in the Ruhr valley at the start of the industrial revolution. [...] coal on the river you can go aboard a 35 metre life-size replica of an original sailing barge. The museum has yet another replica construction: a small pit from which coal was hauled in buckets which shows

the largest pre-industrial enterprise in Norway in the 18th century. The Baroque church of 1761 at the old market square symbolises the significance of the Silver Works. The mining museum is situated in [...] 1786 accommodating the Royal Norwegian Mining Academy, founded in 1757, is part of the national heritage site of Kongsberg Silver Works. At Saggrenda, 8 km W, visitors can explore underground workings

again and was the centrepiece of the museum when it opened to the public in 1914. It now comprises 75 buildings from 20 towns, most of them in Jutland. Early industry is represented by a water-powered wool [...] pottery, and the theme of textile production can be followed throughout the museum. The Old Town is one of the most popular museums in Denmark and is visited by some 3.5 million visitors a year. [...] The Old Town in Arhus, the principal city of Jutland, is unusual amongst European open air museums in that it consists largely of urban buildings rather than farmsteads that have been removed from their

Project is a unique new industrial exploration centre. Based at the two mills that pioneered paper’s industrial revolution, the project brings together the past of an industry that helped shape the modern [...] inherently sustainable industries – paper. The foundations of the Paper Trail Project are the two neighbouring sites of Apsley and Frogmore Mills, the birthplace of paper’s industrial revolution. Frogmore [...] dates back to 1895 as well as try out their skills in hand-making paper and arts & crafts. A new Heritage Interpretation Centre is also planned. The two sites are linked by a short section of the Grand

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.

presented to the city after the International Exhibition of Science, Art and Industry in 1888 by Sir Henry Doulton (1820-97). The museum also has displays of pottery, textiles, glass and metal castings. [...] 1898 and designed by Glasgow’s city engineer Alexander B McDonald. Since the 1940s it has housed a museum of social history, where artefacts, images, moving film and interactive displays tell the story of

technological museums in the Greek provinces: - Silk Museum, Soufli - Open Air Museum of Water Power, Dimitsana (Peloponnese) - Museum of the Olive and Greek Olive Oil, Sparta (Peloponnese) - Museum of Industrial [...] Brickworks Museum N. & S. Tsalapatas, Volos (Central Greece) - Museum of Marble Crafts, Tinos (Cyclades) - Chios Mastic Museum - The Environment Museum of Stymphalia - The Silversmithing Museum

Austro-Prussian War of 1866 it belonged to the Habsburg Empire. The industrial monuments in the region are interpreted by the Open Air Museum which provides trails identifying the principal buildings and explaining [...] remained in the ownership of the Conte family until recent years, and is being adapted as a hotel. The industry was transformed by the activities of Lanificio Rossi, the woollen cloth company founded by Francesco [...] was completed in 1991, and the building now houses small businesses and craft workshops. Other industrial monuments in the Schio region include the Cazzola Woollen Mill of 1860 which is still operating

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.