employed 1,900 people. Guided tours show visitors workshops where currency and medals are still made. A museum explains the process of making coins and medals and their significance. Around 2,000 pieces are on

the Société du Familistère, in 1880, thus turning the workers into owners of his stove factory. The museum, which opened in the main wing of the residential complex in 2006 and has been continuously expanded

The museum and its current exhibition reopened in 2018 following a project of co-creation with the community of Mallorca to identify what they wanted from their heritage. It won the European Museum of the [...] Mallorca became an important producer of shoes and several factories are still important employers. The Museum of Footwear and Industry of Inca is housed in an army barracks built in 1910. There is a comprehensive [...] shoes, drawings, photographs and ithems displayed in it were eithergiven on loan or donated to the Museum by local businesses and private individuals. Each one of them tells a true personal story that is

Visitors can admire a exceptional overlap of ancient and industrial traces, particularly evident in the museum of classical artworks housed in one of the papermill buildings, as marked by the tracks of the mine

blown out in 1911, with its charcoal barn, calcining kilns, bellows and casting house. It is now a museum in which the methods of furnace operation can be studied in amazing detail – one of the exhibits

the history of the site. In the old Diesel Power Station the Baía do Tejo Industrial Museum is installed. The museum houses a significant collection of industrial equipment of various kinds, explains the [...] and social services. The museum can only be visited by appointment. It also organises guided tours of the former CUF area, visiting and explaining the Alfredo da Silva House Museum (Casa Museu Alfredo da

production of bicycles and motorcycles, were also leading in Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries. The Museum of Industrial Culture, housed in a former screw factory from the 1920s, shows the history of ind [...] engine to the present day, combining technical, cultural and social history. Along the so-called Museum Street, 200 years of industrialisation are brought to life in historically recreated living and working [...] workers' flat to the talking kitchen, from the workers' club pub to the colonial goods shop and the museum cinema, everyday life in the shadow of the factory and the office is brought to life. Visitors of

the main steelfactories in Europe. The complex is not accessible to the public. The Blast Furnace Museum has been set up outside the plant in the historic former pipeline building and tells the story of

which was built in the classical style. Since 2000 this has been a municipal museum, the Jana Pazdura Nature and Technological Museum, that takes its name from the pioneer of Industrial Archaeology in Poland [...] from the remains of the ironworks the museum also displays the history of the Star Truck Co that has produced heavy motor vehicles in Starachowice since 1948. The museum also interprets the ecology of the [...] 1968. In the following decades local community initiatives led to the designation of a 7 ha open air museum, which includes the ‘big furnace’ with its Cowper stoves, a building housing a blowing engine of

The museum presents the history of industry, technology and everyday life in Schleswig-Holstein. Elmshorn became an important industrial centre in the nineteenth century, especially for the food industries [...] industries but also leather, textiles, ceramics and shipbuilding. The museum is in a five-storey former warehouse in the town centre that was built around 1890 by Christian Hinrich Carstens to trade in household [...] general merchants for a century until the city of Elmshorn acquired it in 1988 for an industrial museum. The ground floor shows the history of cotton textiles, communications, the local leather industry

Cultural Meuseo Minero (Cultural Association for the Mining Museum) was established in 1986 as mining was finally coming to an end, and opened the museum in 2001. Its headquarters is in an old slaughterhouse [...] from which siderite (iron carbonate) was extracted from the 1970s until its closure in 1993. The museum holds collections of tools, machines, oil lamps, dented helmets, miners’ footwear, drills and surveying [...] of the mining industry, open-cast pits, calcining kilns, ore-washing equipment and ropeways. The museum encourages research into mining operations and mining culture, and operates a children’s section

condition. Nowadays the colliery near Beringen in Limburg (Belgium) is the site of the Flemish Mining Museum. Visitors are put in the appropriate mood by a documentary film showing aspects of the everyday life

closed in 1981. Dimitrios Nomikos, now a public company, now has factories on the Greek mainland. The museum is in the company’s factory at Vlichada built after 1945 but it includes some machinery that dates

stations effectively showcase 18 former flagships of large-scale industry - all under one roof. The Ruhr Museum in the former coal washing plant focuses on even more immense dimensions. It recounts the natural

The museum centre Konsti includes Varkaus History Museum and Varkaus Art Museum and, as a new addition, Children's Factory, which lets kids explore the industry through play. In Konsti visitors can find [...] today it is known for its technological knowhow in energy and process technology. The premises of Museum Centre Konsti are located under the walls of the old factory school which was completed in 1924. [...] 1900s. In Old Varkaus you can find several services for visitors from restaurants to accommodation. Museum Centre Konsti is also a cultural multipurpose building that presents Varkaus industry, culture and

the production gradually ceased, the factory building was converted to other uses. Friitala leather museum located in the former factory building presents the phases of the tannery, leather manufacturing

worn by men in this part of Albania. The fortress houses a museum in memory of Skanderberg. The site is also home to the National Ethnographic Museum, founded in 1989. It is housed in the villa built by Ismail [...] The restored bazaar from around 1800, when Krujë was part of the Ottoman Empire, is like a living museum where a wide range of craftsmen display their skills. You can see basket weavers, shoemakers, si

several museums and exhibitions side by side. Visitors are free to collect hands-on experiences, for example by making their own hand-made paper as in pre-industrial times. The printing museum, showcasing [...] seamless wire: this is what the world's first paper machine looks like. Visitors to the Laakirchen Museum of Papermaking and Print can see its replica in action. The technical relic is part of an exciting [...] audiovisual interpretation and tells, among other things, the story of the factory workers. A special museum deals with the history of local fire brigades, and the "ALFA" convention centre houses small and

Scania-Vabis company. Scania originated in Malmö in southern Sweden and Vabis at Södertälje. The museum is centred on the hall named after the banker and industrialist Marcus Wallenberg (b 1956). Displays

the preserved open-cast facilities of the Anna 2 mine are home to the ENERGETICON energy experience museum. With the core message 'From the sun to the sun', it deals with the past and future of human energy