The Salt Museum in Messolonghi, next to the salt pans of Tourlida, is the only themed museum in Greece dedicated to salt. Visitors can discover everything about salt: From the first appearance of salt [...] salt on earth to the present day. The museum illustrates the important role of salt in economy, agriculture, animal husbandry and health. It also shows the impact of salt on the communities and regions that [...] their granulometry. From pink Himalayan salt to black Hawaiian salt, there is much to discover. The museum houses a collection of 1,500 salt shakers from the 19th century to the present day. Outside, visitors

Heritage city famous for its Roman baths and Georgian architecture but it was also a working city. The museum tells the stories of its varied industries. Two thousand years of working life are on display, including

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

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

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

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

The Polish national postal collection was started as long ago as 1919 and its first museum opened in Warsaw in 1921. In 1955 the collection moved to the post office in Wrocław. It later opened a branch

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

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 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

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

car bodies. The examples indicate that the live demonstration of machines is a focal point of the museum. In the basement, where the textile tools are located, an entire production line is switched on,

marsh cultivation and mixed soil cultivation of sand and peat). All of them are displayed in the museum. The outdoor area covers 1.5 hectares and includes an experimental garden with 90 species of plants [...] the narrow-gauge steam locomotive "Katharina" and a steam tractor. Moored in the canal next to the museum are a traditional flatboat from 1900 (named Tjalk), the reconstruction (2002) of another traditional

Ukraine on 26 April 1992 was the worst in the history of nuclear power generation. The objective of the museum is to help humanity to understand the implications of what happened. Multi-media presentations explain [...] newborn humans and other animals are fully illustrated. This is the most disturbing of all industrial museums but the messages it conveys are of supreme importance.

The museum at Alsemberg, in the Molembeek Valley, 12 km south of Brussels, consists of an ancient farmstead, which incorporates a corn mill, a paper mill with 16th century origins and a building of 1763 [...] engine. The complex has been restored with help from the King Baudouin Foundation and, apart from the museum, includes an inn and a conference venue.

exhibitions and archaeological excavations. The trust runs several museums, it’s principal permanent display is the Basque Iron Museum housed in a former iron foundry in Legazpi, where the history of iron [...] iron is interpreted in technological, ecological and social contexts. The museum is also the starting point for several trails in the Iron Valley which guide visitors to the monuments associated with i [...] give way to the big factories. In a one-of-a-kind place, an old factory has been reconverted into a museum which presents the relationship between art and industry as shown by the hand of Eduardo Chillida

business until 1876, and the museum, established in the following year, comprehensively displays the technology of printing from the 16th century until the 19th. The museum is one of the best-preserved

Eperon d’Or (the ‘golden spur’) is a museum in a factory of fine-quality shoes in the traditional centre of Belgian shoemaking. The company was started by Emiel Vandommele in 1863. It became the official [...] built in 1910 and an office in Art Deco style was added in 1930 by the architect Charles Laloo. The museum displays the whole production line of shoemaking in the 1950s, a large collection of beautiful shoes [...] town’s electricity generating station, opened in 1901, now the Stoom en Stroom (Steam and Electricity) museum, which can be visited by prior appointment.