Badges, uniforms, signals and posters are among the collections imaginatively displayed in a series of ‘open depots’.

Chiasso is one of the busiest of mountain railways and its scenery is the most memorable. It was opened to traffic in 1882 after 177 people, commemorated on Airolo station, died during its construction [...] Minerals, weapons, uniforms and documents relating to the history of the pass are displayed in a museum, in a building that was once a cantonal customs house, adjacent to the hotel at the summit.

the main steelfactories in Europe. The complex is not accessible to the public. The Blast Furnace Museum has been set up outside the plant in the historic former pipeline building and tells the story of [...] public. The complex can be viewed from different places around. The sea-lock complex next to Corus is opened 24 hours a day and freely accessible. Especially at sundown, this location is worth to visit. At

hammer. It forms part of the museum service of the province of Luxembourg, and has been integrated since 1977 with the adjacent Musee de la vie rural en Wallonie, an open air museum displaying 50 buildings

'luxury liners of the air', 'giants of the skies': ever since the invention of airships they have sparked people's imagination. People are also the main focus of the Zeppelin Museum at Friedrichshafen. Who [...] tasks did the captains, radio operators and the rest of the on-board crew perform? Exploring the museum makes it easy to experience the enthusiasm of the early pioneers. It starts with a big screen showing

housing and social facilities, although the company headquarters is now in Amsterdam. In 1966 Philips opened an interactive science centre in a concrete building in the shape of a flying saucer designed by [...] the building now serves as a conference centre. In Emmasingel in the centre of the city there is a museum in the original factory showing, amongst other things, how light bulbs were made in 1891, and how [...] been transformed by the 1920s by the introduction of machinery. A flashing light system links the museum with the modernistic Centre for Artificial Light in Art on the other side of the street.

significant part of Syros’ industrial history is kept, restored and promoted by the industrial museum which opened in May 12, 2000. The exceptional industrial heritage of Syros invites the interested visitor [...] establishment of the Neorion Yard by the British engineer David Smith in 1861, building iron ships. The museum: Built in 1888, the building first housed a lead shot factory before becoming a paint and dye works

Horsens is a city with long commercial and industrial traditions. The Museum was opened in 1977 in the municipal power station building of 1906. Displays including steam engines, printing, brewing and

log-floating. An open-air section includes typical temporary dwellings of lumbermen and hunters, and more modern prefabricated wooden buildings. A bridge over the river links the forest museum to the Glomdalsmuseum [...] Glomdalsmuseum, an open-air collection of buildings from the Glomma valley, established in 1911. [...] The Norwegian Forest Museum, on the banks of the River Glomma, is concerned with all aspects of the country’s forests, with ecology and hunting, as well as with forest industries. It is one of the best

The preserved creamery in the village of Hjedding, managed by the museum at Olgod, is a monument of a particular stage in the development of the food industry not just in Denmark but in Europe as a whole [...] separator, patented in 1878. The small creamery at Hjedding is laid out as it would have been when it opened in 1882, with a ‘maglekilde-separator’ of the kind designed by L C Neilson, a cheese vat and press

Société du Familistère, in 1880, thus turning the workers into owners of his stove factory. The museum, which opened in the main wing of the residential complex in 2006 and has been continuously expanded, tells

The imaginative museum of bread at Seia has proved extremely popular since its opening in 2002. It comprehensively displays the place of bread in the social, economic and cultural history of Portugal,

The Coastal Open Air Museum, formerly the museum of ocean fishing, displays the everyday life of fishermen on the Baltic coast, displaying their vessels, some of the traditional huts in which they lived [...] lived and the various means of preserving fish. The museum is notable for its narrow gauge railway, originally built with second-hand equipment, to serve villages along this stretch of coast after the Second

Estonia’s maritime museum was established 1935 although it had earlier antecedents. Since 1981 its headquarters has been the Fat Margaret artillery tower. It had been planned to open the museum the previous [...] Estonian economy. A particular feature is the role of the museum in marine archaeology in the Baltic. In 2012 a further section of the museum was opened at the former seaplane harbour in Tallin. It includes [...] member of the crew of a submarine. The displays also guide visitors to the ships preserved by the museum, the Lembit , a submarine built by Vickers Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness in 1937, the Suur Tõll

thrashing machines for attachment to their steam engines. A range of these can be seen in the Museum at Thetford. The Museum, housed in the Old Paint Shop of the famous St. Nicholas Works, tells the story of the [...] equipment. It opened in 1991 through the hard work of Burrell enthusiasts who were all unpaid volunteers who wished to see the Burrell heritage of Thetford preserved. The Charles Burrell Museum attracts many

alongside one of the mills in 1814, and now forms the only in situ exhibit in the open-air museum, which is part of the national museum, as is the mill at Brede. The latter is part of one of the best-preserved

exploration and for the supply and servicing of rigs. The displays in the purpose-built Museum of the Petroleum Industry, opened in 1999, show the technology of oil exploration and pumping, the way of life of

Opening in 2000, Hat Works is the UK’s only museum dedicated solely to the hatting industry, hats and headwear! The museum was developed in Stockport, one of Manchester´s leading hatting towns. It is an [...] thematic displays in the museum, with an approximately equal but ever-growing number of hats in store, waiting to take their place on display. One of the most atmospheric parts of the museum is the recreation

boilers are 30 feet long, 8 feet wide and hold 5000 gallons of water each. When Queen Street Mill was opened in 1895, the co-operative could only afford to put one boiler in. The second was added in 1901. Today

pub at the Taylor Street terminus. Climb aboard one of the fleet of restored trams, including the open-topped 1901 Birkenhead tram 20, the 1920 Wallasey tram 78 or the 1931 Liverpool tram 762.