The national museum was stablished in 1983 when Moldova was part of the USSR and brought together several existing museums including the museum of military glory. It was renamed the National Museum of the [...] rooms amongst its twelve galleries. The museum was erected between 1980 and 1987 retaining its original frontage. Its displays illustrate the hole of the nation’s history from Palaeolithic times, through

geological features. Here, on the edge of the Eifel, the countryside is full of Devon sandstone, slate and limestone, rich in lead, zinc and iron ore. Vieille Montagne near La Calamine was particularly [...] "the neutral area of Moresnet". Mining around La Calamine stopped in 1951. But memories remain. The Museum in La Calamine contains a permanent exhibition on the arduous working conditions which the miners [...] the ore. The long and colourful political history of the area is another theme dealt with in the museum. Visitors can see rare exhibits here, like the coins and stamps which were specially issued during

Locomotion is a branch of the National Railway Museum (see York) that incorporates the earlier museum established in Shildon commemorating the achievements in the development of the steam locomotive of [...] until 1984. In two large halls around 110 vehicles from the collection of the National Railway Museum are displayed. The museum complex includes Soho Cottage, the modest home of the Hackworth family, an iron

The museum opened in 2021 inside the national velodrome, Centro de Alto Rendimento. It uses the circular space beneath the cycleway. Its subject is the national and worldwide history of motorcycles and [...] displayed. Parts and accessories mark the history of cycling and motorcycling locally, regionally and nationally.

Polands National Museum of Agricultural is located at Komorniki, 10 km south of Poznań. The collection was established in 1964 and the museum gained national status in 1974. Its collection includes steam [...] science. Researchers at the museum study dialects and folk art. The museum incorporates the manor house and mausoleum of the former landowners the Bierbaum family. The museum has a branch at Uzrzewo, concerned [...] Jaracz, opened in 1981, a section on basketry and hops at Nowy Tomyślu, opened in 1985, an open air museum of 1999 at Swarzedz, and a branch concerned with the place of meat in society established at Sielinko

worn by men in this part of Albania. The fortress houses a museum in memory of Skanderberg. The site is also home to the National Ethnographic Museum, founded in 1989. It is housed in the villa built by Ismail [...] The fortress named after the national hero Georgius Kastrioti Skanderbeg (1405-68) stands in the centre of the northern Albanian town of Krujë. The restored bazaar from around 1800, when Krujë was part [...] part of the Ottoman Empire, is like a living museum where a wide range of craftsmen display their skills. You can see basket weavers, shoemakers, silversmiths and the makers of the characteristic white felt

The national postal collections were started in 1881 and were first shown to the public at the national exhibition of 1885. Together with telegraph and broadcasting material, the collections had a permanent [...] building in 2012, an architecturally distinguished post office in the centre of the capital. The museum preserves objects and documents to present the history of postal services, telegraph, telephone, [...] tower built in in 1933 show why it is still the symbol of Hungarian broadcasting. Branches of the museum can be found in other parts of Hungary.

Industriekultur-CNCI (Centre national de la culture industrielle/National centre for industrial culture) is a non-profit that promotes industrial culture and industrial heritage in all its forms. Based [...] in Luxembourg, its key mission is to establish a collaborative network of partners consisting of museums and associations that are active in the field of industrial heritage. Another important aspect of

The museum is part of National Museums Scotland. It is sited at a military airfield about 30 kilometres east of Edinburgh. The collection was started very early – in 1909 – when the national museum acquired

is a monument to the resistance and is part of the National Museum of Užice. It produced arms and ammunition in an underground vault of the National Bank of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The factory worked

collections of the Czech National Agricultural Museum date from the World Fair (or Jubilee Exhibition) held in Prague in 1891. After the exhibition closed they were part of a museum of ethnography but the [...] the agricultural museum became a separate institution in 1918. The collections were subsequently displayed in various locations until a magnificent museum building was constructed in 1937-39 in the Letná [...] Letná area of Prague, close to the National Technical Museum. It was designed in the Modernist style by the architect Milan Babuška (1884-1953). During the Second World War it was occupied by Nazi forces and

slave trading ships were repaired and fitted out. One of the greatest groups of national museums in the world, National Museums Liverpool is ideally placed to elevate this subject onto an international stage [...] remember that we were bought, but not that we were brave." William Prescott, former slave 1937 The new Museum will open its display galleries on 23 August 2007, Slavery Remembrance Day. 2007 is the bicentenary [...] rebellion, which created the first independent Black republic of Haiti. The International Slavery Museum will be at Liverpool´s Albert Dock, at the centre of a World Heritage site. The location is only

2000 the Swedish National Museum, KF and the municipality of Varmdo came to an agreement by which the collection of Gustavsberg porcelain that had been displayed in the company museum should pass to the [...] the state through the National Museum. This mean that the collection could remain intact and that it could still be displayed at Gustavsberg. It comprises a remarkable range of wares manufactured between [...] between 1825 and 1990. The Varmdo tourist office is located within the museum which is a popular day-trip destination for visitors to Stockholm.

again in 2015 alongside an exhibition of brewing. The site is a national historical monument and branch of the National Agricultural Museum. The beautiful copper brewing equipment made by Škodawerke in Plzeň

books and in calendars and greetings cards. A museum was established in the mill in 1987 displaying a collection that originated in the National Technical Museum in the 1950s. It shows the classic methods [...] paper that have been used in the Czech lands over many centuries. The building was registered as a National Monument in 2001-02, and the mill has been proposed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The Maritime Centre Vellamo at Kotka is Finland’s national maritime museum, and is the responsibility of the National Board of Antiquities. It opened in 2008 and has a spacious boat hall and an auditorium [...] special emphasis on winter navigation in northern latitudes, together with the work of icebreakers. The museum has extensive archives with 2000 historical maps, more than 30,000 photographs and the database of

world by the clipper route. The unique feature of Arlington Court is the presence of the National Trust’s carriage museum. In 1964 the Marquess of Bute presented the Trust with a collection of eight historic [...] than 40 vehicles, including some from other country houses belonging to the National Trust and some from the Science Museum, London. They include the Craven state chariot, a carriage built for the Earls [...] country house of the Regency (early nineteenth century) period, owned and opened to the public by the National Trust. A particular attraction is the park with its herd of red deer. Arlington is the ancestral

independent Czechoslovakia of the 1920s and 30s was in the forefront of industrial design. The National Museum has collections of machines, vehicles, clocks and cameras, but the departments of industrial [...] equipment and household appliances, are of particular importance. The museum also takes responsibility for some industrial sites and museums in other parts of the republic.

The former Museum of Rail and Track at Angelholm is administered jointly with the collection at Gavle by Banverket, the national railway company. The museum, located in a locomotive shed of 1898, portrays

Romania led to the diversion of the line that served it. A museum was soon established in the old station, and was acknowledged as the National Museum of Transport and Communication in 1996. The collection [...] The city of Ruse is on the banks of the River Danube in northern Bulgaria. The National Museum of Transport and Communications is principally concerned with railways and is located in Bulgaria’s first [...] Visitors can enjoy rides in hand-propelled carts once used for the maintenance of the permanent way. The museum also includes a small display relating to the Danube navigation.