Calderdale which was centred on Halifax opened an industrial museum in the mid-1980s. It was one of the last of a succession of conventional indoor industrial museums developed in large towns and cities in the [...] a body of enthusiasts, the Calderdale Industrial Museum Association, and from 2017 was again open to the public but on Saturdays only. The museum is located in the former Albion Works in the centre of [...] the United Kingdom from the 1960s. The museum was initially successful but attendances dwindled and it soon closed. After a long period when it was inaccessible to the public it was leased from 2014 by a

be held on Thursday 7th October 2021 as a hybrid event; in-person at the ERIH Anchor Point, Museum of Industry, Ghent, Belgium and online. A decision on whether the in-person part of the event will be able [...] explore ways to mitigate against wider and long-term impacts on the protection and promotion of our industrial heritage. We are calling for papers on how sites can successfully rise to the challenge of the

lovingly 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 [...] 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.

and it is regularly opened. The textile museum is on the most important museum of this kind in Italy. Covering an area of 2,400 square metres, the Textile Museum displays an extensive range of textiles [...] In the centre of Prato there can be found an industrial heritage site of European importance: The Campolmi Textile Factory. The two-storey, faithfully restored rectangular building with its courtyard, [...] trading in 1994. The work of the factory rehabilitation begun in 2000. In May 2003 Prato Textile Museum (just operating since 1975) has been definitively housed in the converted Campolmi textile mill.

The factory closed in the late 1980s. In 2010, work began to create a new museum as part of Mataró Museum with MNACTEC, the Museums of Science and Technology of Catalunya. The two three-storey buildings are [...] examples of looms and other machinery and explain the history of the industry since the eighteenth century. The second floor shows the museum’s rich textile and clothing collections.

Trollhattan’s industrial history has been shaped by its abundant water-power. Six cataracts with a total fall of 33 m extend over a distance of 1450 m. The falls have been used to power many industrial processes [...] 1916, and the latter still carries some wood pulp and chemicals. There are three museums in the area. The canal museum in a warehouse of 1893 by the upper locks illustrates the history of the waterway [...] 1937, and a large collection of the company’s products is displayed in its museum. The interactive science centre and museum called Innovatum is located nearby in the former engineering shops of the Nohab

Fosca. It began operation in 1914 after just two years of construction. The museum opened in 2001 and is part of mNACTEC, the Museums of Science and Technology of Catalunya. The large group of impressive stone [...] narrow-gauge railways, access roads, electricity lines and cable cars, as well as how it powered Catalan industry. Visitors see the 836-m flumes that bring water to the turbines, the turbine hall itself with its [...] generators and switchgear and other installations such as the foundry and transformer station. The museum also tells the story of mining in the area: for lead, copper and later uranium.

Västmanland in central Sweden, and a place of many industries. The Car & Technology Historical Society in Köping, established in 1987, manages a museum that displays a wide range of American and European

1999 and it now houses a museum of the silk industry. The three-storey building appears like a palace, with grand staircase towers at the corners and courtyards inside. The museum has carefully recreated

of associated products. The Catalyst museum is based in a tower, once the office of a soap-manufacturing company, that provides wide-ranging view of the industrial landscapes along the Mersey. The open-air [...] collections relating to the zinc, alkali and soap industries, together with archives and files of employee publications from Imperial Chemical Industries, the principal British chemical company during most

Cefn Coed Colliery Museum is situated in the heart of the picturesque Dulais Valley and tells the story of colliery life from Victorian times to the 1950s. The museum is housed in the original colliery [...] now electrically driven. As well as many fascinating artefacts from the mining industry such as tools and equipment, the museum also houses a restored and unique gas tram, which ran in Neath until 1920. [...] stalls, pit props, tramways and other equipment used underground. One of the many highlights of the museum is the distinctive boiler house with its suite of six Lancashire steam boilers and the magnificent

buildings: Ludwik Geyer's "White Factory", one of the first textile industry hubs in Poland, along with the Łódź City Culture Park, an open air museum setting with a collection of historic wooden houses and other [...] pot and a clock - it appears as if the foreman has only just left his desk. This is how the Central Museum of Textiles recreates in detail some 200 years of daily working life and textile history in Łódź

area were for long the source of the coal that moved the steam engines that drove Catalan industry. The mining museum reveals 150 years of mining history in the Berguedà district, the uses and applications [...] Romà mine where they can experience, in the original setting, what work was inside the mine. The museum presents an interesting audivisual display, a miner's department, an open-air exhibition of mining

At the beginning of the 21st century, the chain industry in Fröndenberg almost disappeared as a result of structural changes in the coal and steel industry. In order to keep the history of chain production [...] n Kulturzentrum Fröndenberg e.V. has established a chain forge museum in the straw storage building of a former paper factory. The museum's collection includes a large number of machines from the Fröndenberg [...] The production of chains determined the industrial history of the town of Fröndenberg for over a hundred years. The product range extended from chains for agriculture to heavy chains, especially ship and

This is a walk with a difference. For 14 miles you can follow this industrial age canalised river, meandering gracefully through quiet countryside. The Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation opened in 1797 [...] Basin. The river Navigations opened up eastern England for the first time to the influence of the Industrial Revolution. For the first time, large shipments of coal and pig iron penetrated inland to Heybridge [...] Blackwater at Langford, just upstream from its junction with the navigation at Beeleigh, lies the Museum of Power which is another ERIH site. Though no longer used by commercial barges, pleasure boats can

Chelmsford Museum’s new Bright Sparks Exhibition gives a fascinating insight into the achievements of the late 19th century industrial pioneers Guglielmo Marconi, R.E.B.Crompton and the Hoffmann Manufacturing [...] Manufacturing Company who created global industries in the town. New hands-on exhibits vividly demonstrate the scientific principles involved. These inventors and technology pioneers put Chelmsford on the world [...] century. Three railway viaducts dating from 1843 provide a dramatic background to Chelmsford’s industrial tradition.

Demidow dynasty of industrialists. From 1820 Yefim was chief mechanical engineer for the various industrial complexes in the area. Mirom, his son, was his apprentice and eventually his successor. In 1810 [...] d by a monument in Nizhny Tagil, and models of their locomotive are displayed in the Polytechnic Museum in Moscow.

and interactive displays and an archive and library. The museum is surrounded by plantations of mastic trees. The museum is a site of the Museum Network of the Cultural Foundation of the Piraeus Bank Group [...] part of the island. Research projects into the history of the industry took place in 2007-08, and in 2009 it was decided to build a museum on a site given by the Chios Mastic Growers Association, the [...] the centuries its people have been closely concerned with shipping but the unique feature of its industrial heritage is its role since classical times in cultivating the mastic tree, Pistacia lentiscus and

association was founded to save the factory as an important industrial heritage site, to open it to the public and to set up a small museum. [...] The Chiozza starch factory is a real unique first industrial revolution factory fully equipped with the original machinery. More than 30 old machines powered by a steam machine are preserved. The factory

the Philippines. Particular emphasis is placed on the development of the chocolate industry in Belgium. The museum’s methods of interpretation include documentary films, demonstrations and tastings, and [...] have long been celebrated for the quality of their products, and their skills are celebrated in this museum in the centre of Bruges. It is located in the Maison de Croon, a four-storey brick building of 1480 [...] to Europe as a drink, and the evolution of the chocolate bar as manufacturing developed on an industrial scale. Other exhibitions show the origins of the cocoa beans used by present-day manufacturers