Saxon Museum of Industry

The Saxon Industrial Museum is a regional museum with four locations in Saxony. It is organized in the form of a special purpose association, the association's members are the cities of Chemnitz, Crimmitschau, Ehrenfriedersdorf and Hoyerswerda.

The museums by the association are the Chemnitz Museum of Industry, the West Saxon Textile Museum Crimmitschau, the tin mine honor Friedersdorf and the energy factory Knappenrode.

The museums represent different forms of presentation of the Saxon industrial history. To form the exhibition kinds in different shape than traditional museum, Textile Factory, Mine and special museum the entire spectrum of Saxon industry, starting in the mining industry over the settlement of the textile industry and textile engineering to machine tools, from.

Under the aspect of exploring and presenting the industrial and economic history of Saxony that the remit of the administration union from collecting and preserving cultural property on the conservation of industrial monuments extends to the use of this building as a museum institution.