century. The former colliery administration accommodates the original pithead baths and a mining museum featuring a rich collection of films, images and objects related to the region's mining history.

industrialisation in the region, with the power plant symbolising a new, promising technology. The museum installed in it today tells the story of the Light Factory through the eyes of the working people

The Light Factory. Museum of Energy in Ponferrada, Spain, symbolises a new, promising technology: light as first application in the history of industrial power generation. Built in 1919, the thermal power [...] Ponferrada's general electricity grid from 1930 to 1971. The fascinating thing about the industrial museum is that it tells the story of the light factory consistently through the eyes of the people who worked [...] careful restoration, it is now considered a gem of Spanish industrial heritage. The National Railway Museum at Lousado , Portugal, also boasts a reputation as a precious relic of Portuguese railway history

das Museum die Besucher zurück in die „goldenen Zeiten“ des örtlichen Schiffsbaus mit ihren historischen Lebens- und Arbeitsbedingungen. Artikel "Wo Kreuzfahrtriesen zur Welt kommen. MuCa - Museum der [...] der Fabrikantenfamilie Cosulich. Sie und die örtliche Werftindustrie stehen im Zentrum des MuCa - Museum der Schiffbauindustrie . Platz gefunden hat es in einem palastartigen Bau des Wiener Jugendstils

The museum of technology in Croatia was established as a result of the efforts of Dr Bonz Tezak, a professor at Zagreb University, and was formally constituted in 1954, although there was an earlier museum

now the Technical Museum. It continued to develop into the 1960s making railway vehicles and aircraft. The company later integrated with Thyssen, Mercedes-Benz and Bombardier. The museum association took [...] depicting Bebra railway junction, one of Germany’s most important. The separate Henschel-Museum Association also has a museum on the site (building R11) and cares for the archives of the company and family.

replaced by a gas turbine power station which itself was demolished in 1995. The Peat and Colony Museum, created gradually since 1988, contains many buildings that show the new colonisation of the moorland

The two museums of Charlieu are housed in the former Hôtel-Dieu de Charlieu hospital, built in the 18th century. One is the Hospital Museum, which displays the historical men's ward, operating theatre [...] In 1992 the former women's ward became the Silk Museum. The town has been a centre for making high-quality silk fabrics since the 18th century. The museum includes several working textile machines for silk [...] examples of costumes made from silk and fabrics designed for the fashion houses of Paris. Part of the museum is devoted to the history of the Charlieu corporation of weavers, which is now the last that is active

The Musée Volant Salis 50 km south of Paris is named after the French aviator and pioneer in aircraft conservation, Jean-Baptiste Salis, who died in 1967. The collection has been developed by his son

the 17th century. The site is the Bayard coal shaft, which opened in 1924 and closed in 1978. The museum occupies the electricity-generating and winding-engine house, which is built in brick on a steel [...] steel winding tower of the pit and other mine buildings, including a pit-head baths and offices. The museum has 160m of authentically reconstructed underground workings that visitors can walk through to gain

The Museum for the town of Apt in the south-east of France – also called the Musée de l'Aventure Industrielle – concentrates on the industries of the area. Three important industries grew up here based [...] based on three natural resources – fruit, ochre and clay. The museum is inside part of the factory of Marliagues founded in 1873 for making candied-fruit confectionary. It includes a complete workshop, displays [...] Artefacts associated with mining, processing and marketing of ochre are displayed. Finally, the museum traces the clay industries of Apt from the 17th century to the present, with hundreds of examples

premium brand that takes the name DS is represented in vehicles made since 2010. L’Aventure’s other museum is for a Peugeot collection at Sochaux in eastern France.

industry locally, making products for famous brands such as Pierre Cardin and Christian Dior. The museum is in Brillaud’s factory on the bank of the river Creuse: a U-shaped complex of three and four storeys [...] dispatch. An association to preserve the shirt-making heritage of the town was started in 1982 and the museum opened with the help of the local authority in 1993.

the oldest surviving workers’ colony in the Ruhrgebeit. The LVR-Industriemuseum maintains a small museum in one of the houses, displaying the history of Eisenheim, adjacent to which are play facilities

open-air museum also houses the German Forge Museum. The small iron trade contributed greatly to making the region more industrialised than the neighbouring Ruhrgebiet until around 1850. The museum takes [...] paper onto felt mats. There are over 60 historic workshops on the site of the Westphalian Open-Air Museum in Hagen. They originate from many different areas in Westphalia and have either been re-built here [...] on traditional crafts and trades. A long walk around the two and a half kilometre grounds of the museum thus becomes a trip back into the history of crafts in the Märkisch Sauerland region. Paper, textiles

people who produced it: That's what the Henrichshütte in Hattingen, one of eight sites of the LWL Museums of Industrial Culture, is centred around. Visitors are invited to discover the varied aspects of

mine in Witten was one of the first deep-pit mines on the Ruhr – a good enough reason for the LWL Museums of Industrial Culture to erect one of its eight sites here. Visitors can walk along a 100 metre gallery [...] coal on the river you can go aboard a 35 metre life-size replica of an original sailing barge. The museum has yet another replica construction: a small pit from which coal was hauled in buckets which shows [...] 1892. Shortly afterwards it was replaced by a steam-driven brickworks which operated until 1963. The museum was opened in 2003 and tells the story of the birth of mining in the Ruhr valley at the start of

tablet computers or by guides can watch techniques in use. Also in the Cité des Images complex is a museum that shows historical and newly created images from a collection of over 100,000 items representing

used for textile production are difficult to identify. Local history is illustrated in the Municipal Museum.

The museum was founded in 2010. It is an independent museum which preserves the transport heritage of the city of Dundee and the surrounding areas. It is currently temporarily housed in a modern industrial [...] depot, a group of buildings dating from 1901, and hopes to restore the buildings and rehouse the museum there. Vehicles on show are either held in the collection or brought in for themed days. Visitors