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===Europe===
===Europe===
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====Finland====
* At the world heritage listed [[Kouvola|Verla]] groundwood and board mill, currently a museum, you can learn about 19th and early 20th century paper production.
* At the world heritage listed [[Kouvola|Verla]] groundwood and board mill, currently a museum, you can learn about 19th and early 20th century paper production.
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* [[Herzogenaurach]] would be a perfectly unremarkable small town in Franconia like many others - if it hadn't been for brothers Adi and Rudolf Dassler who founded two of the biggest sports companies in the world: Adidas and Puma. Production has long since moved elsewhere, but both companies have several stores and Adidas has a museum <!--The thing about the museum rests on less than 100% solid evidence. They do have an archive, but I am unsure whether normal people can go there-->
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* The ''[http://www.deutsches-museum.de/index.php?id
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1 Deutsches Museum]'' in [[Munich]] is a museum of very close to everything science and technology with its own rather interesting century long history. Highlights include experiments with high voltage or a life-size V2 rocket on display.
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==Germany====
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[[File:Zeche Zollv.JPG|thumb|upright|''Zollverein'' cokery, Essen]]
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* The [[Ruhr]] has been the biggest heavy industries region in Continental Europe since the 19th century. There are dozens of disused cokeries, steel mills and other plants converted into museums, venues or parks along the [[Industrial Heritage Trail]]. [[Essen]]'s Zollverein coal pit and cokery complex is a World Heritage site.
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* The [http://www.fagus-werk.com/en Fagus Factory] in [[Alfeld (Leine)]] that has produced shoelasts since the 1910s (it is still operational) is one of the first works of modernist architecture in the world and was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2011.
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* [[Friedrichshafen]] on Lake Constance, city associated with the development of zeppelin airships, has the [http://www.zeppelin-museum.de/en/index.php Zeppelin Museum] of technology and art and the [http://www.dorniermuseum.de/en/ Dornier Aviation and Aerospace Museum]
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* [[Herzogenaurach]] would be a perfectly unremarkable small town in Franconia like many others - if it hadn't been for brothers Adi and Rudolf Dassler who founded two of the biggest sports companies in the world: Adidas and Puma. Production has long since moved elsewhere, but both companies have several stores.
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* [[Ludwigshafen]], [https://www.basf.com/de/en/company/about-us/sites/ludwigshafen/neighbor-basf/visitor-center.html Visitor Center of BASF], the world's largest chemical producer
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* The ''[http://www.deutsches-museum.de/index.php?id=1&L=1 Deutsches Museum]'' in [[Munich]] is a museum of very close to everything science and technology with its own rather interesting century-long history. Highlights include experiments with high voltage or a life-size V2 rocket on display.
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* The [http://www.bmw-welt.com/en/ BMW Welt] and BMW Museum is in Munich, as well.
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* {{see
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| content=One of the oldest and longest serving sugar factories in Europe if not the world, this factory was shut down in 1990 upon the collapse of the GDR and after the last harvest had been converted to sugar. The factory still boasts original steam engines that had been in use for over a century and was in many ways a "working museum" even during its last decades of work. The factory was declared a monument in 1989 and preserved as a museum upon being shut down. Each tour begins with a twenty minute documentary movie on the last harvest of 1990.
| content=One of the oldest and longest serving sugar factories in Europe if not the world, this factory was shut down in 1990 upon the collapse of the GDR and after the last harvest had been converted to sugar. The factory still boasts original steam engines that had been in use for over a century and was in many ways a "working museum" even during its last decades of work. The factory was declared a monument in 1989 and preserved as a museum upon being shut down. Each tour begins with a twenty minute documentary movie on the last harvest of 1990.
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[[
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Ford
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[[
Stuttgart]],
centre
of automotive industry, with the [http://www.mercedes-benz.de/content/germany/mpc/mpc_germany_website/de/home_mpc/passengercars/home/world/discover/museum-information
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html
Mercedes-Benz
Museum]
and [http://www.porsche.com/museum/en/ Porsche Museum
]
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* [http://www.autostadt.de/en/start/ Autostadt] [[Wolfsburg]], extensive museum and theme park of Germany's biggest automotive producer Volkswagen.
===North America===
===North America===
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[[Image:Detroit FordMuseum 01.jpg|thumb|Henry Ford Museum]]
* Chrysler in [[Auburn Hills]] used to operate a museum, which is now only open during specific annual events; Ford in [[Dearborn]] also devotes a museum to Michigan USA car culture. [[Oshawa]], Ontario is home to a Canadian Automotive Museum and is closely tied to General Motors.
* Chrysler in [[Auburn Hills]] used to operate a museum, which is now only open during specific annual events; Ford in [[Dearborn]] also devotes a museum to Michigan USA car culture. [[Oshawa]], Ontario is home to a Canadian Automotive Museum and is closely tied to General Motors.
* The [[Cape Breton]] Miners' Museum in [[Nova Scotia]] offers [[mining tourism|mine tours]], as does the former coal mine in [[Springhill]].
* The [[Cape Breton]] Miners' Museum in [[Nova Scotia]] offers [[mining tourism|mine tours]], as does the former coal mine in [[Springhill]].
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==Itineraries==
==Itineraries==
* [[American Industry Tour]] through the US northeast, the former industrial heartland and "Rust Belt"
* [[American Industry Tour]] through the US northeast, the former industrial heartland and "Rust Belt"
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* [[Bertha Benz Memorial Route]]
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follow in the tracks of the first intercity automotive test pilot
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* [[Bertha Benz Memorial Route]]
in Southwestern Germany –
follow in the tracks of the first intercity automotive test pilot
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Industrial Heritage Trail (
[[
Route der Industriekultur
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) in Germany
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*
[[
Industrial Heritage Trail
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(Route der Industriekultur)
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in
Western
Germany
* [[Motorcities Tour]] in and around [[Detroit]]
* [[Motorcities Tour]] in and around [[Detroit]]