It is managed as a nonprofit organisation focusing on analysing and exhibiting the economic and social history of the Brussels region.

[2] The museum is located at 27, rue Ransfort/Ransfortstraat in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, on the site of the former foundry of the Compagnie des Bronzes de Bruxelles (1854–1979), close to the Brussels–Charleroi Canal.

Each module includes two showcase machines that represent the technology and the companies that made and used them, as well as the working conditions.

[4] The permanent exhibition is, since 2001, in the 300 m2 (3,200 sq ft) lathe room of the former Compagnie des Bronzes.

The bilingual French and Dutch exhibition addresses those interested in sociology and technology as well as local history.