The MIK Osnabrück Museum of Industrial Culture is located on the Piesberg in the UNESCO Nature and Geopark TERRA.vita. Sandstone and coal have been quarried on the Piesberg since early modern times. A [...] routes. From the second half of the 19th century onwards, coal was mined industrially in underground mines, but due to problems with water drainage, mining ceased in 1898. The museum opened in 1994 in the Piesberg [...] focuses on the interplay between man, nature and the economy. It tells the social and economic history of the region and illustrates the profound changes that industrialisation has brought to society, culture

in the 1960s and the company still produces salt today. The old plant is now a museum. The Solana Museum tells the story of salt production from the Neolithic period to the present day. It displays ancient [...] Salt is an essential material for preserving food and for many industrial processes. It was produced from brine springs at Tuzla in prehistoric, Roman and medieval times. In 1884 a large new salt works

bridge and the area of the old city in which it stands were designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the following year. The Museum of the Old Bridge occupies the 5-storey Tara Tower, one of the towers that [...] as arsenals for the storage of weapons and ammunition. The museum consists of three sections devoted to the archaeology of the surrounding area, the restoration project of 2002-04, and the urban landscape [...] The ancient city of Mostar is the capital of Hercegovina. It was part of the Ottoman Empire between 1468 until 1878 when it came under the rule of the Habsburgs, and subsequently belonged to Yugoslavia

state development of the region, parts of the plant were closed down in the 1990's. The museum is located in the former power plant building of the iron and steelworks. It tells the story of the Silesian iron [...] the 19th century todays Chorzów was one of the hot spots of the Industrial Revolution. Königshütte/Kościuszko ironworks was put into operation in 1802. It was one of the first steam-powered steelworks on [...] metres. Mementos and recorded memories of the former metalworkers tell of their hard work and how they relaxed from it. An 8-minute film presents the history and the role of iron and steel in building today's

Legazpi, 45 km south-west of San Sebastian, is the main town of the Urola-Garaia region. Ironmaking has a long history in the area, but the industry was of particular importance from the mid-nineteenth [...] was formally constituted in 1997. Its objectives are to promote research into the industrial and ecological heritage of the region, and to promote its interpretation, both to those who live there and to [...] display is the Basque Iron Museum housed in a former iron foundry in Legazpi, where the history of iron is interpreted in technological, ecological and social contexts. The museum is also the starting point

The town of Seydisfjordur (until recently spelt Seydhisfjordur) lies 400 km north-east of Reykjavik. The technical museum that illustrates many aspects of the history of the region has three principal [...] Scotland and the rest of the world. Much of the original equipment remains, and displays illustrate the epic task carried out by a labour force of some 300 men of constructing a line of 14,000 telegraph poles [...] exhibits that relate to the industrial heritage. The mechanical engineering workshop of Johann Hansson was established in 1907 and used hydro-electric power for the operation of its machine tools. It was

thanks to the museum of mining. The round tour of the museum entitled "Between Men and Machines" gives a vivid picture of the strict hierarchy at the pit and the close intermeshing of the various working [...] they might have come out of the Middle Ages. Behind them are redbrick buildings which, because of their rich decorations, might easily be mistaken for churches or palaces. From one of the roofs emerges the [...] the slim and graceful steel frame of a pithead tower. It is immediately clear that the historical St Emanuel colliery in the former Belgium coalmining area of “Le Centre” is an architectural jewel. During

invention of Gutenberg, which transformed how knowledge and ideas could be communicated. It then explores the expansion of printing books and images in Lyon in the Renaissance. Changes in the Industrial Revolution [...] in printing, for example the invention of fast-operating presses, lithography and photography. This resulted in a huge growth in the diversity and quantity of printed products. The exhibitions also discuss [...] The museum was begun by the master-printer Maurice Audin in 1964 and celebrated its half century with a major renovation in 2014. It occupies the Hôtel de la Couronne, a Renaissance house that became Lyon's

on the history of the site and on the industrial heritage of the Auvézère basin, and are able to see the whole production line on which paper was produced. Payzac adjoins the community of Savignac-Lédrier [...] The paper mill on the Belles Dames stream in the valley of the Auvézère in the Dordogne was established in 1861, taking over the water-power system of a disused seventeenth-century ironworks. It used rye [...] ier, site of an historic ironworks.

streets of the only post-industrial settlement in Europe that has been 95% preserved. Żyrardów, Poland’s former flax capital, delights visitors with the richness unexpected in such a small town of its industrial [...] the villa of Karl Dittrich, Jr. located in the ‘most beautiful park of Mazovia’; and the renovated linen factory, where the past meets the present. The more than 200 historic buildings of this factory [...] rich cultural heritage. The many concerts, exhibitions, and theater performances offer something for everyone, no matter what his interests or moods. Testifying to the glorious history of the city are many

a part of the municipality of Kihniö around 100 km north of Tampere, houses the only museum which exhibits the history of industrial-scale peat production in Finland. The extraction and use of peat for [...] in the production of peat were first tested here. This also includes some not so successful methods, including the use of heavy Russian machinery. The museum presents a wide range of exhibits on the production [...] production and use of peat, as well as the history and development of the peat industry. The environmental management of peatlands is also addressed. Outside the museum, around sixty machines related to

typical pattern of everyday life in the north German Wool Combing and Worsted Spinning Mill in Delmenhorst. The huge industrial site covering more than 25 hectares of land was one of the largest of its type in [...] the Nordwolle Factory Museum housed in the ornamented red brick building of the old turbine house which used to be the central power station of the works. In the adjacent row of sheds visitors can follow [...] follow the process of turning raw wool into yarn – some of this on working machines – and learn about the history of the many women and men who more or less fell unprepared into the maw of this immense factory

gears tower over the redbrick gable of the Bois de Cazier colliery near Charleroi. The colliery has now ceased operations but in August 1956 it was the site of one of the most tragic accidents in European [...] European mining history; a disaster that killed a total of 262 workers. A major section of the colliery museum erected on the site is devoted to the accident. Surrounding this section are the miners’ changing [...] tram dating back to 1904, and even a complete sheet-rolling mill from the middle of the 19th century. The museum tells of the people who came here from all over Europe to earn a living under harsh, and

set within an expanse of woodland. Then, suddenly a red gorge appears: The Falun Mine. Once the world’s largest copper mine and today the heart of a unique historic industrial landscape, which was designated [...] designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. A path meanders around the mine and passes some cabins, which are dangerously close to the edge of the abyss, and were formerly used to drag the ore with a [...] a rope winch to the surface. More than one thousand years of the mine’s history are displayed in the local mining museum. Most spectacular is the coin cabinet with probably the heaviest and largest coins

remarkably genuine sound of crackling fire and bursting rock. The Rammelsberg Museum and Visitor Mine near Goslar stages 1,000 years of mining history; from the age-old method of mining ore by laying a fire [...] through a mediaeval system of galleries, to the thunderous roar of modern mining and conveying techniques during a trip on the colliery railway. A fine example of industrial architecture awaits visitors [...] accompanied by vivid sound effects of everyday working conditions. The mine was inscribed as a World Cultural Heritage site in 1992 – along with the former Imperial Town of Goslar.

The museum in Agia Paraskevi on the island of Lesvos,a site of the Museum Network of the Cultural Foundation of the Piraeus Bank Group (PIOP), is located in a former communal oil mill, in which both a [...] restored to their original condition. The principal theme of the displays is the changes that the introduction of mechanical power brought to the process of oil-production. The principal phases in oil production [...] for displays that illustrate the unusual history of the communal mill and the development of mechanisation across the whole island. The subsidiary role of the mill, for grinding grain to produce flour, is

businessman who developed the new industrial community of Forssa in Finland in the mid-19th century, one of the country’s earliest industrial towns. He was born into a family of merchants in Stockholm and was [...] health centre, a library and a shop. In 1872, Wahren entered a new industry of great importance for Finland, the manufacture of wood pulp for papermaking. With partners, he founded the Kymmena company and [...] Kouvola, 130km north-east of Helsinki. In the 20th century the textile factories at Forssa became the largest in Finland under the brand Finlayson. Today Wahren’s spinning mill is a museum.

slave trade. He also supported the creation of a hospital and theatre for the fast-growing city. His home, Soho House, hosted meetings of the influential group of scientists known as the Lunar Society, which [...] The name Boulton & Watt is among the most famous of the industrial revolution. The company was a partnership between the inventor and steam-engine designer James Watt and the businessman and inventor Matthew [...] in 1796 they opened a specialist foundry to make the engines themselves. Boulton’s vision of the potential of steam power and his funding for development led to further advances, notably rotary motion

the M20 typewriter and opened retail branches to promote them against the competition. Part of the assurance of quality he offered was that all the component parts were made in Olivetti’s own workshops to [...] typewriters, calculators and computers and is still a global brand. Ivrea is a World Heritage site, where both the Laboratory-Museum and the Olivetti Historical Archive present Olivetti’s story. [...] northern Italy who began the company and designed its early products. He was born in 1868 in Ivrea, north of Turin, into a middle-class Jewish family. He graduated in electrical engineering at Turin in 1891 and

president of the national institute of industry in the 1970s he led more than 200,000 employees. His family ran a hardware store in Barcelona. After graduating from the school of industrial engineers in [...] Villalonga became one of the outstanding business leaders of the late-twentieth century in Spain, a technocrat ‘trouble-shooter’ and moderniser who managed enterprises in all sectors of Spanish industry. As [...] in business development, education, training and museums. He argued for the importance of generalist technocratic leaders who brought together a range of skills to work alongside technical specialists.