requested to do things which are mostly strictly forbidden in museums. Visitors are asked to place their hands on straining vats, wooden barrels and many other objects, comment on them and give their opinions

century - the remains of the seventeenth century's docks and the '800th century's dry docks - the first hand-powered iron crane to the giant cranes of the '900th century. His symbols are the Lanterna (lighthouse)

treasures. After all, as the museum's motto puts it, the most adventurous discoveries are made with your hands.

‘Wensleydale’. The visitor centre at the creamery has displays showing how Wensleydale was made by hand in farmhouses, and how it continues to be produced in the factory. There are demonstrations of the

Weavers´ Triangle and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal show how cotton was made and visitors can try their hand at weaving. Begun in 1830, Oak Mount Mill continued to produce cotton until 1979, making it one of

when Thessaloniki was turning into a large industrial centre and shows that water history goes hand in hand with the history of the city. The old pumping station consists of the engine room, the boiler

nearly 1,000 textile items collected by the Warner designers for inspiration over the years, including hand beaded caps from Africa, embroidered kimonos and a stitched coat from Kazakhstan. The Archive is housed

that has existed in the town at least since the 1400s. This is the making of saddler’s ironmongery; hand forged metalwork like stirrups, bits and buckles for the saddle and harness. Whilst tanning existed [...] and smells of its industrial past. Demonstrators, who used to work in the leather industry, are on hand to show you how the leather was worked, and their knowledge and skills are inspirational. The quality

chapel in honour of Nossa Senhora da Penha de França, built at the end of the 17th century, and the hand-painting workshops can be visited. Also worth visiting is the factory village developed from 1824

museum. Here visitors can find out more about the past history of the local textile industry at first hand. In the offices they can eavesdrop on the clerks. Later they can travel alongside the bales of jute

coalmining was the leading industry in the country. Non-miners can find out how to excavate coal at first hand at the Velsen pit. The tour begins when they descend into the galleries to be confronted by the sight

the late sixteenth century, and its earliest water mark dates from 1596. It has passed through the hands of many owners and tenants and its machinery has been rebuilt many times. Its main building is an

precious panelled ceiling, and an interior full of blank copper brewery kettles, valves and instruments, hand wheels and shining pipelines. The bottles still carry the family coat-of-arms of the Princes of Promnitz

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

of the mill, of the locality and of the Rikbank’s notes. There are demonstrations of papermaking by hand. The Royal Coin Cabinet, with examples of Swedish coins over many centuries, is also located at Tumba

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

on Pelion, built between 1892 and 1903. Hellenic State Railways operated the line from 1955, then handed it over to the Hellenic Railways Organisation (OSE) which subsequently closed it. The section from

deep in the surface of the paper. In a beautifully designed modern space it has a collection of 29 hand-operated presses and over 70 cylinder and platen presses, together with other printing equipment. [...] offers workshops in typesetting and letterpress printing, handwriting and fine bookbinding, using hand-operated presses and movable type. People interested in producing a page of print, a business card

1989 the local economy has undergone drastic changes, and the tramway company has imported second hand articulated tramcars from Bremen, Munich and Karlsruhe. An unusual feature of the network in Timisoara

of pioneering spirit. It opened in 2021 with a mission to promote learning and enjoyment through hands-on, experimental displays for children and adults. It is located in a former hall for flower shows