several museums and exhibitions side by side. Visitors are free to collect hands-on experiences, for example by making their own hand-made paper as in pre-industrial times. The printing museum, showcasing machines
geological conditions. Between April and October, visitors aware of their health can bathe their hands and feet in the brine in an outdoor spa, and of course there is also a chance to taste the "white
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
ing kilns and the ruins of a charcoal store and a limekiln. Blacksmiths demonstrate their work in hand forges. Visitors walk a circular trail that also includes a barracks for workers, a manager’s house
and to follow the Rat Trail. There are also opportunities for prospective young engineers to get hands on experience in an effort to help provide future engineers.
invented a hitherto unheard of machine: the water frame. It could spin fine yarn in a way which only hand driven spinning wheels had been able to do until then: but at an unprecedented speed. In 1771 Arkwright
local leather industry and the craft of processing fish skins to make fine-quality book covers and handbags. On the first floor are displays of shipbuilding, flour milling and shoemaking. The second floor
commercial hand embroidery in Plauen was well-known, and in 1828 more than 2,000 people were employed in whitework embroidery. The industrialization of the craft proceeded just as quickly. The first hand embroidery
tractors, sports cars and racing cars. Interactive displays and equipment let visitors learn through hands-on experience – including working models of aerodynamics and piston operation, driving simulators and
foundries. You can also learn about the raw materials used in the foundries, how moulds were made by hand and by machine and how cast iron was processed. The museum also has a room for temporary exhibitions
air through two lip pipes: "Cuckoo!" For 300 years the people in the German Black Forest delivered handmade cuckoo clocks all over the world. That said, masses of other clocks have been produced here, from
techniques, spring mattresses, filigree jewellery and even a wire chain tanga. There are plenty of hands-on activities too. Visitors can try their skills on historic wire-drawing and rolling machines. In
shows the history of railway stations, using chiefly photographs as evidence of systems of luggage handling, ticket issuing and other functions of stations. The second displays the kinds of telegraphic equipment
reconverted into a museum which presents the relationship between art and industry as shown by the hand of Eduardo Chillida, one of the most famous sculptors in the Basque Country.
particularly in the manufacture and working of crystal, used for fine table wares, ornaments and chandeliers. Crystal glass in the past incorporated a high proportion of lead, but it is now made by a lead-free
ty and the museum opened in 2008. It shows equipment from the 19th century onwards, including a handloom, a wet-recycling machine, a carding machine and the turbine and electrical equipment. Recycling
industrialisation are brought to life in historically recreated living and working environments. On the left-hand side, the changing world of work is depicted in a gypsum factory, a steam engine hall with a 13 [...] 1300-horsepower MAN tandem steam engine and a 1930s-style lead-printing workshop. The right-hand side is devoted to various areas of private and social life: from the workers' flat to the talking kitchen [...] shadow of the factory and the office is brought to life. Visitors of all ages are invited to try their hand at some of the demonstrations. The Bicycle Collection and Motorbike Museum bring to life Nuremberg's
