brick clay has produced large numbers of dinosaur skeletons, some of which are found at Peterborough Museum, given to the City by Sir Harley Stewart.

the production of art castings under the direction of a German founder, C F J W Mertens (d 1882). A museum, open in the summer months, in a small 18th century building displays products of the works including

of the heritage of steelmaking in Sheffield began in 1933. It is now run by Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust. It is located in an attractive public park called Whiteley Woods and is open at weekends.

(colonnade), an amazing iron Baroque structure of 1889, was cast at the Blanke Ironworks. The town museum, established in 1887, has occupied since 1952 the former inn where Goethe stayed in the 1820s.

The Museum of the Industrial Quarter was established in 1982.by Karl Flanner (1920-2013), a welder in the city’s famous locomotive factory, who endured slave labour under the Nazis, was imprisoned in [...] city corporation in the decades after the Second World War, and was respected as an historian. The museum describes the industrial history of Weiner Neustadt and the southern part of Lower Austria in recent [...] the notorious branch of the Wiener Neustadt locomotive factory which employed slave labour. The museum includes a research and study centre.

subsequent occasions. It is now celebrated as the venue of an annual opera festival. The adjacent museum has displays relating to the history of one of the most celebrated theatres in eastern Europe, together

The Grande Brasseries et Malterie Vosgienne, is a Bavarian type brewery of 1887, built for Jacques Lobstein (1847-1931), son of cooper in Alsace, who moved to Ville-sur-Illon after Alsace was annexed

Bikuben (the paper museum beehive), in a former vat house, portrays the mill’s history and enables visitors to make paper by hand. The life of Michael Drewsen is illustrated in the city museum, which is also

exhibits in the Rhineland Industrial Museum which has taken over the grounds and old factory buildings as one its six sites. “Under Tension” is the motto of the museum and its fascinating programme of exhibits [...] needs. It was finally closed down in 1979 only to reopen as an industrial museum in 1987. A short walk away from the main museum site there is the Oelcheshammer, an old water-driven smithy which is still

Dombach” paper mill in Bergisch Gladbach, one of the six sites belonging to the Rhineland Industrial Museum. The sole theme here is paper. From a path lined with a selection of plants which provide the natural [...] the “Alte Dombach” mill whose historic buildings were at first used for housing. The industrial museum opened in 1999 and also covers modern aspects of paper-making such as the mass production of paper

scale. The industry declined in the 1920s and 30s, but was revived after the Second World War. The museum of violin-making was established in 1930 and since 1960 has occupied one of the oldest and most [...] film and photographic evidence of the trade, together with recordings of some of instruments. The museum has a database of Mittenwald violin-makers based on well-preserved registers of baptisms, marriages

This is a museum of the beginnings of the motor car – a factory of Carl Benz (1844-1929) who designed and built the first practical car with an internal combustion engine. He produced his first three-wheel [...] The company became Mercedes-Benz in 1926. The Ladenburg factory of Benz dating from 1908 houses the museum. It contains a superb collection of vehicles made by Benz and its partners from the first cars of

industry that has flourished in the region since the Second World War. The wine centre includes a museum which displays methods of growing grapes and making wine, with examples of the ploughs and carts

more about the history of carpet production, they have to go to Voigtsberg Castle. In the Carpet Museum, flying carpets transport them through the history of the mechanical and industrial production of

finishing plant, and many more who worked in their own homes. The museum, supported by a voluntary association, the Forderverein Esche-Museum eV, was established in 2001. It tells the story of the hosiery [...] in 1719. His family continued to manage factories in Limbach-Oberfrohn and the present-day Esche-Museum is located in a three-storey hosiery factory built in 1854 by Ernste Reinhold Esche (1817-73), where

Fozola from Wurzburg. Two branches of the National Technical Museum commemorate the history of the iron industry. The Central Metallurgical Museum is at Felsohamor, a village about 10 km from Miskolc, and

values industrial heritage and contemporary cultural creation. It is an integrated site, made up of a museum, a cultural space and accommodation, provides a reference point in the world of sustainable proposals [...] on the promotion of cultural and crative industries. This project has following areas: La Harinera Museum focuses on preservation, restoration and the provision of information on the heritage of the flour

The large and popular technology museum at Sinsheim was opened in 1981 and is managed by Auto und Technik Museum Sinheim eV, who are also responsible for the similar museum at Speyer, opened in 1991 when

the streets of Ljubljana in 1861. The gasworks museum illustrates the role of gas as a source of energy and light in the city since that time. The museum, located in the administration building of the

supplied with clean and germ-free drinking water for almost 100 years from 1893 onwards. Since 2011, the museum, industrial monument and nature park have been inviting visitors to experience a part of the city's [...] island was abandoned for many years. The Water Art opened in 2011 and, in addition to a nature and museum education programme, offers a variety of guided tours and workshops for all age groups.