his collection to the Ateneum museum in Helsinki. The development of the Gosta Serlachius Museum of Fine Arts was encouraged by his son R Erik Serlachius (1901-80). The museum was opened in 1945 at the family [...] Gosta Serlachius Fine Arts Foundation in 1972. A full-time curator was appointed in 1973, and the museum now attracts up to 30,000 visitors a year. The company passed through a succession of mergers in [...] group. The White House in Mantta, its headquarters building of 1934, now houses the G A Serlachius Museum that interprets the process of industrialisation in Finland from the 1850s until the present.

exhibitions in galleries in many countries. The contents of his workshop and its archives are held by the Museum of Industry and Labour at Sesto San Giovanni.

Miller was a talented Bavarian electrical engineer who is best known as the founder of the Deutsches Museum in Munich. He was a member of a wealthy family and was admitted in 1875 to the Bavarian hereditary [...] possible the electrification of large parts of the Bavarian railway system. He founded the Deutsches Museum in 1903 at a meeting of the Verein Deutscher Ingenieure (VDI – German Engineers’ Association) at [...] Rathenau, Carl von Linde (1842-1934) and Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen (1845-1923). The foundation stone of the museum was laid on an island in the River Isar at Munich in 1906, but it was not until 1925 that the first

that could also be driven on public roads. The family`s achievements are commemorated in the Porsche museum at Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen.

bourgeois house of 1775, is preserved as part of the city`s history centre, which also includes a museum of industrial archaeology. He was the son of a cotton manufacturer, and spent three years in the

also active in banking and insurance and was an enthusiastic advocate of the Gewerbemuseum (trade museum) in Nürnberg, whose trust was established in 1860. After his death his company merged in 1898 with

for the mass market in 1920. Burger’s achievements are commemorated in displays in the glassworks museum at Baruth.

European Museum of the Year award in 1987. His name is retained in the Kenneth Hudson award for the most unusual and daring achievement that challenges common perceptions of the role of museums in society [...] society which since 2010, award by European Museums Forum. He wrote more than 50 books many of them on topics related to industrial heritage or museums but some on entirely different subjects. Amongst the [...] works, both written with Ann Nicholls, T he Cambridge Guide to the Museums of Britain and Ireland (1987) and The Cambridge Guide to the Museums of Europe (1991). He often showed impatience with the writings

mechanical engineering and the structural use of iron and steel. An example is displayed in the Technical Museum in Vienna. He remained in Vienna after resigning his post in 1882 and was buried in the city’s Döbling

in the ironworkers’ cemetery in Gleiwitz (Gliwice), was restored in 2012 and is now in the local museum.

Oberland Dampfbahnverein. The station at Neuthal enables passengers to visit the Museum-Spinnerei (Spinning Factory Museum) in the former Guyer family cotton mill. Adolf Guyer-Zeller was also one of the

was one of the founding trustees of the Industrieviertel-Museum (Industrial District Museum) in the city and served as its director. The museum’s displays include one that tells the story of slave labour [...] Communist governments before, during and after the Second World War are commemorated in several museums, notably that in Berlin. Karl Flanner suffered more than five years as a slave labourer and as a [...] workers and prisoners, he survived, and went on to establish a reputation as a historian and to found a museum of working class life in the town of his birth. Karl Flanner was born in Flugfeld, a working class

Home Safety Committee in Britain, and in 1936 went to the United States where she saw the Edison Museum and power stations built by the Tennessee Valley Authority, and met Henry Ford (1863-1947). She was

preserved in Britain, but a French example, Le Crampton , is one of the treasures of the railway museum at Mulhouse. From 1848 Crampton practised as a civil engineer, carrying out various projects for [...] town’s gasworks, and in 1859 formed the Broadstairs Water Company, whose waterworks is now the town museum, and includes the 24.38m high Crampton Tower, at the top of which is a 386,000 litre tank that provided

tour of open air museums in Scandinavia and he took inspiration that lasted for the rest of his life from Skansen and other museums that he saw. In 1958 he became curator of the Bowes Museum at Barnard Castle [...] determined to follow a career in museums. He studied science at the University of Sheffield, after which he was employed for a time in a coke works before obtaining a job at the museum at Wakefield. In 1952 he [...] available at Beamish Hall in Co Durham, and Frank Atkinson was appointed to direct the museum in 1970. The museum opened the following year and its successes in the years that followed, when it was subject

the motorcar and made a pioneering motoring tour of Europe in 1906. Bakelite is commemorated in a museum in Somerset, England.

station and workers’ settlement at Księży Młyn are preserved. Schiebler’s mansion there is now the museum of cinematography. His wife built a massive gothic mausoleum for him at Łodz.

significant role in the development of electric traction, building a locomotive, now in the Duetsches Museum, Munich, that pulled passengers along a 277 m long track at the Berlin exhibition of 1877, and building [...] from 1898 on a site subsequently named Siemenstadt, between Charlottenburg and Spandau. The works museum, founded in 1922, moved with the company after the Second World War to Munich, where company archives

him to view Polish television in Oakdale. An account of his life is retained at the Big Pit mining museum.

Lea (1866-1940) of Shrewsbury. Armstrong`s first experimental hydraulic machine is displayed in the Museum of Science and Industry at Newcastle.