Fosca. It began operation in 1914 after just two years of construction. The museum opened in 2001 and is part of mNACTEC, the Museums of Science and Technology of Catalunya. The large group of impressive stone [...] narrow-gauge railways, access roads, electricity lines and cable cars, as well as how it powered Catalan industry. Visitors see the 836-m flumes that bring water to the turbines, the turbine hall itself with its [...] generators and switchgear and other installations such as the foundry and transformer station. The museum also tells the story of mining in the area: for lead, copper and later uranium.

relocated two existing museums there – the local museum collections opened in 1949 and Museum of Leather created in 1954. The Can Boyer exhibitions show the long history of the tanning industry with leather objects [...] These museums concerned with the leather industry are in two adjacent buildings close to the town centre of Igualada, north-west of Barcelona. One was the nineteenth-century Boyer cotton factory and the [...] greased and polished. The displays have been developed continuously in collaboration with mNACTEC, the Museums of Science and Technology of Catalunya.

mill have been renovated. Museum includes also an area for temporary events, an audiovisual room and a space for laboratories. Museum of Iron is part of musil – Museum of Industry and Labor of Brescia, a [...] The Museum of Iron was opened in 1984, when the building was acquired by Civiltà Bresciana Foundation to be transformed in a museum-laboratory of industrial archaeology. It is located in the oldest pr [...] proto-industrial area of the city, but the hammer forge was in function until the end of the XX Century. In its external area, Museum of Iron shows the historic role of the water wheels: the canal provides

Bages’ agricultural, industrial and urban development. Ribbon manufacture: An extraordinary collection of machines exhibited in zones shows the evolution of the narrow textile industry from silk to the modern [...] The museum occupies the Dipòsits Vells (Old Cisterns) which collected and stored 12,000 m3 of water from the Sèquia canal and which were built by the civil engineer Marià Potó between 1861 and 1865. Nowadays [...] Nowadays, the museum has two permanent exhibitions spaces. The Sèquia and water: This exhibit demonstrates great importance of the Sèquia, a work of medieval engineering unique to Catalonia and Spain which

Amsterdam. Zaanse Schans keeps the memories of the early industrial history of the region alive – not as an open-air museum but as a busy village with museums, shops and workshops whose inhabitants are only too [...] nuts to delicious oil. Nowadays it all looks so contemplative. But not so long ago this was a vast industrial region which only declined in importance with the invention of the steam engine. Windmills in their

area were for long the source of the coal that moved the steam engines that drove Catalan industry. The mining museum reveals 150 years of mining history in the Berguedà district, the uses and applications [...] Romà mine where they can experience, in the original setting, what work was inside the mine. The museum presents an interesting audivisual display, a miner's department, an open-air exhibition of mining

mules and interactive weaving exhibits. The museum includes a demonstration centre for textile crafts. It is highly regarded by the modern textile industry and is frequently visited by delegates to conferences [...] companies were established and Sliven became a centre of textile production, as it still is. The museum was established in 1984 in a textile school built in the grounds of Jeliazkov’s factory in 1906.

independent Black republic of Haiti. The International Slavery Museum will be at Liverpool´s Albert Dock, at the centre of a World Heritage site. The location is only yards away from the dry docks where [...] trading ships were repaired and fitted out. One of the greatest groups of national museums in the world, National Museums Liverpool is ideally placed to elevate this subject onto an international stage. [...] remember that we were bought, but not that we were brave." William Prescott, former slave 1937 The new Museum will open its display galleries on 23 August 2007, Slavery Remembrance Day. 2007 is the bicentenary

technological museums in the Greek provinces: - Silk Museum, Soufli - Open Air Museum of Water Power, Dimitsana (Peloponnese) - Museum of the Olive and Greek Olive Oil, Sparta (Peloponnese) - Museum of Industrial [...] Brickworks Museum N. & S. Tsalapatas, Volos (Central Greece) - Museum of Marble Crafts, Tinos (Cyclades) - Chios Mastic Museum - The Environment Museum of Stymphalia - The Silversmithing Museum

Avenue and its historic environment', which was inscribed to Unesco World Heritage List in 2002. The Underground Railway Museum is located in the former terminus station, which was converted to an exhibition [...] and photographs illustrating, amongst other things, the construction of Metro lines M2 and M3. The museum was renovated in 1996 in commemoration of the centenary of the Metro.

the industrialisation and a must-have-seen for everybody who is interested in the history of the industry: The 5-storey 55 m long red brick building at the northern suburbs of Shrewsbury was the first [...] of iron and steel. The use of iron beams and columns were an important progress for the textile industry because their buildings were always under thread of fire. The building was erected in 1796-97 for [...] subsequently been much uncertainty over the building’s future, but in 2005 it was purchased by English Heritage, and agreements with a developer for its future use were finalised in 2007. Since then a lot of

Marinha Grande became a focus for the glass industry after the British industrialist William (Guillermo) Stephens settled set up a glassworks in 1769. The museum is in the neoclassical mansion that Stephens [...] The Glass Museum celebrates glassmaking in Portugal from the seventeenth century to the present. The collections come from several sources and includes glass products, machinery, tools and archives. Marinha [...] also exhibitions of leading makers and designers in the centre for contemporary art connected to the museum. Marinha Grande is still an important centre for glass manufacturing and tours of working factories

and the natural and cultural heritage. Inside, we can find out about the evolution of sea trade in Bilbao and Biscay and surrounding areas and the evolution of naval industry. Outside, we can visit the old

high-tech: tim, the young Augsburg Textile and Industrial Museum, which opened in January 2010, connects the rapid development of the local textile industry with an exciting trip into the history of fashion [...] other innovative developments illustrate an exciting high-tech sector. Children follow their own museum path on which they weave, knit or print. Special exhibitions, fashion shows, lectures and concerts

out here exclusively using water power. The building formed the nucleus of the industrial museum founded in 1992. The museum grounds, which cover some 3,600 square metres, contain 14 listed buildings, including [...] The Lauf Industrial Museum, located just 20 kilometres north-east of Nuremberg, is dedicated to the living and working environment of an industrialised society between 1900 and 1970. Lauf was already [...] economically important in pre-industrial times. Many businesses used the water power of the Pegnitz river, including the Engelhardt hammer mill. Its original equipment dates from the period between 1895

the forefront of industrial design. The National Museum has collections of machines, vehicles, clocks and cameras, but the departments of industrial design and of consumer industries, relating to office [...] equipment and household appliances, are of particular importance. The museum also takes responsibility for some industrial sites and museums in other parts of the republic.

operations which were far less dangerous and hard than around 1870 when Luxembourg started its mining industries. In those days 70 to 90 miners worked up to 12 hours per shift without any safety precautions and [...] and social benefits in the wet and dark “mousetrap” as one of the pits on the mining museum’s site was infamously called. Former employees vividly explain to the visitors how they extracted the iron ore

includes photographs, prints, barrels and other utensils used in winemaking. The same industry features in another museum in Funchal, the Sao Franciso Cellars, in a former monastery, a collection of ancient [...] island, 1100 km south-west of Lisbon. The history of wine production in the island is celebrated in a museum established by the Institute of Wine in a building that once belonged to Henry Veitch, English consul

Albaola the Maritime Heritage Factory is a shipyard-museum dedicated to the promotion and development of Basque maritime heritage. It focuses particularly on the construction of historic boats and ships [...] accommodate a collection of boats of heritage value gathered by the Diputación Foral of Gipuzkoa. In 2014, after two years of adaptation, Albaola the Maritime Heritage Factory opened its doors to the public

mechanical production of the 20th century. The products of this unique cutlery industry can be seen today in the German Blade Museum in the Solingen suburb of Gräfrath. The exhibits include every sort of sword [...] the collection was officially taken into the newly-opened German Blade Museum in the former Gräfrath town hall. In 1991 the museum moved to its final destination in the imposing buildings of the old Gräfrath [...] aristocratic table. In addition there is a traditional tin works in the lower ground floor of the museum showing how pewter tableware was made. The most famous local example of such tableware is the so-called