Correspondingly there is a huge range of goods boasting the label “Made in Sheffield”. The Kelham Island Museum, housed on the site of a disused generating station, is an impressive presentation of the city’s [...] These were the forgers, grinders and toolmakers who turned the term “Made in Sheffield” into an internationally famous trademark.
you’ll be going 140 metres underground. And below the earth it is cold, damp and dark. The National Coalmining Museum for England, near Overton in West Yorkshire, is located in one of the oldest collieries [...] steam-driven winding wheels which were in operation till 1970 are still working. In addition the museum has an audio-visual exhibition which takes visitors on a journey through more than two centuries [...] pit railway and travel to the next colliery just around the corner. This also forms a part of the museum complex.
– in the form of hundreds of slate quarries. In the 19th century the slate tiles on almost every roof in Britain had been mined and cut by Welshmen.The NationalSlateMuseum in Llanberis gives visitors [...] their masterly skills. It is located in the Victorian workshops of the vast Dinorwig slate quarry. Here you can see slate-splitting demonstrations by traditional hand-craftsmen revealing the skills and artistry
pot and a clock - it appears as if the foreman has only just left his desk. This is how the Central Museum of Textiles recreates in detail some 200 years of daily working life and textile history in Łódź [...] exciting retrospective takes us back to the time of the great factory foundations, recounts nationalisation, bankruptcy and unemployment, and ends with the revival of local factories in the more recent [...] of the first textile industry hubs in Poland, along with the Łódź City Culture Park, an open air museum setting with a collection of historic wooden houses and other buildings typical of the region.
during the scheme that have become wetlands of international importance. The principal historical interpretation is provided in the Valli d’Argenta Museum in a marsh house at Campotto, where there are displays [...] The ecomuseum at Argenta is a federation of several museums and nature reserves that interprets and provides access to some of the lands reclaimed in the delta of the River Po in the early 20th century
and services of an international standing in Tampere. Vapriikki opened to the public in 1996, and the building was fully ready as a museum in 2000. The total floor area of the museum centre is approximately [...] Vapriikki is a versatile museum centre located by the Tammerkoski river, where visitors can explore over ten exhibitions on history, natural sciences and technology all at once. Together with other operators [...] the 1990s. The Swedish word ‘fabrik’ became the Finnish ‘vapriikki’ in the last century, and the museum centre was named Vapriikki to emphasise the significance of its location in Finnish industrial history
factory in the least. The impression from within is a complete contrast. The building houses the NationalMuseum of Science and Technology of Catalonia and welcomes visitors with a large number of historic [...] historic textile machines. But this is only a part of the exhibition programme. The aim of the museum is to provide visitors with a comprehensive overview of the history of knowledge and technology in Catalonia
Locomotion is a branch of the National Railway Museum (see York) that incorporates the earlier museum established in Shildon commemorating the achievements in the development of the steam locomotive of [...] until 1984. In two large halls around 100 vehicles from the collection of the National Railway Museum are displayed. The museum complex includes Soho Cottage, the modest home of the Hackworth family, an iron
and its breathtaking Stazione Centrale, begun in 1906 and completed in 1931. The Leonardo da Vinci Museum is located in a former convent, and covers many aspects of the history of science and technology
complete and least altered factory colony of the Industrial Revolution. It is of outstanding national and international importance. Founded in 1784 by a young textile merchant Samuel Greg, Quarry Bank Mill was [...] ocuments provide evidence about the life and work of the Greg family and their workforce. 3. A Living Museum Quarry Bank Mill and Styal Estate is still a working Cotton Mill producing over 9,000m (10,000 yards)
comprehensive collection of its type in the whole world. Along with its rich stock of international clocks, the museum provides a multifaceted picture of the history and technology of the phenomenon of time [...] combines such different attractions as the "watchmaker´s cottage" in Vöhrenbach, with the Clock Industry Museum in Schwenningen, whose many fully-working machines tell visitors about everyday life in the factory [...] And on your way, if you want, you can watch cuckoo-clock makers at work. Finally the German Clock Museum in Furtwangen offers visitors a comprehensive overall view of clock making in the region. Its 15
as a museum illustrating the manufacture of Portland cement, that is a branch of the NationalMuseum of Science and Technology of Catalonia (MNACTEC) and is part of its Territorial System of museums that
Finland’s national open air museum was established, like those of other Scandinavian countries, in the period of Romantic nationalism before the First World War, at a time when Finland formed part of 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 [...] archives and artefacts previously held by the Academie des Sciences, and exhibits from successive international exhibitions held in France. Until the 1880s the Conservatoire was involved with the patent system [...] 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 notable
electrical company that came to be the largest in Germany, and that from its beginnings was an international concern. Born at Lenthe near Hanover, he trained as an engineer while undertaking military service [...] significant role in the development of electric traction, building a locomotive, now in the Duetsches Museum, Munich, that pulled passengers along a 277 m long track at the Berlin exhibition of 1877, and building [...] from 1898 on a site subsequently named Siemenstadt, between Charlottenburg and Spandau. The works museum, founded in 1922, moved with the company after the Second World War to Munich, where company archives
was widely used in every war of the 20th century. From the mid-1860s Nobel began to create a multinational company, with factories at Krummel near Hamburg in Germany, opened in 1865, at Hurum in Norway [...] as synthetic fibres and dyestuffs. Seven buildings of Nobel’s factory of 1875 are preserved as a museum at Hurum in Norway, his laboratory and mansion, used in his last years, are preserved at Karlskroga
Canal, but the project never materialised. Examples of his tools and models are displayed in the NationalMuseum of Science & Technology, Stockholm, and at Falun.
film archive, where he worked until 1949, and in 1938 was amongst the founders of the Federation Internationale des Archives du Film (FIAF). His career as a director effectively began in 1949 with Le Sang [...] following year Franju made Hotel des Invalides, an ironic critique of France’s principal military museum. He directed his first feature, La Tete contre les Murs (The Keepers) in 1958, followed by the horror
g regular contacts with Engels. He spent much of his time studying in the library of the British Museum and wrote a succession of lengthy works on philosophy and political economy, some of which remained [...] 1867. He maintained links with revolutionaries in many countries, particularly through the First International, formed in 1864. His analysis of economic history, that industrial capitalism had created a p
