The Museum of Industry includes many exhibits and collectibles that tell the history of the industrial heritage in Saxony in general, and in the industrial city of Chemnitz in particular, with lathes, machine tools, steam engines and various locomotives, in addition to exhibitions that illustrate the role of companies that have contributed to changing Saxony since the end of the century The eighteenth century AD, from the textile industry to mining, mechanical engineering and automobile production in the twenty-first century.