dates to the 15th century. The operation of the Makkarakoski sawmill, now functioning as a sawmill museum, began in 1753. The machinery and equipment of the current sawmill are mostly from the 1880s. The

education, Macclesfield´s diverse textile industries, workers´ lives and historic machinery. The Silk Museum follows the story of silk from its origins in China, along the silk route to Britain and its est

industrial region and port town. The Kymenlaakso Museum also maintains the art collections. The museum is situated in the same building with the Maritime Museum of Finland . After World War II Kymenlaakso was [...] The Kymenlaakso Museum operates in the Maritime Centre Vellamo in the Old Port of Kotka. The Museum tells stories about life and everyday toil in the border region, about the river and the sea as well [...] Nowadays South-Eastern Finland has one of the biggest industrial forestry clusters in Europe. The museums in Vellamo offer means for viewing one’s own life, livelihood and family as part of the course of

but the former dyeshop of the cotton mill houses Työväenmuseo Werstas - the Finnish Labour Museum. The Museum tells the over two-hundred-year-old story of Tampere’s industry. The exhibition describes how [...] Tampere became the largest industrial city in the country, “the Manchester of Finland”. Impressive museum artefacts and photographs introduce visitors to the industrial enterprises and factory workers of [...] of Tampere. A large 1650 hp Sulzer steam engine with an 8 m flywheel is preserved in the museum.

industrial production, from the art scene to high-tech ceramic research. At the Westerwald Ceramics Museum, visitors can learn all about the history and production of Westerwald stoneware, which was one of [...] illustrate the importance of ceramics in contemporary art. Visitors can get creative themselves in the museum's workshop.

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

Ireland. The full history of the bridges and several artefacts can be seen at the Menai Heritage museum .

ideas that helped spread railways and locomotives across the world. The Stephenson Steam Railway Museum celebrates their achievements. It is located on a standard-gauge, single-track railway that runs [...] can take a ride on a 1950s passenger steam train or heritage diesel locomotives, which run from the museum to Percy Main.

entrance of the Truck Museum, the famous 'Slovenská strela' ("Slovak Arrow") express train is exhibited. Visits to the depository (guided tours only, organised by Tatra Technical Museum) are by reservation [...] The Tatra Truck Museum houses in the reconstructed building of the former Tatra foundry. It presents a unique collection of 80 Tatra trucks and chassis on an area of more than 5,000 m2. The oldest Czech

early buildings remain. The present technical museum has developed from the company museum established in 1947. It is now part of the Kopřivnice Regional Museum, a joint enterprise between the municipality [...] ty and the Tatra company, which also operates three other museums in the vicinity. The Technical Museum displays the many products of the Tatra company, coaches, motor cars including racing cars, aircraft

enterprises played a significant part in the early Industrial Revolution. Thinktank is the city’s museum of science and industry, which was established in 1951 and moved to the present site in 2001. The [...] instrumentation, gun-making, clockmaking, car manufacturing and computing among other fields. The museum also holds natural science collections and examines environmental issues. One reason for the city’s [...] reputation as the ‘workshop of the world’ was the innovative Boulton and Watt engineering company. The museum features many items made by Boulton and Watt, including the Smethwick pumping engine of 1779 - the

in 1976-77. In 1988 the museum acquired the Zeiss workshop from the nearby Volkshaus, and it was physically removed to the museum premises in 2002. A new trust for the museum was established in 2016. [...] his employees, introduced a profit sharing scheme and set up the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung. The optical museum at Jena was opened by Carl-Zeiss AG 1922, in a reinforced concrete building by Dycherhoff & Wichmann

This museum focuses on the golden age of Zeppelin passenger airships. It is located in the residential area Zeppelinheim, which was built for airship crews at Rhein-Main airport in the 1930s. The rigid [...] Ferdinand von Zeppelin in the 1890s and was used commercially from 1910. The curved building of the museum, specially designed in 1988, resembles the interior of an airship. It contains large-scale models

of airships they have sparked people's imagination. People are also the main focus of the Zeppelin Museum at Friedrichshafen. Who was this Count Ferdinand Zeppelin sticking against all odds with the idea [...] tasks did the captains, radio operators and the rest of the on-board crew perform? Exploring the museum makes it easy to experience the enthusiasm of the early pioneers. It starts with a big screen showing

extensive archives were transferred to the museum. The main exhibition of the Forssa Museum, the City of Colourful Cloth, tells the story of Forssa community. Museum Gallery Moletti, an atmospheric little [...] focuses on contemporary and textile art. Forssa Museum was the Museum of the Year 2014 in Finland and a nominee for the Emya prize in 2015. In 2021, the museum opens a new site Pattern Centre, dedicated to [...] drawings from more than 130 designers with emphasis on the 1950s-1980s Finnish and Finlayson design. The museum is located on the Spinning Mill Area, which is a combination of 19th century factory architecture

to pull the trains across the Semmering. Some of these engines are still on display at the Südbahn Museum, which opened in 2004. Two listed railway sheds and the historic roundhouse tell the story of the

Stefan, Mietek, Dolores and Ziuta are names that are close to the hearts of the local museum guides. For behind these names are four extant historic weaving looms that are regularly used to demonstrate [...] of the 19th century. Demonstrations are part of the interactive tour for visitors to the factory museum in the Manufaktura shopping complex which traces the path of cotton from the cotton bolls to the

The principal museum of technology in France dates from 1794, the time of the French Revolution, when a national conservatory of arts and trades (Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers) was created [...] with the patent system and acquired many models and drawings submitted by aspirant patentees. The museum’s Industrial Portfolio includes more than 20,000 drawings and paintings of industrial subjects, including [...] drawings by Jacques de Vaucanson (1709-82), the Grenoble-born inventor of automata. Selections from the museum’s collection of more than 80,000 artefacts are displayed in thematic rooms relating to such topics

iron mines in Normandy. The museum also features a video documentary on the history of the Littry mine and a reconstructed underground gallery 70 m long. At the end of the museum is an impressive working [...] the resumption of production, and mines in the area continued to work until the early 1950s. The museum, one of the first in France to be devoted to coal mining, dates from 1902, and provides a broad picture

site was purchased by Leeds City Corporation and opened as the city’s industrial museum in 1982. Visitors to the museum can see an array of textile machinery used and made in Leeds, together with their [...] tailoring, printing and leather industries were also of major importance. The city’s industrial museum is at Armley Mills, located between the River Aire and the Leeds & Liverpool Canal. There have been [...] the city’s printing industry is the board game Monopoly developed by John Waddington from 1922. The museum also displays examples of the products of the city’s extensive leather industry, and a small cinema