European Industrial Museum for Porcelain
Do you know how “white gold” is made from unimpressive lumps of kaolin? Have you ever stood between rumbling, giant-sized glaze mills or in front of a running steam engine which once generated power for the entire factory? Things that today may arouse feelings of nostalgia among engineering enthusiasts once provided the harshest of conditions for the factory’s workers. This is a museum of working and social history, a museum of technology, of the manufacture of porcelain.
It shows you how the clay mass was first prepared, how the plaster moulds were made, and how porcelain and its decoration were created. You see how tableware was once produced and how it is produced today, a kind of works visit where both man and machine are at the focal point. Actual demonstrations bring everything to life, and modern multimedia equipment such as touch screens, monitors and so on are used, to give you an idea of what conditions of the people working in the European porcelain industry have been and are today. We hope at some stage that we can demonstrate work sequences using the original machinery taken from various factories throughout Europe.
As well as workplaces and the production facility, the entire power generation complex is featured. Two steam engines with a transformer station, a boiler house with its own well, and the tools needed for operation are all on hand and fully operational. The steam engine is operated every day. The museum is a key point on the 
European Route of Industrial Heritage.
