Outside the gates of Seraing, which is dominated by the huge industrial plant belonging the Cockerill-Sambre concern, lies a truly splendid building on the right bank of the River Maas: the former Cistercian [...] were erected on the site, which even included its own workers´ quarter. Nowadays visitors to the museum can go on an impressive guided tour which includes a demonstration of glass production at close quarters

Cromford spinning mill in Ratingen in the Bergisch Land, now one of the on-site museums belong to the Rhineland Industrial Museum. Johann Gottfried Brügelmann, an extremely wealthy merchant and textile magnate [...] his palatial villa – equally a part of the museum – is enough to give you an impression of his self-assured economic power. The metronome of the dawning industrial age – a clock – hangs prominently over the [...] painstaking period of preparation the museum was finally opened in 1996. The original machines no longer exist. That said, the clattering machines now in operation in the museum have at least one thing in common

bought by the municipality to be redeveloped. It is now occupied by CESMA, which is an archaeological museum, art gallery and conservation training service. The factory was built in 1872-4, designed by Adolf [...] ists. They chose the area for their new cotton-spinning factory because of the existing textile industry and good water-power potential from the River Orco. It had a basement for the drive-shafts and four

while new sites are booming. What is more, there is hardly any other ‚old‘ industrial sector that combines industrial museums with highly advanced facilities and handicraft with state-of-the-art production [...] power or close to important trade centres or routes. The industrialization of the 19th century entailed a concentration on a small number of industrial zones scattered all over Europe, which – a common feature [...] exist until to this day. But there are also differences. The traditional hubs of the industry meanwhile host museums devoted to cutlery, whereas new players such as Portugal did not (yet) enter this level

most important industrial archaeological sites in Britain. Merthyr Tydfil’s important position as an Iron Town during the 19th century is strongly represented in the artefacts the museum holds. They show [...] Cyfarthfa Castle Museum & Art Gallery is one of the great “finds” of the South Wales Valleys. The castle was built in 1824 by the ironmaster William Crawshay the second. It overlooked his immensely successful [...] show the incredible progress in technology and innovation during the Industrial Revolution, and encapsulate the lives of the people who lived and worked here including the story of Trevithick’s Pen-Y-Darren

The Museum tells the story of the social history of the Cynon Valley from 1800 to the present. Audio visual presentations in the gallery include films on the iron industry around 1830 and the Miner’s Strike [...] to be used for educational visits. The temporary exhibition gallery houses displays based on the museums collections and the Art Gallery has a programme of contemporary art and design, bringing works and

developed an extensive private collection which forms the basis of the museum, together with items donated by other leading figures in the industry. [...] Cyprus has long traditions of jewellery manufacture which are illustrated in this museum, which includes pieces of all kinds made on the island since the eighteenth century, a variety of silver utensils [...] archaeological excavations that represent the various civilisations that have flourished in Cyprus. The museum was opened in 1992 through the initiative of Nikos Ioannu, head of the principal jewellery manufacturing

ON THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF CYPRUS Listen Copper is Cyprus’s only major natural resource – but it was once so plentiful that it secured the island’s fame and wealth for millennia. Copper was the first [...] greatly enhanced the properties of the material. Copper mining on Cyprus reached a large, quasi-industrial scale around 2300 BCE: the Cypriots exploited the seemingly inexhaustible deposits in the Troodos [...] the ethnic Greek town of Skouriotissa are still worked, as the deposits are virtually played out. Industrial activity now mainly concerns the production of construction materials such as bentonite and cement;

and exciting museums in Germany. Visitors walk through the various sections of the museum as if they are travelling in a time machine. Everything is so deceptively real: the early industrial spinning machine [...] specialist professional groups. In 1996 DASA was awarded the title of the “best new industrial and technical museum in Europe”. [...] message is clear. People at work are liable to injury and can only take a certain amount of strain. The museum vividly reveals the risks of the workplace and also shows how to avoid them. No expense has been

train to picnic in the countryside and workers pouring in from the countryside to the towns. The industrial age had donned its seven-mile-boots, and progress took its inexorable course. The DB (German Railways) [...] all these developments up to the present-day. Equipped with the latest exhibition techniques the museum offers visitors a fascinating tour through 175 years of German railway history: from a splendid VIP’s [...] outside site is particularly popular during fine weather as it contains two old signal boxes and a museum railway.

is a community centre, museum and research centre for the industrial history of Allendorf and a memorial for victims of Nazism with a focus on the topics of the armaments industry and forced labour. Explosives [...] Fiesler Fi 103. After the Second World War the site was redeveloped and became a place for new industries. Before the ammunition plant was built Allendorf was a rural village but it became the town of

visitors are invited to be key players of an interactive museum experience. Eight displays guide them through all stages of manufacture in the iron industry: from the first brainstorming to the marketable product [...] of customers worldwide. This glorious past has left an impressive heritage: an ensemble of seven industrial monuments. Nowadays DRU Industriepark is an inspiring breeding ground for culture and innovation [...] product. On their way visitors are taken back to the times when the industrial park used to be at the heart of local iron production. Another focus are modern technology and applications. The tour ends with

Horsens is a city with long commercial and industrial traditions. The Museum was opened in 1977 in the municipal power station building of 1906. Displays including steam engines, printing, brewing and

The Darby dynasty were important figures in the British iron industry for nearly two centuries, and were responsible for innovations that profoundly changed the nature of ironmaking throughout the world [...] Belgium, Sweden and elsewhere. Abraham Darby IV was principally important for his role in the iron industry of South Wales rather than in Shropshire. He bought the furnaces at Ebbw Vale in 1844 and subsequently [...] furnaces and 237 puddling furnaces in 1872, and was comparable in size to the whole Shropshire iron industry. The Darby family maintained their connection with the Coalbrookdale Company in subsequent generations

down because the region´s key industry, mining, had slowly become less and less important. The ZLMS took the initiative to reactivate some of the stretches of rail as a museum line. As a result steam engines [...] gifts. You can also find out more about the history of the South Limburg Railway in the society´s museum. Outside on the station site there are quite a few historical treasures, like the turntable pit,

the West of Holland, which once boasted a flourishing textile industry. One of the few remaining factories from this time now houses the museum. Spinning engines, looms and steam engines are linked with [...] The museum is truly encyclopaedic. Het Grote Verhaal - "the huge narrative" - invites visitors to embark on a journey through time from the ice age to the present day. It is located in the town of Twente [...] how industrialisation affected the lives of the people in Twente, and especially in Enschede. The museum brings back to life the regional weaving traditions and the rapid transformation of agricultural

aristocratic Solages family, who in the 19th century installed steam engines and developed a glass industry. The miners of Carmaux went on strike in 1892 and were famously supported in their struggle against [...] socialist politician Jean Jaurès (1859-1914), who is commemorated by a statue in the town. The mining museum at Cagnac les Mines, 10 km south of Carmaux, with a show mine in which visitors can go 350 m underground [...] colossal machines used in open-cast mining in the late 20th century are displayed. There is also a glass museum at Carmaux (Musée du Verre) in a building called the ‘Orangerie’, not an appendage of an aristocratic

range of activities offered by the museum. All this has only been made possible by the steadfast commitment of the Friends of the Museum who, after setting up the museum, are now responsible for running [...] opening of the Hugo Junkers Technology Museum on the site of the old Junkers works in Dessau marked the crowning moment of their efforts. The finest exhibit in the museum is a Ju 52/3m aircraft which was recovered [...] in his name. Until his property was confiscated by the Nazis he was the major influence on the industrial development of the town of Dessau and the Free State of Anhalt. In 1922 technology enthusiasts

to science and industry, comparable with those of the Science Museum, London, the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers in Paris and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. The museum was founded in [...] The Deutsches Museum von Meisterwerken der Naturwissenschaft und Technik (German Museum of the Masterpieces of Natural Science and Technology) holds one of the world’s most important collections of artefacts [...] stations to customers. The museum was severely damaged by bombing during the Second World War and was re-opened in stages, beginning with the library, from November 1945. The museum’s aeronautical exhibits

Production ceased in the early 1960s, but the building has been restored and includes a small museum of industrial history and a display space for art exhibitions.