is a cultural heritage project to reconvert the existing 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

co-operative, but the working parts are accessible to the public, and it also incorporates a wine museum.

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 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

aquafarming, but also oceanography with all its facets: the variety of aspects in the Galician Maritime Museum reflects the close and centuries-old relationship between Galicia and the sea. This can be traced [...] 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

in Luxembourg, its key mission is to establish a collaborative network of partners consisting of museums and associations that are active in the field of industrial heritage. Another important aspect of

The only visitor mine in Germany that gives access to workings for graphite is at Hauzenberg 15 km north-east of Passau in Bavaria. It is sponsored by the Graphit Kropfmühl graphite refining company t

ideas that helped spread railways and locomotives across the world. The Stephenson Steam Railway Museum celebrates their achievements. It is located on a standard-gauge, single-track railway that runs [...] can take a ride on a 1950s passenger steam train or heritage diesel locomotives, which run from the museum to Percy Main.

Second World War, particularly during the 1970s and the last factory closed in 1985. The municipal museum occupies the former Feu Hermanos sardine-canning factories, a long building on the waterfront, and [...] explains the canning process, from catching 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 Asturian Maritime Museum in Luanco, opened in 1948, is the oldest museum in Asturias. Its current exhibition is housed in a new building constructed between 1998 and 2001. Four sections present life

district of Norway some of the old power plants, often called the 'cathedrals of Norway', turned into museums and visitor centers and can today be visited like the sites and places in the following photo gallery

The award-winning Whitehead Railway Museum, head-quarters of the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland (RPSI), combines the past with the present and offers a unique visitor experience. Visitors will

of the past weaving the future“: in line with its motto, the three neighbouring locations of the Museum of Woollen Textiles in Covilhã explore the traces of local wool processing over the centuries. There

Tees led to the development of the area into one of Britain’s principal iron-producing regions. The museum at Skinningrove originated with a collection made by a local journalist Tom Leonard (1922-1983) who [...] the landscape of mining and ironmaking that had characterised the area for more than a century. The museum was established in 1983. The main seam of ironstone in the region was identified at Skinningrove [...] steel in the Sydney Harbour Bridges is stamped with the name of the Skinningrove steelworks. The museum occupies the site of the Loftus ironstone mine which closed in 1958. The highlight of a visit is

The museum of electrical technology was established in 2000 as a joint enterprise of the University of Pavia and local, regional and provincial government authorities. It is one of nine museums that came [...] came together as the University Museum System of Padua in 2005. The museum tells the story of electrical technology and of the ways in which it affects every aspect of daily life in the twenty-first century [...] e that such a museum should be located in Pavia where Alessandro Volta (1745-1827), inventor of electric batteries, was a professor at the university for more than 40 years. The museum’s displays are divided

jukebox in the local bar are so real you might even think you’re a part of the scene. The Electricity Museum, housed in an handsome old transformer station in Recklinghausen, takes visitors back on a journey [...] at a much later stage. The first fully automatic washing machine was only introduced in 1951. The museum shows the developments and improvements by means of a tour of lifelike everyday scenes and encourages [...] young people can have a great time in a specially constructed electricity workshop. The Electricity Museum in Recklinghausen opened in 2000. The representative redbrick building which houses it was built

educational workshops for children, teenagers and families are held. The museum forms part of the Catalan Science and Technology Museums network. [...] transform farming. The factory manufactured mowers, threshers, reapers and balers. In 2012 it opened as a museum. The factory occupied nineteen terraced workshop and warehouses. Five of these can be visited. The

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 [...] and explain the history of the industry since the eighteenth century. The second floor shows the museum’s rich textile and clothing collections.

1,000 people worked at the depot. The museum opened in 2010. It is run by a voluntary association in collaboration with the town council and MNACTEC, the Museums of Science and Technology of Catalunya

and sustainable management of the Mediterranean rivers. The museum was opened by the city council in 2004 and is part of mNACTEC, the Museums of Science and Technology of Catalunya. [...] The museum is about the industrial history and biodiversity of the River Ter, which runs through the town of Manlleu north of Barcelona. It occupies the three-storey Sanglas cotton factory, built in 1841 [...] on the riverside. Many textile factories used waterpower here from the mid-nineteenth century. The museum shows the process of cleaning, carding and spinning to make cotton yarn with examples of surviving