LVR Industrial Museum

The Rheinisches Industriemuseum (lit. Rhineland Museum of the Industry) is a decentralized museum with six locations in Rhineland, western Germany. The locations are:

• Oberhausen: the main site at the old Zinkfabrik Altenberg (zinc factory), near the Oberhausen main station
• Ratingen: Textilfabrik Cromford (textiles factory), the first factory in continental Europe, named after the Cromford Mill
• Solingen: Gesenkschmiede Hendrichs (forge)
• Bergisch Gladbach: Papiermühle Alte Dombach (paper mill)
• Engelskirchen: Ermen & Engels cotton spinning mill
• Euskirchen: Tuchfabrik Müller (textiles factory)

The owner of the museum is the Landschaftsverband Rheinland (LVR).

See also

• LWL-Industriemuseum (formerly: Westfälisches Industriemuseum), lit. Westphalian Museum of the Industry

External links

• (German) Rheinisches Industriemuseum
• (German) the Textilfabrik Cromford/Cromford Spinning Mill in Ratingen
• Ermen & Engels (Engelskirchen) view in Google Earth