The museum’s spaces host permanent collections with more than 300 artifacts from the island’s industrial history, while throughout the year it remains open to events, workshops, educational programs, and major temporary exhibitions.

However, the Industrial Museum is not spatially confined to the former Katsimantis building. It extends conceptually to other historic sites across the city, housed in three more 19th-century industrial buildings, composing a network of exemplary restored museum spaces—each playing a vital role in preserving Hermoupolis’ industrial heritage:

The Menelaos Kornilakis Tannery, a monumental complex built in 1880, consisting of four buildings arranged along a cobbled private street. The tannery business that ran here from as early as 1853–1854, introduced steam power and the first machines for leather processing, offering the Tannery a leading position in the city’s industrial legacy.

The Georgios Anairousis Scoop Factory, the only of its kind that still stands tall in Europe. Only minor interventions were made to the building, while its equipment has been preserved, with the aim of showcasing it as an independent museum unit where the process of lead shot production is adamant.

The Velissaropoulos Textile Factory. Founded between 1900 and 1905, it operated as a cotton textile and dyeing mill until the 1960s and has been preserved intact. The factory later housed the renowned Neorion subsidiary, Enfield Automotive.

The museum is a member of the European Route of Industrial Heritage (ERIH), which includes 1,850 industrial monuments in 47 countries, as well as of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), which has approximately 22,000 members and operates in 145 countries.

At the entrance of the museum, one of the original columns of the Church of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary (1829), made from “xylodémata”: a bundle of wooden beams bound with ropes and covered with plaster painted to resemble dark green marble. This technique was developed by the first settlers who drew on the shipbuilding woodworking skills they had acquired in their homeland.

In Hall 1, “City of Refugees”:
– Products of Greece’s first glasswork factory, founded in Syros by Dimitrios Argyropoulos and began operating in 1872 with a fifteen-horsepower steam engine and 55 workers.
– Printing presses, paper-cutting machines, type cases, and printing tools. Hermoupolis, especially between 1833 and 1868, became a center of publishing activity. Of particular importance is the printing press used to print Tharros, one of the longest-running newspapers of Syros.

In Hall 2, “Opening to the World”:
– A display recreating the historic shop of K. Charalambidis (1890–1940), which operated on the ground floor of the Petritzi Mansion and specialized in imports from France and Germany.

In Hall 3, “Maritime Techniques”:
– Visitors are captivated by the findings from the shipwreck of the steamship Patris. A single glance at the objects recovered and exhibited here is enough to transport visitors to another era: English porcelain tableware, ornate iron structures, and elegant items, many bearing the emblem of the Company operating in Syros.
– Here you can also visit a rare four-cylinder Doxford marine engine.

In Hall 5, “Industrial Take-off”:
– The famous Enfield 8000 electric car, produced at the “Neorion” Shipyard in Syros during the 1970s and exported to the United Kingdom.

In the outdoor area behind the Museum’s building complex, amongst other findings, stands one of the Patris vessel’s two paddle wheels which was transported here on 8 September 2010 and carefully placed on a specially designed base. This is considered a rare and exceptional example of shipbuilding craftsmanship, now perceived as the Museum’s most instantly recognizable exhibit—a true landmark.