Industry , located in the world's oldest surviving passenger station of 1830, the railway already entered the steam age thanks to the inventions of industrial pioneers such as Richard Trevithik and George

member Ewald Future Site in Herten offers access to extraordinary "lost places": guests are allowed to enter otherwise forbidden areas and locked rooms of the Ewald mine. The Henrichshütte Ironworks in Hattingen

century. Another innovator, Count Henrich zu Stollberg-Wernigerode, also recognised the opportunity to enter the new technology of coke-fired blast furnaces. His Henrichshütte Ironworks , founded in 1854 and

With the completion of Central Shaft XII in 1932, one of the most efficient coal mines in the world entered the stage of the Ruhr region. Not long after its demise in 1986, today's ERIH Anchor Point began

each 341 metres long, designed by Alberto Fava: the widest roof has a span of 73 metres. Passengers enter through a porte-cochère to a booking hall and then up grand stairs to the concourse. It mixes classical

since the 11th century. With industrialisation from the middle of the 19th century, mechanisation entered the stonemasonry trade. In 1888 Carl Klingspor founded the company 'Råbäcks Mekaniska Stenhuggeri'

The Industrial Gas Museum operates in the premises of Athens gasworks. When entering the museum, the visitor can get general information on industrial history and industrial heritage. Inside the museum

shore of Lake Garda at the point where the River Toscolano, sometimes called the Torrento Toscolano , enters the lake. The first evidence of papermaking in the area is from the late fourteenth century, and

Helmets on, enter the mine train and off it goes into the mountain, 580 metres deep. An extensive network of tracks covering main and secondary galleries indicates how busy the iron ore mines of Rumelange

histories of global shipping, the Caspian Sea and oil production at Baku. Visitors can walk the decks and enter the ‘bridge’ where the officers commanded the ship, the cabins of the crew, the radio room and the

large-scale producer of steel, but also mined more coal than any other company in Spain. Visitors enter the museum through a reception area in a 45 m high cooling tower (refrigerante), where they can examine

France. The textile museum of the département is in a nineteenth-century woollen factory. Visitors enter by a footbridge across the River Thoré from a park on Boulevard Carnot. It contains original looms

experience: a simulator recreates a shaft trip down to a depth of 600 m and conveys the feeling of entering a real mine afterwards. Rail transport vehicles used in the past are exhibited on the outside grounds

remembering that the space shuttle uses ceramic tiles on its surface to protect it from the heat of re-entering the earth’s atmosphere. As the displays at the museum show, fashions may change, but tiles have

numerous small towers and alcoves, decorated with glazed terracotta figures. Each building can be entered over dry land or from the canals that intersect the area. The Speicherstadt extends over 1.5 km and

embodiment of Howard´s dream and continues to represent a potent model for community design as it enters its second century. First Garden City Limited was formed in 1903 and invited a number of architects

out on a radial plan devised by by Károly Kós (1883-1977 that centres on a square. The estate is entered through two vast wooden and stone gateways. Several well-known Hungarian architects designed houses

from Theux is lined with industrial buildings. Shortly behind the sign telling you that you are entering Sprimont there is another smaller sign pointing the way to the Museum of Stone. The road leading

produced near a million bottles a year. The brewery museum – which they call the ‘Gösseum’ – is entered through a modern glass extension. It explains the tradition of brewing in the area since the Middle

played a decisive part in the industrial history of Liège. But more later … At the start, visitors enter another world. The room seems dark, it smells of metal and rust. It is as if you had been transported