Saxon Museum of Industry, Industrial museum network in Saxony, Germany

The Saxon Museum of Industry is a network of four locations spread across Saxony, displaying machinery, tools, and equipment from different industrial sectors and time periods. Each site focuses on specific production methods and manufacturing traditions to create a broad overview of how industry developed in the region.

The Saxon Museum of Industry was founded in 1998 and has been a public-law corporation as an economically independent special-purpose association since 1 January 1999. Its members are the cities of Chemnitz, Crimmitschau and Ehrenfriedersdorf and the district of Bautzen. The four sites present Saxon industrial history as a conventional museum, a textile factory, a show mine and a special museum.

Each of the four sites keeps working equipment in place: the Pfau brothers' woollen mill in Crimmitschau retains its original looms and wool-preparing machinery, the Ehrenfriedersdorf mine holds over 1000 minerals and a jewel grindery, and Knappenrode displays pit head frames, locomotives and the pit fire brigade's gear. The Chemnitz Tar Mummy, a 1.66 m workman found in a gasworks tar container in 1884 and mummified by the tar, has been shown there since 2003.

The four sites lie far apart: Chemnitz and Crimmitschau in the west, Ehrenfriedersdorf in the Erzgebirge, Knappenrode near Hoyerswerda in the east. At the Ehrenfriedersdorf tin mine visitors descend to a depth of 100 metres, so sturdy shoes and a jacket are useful. The Knappenrode site occupies a century-old brick factory and power station.

The Knappenrode Energy Factory occupies a century-old brick factory and power station, and its exhibits cover the pit's fire brigade and rescue team, mine surveying, pit head frames and underground clearances, and life beside the factory gates. The Lausitz Mining Museum is housed there.