dates to the 15th century. The operation of the Makkarakoski sawmill, now functioning as a sawmill museum, began in 1753. The machinery and equipment of the current sawmill are mostly from the 1880s. The

Aitoneva, a part of the municipality of Kihniö around 100 km north of Tampere, houses the only museum which exhibits the history of industrial-scale peat production in Finland. The extraction and use of [...] This also includes some not so successful methods, including the use of heavy Russian machinery. The museum presents a wide range of exhibits on the production and use of peat, as well as the history and [...] t of the peat industry. The environmental management of peatlands is also addressed. Outside the museum, around sixty machines related to peat production are located in the woodland, the oldest of which

to Seville; the mining museum revitalising the former compressor house with infinite audio-visual installations illustrating historical modes of extraction; and the mercury museum in a warehouse of 1941 [...] ce of mercury by offering interactive experiments. Even the Miners’ Hospital of 1752 partly is a museum today while the other part hosts the archives of the mines.

The museum in the castle has displays on the history of the youth hostel movement, but also on the geology and history of the region, including its industrial history. The entrance to the museum lies [...] lies 300 m from the Deutsche Drahtmuseum (German wire museum).

industrial museum occupies a huge complex of red-brick buildings that cross to an island over rapids on the river Kymijoki. It was built as a mill for manufacturing cardboard in 1872. It became a museum in 1997 [...] Visitors also see the hydroelectric plant completed in the 1920s with its original turbines. The museum highlights the stories of nine individual people who worked at the plant. Models, photographs and

18th century. The museum opened in 1981. Bladed weapons, small arms and artillery from 32 countries are displayed in the galleries and there are extensive reserve collections. The museum craftsmen, as well [...] The Arsenal museum in L’viv has large and valuable collections but its most interesting exhibit is the building in which it is housed. The arsenal is a 2-storey brick structure with a miniature octagonal

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 [...] seamless wire: this is what the world's first paper machine looks like. Visitors to the Laakirchen Museum of Papermaking and Print can see its replica in action. The technical relic is part of an exciting [...] audiovisual interpretation and tells, among other things, the story of the factory workers. A special museum deals with the history of local fire brigades, and the "ALFA" convention centre houses small and

Autoseum is a museum of cars, mopeds, speedway bikes and aircraft. The collection began at Skokloster Castle in 1963 and passed through several owners. In 2008 it opened at Simrishamn, at the southern [...] Sweden. The earlier collection is brought together with new acquisitions and loans from the National Museum of Science and Technology and the Nisse Nilsson Collection. The cars represent many countries, including [...] and one by Renault. They are laid out in a large building of 4,000m 2 . The site also houses a toy museum, a collection of model aircraft and the Frasses and Marianne Musikmuseum, which is an important

This national aviation museum was founded in 1955 and moved to its present location at Lelystad airport in 2003. It includes over 100 aircraft in and around two hangers and a reconstruction of the first

the history of the site. In the old Diesel Power Station the Baía do Tejo Industrial Museum is installed. The museum houses a significant collection of industrial equipment of various kinds, explains the [...] and social services. The museum can only be visited by appointment. It also organises guided tours of the former CUF area, visiting and explaining the Alfredo da Silva House Museum (Casa Museu Alfredo da

exhibition of brewing. The site is a national historical monument and branch of the National Agricultural Museum. The beautiful copper brewing equipment made by Škodawerke in Plzeň in 1930 is fully conserved in

condition. Nowadays the colliery near Beringen in Limburg (Belgium) is the site of the Flemish Mining Museum. Visitors are put in the appropriate mood by a documentary film showing aspects of the everyday life

have largely disappeared. Only the award-winning Black Country Living Museum is still deeply rooted in Victorian times. The Museum effortlessly transports visitors to the late 18th and early 19th century [...] seams and the vents of industrialization turned this area black. All the buildings of the open-air museum are original and have been moved here to save them from development. Costumed staff bring the period

The Blonay-Chamby Museum Railway rises into the mountains above Lac Leman with spectacular views. It was created by volunteers in 1968 and operates with restored steam and electric locomotives. It is connected

the locomotive as it chuffs peacefully along the Ruhr valley. There is no doubt that the Railway Museum in the Bochum suburb of Dahlhausen arouses a lot of nostalgia. On Sundays there is always a hand-lever [...] nearby station at Bochum-Dahlhausen. The station with its restored entrance hall also belongs to the museum. Amongst the exhibits to be seen here is a collection of rail tickets. The fact that none of this [...] Maintaining and repairing the huge amount of vehicles in the correct manner is a major part of the museum´s activities. The Bochum-Dahlhausen railway works first went into operation in 1918 as a repair workshop

private museum displays 350 examples of cars, motorcycles, tractors and other vehicles alongside other artefacts that show the central position of automobiles in recent social history. The museum was devoted [...] 1960s. The museum now has 150 motorcycles and cars and shows these alongside domestic objects such as period clothing, commercial packaging and reconstructions of period shops. Since 2023 the museum has also [...] widened to other automobiles in 2017 with the addition of exhibits from the Fritz B. Busch Automobile Museum. The largest part of the collection is still devoted to tractors and to rural life, with artefacts

Near the city centre of Zaporizhia is The Boguslaev Technical Museum, also known as the Museum of Aviation and High-Tech “Motor Sich”. Opened in 2013, it is housed in an elegant building on the edge of [...] engines and gas turbines. The factory was destroyed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The museum contains a unique and impressive display of piston and jet engines together with models and examples

Musée Bolo is the Swiss Museum of Computer Science, Digital Culture and Video Games. It occupies Building INF of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Faculty of Computer Science and Com [...] Communications. The collection was begun in 1995 by the engineer, Yves Bolognini and it became a museum in 2002, now run by the foundation Mémoires Informatiques. The diverse collections include several thousand [...] Polytechnic School. An important collection of games and video consoles is also represented. The museum in laid out for visitors to explore the collections in any order.

and signalling, and since its re-opening has been part of the London Overground circuit. The Brunel Museum was established in 1961, in a building that housed the tunnel’s drainage pumps. It includes the Grand [...] Brunel later organised fairs and banquets there and it currently served as a performance space. The museum provides a full history of the tunnel and visitors are encouraged to travel by boat, train or on

landmark. ‘Excavator 1452’ was preserved in 2001. This 33.5m-tall giant is the star exhibit in the museum. It has long steel booms and moves on caterpillar tracks. One boom holds the rotating excavator buckets