help people understand the past and also look at the future of communication and printing. As a working museum it has workshops where visitors can make paper, learn how to create marble effects, compose

Cliff Railway uses water. It is the longest and steepest water-powered funicular in existence. It has worked continuously since it opened in 1890. The railway connects the harbour at Lynmouth with the town

and also have properties of thermal insulation. The open-air museum is set out like a block-making works of the post-war period. It shows mechanical excavators for mining the pumice, a travelling crane,

cotton and make card and lampshades on a machine from the nineteenth century. Typographers and printers work for artists and publishers using traditional letterpress techniques. Authors often come into Moulin

century brewery where it looks as if the employees have just gone home at the end of their day’s work. Displays extend through twenty rooms in what is claimed to be the world’s most comprehensive beer

Robert Stevenson (1771-1850), who was engineer to the Northern Lighthouse Board for much of his working life, and designed 20 lighthouses, as well as building roads and bridges. He should not be confused

are particularly noteworthy. Various archived photos display the hardship endured by the miners at work. The collection also includes several fossils found during mining. Spread across the area, visitors

collections. It was recognised as a national museum in 1990 and from 1991 began to co-ordinate the work of 16 museums in other parts of Serbia. In 2005 the Museum was offered the use of Belgrade’s first

museums collections and the Art Gallery has a programme of contemporary art and design, bringing works and exhibitions from all over the world to the Valley. Nearby is Robertstown Bridge, one of the first

are still operating including Măriuta, built in 1910 by Orenstein & Koppel in Berlin, the oldest working narrow gauge steam locomotive in Romania. Five Romanian locomotives built in the 1950s and diesel

a small community in the township of Lindeberg, 40 miles north of Örebro. The Stripa Mine, which worked until 1977, was one of the most productive iron ore mines in the region. It was a pioneer in the

prospect for minerals on the waste tips. The fourth option is a three-hour tour of the museum, entering workings 50 m below the surface, approached by a steep adit, for which boots and waterproof clothing are

power plant, pithead baths, lamp house and smith’s shop. Visitors are unable to see underground workings but an artificial show mines has been constructed. Large machines displayed outside include cutting

clothes-dealer in the 1820s, and his sons continued his business. By 1870 they had built the Abbey Gate works in Stanwell Street, a three-storey brick building, which housed large numbers of sewing machines.

based in Wildalpen which managed a charcoal production unit to provide energy for the local iron-working industries between 1625 and 1838.

the Five Towns that made up the city of Stoke-on-Trent, while the collection of paintings includes works by Picasso, Durer and Degas.

principal cities of southern France. Stone extraction ceased in 1939, but the most spectacular of the workings, les Carrieres de Bon Temps, have become the location of the annual Rencontres de la Pierre (Meetings

including a replica of the Bayard, made in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the first steam locomotive to work in Italy, and an early electric locomotive built in Budapest in 1900, as well as important collections

revived after the Second World War revived but for copper pyrites rather than for gold and silver, and worked from 1952 until the 1970s. The extensive remains of mining activity now lie within the Troodos Geopark

April to October. The focus of the displays is the development of machines that took over from manual work, especially during the twentieth century. Among the oldest items are a pair of steam traction engines