industrial past. Families and schools are especially well catered for with educational display cases and hands-on museum games with which they can test their skills. The top storey of the museum can be comfortably

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

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

demonstrated to visitors. They can participate in workshops in making sheets of paper with their own hands.

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.

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.

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 water to make pulp. The Vääräkosken factory was founded in 1898 by Gustaf A. Lönnqvist. The handsome buildings stand in a beautiful natural setting next to the Väärkoski rapids on the River Hyvölänjoki

‘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

railway station preserves a steam locomotive and carriages and includes displays about mining, hand-knitting and rural crafts.

on the west coast of Sardinia runs right through an old metalliferous vein. Visitors experience first-hand how metal ores were mined here around the middle of the 19th century and marvel at the blossom-white

advertising prints, toy theatre sheets, product labels and wallpaper. Today the workshop still uses hand-operated presses to produce original images. Historical equipment for stencilling, printing and paper-cutting

Saut-du-Tarn Steel Works at Saint-Juéry was founded in 1824. It specialized in manufacturing steel hand-tools such as files, scythes and sickles, and later agricultural machinery and other equipment with the

life and operation of a coal mine. Mannequins show particular situations, such as coal-cutting by hand in narrow seams and making repairs after roof falls. The artefacts presented include roof supports

artists and craftspeople working in felt. Workshops give visitors an opportunity to try felt-making by hand for themselves.

in the Rhône valley. The techniques are demonstrated using working equipment of yarn preparation, handloom weaving and mechanised weaving. Many earlier examples of equipment are also preserved in the museum

fibres to finished paper. A waterwheel is connected to ‘Hollander beaters’ for preparing the pulp. Hand processes are demonstrated of dipping a frame of wire mesh into liquid pulp, removing the sheets and

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

all its villages. The process of destruction is still continuing and, at the same time, a new "second-hand" landscape is being created. North-east of Eschweiler is the Inden open-cast mine , one of three

nationalized in 1945, then became privately owned again in 1993. It still produces high-quality, hand-made glasswares. Tours of the factory take visitors to see the glass-blowers at work in the furnace building