accessible to visitors since 1995 as part of a monument trail complete with information boards. The museum concentrates on the industrial, cultural and social history of the region, with special emphasis

days several times a year. In addition the museum offers regular small-gauge railway trips around the site of the former clay pit. And every year at the Museum Festivities the huge ring furnace is set alight [...] the answers to all these questions on the historic brickworks site of the Westphalian Industrial Museum in Lage. The brickworks are situated in the heart of the Lippe region that was once renowned for [...] easy. You can see this for yourself inside the old workers’ cottages at the Lage brickworks. Here museum visitors can find out how more about the families’ everyday struggles to survive whilst their menfolk

and lectures. And from here you are free to visit the seven other fascinating museum sites administered by the LWL Museums of Industrial Culture. [...] families is the primary theme of the exhibition at this, the central site of the Westphalian Industrial Museum. The one thing you cannot do here is travel underground. The pit has been filled in on safety grounds [...] darkness and audiovisual projections that convey authentic impressions of the miners' working world. The museum's experience programme is rounded off by a programme of events including festivities, film evenings

the ship lift, today part of the Landschaftsverband (regional authority) of Westphalia-Lippe (LWL) Museums of Industrial Culture, was regarded as a technological masterpiece. The old engine house offers a

that are produced are also for sale in the museum shop. A very different experience is given by the historic Herding Spinning Mill, which is part of the museum complexand which provides an accessible space [...] Whirring belts, rattling looms, the smell of oil and work: the Museum replicates the activities in an early 20th century cotton mill. The reconstructed brick buildings follow the historical examples of [...] can follow each step from yarn to the woven end-products, they can look over the shoulders of the museum staff winding, shearing and pulling and can witness how Jacquards looms weave pre-programmed patterns

subsequent manufacture of coke, coke gas and by-products at the manufacturing site. The "Open-Air Museum of Mining Equipment" was unveiled for all residents and guests of Kryvyi Rih city in November 2018

paradise for technology lovers: Every object has a sign with description of its purpose. The open-air Museum of Mining Equipment is located near the House of culture of the PJSC "North Mining and Processing

ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih is the largest full-cycle metallurgical company in Ukraine. Its production plants include in addition to other large plants a coking plant which can be visited at certain time

Who lived here? Who maintains the more than 900 listed buildings still in use? The Port Sunlight Museum offers answers. After providing an overall picture of the settlement thanks to a detailed scale model [...] in the film “Sunlight Spirit”. Next door a former worker’s cottage has been opened as part of the museum’s visitor experience. Pop in for a visit before exploring the village on your own or with a tour guide

multiple waterfalls. On its seven floors the museum is centred around people - the ones who drudged at the machines, including many women and children, and the museum's visitors coming to see the exhibitions [...] built between 1850 and 1920 to produce fabrics. One of them, once a cotton mill, nowadays hosts the Museum of Work. Because of its uncommon layout people call it "flat iron". As usual for Norköpping's historical [...] industrial society affected people's lives over the past 100 years. People are also focused in the Town Museum featuring textile machines and a weaving mill within a building that was formerly used as a cotton

Anglian Film Archive are some of the most popular items on sale in the museum shop. For the steam and engineering enthusiast, the museum’s range of five working engines is impressive. ‘The Empress of Britain’ [...] The Food Museum is an open air landscape of buildings and machinery covering a huge 28 hectare site near the centre of one of East Anglia´s historic market towns, Stowmarket in Suffolk. This area has been [...] including agricultural machinery, malting equipment, bricks and fertiliser. A special highlight of the museum is the impressive 210 year history of Ransomes, Sims and Jeffries Engineering Company. The New William

and why this place left its mark elsewhere in the world is a story told by the Metallurgic Park, a museum with several branches in the region. An elaborate multimedia show brings the almost intact historic

around Zatek, a market town of about 20,000 inhabitants some 70 km north-west of Prague. The hop museum is located in a three-storey building of the late 19th century designed for the storage and packaging [...] by hand are displayed, together with examples of the machines developed for use in harvesting. The museum holds collections of handbooks giving advice on growing hops, and recipes detailing how they should [...] A festival associated with the hop harvest takes place every year in the town square outside the museum. The location is part of the 'Žatec and the Landscape of Saaz Hops' World Heritage Site.

history in the purpose-built museum and gallery called The Beacon Museum, which opened in 1996. Along the cliffs to the south of the harbour the Haig Colliery Mining Museum was located in the surface buildings [...] buildings of a colliery which closed in 1986; the museum closed in 2016. The headstock still stands together with the winding engine house in which are two Bever Dorling steam engines.

their own printed matter, and mint copper coins on old metal presses. The museum’s outside sites are the habourmuseum and and the museum at the Speicherstadt with its characteristic north German red brick [...] of the poverty-stricken living and working conditions in the old cities. Everything in the Hamburg Museum of Work, housed in a old rubber goods factory, is dominated by one central question. How did ind

The Villa Petrolea contains a museum of the oil industry in the mansion of the Nobel family. When the Nobels from Sweden invested at Baku in 1879 the area was environmentally degraded and called ‘the black [...] dates from 1884. It was restored and opened to visitors in 2008 with a club, conference centre and museum.

fish meal factory in Iceland was supposedly established in Siglufjördur in 1910. The Herring Era Museum illustrates the importance of the herring industry in the early and mid-20th century, and consists

The maritime museum in Reykjavik is situated in a former fish processing plant on the edge of the old harbour. Its displays illustrate many aspects of the history of the city and its links with the sea [...] the first of which, the Coot, was acquired from Great Britain by the Faxaflői company in 1905. The museum illustrates the history of vessels used for shipping, from rowing boats, through sailing vessels

bankrupt in 1908, but was revived again after World War II and closed again in 1962; it has been a museum since 1988. Nearby, a quarry is still in operation, extracting pure white dolomite marble. Various

the museum that displays Roman antiquities found in the area, provide premises for science-based industries, and establish a museums campus in which the Museum of Ethnography, the National Museum of Technology [...] Technology, the Museum of Transport and a new Museum of Architecture will be located. Two areas of Garden City style housing, one designed for managers and the other for workers, remain adjacent to the [...] the Obuda Works. The present gas museum has extensive displays showing the construction of the Obuda works, and exhibits a steam locomotive that once shunted wagons there. The collection also includes many