famous helix-shaped chimney. The museum is a branch of the National Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia (MNACTEC) and is part of its Territorial System of 26 museums that explain industrialisation [...] The Sedó Colony was the first and largest company town in the textile industry of Catalunya. It was begun in 1846 by Miquel Puig i Catasús and expanded under Antoni Sedó i Pàmies, whose name it takes. [...] in 1980. It was integrated from spinning the cotton yarn to finishing and dyeing the textile. The museum of the colony is in part of the factory. Visitors go inside an enormous turbine of 1899 and its water

of producing non-digital films is hard to imagine. A guided tour of the Bitterfeld-Wolfen Industry and Film Museum helps to change the focus. Visitors gain deep insights into the challenging temperatures

sections of the museum are currently closed for renovation. The Museum also manages the museums of foundry and electrical engineering in Budapest, of chemicals and the chemical Industry at Várpalota, of [...] The main site of the Hungarian Technical and Transport Museum in Pest is primarily concerned with transport, and includes a replica of a railway station of the early twentieth century and numerous railway

The Industrial Gas Museum operates in the premises of Athens gasworks. When entering the museum, the visitor can get general information on industrial history and industrial heritage. Inside the museum [...] an industrial complex. The scale of the buildings, once used for producing gas for the city, is as eloquent a statement of the significance of the industry as any of the displays in the Gas Museum. [...] waterheater etc.). In New Watergas building visitors may visit Museum’s Gift Shop and watch documentaries on Athens gasworks. The Gas Museum, which opened in 2013, is part of Technopolis (Gazi) a large cultural

south of the border. The silk museum was established in 1953 in a seventeenth century lakeside reeling mill and has some claim to have been the first museum of industrial archaeology in Italy. It was [...] section on new research that is continually being carried out on silk. The museum is linked with other silk-working sites and museums around Lake Como, where silk has been made since the early fifteenth century [...] silk garments. Silk is now silk imported from China and Brazil, but the mulberry groves around the museum at Garlate are a reminder that it was once produced from silk worms raised in the locality.

regeneration. A Museum of Industry and Labour has been established in a large single-storey parts warehouse constructed for the Breda engineering company in 1934, and in an adjacent industrial archaeological [...] Giovanni is an industrial community on the north-eastern side of Milan with a population of more than 75,000 which has displayed imagination and enterprise in adapting to the post-industrial world. A project [...] . The Museum holds the archives and the contents of the workshop of the designer and model-maker Giovanni Sacchi (1913-98) who was born and spent his whole life in Sesto San Giovanni. The Museum maintains

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.

former workers to establish a cultural centre including a museum in the largest paper mill in the valley which was duly restored in 2005-07. The museum shows the history of papermaking from its beginnings until [...] fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, displays illustrating the mechanisation of production during the Industrial Revolution, and some of the machines used to make paper in the vicinity in the twentieth century

about 10 km from the Swiss border. Bottonera is situated on the north side of the town and was an industrial area built-up in the nineteenth century, with cotton mills, paper mills, corn mills, a brewery [...] grinding. The factory produced pizzoçeri , the famous pasta of the region which can be sampled at the museum.

century, and the city has always been the leading centre for the industry, in which Italians made many important innovations. The museum shares the premises of the Setificio, the textile school, and includes

situated below the walls of the medieval town of Užice, on the Đetinja River. Today it is a small living museum and a location on the cultural route 'Tesla Ways'. The idea of professor Đorđe Stanojević (1858-1921) [...] Ilija’s Day, 2 August 1900, Užice got electric lighting, while the weaving mill was the first industrial facility in Serbia to use electricity to operate its machines. The weaving mill grew to be a large

characteristic culture. On this direction the Cork Museum is working, as the cork section of the Science and Technique Museum of Catalunya. The Cork Museum is placed in Palafrugell town centre, in a rationalist [...] from an agrarian to an industrial society and, more recently, into a services one, that have undergone those outstanding populations that were developing the cork- stoppers industry, recognizes as lawful [...] the architect from Gerona Emili Blanc i Roig, between the years 1931 and 1934. Nowadays the Cork Museum has one temporary exhibition hall available, with continuous programs all over the year and also

collection is on objects from the industrial history of Aargau. The canton of Aargau is located in the northern part of Switzerland and shares a border with Germany. Its industrial history began in the mid-19th [...] developed by the Aarbach Museum invites you on a journey back in time to the beginnings of industrialisation. With this smartphone app, you can discover three centuries of industrial history on the Aabach [...] The Museum Aargau collection on the history of the canton, which was founded in 1803, has grown since 1830 to around 55,000 objects dating from 1000 BC to the present day. Some 30,000 objects are kept

Sauerland is the strongest industrial region in North Rhine-Westphalia, home to many market and world leaders. The museum's exhibitions focus on the region's economic and industrial history. It also hosts [...] The Sauerland Museum was founded in 1925 as a museum of local history for the Sauerland region and the history of the Duchy of Westphalia. Since 1937 it has been housed in the Landsberger Hof, a 17th century [...] exhibitions on the region's diverse industrial history, including industrialisation, brewing, tourism, timber and forestry, glass production, the paper and textile industries and much more. The collections

structures on the old factory into a live museum, thus enabling the city of Esplugues to recover its industrial heritage and create a space particularly oriented to industrial ceramics at the time of Modernism [...] as “La Rajoleta” (The Little Tile), is an ever present point of reference in the area of Catalan industrial ceramics production. And this is particularly so with regard to the times of splendor of Modernism

kept on with ore and coal mining trought the Roman Empire, Spanish domination and the era of the Industrial Revolution until the last mines closed at the end of the 20th century. Former mines and their remains [...] the park is in the southwest of the island. This is also where most of the mining monuments and museums that are open to tourists are located, some of which are presented on the ERIH website: Carbonia [...] Zurfuru Mining Site Guspini. The Mines of Montevecchio Iglesias. Masua Mines and Porto Flavia Iglesias. Museum of the Arts of Mining Narcao. Rosas Mining Ecomuseum

the whole complex as an industrial monument where visitors are able to see examples of Bengel’s work, and displays illustrating the industrialisation of the jewellery industry, as well as to meet artists [...] the towns developed into the principal jewellery manufacturing area in Germany. The German Gemstone Museum displays several thousand varieties of stone, and shows the ways in which they have been worked in [...] artists in residence. The wider aspects of the industry can be experienced by following the two trails, with a total length of 48 km, set up by the German Gemstone Route, which link together all the sites

small boats to factory ships -, shellfish industry, aquafarming, but also oceanography with all its facets: the variety of aspects in the Galician Maritime Museum reflects the close and centuries-old re [...] to the Bronze Age, as is shown by the remains of a settlement dating from the 8th century BC. The museum occupies a refurbished and extensively enlarged canning factory, and the design of its permanent

(Centre national de la culture industrielle/National centre for industrial culture) is a non-profit that promotes industrial culture and industrial heritage in all its forms. Based in Luxembourg, its key mission [...] consisting of museums and associations that are active in the field of industrial heritage. Another important aspect of IK-CNCI’s work is to support the creative re-use of former industrial buildings and [...] and sites, to preserve industrial heritage for future generations and to create awareness through engaging projects, events and activities. Current projects and events of Industriekultur-CNCI are announced

the town’s population. The canning industry declined after the Second World War, particularly during the 1970s and the last factory closed in 1985. The municipal museum occupies the former Feu Hermanos [...] the sardines to washing, salting, cleaning and canning. The museum is split into three exhibitions. The first traces the region’s industrial history with a focus on the La Rose canning factory, where much