The Danube Museum is located in the centre of the small historic city of Esztergom on the River Danube. It aims to raise awareness of shared responsibilities for the protection of water, environment and [...] 000 objects including tools, machines, images, documents and maps. The museum presents a historical overview of the uses of water, from the toilet flush to the steam engine and waterpower. Other topics [...] include the effects of climate change on wildlife, the challenges of future water management and the changing use of global water supply. Models of ships that travelled the Danube are exhibited. Many of the

underground water tank of 1909. Visitors learn about the history of water supply in Kyiv along with water resources and waste treatment. The displays include scale models of the park and urban water-treatment [...] The museum occupies two architecturally impressive water towers in Khreshchatyi Park, near the River Dnipro in the centre of the Ukrainian capital. The towers were built in 1872 and 1876 and reconstructed [...] ent plants, interactive graphics of the water system, original artefacts such as sections of early wooden waterpipes and clay sewer pipes, and reconstructed features such as a waterfall, a well, a domestic

tell them about the water cycle. Models and tools are used to show work in the sewers. The artefacts on display include a cart for clearing obstructions, a pump for raising the water level and a sluice [...] The Sewer Museum in Paris offers visitors the chance to discover ‘the city below the city’. Tours have been offered since the mid-19 th century of the sewers of the French capital. Parisian sanitation [...] through the ambitious engineering designs of Eugène Belgrand in the 19th century to provide clean water and remove sewage. An exhibition sets out the main phases of development and introduces technical

Textile Works LWL Industrial Museum Bochum (D). Railway Museum Bochum (D). Hall of the Century London (GB) London Museum of Water and Steam London (GB) London Museum of Water & Steam Burton-upon-Trent (GB) [...] (GB). Open Air Museum Bergisch Gladbach (D). Old Dombach Paper Mill LVR Industrial Museum Beringen (B) be Mine Flamish Mining Museum Berlin (D). German Technical Museum Birmingham (GB). Museum of the Jewellery [...] Works LVR Industrial Museum Euskirchen (D). Müller Textile Works LVR Industrial Museum Friedrichshafen (D). Zeppelin Museum Furtwangen (D). German Clock Museum Gent (B). MIAT Museum about Industry, Labour

and tell their stories, with water always playing a major role. ERIH sites are also taking part, such as the German Salt Museum in Lüneburg or the Kaltehofe Elbe Island Water Art . Another exciting discovery [...] lighthouses, bridges, shipyards, water mills, pumping stations, irrigation systems and, of course, factories and power plants: 112 historic industrial sites and museums join the seventh "Days of Industrial [...] in the marshlands and that have only survived in this single building in the Rieck Haus open-air museum. The Rendsburg High Bridge provides a completely different highlight as it is one of the largest

How does a drop of water transform into electric power? The high halls of Cedegolo's historical Museum of Hydroelectric Power, bathed in light, offer answers that affect all senses. The experience starts [...] While crossing a passable penstock the visitor himself becomes a drop of water, surrounded by the roaring sound of cascading water. At the end of the pipe he finds himself facing two massive waterwheel- [...] transparent video screens and animated cartoons he can explore the interior of the machines and watch a water stream transforming into electric power. At the end of the tour there is the "Tree of Electricity"

fountain house built in 1593, the spring water, engine and water wheel houses dating to the 19th century, and the 1910 pumping station with its historic water trail are examples of the vibrant industrial [...] this time – with three lectures on "Photography between Tradition and Innovation" at the Ernst Leitz Museum in Wetzlar. The Middle Hesse Industrial Heritage Days were initiated by the Middle Hesse Industrial [...] Working Group, which is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year. Participants in the event include museums and science centres, clubs and associations, companies and tourism experts as well as representatives

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 sources of power, a working water wheel and two four-column [...] city’s industrial museum is at Armley Mills, located between the River Aire and the Leeds & Liverpool Canal. There have been mills on the site since the middle ages, and in 1788 five water wheels provided [...] Manufacturing of woollen cloth at Armley Mills depended entirely on water power until 1850 when the first steam engine was installed. The water wheels passed out of use in the 1860s. The mill passed through

It pumped water to four interconnected stone-walled reservoirs at Passy. The buildings added considerable architectural status to the whole enterprise. Périer installed further engines and water intakes [...] merchants in Paris. He was self-taught in mechanics and saw early on the potential of steam power for water supply and other functions. In 1777-8 he and his brother Auguste Charles Périer founded a pioneering [...] pioneering joint-stock company, the ‘Compagnie des eaux de Paris’, which won the right to supply water to private homes, public fountains and fire hydrants in the French capital. James Watt designed engines for

The hammer mill is a water-powered iron forge preserved by the Museum of West Bohemia. It is located 25 km east of the city of Pilsen. An ironworks existed on this site in the 1650s. At one time there [...] conserved for the public to visit in 2019-20. The waterwheels are in working order, supplied with water through a timber channel. A working blacksmiths’ forge gives demonstrations. The displays present

the heart of one of the principal olive producing areas in the Mediterranean region. The museum, a site of the Museum Network of the Cultural Foundation of the Piraeus Bank Group (PIOP), illustrates the [...] Antiquity. The ground floor of the museum displays machines illustrating the development of olive oil production technology from early times, including animal-, water-, steam- and diesel-powered presses

Narvik (N) Museum Nord. Narvik (N) Museum Oederan 'The Weaving'. Oederan (D) Museum Oederan 'The Weaving'. Oederan (D) Museum of Industry. Gent (B) Museum of Industry. Gent (B) musil – Museum of Industry [...] Königshain Granit Quarrying Museum. Königshain (D) Königshain Granit Quarrying Museum. Königshain (D) Lage Brickworks LWL Industrial Museum. Lage (D) Lage Brickworks LWL Industrial Museum. Lage (D) Lauchhammer [...] Porcelain Museum. Großdubra (D) Margarethenhütte Electrical Porcelain Museum. Großdubra (D) Mildenberg Brickworks Park. Zehdenik (D) Mildenberg Brickworks Park. Zehdenik (D) Museum Nord. Narvik (N) Museum Nord

turbine and electrical equipment. Recycling continues in the region and the museum works with local companies and the Textile Museum of Prato. [...] The Mumat museum of textile machinery 20km north of Prato in Tuscany occupies a factory for recycling used woollen cloth, built in 1893 by Amerigo Meucci. Wool recycling techniques were invented in England [...] regenerated wool became known as ‘Prato wool’. Rags were sorted by fibre and colour and put in tanks of water to be torn apart by spiked rollers. They were then cleaned of impurities by treatment with acid. The

The museum of paper is in a working paper mill in the village of Acquasanta in the hills north-west of Genoa. The Piccardo paper mill was built in a narrow valley with a good supply of clean water in 1756 [...] 1756 and continued to operate until 1985. The museum was begun by the Commune of Mele in 1992. The tools and equipment have been kept in working order. Master papermakers still produce paper by traditional [...] them. The mill also has a continuous paper machine and numerous examples of tools and equipment. The museum shows audiovisuals and reconstructions. Courses and workshops are run for artisan papermakers.

end of the twentieth century. The museum is owned by the local municipality and is located in two former paper Mills, the Azvedos Mill, and the Custódio factory, a water-powered mill dating from 1822 that [...] Portugal’s first museum of the paper industry is in the community of Santa Maria da Feira, south of Oporto. People in the region were engaged in the making of paper from the early eighteenth century, but

Near the city centre of Zaporizhia is The Boguslaev Technical Museum, also known as the Museum of Aviation and High-Tech “Motor Sich”. Opened in 2013, it is housed in an elegant building on the edge of [...] engines and gas turbines. The factory was destroyed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The museum contains a unique and impressive display of piston and jet engines together with models and examples [...] collection of historical motorcycles and an elegantly displayed collection of samovars for heating water. Outside, an open-air exhibition of military equipment includes tanks, lorries, guns and aircraft

The museum in Agia Paraskevi on the island of Lesvos,a site of the Museum Network of the Cultural Foundation of the Piraeus Bank Group (PIOP), is located in a former communal oil mill, in which both a [...] phases in oil production, crushing the olives, pressing the olive pulp and separating the oil from water, are clearly explained. The areas where the olive crop was stored before processing are used for displays

of the cotton factory from England to mainland Europe. In 1771, Richard Arkwright built the first water-powered mill for spinning cotton at Cromford in England. This developed the idea of the factory – [...] North-Rhine Westphalia in 1783-4 he gave it the name Cromford. The building is now an industrial museum. Brügelmann grew up in a family of merchants at Elberfeld, now a district of Wuppertal. Elberfeld [...] Brügelmann built his new Cromford factory at Ratingen, 40 kilometres away from Elberfeld. It used an old water-power site on the river Anger. It was five storeys high and designed on the Arkwright model by Rutger

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 [...] after a spell working in St Petersburg, established an engineering shop in the early 1820s using the water-power provided by the Tammerkoski river. He diversified into cotton manufacturing in 1828, and while [...] 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

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 [...] by Stanislaw Staszic (1755-1826). Charcoal-fired blast furnaces with bellows originally blown by water-power derived from the Kamienna river, were built in 1838-41. Coke was used after the construction