The museum of the chocolate industry in Cologne was founded by Dr Hans Imhoff who was born in 1921 within sight and small of Stollwerck, the city’s celebrated chocolate-manufacturing company. After the [...] at Bullay an der Mosel, but later returned to Cologne to re-invigorate Stollwerck, and set up the museum in a modern building alongside the River Rhine in the city’s harbour area in 1993. There are displays [...] chocolate and the origins of the beans used by modern manufacturers, but one of the strengths of the museum is its emphasis on marketing. Stollwerck first used vending machines for chocolate bars in 1887,

although it remained open for freight trains carrying limestone and sand until 1988. The copper industry of the Churnet Valley was once of great importance and the limestone quarries at Cauldon Low were [...] formed in 1992, and the first trains under its auspices ran in 1996. The society’s engine shed and museum are located near Cheddleton station which remains in its original nineteenth-century condition. The

Victor Francisco Chávarri Salazar was an industrialist and businessman who contributed to the industrial development of Vizcaya (the Basque region). He came from a family of iron-ore merchants at Portugalete [...] was Natalia Salazar Mac Mahón. Victor studied civil engineering at Liége in Belgium and researched industry in Germany. His brother Benigno also studied engineering in Liége and they would later work closely [...] made Marquis of Chávarri in 1914. A monument to him was put up in Portugalete in 1903 and the RIALIA museum shows material connected with his enterprises and those of his son, also called Victor Chávarri

(1854-1900), Victor José Luis Paulino de Chávarri y Anduiza became a major figure in the Basque steel industry while at the same time diversifying his business interests. He grew up in Portugalete, on the navigable [...] where his father and grandparents had made the family fortunes in iron-ore dealing and the steel industry. His father established the joint-stock company Sociedad Anónima de Metalurgia y Construcciones [...] merged with two other companies to create Altos Hornos de Vizcaya, which dominated the Spanish steel industry and was for a time the largest company of any kind in Spain. Victor junior led the new company as

Sciences et de l’Industrie is one of Europe’s most imaginative interactive science centres. It is also an outstanding example of the successful adaptation to new purposes of a large industrial building. The [...] 1974. The adaptation of the buildings as a museum began in 1979 under the direction of the architect Adrien Fainsilber, and le Cite des Sciences et de l’Industrie opened on 13 March 1986, when Halley’s Comet [...] with the exterior, with vegetation from the surrounding gardens extending into the buildings. The museum holds collections of machines and scientific instruments relating particularly to computer science

host of different industries, corn mills, saw mills and paper mills. The town museum was established in 1987 and moved in 2002 to its present building, a factory with a long industrial history that was [...] premises in the area, the Papyrus paper mill, ceased working in 2006. The museum galleries tell the story of the various industries in Mőlndal, currently with particular emphasis on the Lindome furniture [...] century until the 1930s. Water still flows beneath many of the buildings in Kvarnbygaten, and the museum publishes a trail guide which details their past uses.

central European port and an industrial hub, all the way to the end of the 20th century. The second floor reveals the story about the former industrial compound where the museum is located. The story encompasses [...] and it was known as the Sugar Refinery Palace. The sugar plant marked the beginning of Rijeka’s industrial story and wrote the first chapter of the city’s industrialisation, after which nothing was the [...] plant reached their pinnacle in mid-19th century, when Rijeka accounted for as much as one half of industrial production in Croatia. The sugar refinery was established in 1750 by a Dutch-based company Arnoldt

organised by Muzeum Motoryzacji Skarb Narodu (Automotive Museum Treasure of the Nation) in cooperation with FOZPiT (Foundation for the Protection of Industrial and Technical Monuments). Tickets must be booked

were subsequently re-built. In 1961 the museum was taken over by the land government of Lower Saxony. Heinrich Ottenjann was succeeded as director of the museum by his son Helmut Ottenjann (1931-2010) [...] original object of the museum was to display the peasant house types of the western part of Lower Saxony (the Oldenburger Munsterland), and to demonstrate traditional crafts. The museum extends over 20 ha [...] artefacts on display include a cast iron fire plate dated 1544. The museum includes many buildings that might be regarded as industrial, including a bakehouse, a bleach green hut, an oil mill, a blue dye

mill on the edge of the village of Esch-sur-Sûre in northern Luxembourg is both a museum of the woollen cloth industry in the vicinity and a visitor centre for the Upper Sûre Nature Park. Weaving for distant [...] municipality in 1990, and opened as a museum in 1992. The main building is of three storeys with an attic storey above, and extends along nine bays. Within it the museum displays all the machinery associated [...] second half of the nineteenth century were made by H Duesberg-Bosson of Verviers in Belgium. The museum is the starting point for trails through the nature park, and is used for many cultural events.

Coal in the area around Oelsnitz, 25 km south-west of Chemnitz was mined on a large scale between 1844 and 1971, although some had been extracted by farmers from their own fields in earlier times. Some [...] from 9 m to 1200 m, the deepest of them known as the Frisch-Gluck-Schacht (the new luck shaft). The museum is based in the Kaiserin-Augusta-Schacht (the Queen Augusta mine), which was sunk to a depth of 260 [...] 260 m in 1869. From 1946 the mine was named after the philosopher Karl Liebknecht. The museum was established from 1976 by former miners and was officially opened in 1986. From 2002 visitors have been

mid-nineteenth century some 500 people were employed at the Blaafarveværket, making it the largest industrial concern in Norway, but production of colourings ceased in 1855 after the discovery of ultramarine [...] formed in 1971 to conserve the remaining buildings, and its status was formalised under current museums legislation in 2004. The Blaafarveværket in the village of Åmot now houses an art gallery and visitor

Many aspects of Birmingham’s industrial history are now illustrated in the city’s Jewellery Quarter. One of the most recent additions is the Coffin Works in Fleet Street, a three-storey factory designed

Coldharbour Mill, 12 km east of Tiverton, is one of the outstanding monuments of the textile industry of the West of England. The elegant mill in the classical style was built in 1799 by the Quaker en [...] worsted yarns, and was extended at various times in the nineteenth century. It was re-opened as a museum enterprise in 1982, and still produces high quality worsted knitting yarns. Visitors are able to

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

was one of the largest industrial plants in Schleswig. Production continued until 1962. The museum began in 1997 as the collection of Gisela and Bodo Daetz. Since 2014, the museum has occupied three renovated [...] remains in the machine hall with a reconstructed hammer mill. The story of the copper and brass industries is told by multimedia presentations and a collection that includes working models, a time stamp [...] photographs, and brassware products such as lanterns, kettles, teapots and baking tins. Near the museum is a small district of former workers’ houses and administrative buildings.

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

almost on a cottage industry basis. The Museum of Transport opened in 1980 as a satellite building accommodating the growing collection of vehicles in the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, which began when Samuel [...] Samuel Bartleet gave the museum his collection of bicycles in 1938. The first motor car was acquired in 1952, and as the industry changed in the post-war years increasing numbers of historically important [...] cycles and then, from the 1880s to motor cars. During and after the Second World War the engineering industry in Coventry also encompassed the manufacture of machine tools, tractors and aircraft. Several of

are documentary and pictorial records of local railways, electric trams, motor buses and industries. The museum includes seven working model railways and also serves as the starting point for guided tours [...] supply systems. He formed the Broadstairs Water Company in 1859, and its waterworks now houses a museum which is largely devoted to his life story. Its centrepiece is a 24.38 m high crenelated flint water

have been used for storing the products of the wine industry that has flourished in the region since the Second World War. The wine centre includes a museum which displays methods of growing grapes and making