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

onwards, tin toys were produced on an industrial scale. The tin soldier was also born in Nuremberg. Around 1895 there were 56 metal toy factories in the city. The museum presents this history as well as products

century for the growing chemical industries. Trabia Tallarita mine was started in the 1830s and employed 3,000 people at its peak in 1920. It closed in 1975 and became a museum in 2010. The main displays are [...] The museum is at the site of the Trabia Tallarita sulphur mine, about 7km west of Riesi on the Strada Statale 190 towards Sommatino. Central Sicily was the most important region in Europe for production

It incorporates several conserved industrial heritage sites including the Route du Feu at Blegny, the Bois du Cazier Mine at Marcinelle, le Grand Hornu, the mining museum at Bar-de-Luc and the PASS science [...] the Netherlands. The trail incorporates 43 towns and villages, and 340 large pit heaps from the Industrial Revolution period or later, as well as numerous smaller tips. The trail incorporates the tracks

The tramway foundation opened a museum in a depot of 1904 at Delfshaven before moving in 2010 to the Hillegersberg tram depot. The museum opened the following year, and re-opened after substantial refurbishing [...] the collection are able to go through the city. The museum is open to the public on the first Saturday of every month and on Architectural Heritage Day every September. [...] refurbishing in 2014. The museum holds a representative collection of about 50 of the tramcars once used in the city, approximately half of which are full restored and operational. They belong to several

historic trams circulate on the network, and the museum offers one hour round trips on historic buses on designated days. The museum also has a heritage tramway of 300 m at Vinerbro in the Oslo suburbs [...] The Sporveismuseet is the museum of local transport in Oslo, established in 1966 and managed by the Lokaltrafikkhistorisk Forening (LTF). Its collection of vehicles includes 25 tramcars, several trolley

Culture year will be industrial culture. Among other things, there will be industrial culture themed tours in museums, a new industrial history magazine with numerous company and museum portraits has been [...] the theme of industrial culture as it is a clear unique selling point for the region. From 2021, the "Long Night of Industrial Culture" will be organised in the region. Traditional industrial companies in [...] and allow a look behind the scenes of industry. In the meantime, 25 companies & museums open their doors to the public and allow visitors to participate in industrial history up close for one night with

Woollen cloth was manufactured in cottages across large parts of North and Mid-Wales before the Industrial Revolution, and in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century numerous small-scale water-powered [...] installed in 1949 generates electric power to work 50-year-old looms and can be viewed. The mill museum includes carding engines, spinning mules and warping machines. A 12 minute video shows how the wool

continued until 1999. Appreciation of the area’s industrial history was stimulated by an exhibition Le Miniere in Valtrompia staged in 1985 at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Brescia, and local authorities [...] Ecomuseo di Valle Trompia La Montagna e l'Industria (Trompia Valley Ecomuseum. The Mountains and Industry). The Museum also manages and interprets La Via del Ferro (the Iron Road) a series of sites in the region [...] history of mining and ironworking. Chief amongst them is the Museo Le Miniere di Pezzaze (the mining museum at Pezzaze) set in the Marzoli iron ore mine, opened in 1886 by the Fratelli Beretta company who

in geometrical patterns on the mountain side. There are displays relating to the industry in the archaeological museum at Fundao. [...] horizons of mineralisation, and specimens from the Panasqueira mine are displayed in geological museums throughout the world. The landscape is dominated by large-scale modern plant, but conservation work