to international competition. Former miners created an association to preserve the mine. Visitors enter riding a working railway with an electric locomotive and go 2km underground. Guides explain the history

since the 11th century. With industrialisation from the middle of the 19th century, mechanisation entered the stonemasonry trade. In 1888 Carl Klingspor founded the company 'Råbäcks Mekaniska Stenhuggeri'

France. The textile museum of the département is in a nineteenth-century woollen factory. Visitors enter by a footbridge across the River Thoré from a park on Boulevard Carnot. It contains original looms

produced near a million bottles a year. The brewery museum – which they call the ‘Gösseum’ – is entered through a modern glass extension. It explains the tradition of brewing in the area since the Middle

Europe’s most important main lines. The last station in Germany through which trains pass before entering Austria is at Freilassing, where, in 1902-05 the Bavarian railway authority built a locomotive depot

houses the most important coalmining museum in Italy. Just as the colliers once did, visitors first enter the lamp room which in this case has the dimensions of an extended hall. In the large room where the

each 341 metres long, designed by Alberto Fava: the widest roof has a span of 73 metres. Passengers enter through a porte-cochère to a booking hall and then up grand stairs to the concourse. It mixes classical

shore of Lake Garda at the point where the River Toscolano, sometimes called the Torrento Toscolano , enters the lake. The first evidence of papermaking in the area is from the late fourteenth century, and

remembering that the space shuttle uses ceramic tiles on its surface to protect it from the heat of re-entering the earth’s atmosphere. As the displays at the museum show, fashions may change, but tiles have

Top secret and highly explosive: the world visitors explore when entering the Exploseum was sealed to strangers for a long time. Right here one of the largest ammunition factories of the Third Reich came

works is now that of Fabrique National, established at Herstal, 6 km to the north in 1889, which is entered through a spectacular gateway built in 1890, but is not open to visitors. The Musée d’Armes was

but he only stayed for a short time. Christensen retired in 1887 a year after K E Messerschmidt entered the partnership. Messerschmidt took the business forward and erected new buildings in 1913. The company

Helmets on, enter the mine train and off it goes into the mountain, 580 metres deep. An extensive network of tracks covering main and secondary galleries indicates how busy the iron ore mines of Rumelange

To see, hear, touch, and feel: entering the former Knappenrode briquette factory means to explore 100 years of Lusatian industrial history with all your senses. The visit starts by climbing the 22-metre

large-scale producer of steel, but also mined more coal than any other company in Spain. Visitors enter the museum through a reception area in a 45 m high cooling tower (refrigerante), where they can examine

The Royal Navy’s base at Plymouth, where the Rivers Tamar, Tavy, Lynher and Plym enter the English Channel, was established in the late 17th century, and re-named Devonport in 1823. The museum has evolved

of the various working processes. Visitors can experience a typical day in the life of a collier, enter the director´s office (once the brain centre of the colliery), go inside the colliery workshops and

experience: a simulator recreates a shaft trip down to a depth of 600 m and conveys the feeling of entering a real mine afterwards. Rail transport vehicles used in the past are exhibited on the outside grounds

15,000 to 18,000 people. Following the Second World War, however, the cutlery industry in Thiers entered a time of economic decline. In the 1980s, the exeptionally designed pocket knife ‘Le Thiers’ was

gallery and shop in the station buildings of 1909. The highlight of a visit to the museum is to enter the two wartime tunnels which retain their equipment.