renovated by a group of enthusiasts. Re-christened the Cambridge Museum of Technology which now is the home of the city’s industrial heritage, from the steam age to semiconductors. It contains a variety of [...] ons) printing presses, power generation, food production: designed, made, used in Cambridge. The Museum offers a multi-sensory experience for visitors: hands-on exhibits, audio-visual displays, children’s [...] audio guides). Historic engines run in steam on open days. In association with its partners, the Museum hosts Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) and Arts projects.

a vast archival heritage coming from many important Italian companies (such as Breda, Falk, Ercole Marelli etcetera) and it is devoted to the appreciaBon of the local industrial heritage. Current events [...] conserve and enhance sources and documents of the history of the Italian resistance movement, industrial companies and the labour movement. Fondazione ISEC has become a naBonal reference point for whomever [...] Italy. Throughout the years, at the early corpus of documents, many archives belonging to great industrial businesses, parBes, poliBcal representaBves, militants and proponents in the fields of trade union

is easily ground into ‘talcum powder’, which has been used since 1894 to absorb moisture and has industrial uses, for example in paper, ceramics, paints and pharmaceuticals. The mine was opened by the Società [...] trucks and acetylene lights are shown. There is also a lathe for carving soapstone into vessels. A museum contains panels with information and photographs and examples of the tools used.

preserved by the Ski-Mine cooperative, which was set up by enthusiasts in 1997 to present mining heritage. All visits are by guided tours booked in advance. Trains carry visitors 200 m to the heart of the [...] they walk 1 km back to the surface, seeing photographs, tools and equipment and flooded caverns. A museum of lighting includes examples of 2,000 lamps. In 2008, Ski-Mine bought the nearby Lupi mine in V

(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

remarkable architectural heritage, the collections showcase industrial and ethnological heritage from the 19th century to the present day. MTVS - Musée du textile et de la vie sociale ( Museum of Textiles and Social [...] verre (Glass Workshop Museum) The site of the glass factory in Trélon (Rue Clavon Collignon 12) is an outstanding heritage, one of the few buildings preserved from the industrial history of the region [...] Écomusée de l'Avesnois is a 'Musée de France' located in the heart of two former industrial sites in the textile and glass industries, emblematic of the Avesnois-Thiérache region: the former Prouvost-Masurel

still standing and forms the centrepiece of the industrial museum. Opened in May 2000, it covers an area of around 4,500 square metres. A visit to the museum takes you to the casting platform, overlooking [...] shop and laboratory, the foreman's room, the underfurnace area, the old forge and the newly built museum building with its exhibition on the history of steel production in Brandenburg. Another exhibition

Cromford spinning mill in Ratingen in the Bergisch Land, now one of the on-site museums belong to the Rhineland Industrial Museum. Johann Gottfried Brügelmann, an extremely wealthy merchant and textile magnate [...] his palatial villa – equally a part of the museum – is enough to give you an impression of his self-assured economic power. The metronome of the dawning industrial age – a clock – hangs prominently over the [...] painstaking period of preparation the museum was finally opened in 1996. The original machines no longer exist. That said, the clattering machines now in operation in the museum have at least one thing in common

sucessfully established economic autonomy. The ethnographic museum opened in the 1980s and has a rich collection on the local cutlery industry, including products, tools and machines. It aims to keep the [...] an altitude of roughly 1,000 metres, is one of the most spectacular sites of the European cutlery industry. The narrow streets are home to countless small workshops, and nearly all families in this 2,50

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

On the bank of Lake Como, the town of Abbadia Lariana has a civic museum of the manufacture of silk thread, an important industry in the region from the sixteenth century. The silk manufacturer Pietro [...] the machinery, including one of Monti’s machines of 1818. A large waterwheel was also restored. The museum opened fully in 1998. It shows working machinery around the buildings and has displays where visitors

accessories, and other artefacts that offer insight into the rich heritage of this two-wheeled mode of transport. Additionally, the museum complex offers a Bed & Breakfast accommodation, providing a convenient [...] The Grom Motorcycle Museum in Vransko is a captivating destination for motorcycle enthusiasts and those interested in the history and development of motorcycling. Vransko, 40 km north-east of Ljubljana [...] located in the valley of "green gold," a reference to hops fields planted in the surrounding area. The museum is home to a remarkable private collection showcasing the evolution of motorcycling not only in Slovenia

it was abandoned and is now one of the most important industrial archaeological sites in the country. The MuFar 'Royal Bourbon Weapons Factory Museum', was inaugurated in the former armoury in 2013. Multimedia [...] factory's products on display. The Calabrian silk and liquorice industries are also described. A path leads through a classical archway to the industrial archaeological sites of the foundries, blast furnaces and [...] and iron ore mines of the "Calabrian Iron and Steel Industry Park".

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

Historic Heritage Foundation' (abbreviated to 'SBB Historic') was established in 2001 by the 'Schweizerische Bundesbahnen SBB' (Swiss Federal Railways SFR) to preserve the historical heritage of the state [...] in working order and are used for charter and adventure trips. The vehicles on loan to the Swiss Museum of Transport in Lucerne are regularly on display. The Olten depot is the central location for SBB

capital's iconic buildings like the Brandenburg Gate. And that's only one of the many stories told by the Museum and Park Rüdersdorf where visitors walk through 750 years of limestone mining and processing. Most [...] About the same time the striking portals of the Bülow and Heinitz Canals took shape, connecting the industrial site with the network of regional waterways. A building that looks like a city gate at first sight

factory buildings, workers dwellings and a director’s mansion. In 2018, the Textile Museum, previously run by the National Museum, closed. However, visitors can still see the factory village, at least from the [...] 1832 and was the leading textile factory in Denmark until it ceased operations in 1956. The unique industrial monument provides visitors with a lively impression of a historic factory site, covering almost

closely simulate the former everyday operation and lead directly back to the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution. During their tour, the visitors meet the English cotton baron Richard Arkwright, often [...] of power by activating bigger or smaller gears. This factory, that much is clear, is not merely a museum, but a living place!

assembly plants, the Italian enthusiasm for concrete construction, and a futuristic conception of industry. Parts of the factory passed into other uses in the 1980s and production ceased entirely in the [...] Monday, visitors can test drive the first electric Fiat 500. It is provided by the 'Casa 500' car museum , which traces the history of the FIAT 500 in eight themed areas over 700 square metres and presents

soil pollution. Today, the site is a location of the LVR Industrial Museum and also hosts its headquarters. A unique ensemble of historic industrial plants in the midst of a spectacular landscape unfolds [...] worldwide. The fascinating story of this rise is recounted in the Vieille Montagne Museum . Other centres of the zinc industry and zinc mining were located in Upper Silesia, South Tyrol and present-day Slovenia [...] The Sala silver mine , an ERIH site in Sweden, possibly represents the future of the European zinc industry. Although mining in Sweden's once richest source of silver, which was found in galena ore mixed