remaining mine in the region. Who descends here by cage, is able to follow almost the entire history of industrial mining in the underground galleries: from the often grueling working conditions of about 200 years [...] years ago to the automated extraction methods from the late 20th century. Aboveground the museum visitors can experience the past of the local production of coal almost as complete - thanks to infrared [...] show that stages the origin of the coal. Visiting the coal sorting and washing halls completes the museum program. The surrounding area has much to offer. A walk on the stone heap, playgrounds, a petting

potash has been a major industry of that part of Germany west of Magdeburg and east of the Harz Mountains since the mid-19th century. Some of the best monuments of the industry are at Bleicherode, a town [...] town of less than 7,000 people with a rich heritage of timber framed-buildings, in the southern Harz on the River Wipper, 17 km south-west of Nordhausen. Deposits of potash were recognised in the vicinity [...] huge cavities that were of great importance during the Second World War. Treasures from the great museums in Berlin were stored there, and in the latter part of the war a huge armaments manufacturing capacity

the first time in public in 1975. Since then the mill has gradually been developed into an industrial museum. There are demonstrations of blacksmithing , wheelwrighting and wood turning and a collection [...] iron wheel that remains in situ. When the mill passed out of use it was examined by the Oxfordshire Museum Service. The engine was restored and steamed in 1972. The Combe Mill Society was formed and the engine

ter’ and moderniser who managed enterprises in all sectors of Spanish industry. As president of the national institute of industry in the 1970s he led more than 200,000 employees. His family ran a hardware [...] store in Barcelona. After graduating from the school of industrial engineers in the city in 1946 his first job was as an engineer in the textile industry at Tarrasa in Catalunya. He then moved to the Spanish [...] a state-owned financing company established by the Franco regime in 1941 to reconstruct Spanish industry after the Civil War and increase economic self-sufficiency. He restructured the organisation and

Bokrijk is an open air museum in the tradition of Skansen, which reflects the social history and material culture of the Flemish provinces of Belgium. It was largely the creation of Dr J Weyns, its first [...] which was acquired by the Province of Limburg in 1938 and is now a recreational centre, of which the museum forms one element. Construction began in 1953 and the public were first admitted five years later [...] people who migrated each summer from Limburg to work in North Germany and Denmark. More strictly industrial buildings include two horse mills, a tower mill, two post mills, a water corn mill from Lummen-Rekhoven

Musée Bolo is the Swiss Museum of Computer Science, Digital Culture and Video Games. It occupies Building INF of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Faculty of Computer Science and Com [...] Communications. The collection was begun in 1995 by the engineer, Yves Bolognini and it became a museum in 2002, now run by the foundation Mémoires Informatiques. The diverse collections include several thousand [...] 1980s and 1990s, the Cray-2 (of which only 29 were built) and the IBM Blue Gene. The Swiss computer industry is well represented, for example by the Lilith workstation created at the Zurich Polytechnic School

instruments and equipment used in the local cotton, silk and man-made fibre industries and ancillary trades. Bolton Museum & Art Gallery´s displays chart the story of Bolton and the people who have lived [...] The textile machinery collection is an extremely important one. The museum began collecting textile machines in the 19th century and amongst the items at the heart of this collection is the only surviving [...] spinning jenny - which are also represented in the collections. The Bolton connection with the textile industry has been developed in more recent years with the acquisition of a range of early 20th century, mainly

be seen as part of a growing nationwide awareness in the United Kingdom that the nation’s industrial heritage was under threat. The Society’s object was to collect examples of characteristic steam engines [...] Bolton, a huge spinning mill complex, where there were once 400,000 spindles and 2,000 employees. A museum displaying re-constructed engines to the public, was opened in 1983. The future of the collection [...] accommodated 7,000 bales of cotton. All the engines had to be dismantled, moved and re-erected, but the museum was re-opened from 2006. Some 29 engines are currently displayed. One of the most notable is the

ON THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA Listen Although Bosnia-Herzegovina is a land of fertile fields and significant natural resources, its industrial development did not commence until very [...] Haas commissioned a Vienna museum director to create designs, and women weavers in Bosnia wove them into carpets that were subsequently marketed, and even exhibited in museums, as “traditional Bosnian” [...] Federal Republic of Yugoslavia too launched its transformation into an industrial state with a massive expansion of heavy industry. Bosnia in particular profited from President Tito’s break with the Soviet

r sights in European industrial heritage, its two towering engine houses hanging half way down a cliff above Atlantic waves. The site is part of the Cornish Mining World Heritage site. The nineteenth-century [...] for collecting arsenic. The location is part of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site.

world class landmark in industrial housing provision. Take a trip to the Back-to-Backs, then stroll round the beautiful Bournville Village and visit the Cadbury Collection museum at the factory, which charts

Bradford was often called ‘worstedopolis’ in the nineteenth century and the city’s industrial museum is based in a mill built by one John Moore in the mid-1870s for spinning worsted yarn. Two floors were [...] was constructed as a war memorial. The building was acquired by the city corporation for use as a museum in 1970. There are extensive displays of textile machinery particularly of machines used in the [...] mill managers, and Gaythorne Row, terraced houses once occupied by workpeople are also parts of the museum.

building since 1993, Braintree District Museum conserves and celebrates the history of Braintree and its surrounding areas, focusing on the District’s industrial and cultural achievements and its many notable [...] notable personalities. The Museum’s main galleries chart the history of the town from the prehistoric era up to the 21st century, focusing on Braintree’s archaeology, industry and craftsmanship. Exhibits [...] firms. Braintree Museum is also proud to celebrate the work of John Ray (1627 - 1705)., widely regarded as the Father of Natural History, with a dedicated John Ray Gallery. The museum also offers visitors

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

before the architecturally outstanding industrial monument was thoroughly restored and has been used since 2008 as an exhibition hall of the Brandenburg State Museum of Modern Art (BLMK). In its three exhibition [...] most comprehensive museum collection of art from the GDR and subsequent artistic traditions, with over 42,000 works. In the former Cottbus diesel power station, the classical industrial architecture now

in 2012 one of its locomotives was returned to Forst from the former DDR transport museum in Dresden. >>> The museum is closed until 2024 for structural repairs and subsequent redesign of the exhibition [...] spinning mill was opened in 1821 and the steam-powered factory began operation in 1844. The textile industry was stimulated by the opening of the railway from Sorau (now Zary in Poland) to Cottbus in 1872 [...] closing stages of the Second World War but all closed were after the reunification of Germany. The museum opened in 1995 in a four-storey polychrome brick factory built in 1897 by Daniel Noack. Its exhibits

business in Chemnitz in 1883. The mill became a technical museum from 1994 after production ceased with the rationalisation of the textile industry in the former GDR. The building is now owned by the Gem [...] Niederweisa and has comprehensive displays on three floors detailing the history of weaving. The museum’s collection includes a range of hand looms and ten power looms of 1921-1955. A short demonstration

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

Municipal Museum has maintained an outside site here since 1980. The fully-operative equipment and machines provide a living picture of blacksmiths’ techniques from the Middle Ages to the industrial era. >> [...] 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 [...] hammer. Osemund is ideally suited to making wire. Not for nothing was this one of the region’s major industrial activities. Demand for iron and steel began to rise at the start of the 19th century and drop hammers

establish a museum of industry was not fulfilled until after his death. The museum displays a variety of machines and illustrates the progress of technological innovations in several areas of industry. It holds [...] The museum of industry and labour in Brescia takes its name from Eugeni Battisti (1924-89), the historian of architecture who taught at universities in Italy and the United States, who was the biographer [...] holds a substantial archive of photographs of industrial activity. The original Micheletti archive is conserved within the same building.