Industrial and mining heritage

Lace-Making Museum of Caudry

CAUDRY

Top quality lace for large fashion houses, they come mostly from Caudry. Housed in a working 19th century mill, the lace making museum takes you on...

Pottery and Earthenware Museum

FERRIERE-LA-PETITE

The museum, which is built around an impressive bottle kiln (listed historic monument), reflects three centuries of ceramics in the Avesnois. Visit...

The former Mine

WALLERS

Manufacture des Flandres - Jacquard Museum

ROUBAIX

Standing as witness to a heritage that is dear to Roubaix and the whole of Flanders, this museum preserves the memory of the cloth-making skills th...

The Chicory Visitor Centre

ORCHIES

In what was once the home of the Leroux family, the famous producers of chicory, visitors will find a unique collection of XVIth to XIXth century E...

Glass Workshop and Museum

TRELON

The museum is housed in a former glassworks dating from the 19th century, and features the techniques involved in the making of glass as well as th...

Center for Mining History

LEWARDE

Tap into the rich seam of coal–mining history at Lewarde, where France’s foremost mining museum is based upon what was once a major pithead. Walk a...

The Slag Heap Visitor Centre

RIEULAY

The Slag Heap Visitor Centre stages numerous exhibitions and activities on the themes of mining geology, rehabilitation of landscapes and on the es...