the museum, in a former leather works built in 1891. This is a history museum that still exudes the sights and smells of its industrial past. Demonstrators, who used to work in the leather industry, are [...] undisputed centre of that industry. In 1839 for instance, local workshops were producing output to equip 20,000 saddles and 200,000 sets of harnesses each year. The industry was virtually self sufficient [...] Walsall’s leather industry is relatively new compared with the much older lorinery trade that has existed in the town at least since the 1400s. This is the making of saddler’s ironmongery; hand forged

the International Maritime Museum, the Deutscher Zollmuseum (German Customs Museum), Miniatur Wunderland (a colossal model railway) and the Hamburg Dungeon. The World Heritage designation also includes [...] of Hamburg’s Museum of Work. Visitors can tour the Speicherstadt on tour buses or on canal boats, and at night the whole area is illuminated. The Speicherstadt includes several other museums amongst them [...] been one of Europe’s principal maritime trading centres, and the Speicherstadtmuseum (Warehouse City Museum) celebrates the outstanding architecture that characterises a part of the port that was rebuilt in

company’s remarkable legacy. In 2005 Braintree District Museum Trust acquired the Warner Textile Archive and thanks to a major grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund created a state of the art research and [...] to store and display the company’s remarkable legacy. Located just five minute walk from Braintree Museum, the Archive is located at the original Warner Silk Mills site where fabrics were made for the Royal

(railworks, lighting gas, port, tramways, electrification). The museum reflects this exact period when Thessaloniki was turning into a large industrial centre and shows that water history goes hand in hand with [...] The Water Museum of Thessaloniki is housed in the historical building complex of the first pumping station of the city. It was built in the late 19th century (1890-94) by Belgian engineers, being part [...] boiler room and the coal storage room, reflecting clearly the different energy phases of water supply industry. The director’s residence later completed the construction, getting us back to an era when directors

A visit to Weaver Hall Museum and Workhouse begins on the ground floor with a short introductory film in ‘The Regalette’ mini-cinema. You then walk through the Special Exhibitions Gallery to two other [...] Cheshire over 2,000 years, will be relaunched as the Working Life Gallery covering other important industries in the area including ship building, farming and chemicals. Old River Weaver Gallery is currently

was once at the heart of Burnley´s textile industry. The name was first used in the 1970s, as interest developed in preserving Burnley´s industrial heritage, and refers to the roughly triangular shape [...] sheds and spinning mills encloses the canal, making this one of the finest surviving Victorian industrial landscapes in the country.

weavers still worked in their own homes. The industry subsequently contracted, and the last domestic weavers ceased working about 1960.The idea of a museum of weaving in the village was put forward in [...] strike of weavers in Lyons in 1831 some manufacturers moved production to country areas, and the silk industry in Bussières began to flourish, reaching a peak of prosperity in the early 20th century. Some factories [...] increased. In 1993 the community acquired an old factory, once owned by the Braud company, and the museum occupied it from 1998. Visitors can now see displays about the history of silk weaving in Bussières

Josiah Wedgwood (1730-95) was a leading figure in Britain’s Industrial Revolution, a successful entrepreneur in the ceramics industry, a promoter of canals, and a member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham [...] Waterford Wedgwood Royal Doulton, and the Victoria & Albert Museum, under which the collection will not be sold and will remain at Barlaston. The museum re-opened in 2015 as part of the World of Wedgwood attraction [...] 1938-40 production was moved to a garden setting at Barlaston, 8 km south of Etruria. The Wedgwood Museum collection dates from the eighteenth century, and currently consists of 80,000 works of art, ceramic

glassworks. Cobalt blue was exported widely, especially to Britain’s porcelain, glass, paint and paper industries. Wegner bought the company on behalf of an investment group and was made Director-General and co-owner [...] ultramarine led to bankruptcy in 1849. (The cobalt works and mines operated until 1893 and became a museum in 1971.) In 1835 Benecke and Wegner had purchased the Hassel iron ore mine and blast furnace in

of Weisswasser were employed in the glass industry. The village had become a town and the town the European centre of glass production. In 1996, a glass museum was opened in the former villa of the Gelsdorf [...] the Northeast of Saxony close to the German-Polish border, is intertwined closely with the glass industry. When the Berlin-Görlitz railway line was opened in 1866/67, the little village in the district

town of limited size, planned in advance, carefully zoned, and surrounded by a green belt, but its industrial growth in the 1920s was limited, and it developed more as a dormitory for London, easily accessed [...] 1950, 1963 and 1968, and the store became part of the John Lewis Partnership in 1983-84. The local museum for the Welwyn and Hatfield district is in an operational watermill at Mill Green.

furnace in Wenden were enclosed in huts to protect them from the weather. Here in the region of Olpe a museum has been opened to show the gradual growth of iron and steel manufacturing, the origins of which [...] a hundred years afterwards did people begin to realise that the disused works were an important industrial monument. Now work is afoot at preparing an exhibition on the history and background of the furnace

country houses. It was home of the 4th Earl Fitzwilliam who built Elsecar, made money from mining and industry and was famous for his racehorses. Wentworth Woodhouse has always been something of a mystery as [...] an earlier manor house built in 1630. An incredible house to visit –contrast it with the Elsecar Heritage Centre and the workers houses around it, and learn what happened when coal was dug underneath the

underground extension of the mines matches the urban area of Munich. The Werra Potash Mining Museum displays the industrial, mining, and social history of potash mining in the Hessian-Thuringian Werra region on

manages the train service. Several other organisations have museums or facilities along the route. The West Somerset Steam Railway has a small museum at Blue Anchor, and the Somerset & Dorset Railway Trust [...] The West Somerset Railway prides itself in being the longest standard gauge heritage railway in the United Kingdom, and scenically is amongst the most attractive. Regular service operate over the 33 km [...] closed by British Rail in 1971, but there were immediately demands that it should be adapted as a heritage railway, and the first trains ran on re-opened sections in 1976. The railway property is now owned

recognised by Unesco as an intangible cultural heritage, to industrial production, from the art scene to high-tech ceramic research. At the Westerwald Ceramics Museum, visitors can learn all about the history [...] became an object of desire in the Baroque period and how the region developed into an important industrial centre with a wide range of applications for modern high-tech ceramics. On the upper floor, a variety [...] illustrate the importance of ceramics in contemporary art. Visitors can get creative themselves in the museum's workshop.

culture of peasant society in a prosperous agricultural region in the period before the Industrial Revolution. The museum project was launched in 1960 and the site was opened to the public in the early 1970s [...] The open air museum at Detmold, capital of the former principality of Lippe-Detmold, is reckoned the largest of its kind in Germany. It extends over 90 ha and its collection totals more than a hundred [...] and a pottery with its clay warehouse. There are several impressive windmills and a water mill. The museum regularly demonstrates flour milling, blacksmithing and pottery manufacture, and illustrates important

the younger brother of John Wilkinson (1728-1808) the most prominent ironmaster of the British Industrial Revolution. Both William and John Wilkinson grew up in Cumbria, where their father was employed [...] inscribed ‘Wilkinson’ were depicted in a contemporary engraving, and one such cylinder remains in the museum at the latter. William Wilkinson met his brother at Namur in 1782. John Wilkinson had many links [...] received ?8000 in compensation. William Wilkinson never became a commanding figure in the British iron industry, but his role in transmitting new technologies to France was of great importance.

television sets could be bought on hire purchase. A further section of the museum illustrates the nature of industrial work. The museum includes a beer hall where visitors can sample typical Danish working-class [...] The workers’ museum is located in the assembly house of the strong trades union movement in Copenhagen that was built in 1878-79, and remained for many decades the focus of the Danish labour movement and [...] and a meeting point for Socialists from all over Europe. The museum was established in 1982. Parts of the building including the assembly hall have been restored to their 1913 appearance. Elsewhere displays

early European Iron Age culture of 1000 – 500 b.c. It was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997. The museum, in a former Roman Catholic presbytery in the Baroque style, has displays relating to