The Head of Steam Museum comprises North Road Station, opened in 1842 once part of the Stockton & Darlington, the adjacent goods shed and the nearby Hopetown Carriage Works. The museum opened as the Darlington [...] Coast Main Line, Locomotion from 1892 and Derwent from 1898, and both belong to the national collection. The museum includes two other locomotives both from the North Eastern Railway, a 2-4-0 of 1885 and [...] Darlington Railway Museum in 1975. Exhibits include George Stephenson’s Locomotion No 1 , which pulled the train on the opening day of the Stockton & Darlington Railway, and Derwent , built in Darlington

factory in the least. The impression from within is a complete contrast. The building houses the National Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia and welcomes visitors with a large number of historic [...] historic textile machines. But this is only a part of the exhibition programme. The aim of the museum is to provide visitors with a comprehensive overview of the history of knowledge and technology in Catalonia

The glassworks museum is the historical site of a complete glassworks in the countryside in the centre of the Czech Republic, 85 km south-east of Prague. The Jakub glassworks was founded by Ferdinand Čapek [...] workshops with roof vents to remove the heat surround a tall brick chimney. The oldest buildings at the museum date from the 1820s. The site was further developed by the Rückel family from 1844 and then by the [...] the Císař brothers from 1928. Restoration was begun in 2004 and the site was designated a National Cultural Monument in 2014. A small glass furnace is operated for events or group visits where glassmakers

The Museum of Agricultural Machinery and Equipment is a branch of the National Museum of Agriculture at Čáslav, east of Prague. It is open from April to October. The focus of the displays is the development

tie specialist knots. Nearby, the residence of the naval commanders houses a branch of the National Marine Museum. [...] became an interpretation centre for the sea. The main part of the ropeworks was renovated in 2017. The museum explains the importance of rope in the navy, how the hemp plant was made into yarn and how strands

extensive archives were transferred to the museum. The main exhibition of the Forssa Museum, the City of Colourful Cloth, tells the story of Forssa community. Museum Gallery Moletti, an atmospheric little [...] focuses on contemporary and textile art. Forssa Museum was the Museum of the Year 2014 in Finland and a nominee for the Emya prize in 2015. In 2021, the museum opens a new site Pattern Centre, dedicated to [...] Finlayson design. The museum is located on the Spinning Mill Area, which is a combination of 19th century factory architecture and historic parks, and a part of the Forssa National Urban Park.

comprehensive collection of its type in the whole world. Along with its rich stock of international clocks, the museum provides a multifaceted picture of the history and technology of the phenomenon of time [...] combines such different attractions as the "watchmaker´s cottage" in Vöhrenbach, with the Clock Industry Museum in Schwenningen, whose many fully-working machines tell visitors about everyday life in the factory [...] And on your way, if you want, you can watch cuckoo-clock makers at work. Finally the German Clock Museum in Furtwangen offers visitors a comprehensive overall view of clock making in the region. Its 15

you’ll be going 140 metres underground. And below the earth it is cold, damp and dark. The National Coalmining Museum for England, near Overton in West Yorkshire, is located in one of the oldest collieries [...] steam-driven winding wheels which were in operation till 1970 are still working. In addition the museum has an audio-visual exhibition which takes visitors on a journey through more than two centuries [...] pit railway and travel to the next colliery just around the corner. This also forms a part of the museum complex.

This brick warehouse is one of the prestigious museums in the Ironbridge World Heritage site. It was built in 1840 by the Coalbrookdale company to store iron products ready for shipment down the River [...] a vital trade route, connecting the Shropshire coalfield to the Atlantic port of Bristol and the national canal system. Iron goods were carried from the ironworks to the warehouse on horse-operated tramroads [...] architect Samuel Cookson as a public showpiece for the iron company in the Gothic Revival style. The museum is increasingly affected by floods and a scale model of the Severn Gorge has been removed for safekeeping

The museum of tractors, together with a museum of agricultural machinery and a preserved landowner’s house, is in the countryside 80km west of Helsinki. The private collection was started in the 1970s [...] others are rare survivors. They include makes such as Ford, John Deere, Deering, Oliver, Fordson, International, Munktells, Takra and Deutz. The agricultural machinery includes horse-drawn vehicles such as

centre on land for the Royal Navy’s submariners for more than a century. It is part of the National Museum of the Royal Navy and also of the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard group, and is linked with the Dockyard [...] The museum at Gosport provides an opportunity to observe how submarines are constructed as well as about the lives of the crews who manned them. It occupies the site of HMS Dolphin , the training centre [...] bus that plies the short distance across the mouth of Portsmouth Harbour. The centrepiece of the museum is HMS Alliance , a submarine of the Second World War. During a 45-minute tour visitors can see the

and services of an international standing in Tampere. Vapriikki opened to the public in 1996, and the building was fully ready as a museum in 2000. The total floor area of the museum centre is approximately [...] Vapriikki is a versatile museum centre located by the Tammerkoski river, where visitors can explore over ten exhibitions on history, natural sciences and technology all at once. Together with other operators [...] the 1990s. The Swedish word ‘fabrik’ became the Finnish ‘vapriikki’ in the last century, and the museum centre was named Vapriikki to emphasise the significance of its location in Finnish industrial history

south-west of Stockholm is the international headquarters of the Scania-Vabis company. Scania originated in Malmö in southern Sweden and Vabis at Södertälje. The museum is centred on the hall named after

pot and a clock - it appears as if the foreman has only just left his desk. This is how the Central Museum of Textiles recreates in detail some 200 years of daily working life and textile history in Łódź [...] exciting retrospective takes us back to the time of the great factory foundations, recounts nationalisation, bankruptcy and unemployment, and ends with the revival of local factories in the more recent [...] of the first textile industry hubs in Poland, along with the Łódź City Culture Park, an open air museum setting with a collection of historic wooden houses and other buildings typical of the region.

The Nationales Automuseum in central Germany is one of the most comprehensive collections of cars in the world. It incorporates more than 50 brands and 150 cars across a span of more than 130 years, from [...] was created by the industrial entrepreneur Dr Friedhelm Loh and opened to the public in 2023. The museum is a university campus for courses in car design and conservation. The facilities include a cinema

engine from a cider factory and a 1959 Bristol Proteus gas turbine that generated peak power for the national grid. The Sulzer injection diesel made at Ludwigshafen in 1912 is the oldest working diesel engine [...] ships’ radio rooms. A gallery is also devoted to vintage motorbikes. Run by dedicated enthusiasts, the museum opened in 2003 and has continued to expand to accommodate the growing collection.

The museum is located at a railway roundhouse and turntable a short walk south-east of Sibiu passenger station in central Romania. The reinforced-concrete roundhouse curves through 120 degrees and was [...] Romania and other equipment such as stream cranes. Some were built in Romania by Malaxa and its nationalised successor the 23 August Works (later FAUR) in Bucharest and at the Domains factory at Reșița.

Enigma is a museum of communications established in 1997. Its name comes from the Ancient Greek word for a spoken riddle. It is housed in the former post office in Østerbro, where it cares for Denmark's [...] Denmark's national collections of the post and telecommunications industries, including the country’s largest stamp collection. Through sophisticated interactive exhibitions it explores many historical and current

The museum was begun by the master-printer Maurice Audin in 1964 and celebrated its half century with a major renovation in 2014. It occupies the Hôtel de la Couronne, a Renaissance house that became Lyon's [...] Lyon's first city hall. It has an internationally significant collection. An enormous range of graphic materials is displayed – rare books, artists’ prints and posters, bus tickets and advertisements,

Outhwaite Ropemakers is a working factory in the Yorkshire Dales National Park that produces ropes in traditional flax or cotton and man-made fibres. The business was established by the Wharton family [...] ropes are needed). Braiding machines can also be seen in operation. Nearby, the Dales Countryside Museum in the former railway station preserves a steam locomotive and carriages and includes displays about