displays in a former monastery in 1977, but when Lithuania re-gained its independence the buildings were handed back to the Franciscan order. In 1992 the collections were re-located in the mansion and 43 ha park

mining, agriculture and the making of charcoal. The agricultural traditions of the region are shown by hand tools and utensils that were part of daily life, and a threshing machine. Many other objects given

waterwheels to operate pumps and other mining machinery. Other exhibits include drilling equipment, hand tools of many varieties and ore-dressing plant.

century by poor farmers from Hanover, who made habitable a region of impassable bogs. Exhibits include hand tools and steam-powered machines used for cutting peat, and peat presses. Visitors can travel in one

almost everything to do with the history of tool making in Germany and central Europe from a stone-age hand axe to computer-controlled machines. The star exhibits are the world’s first production furnace for [...] the industrialisation of tool making. Which stages in technological progress marked the path from hand-forged files to mechanical file cutting? What did this mean for the workers concerned? How are precision

used for this purposes in 1985. The museum includes examples of the equipment used to make paper by hand and some early paper-making machines.

exhibits. Steam engines of 1889 and 1913 are preserved, and there are collections of minerals and hand tools, as well as toys, manufactured in the district, and goods made for pilgrims visiting the shrine

Europe at the time remained in operation until 1996. Initially, production was carried out mainly by hand until part of the operation was electrified in the 1950s. Since 2005, cultural and creative industries

industry managed by the Typorama Foundation established in 2011 and largely run by volunteers. The hand-setting of type is demonstrated, and the museum houses a collection of nineteenth and twentieth century

in which wood has been used in Transylvania society, for the building of houses and churches, for hand tools and domestic utensils, and for machinery for sawing wood, extracting oil from fruits and seeds

city centre. The museum is in one of the historic buildings of the factory. It displays hundreds of hand guns, rifles, swords and other weapons in glass cases. It also shows some field guns and missiles

Roger Münch. But the German Newspaper Museum offers more than simply texts to read, but plenty of hands-on activities and things to look at. The Premonstratensian abbey at Wadgassen used to contain a large [...] from the printing press to the mass production line. A section entitled "Our Newspaper Today: Take a Hand and Learn A Lot" invites visitors to take part in a sort of basketball game where they have throw

and raw materials used for brewing, as well as historic vehicles used for delivering beer, including hand carts and an ice sleigh. There are also collections of posters, bottles and glasses, and a particular

into a huge complex that employed nearly 2500 workers, many of them women. Its first products were hand-made cigars, but it subsequently made cigarettes, pipe tobacco, snuff, chewing tobacco and tobacco

feature of the museum is that it preserves the centuries-old traditional craft of making paper by hand.

process from the raw wool to the finished cloth. It has live demonstrations with spinning wheels and hand-looms and large-scale industrial machines for carding, spinning and weaving. The historical collections

remaining fully functional mills in the country Fellenberg bears witness to the transition period from hand work to industrial factory production. In 1797 a flour mill was set up in the town of Merzig in a [...] action as if it were a completely normal working day. But the museum does not simply bear witness to hand work on the edge of the industrial revolution. Today it presents exhibitions of paintings, photography

the Bochum suburb of Dahlhausen arouses a lot of nostalgia. On Sundays there is always a hand-lever trolley at hand on which to drive up and down the huge site to inspect the points, water tower, turntable

development of papermaking technology and watermarks. Craftsmen in a modern workshop make paper by hand that is offered for sale to visitors.

storage plant. Other museum sections are dedicated to the history of Vilnius industry as well as hands-on exhibits for children. The museum opened in 2003.