for making porcelain and paper. Wheal Martyn country theme park covers around 10 hectares and its museum throws a spotlight on how the work was once done. It contains Cornwall’s largest working water wheel

answers to these questions at Bursledon Brickworks in Southampton. The site which is now an industrial museum tells the whole story from the digging of the clay to the firing of the bricks. The most exciting

The pumping station at Ryhope was built in 1868 by the Sunderland & South Shields Water Co, and contains two original double-acting compound 100 hp R & W Hawthorn beam engines, and three Lancashire bo

mills: Higher Mill and Whitaker’s Mill which, together, are Helmshore Mills Textile Museum. We are upgrading the Museum buildings, displays, information and facilities, as part of an exciting project to [...] of Helmshore Museum, and others. Cloth production, first wool, then followed by cotton, was Lancashire’s main role through the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. The Museum will lead you

collapse of its water wheel it was abandoned just as it was and this helped its restoration as a working museum. At that time it was making fish hooks – an important specialist product locally. This trade developed

water-powered hammers. The museum hosts an annual forging symposium which attracts many artist blacksmiths, whose works are displayed in a nearby sculpture park. Since 1988 the museum has also displayed a very

coal gas until 1980. It has since been conserved as an historical monument, and was adapted as a museum which opened in 2000. All the equipment of a functioning gasworks is still in place, the retorts

the area of Lüdenscheid. Just one has survived the centuries: it is now the Bremecker Hammer Forge Museum. Its equipment comes from a number of different workshops in the region and shows the history of [...] addition of an electric motor. The hammer works were only shut down in 1972. The Lüdenscheid Municipal Museum has maintained an outside site here since 1980. The fully-operative equipment and machines provide [...] living picture of blacksmiths’ techniques from the Middle Ages to the industrial era. >> Currently the museum is closed for renovation. <<

ceased in the area in 1975, although cement is still made by Geomin Erzgebirgische Kalkwerk GmbH. The museum opened in 1986 and includes indoor displays in a former fuel store, and an extensive area of old [...] the first successful kilns that were continuous rather than intermittent in their operation. The museum is also concerned with the geology and the natural history of the quarries, where many varieties

pumping engine was employed from 1865. The works remained in operation until 1964, and is now the salt museum. It consists of buildings of many periods, some of them dating from the early 18th century. The displays [...] the 1960s. The salt is regularly sold to bakers and to a gherkin factory, and is also available to museum visitors.

The railway museum at Chemnitz is located in the Hilbersdorf locomotive depot which closed in 1992. Its buildings, now designated historical monuments, include two roundhouses with 20 m turntables, water [...] inspection pits. Its large collection of locomotives includes examples on loan from the transport museums at Dresden and Nürnberg, and from private owners. The collection reflects principally the railways [...] not open to the public). A Krieglok 2-10-0 steam locomotive regularly works excursion trains. The museum organises a Boiler House Festival (Heizhaustage) every August when preserved locomotives from all

factory as an important industrial heritage site, to open it to the public and to set up a small museum.

countries. A visitor centre opened in 1995, but three years early a museum collection was established with the aid of the National Technical Museum that was intended to show the artefacts and images used in the [...] its early decades. The museum opened to the public in 2012 and enables visitors to learn about such subjects as primary and secondary circuits and radiation control. Some museum visits extend into operating

Josephson’s power station, now replaced by a modern plant, serves as a museum, and as a training facility for electrical engineers. The museum is a popular attraction in the Laponia (Lappland) National Park,

Gotland. The lime works at Blasé was donated to a charitable trust in 1983 and it was opened as a museum two years later, under the patronage of cement companies and tourist bodies. The brick buildings

between 50 and 60 people. The museum displays essentially the working environment of the women who belonged to the families of men who worked for the Bofors company. The museum comprises three dwellings [...] The Gråbo workers’ museum is located in a building that originally comprised three dwellings, built on the northern edge of Karlkroga by the Bofors company about 1870. The building is of wooden construction

documented. The Frövifors Paper Mill Museum Foundation was established in 1984 and has created a museum which has regional and national as well as local perspectives.The museum is not solely concerned with the [...] for packaging and wrapping, and a workshop where visitors can experiment with paper.Visitors to the museum can also see something of the adjacent modern mill.

The Næs Ironworks in the Tvevedestrand commune on the south-east coast of Norway, 75 km north east of Kristiansand, was established in the 17th century. It was modernised by Thomas Cranford from the C

first to be used in the timber processing industry. Today, the building houses the Norwegian Sawmill Museum. Here visitors can experience industrial history live – on running saws and planing machines! They [...] Hauka and Oter, lie tied up at the banks of the directly adjacent fjord. They also belong to the museum.

illustrated in the Museum of Water which originated in a collection of artefacts and documents begun by the company in 1919, and opened to the public from 1987. The headquarters of the museum is at the Barbadinhos [...] Mardel, the point from which water delivered along the aqueduct was distributed, forms part of the museum and now hosts cultural events. The third site is the Reservatorio da Patriacal a French-designed [...] when Lisbon was cultural capital of Europe in 1994-95. The building is used for art exhibitions. The museum organises guided tours of the aqueduct.