visitors are able to join by appointment. The museum in the Market Square provides an introduction to the history of the town, including its industrial heritage.

Beroum in the forest region 26 km south-west of Prague near to which are two important museums of the extractive industries that once flourished in the karst (limestone) region of Bohemia. To the north of the [...] some of the workings that remain accessible. A short distance south-west of Lodĕnice is an open air museum centred on the Parymple limestone quarries opened in 1916-18 to supply the chemical works at Neštemice [...] 1964. They were restored from 1993 by Společnost Barbara, a trust formed to preserve quarries and industrial monuments in the Czech Republic. Exhibits in the former office buildings and storehouses include

where wages were lower. The Living Textile Museum, established in 1989, is located in a four-storey former factory. Its displays illustrate the textile industry in the area since the early eighteenth century [...] demonstrated, and the museum also arranges temporary exhibitions on topical themes. There is close co-operation with parallel projects on the Czech side of the border, and the museum at Gross-Siegharts is [...] area and in the late nineteenth century there were six steam-powered mills in Gross-Siegharts. The industry still employed many people in the town in the 1980s, but the fall of the Iron Curtain led companies

of the shipbuilding museum are in the historic house of the Van Damme family, which dates from 1830 and has ceiling paintings of 1852 and Art Nouveau frescoes of 1895. The museum extends into the shipyard [...] second half of the nineteenth century the principal centre of shipbuilding was at Baasrode, where the industry was in the hands of the Van Damme and Van Proet families. Many of the craft they built were for

The collection of the old museum at 32 Museumgade was closed in June 2014 and transferred to the Textilmuseum. In the museum park behind the old museum is a small open air museum with a farmhouse, yard, [...] of hosiery, long-established in the area as a domestic industry, was re-organised on a factory basis. The Textilforum, part of the mid-Jutland Museum Service, is based in a hosiery factory of 1876, a red [...] town a shirt factory of circular design now accommodates the city’s art museum, and a former dress factory houses the Danish museum of photography.

made at Oderwitze, and the Presto cars and motorcycles produced in Chemnitz, are now largely forgotten. One of the objectives of the Museum of Saxon Road Vehicles is to perpetuate the memory of companies [...] building in the International Modern style, built in 1928 when the motor industry in Saxon was at its most prosperous. The museum displays more than 200 motorcycles and cars manufactured in Saxony by more [...] land or state, once the kingdom, of Saxony was home to one of Europe’s most innovative engineering industries in the first half of the twentieth century, and a leading centre for the production of motor vehicles

were subsequently re-built. In 1961 the museum was taken over by the land government of Lower Saxony. Heinrich Ottenjann was succeeded as director of the museum by his son Helmut Ottenjann (1931-2010) [...] original object of the museum was to display the peasant house types of the western part of Lower Saxony (the Oldenburger Munsterland), and to demonstrate traditional crafts. The museum extends over 20 ha [...] artefacts on display include a cast iron fire plate dated 1544. The museum includes many buildings that might be regarded as industrial, including a bakehouse, a bleach green hut, an oil mill, a blue dye

culture of peasant society in a prosperous agricultural region in the period before the Industrial Revolution. The museum project was launched in 1960 and the site was opened to the public in the early 1970s [...] The open air museum at Detmold, capital of the former principality of Lippe-Detmold, is reckoned the largest of its kind in Germany. It extends over 90 ha and its collection totals more than a hundred [...] and a pottery with its clay warehouse. There are several impressive windmills and a water mill. The museum regularly demonstrates flour milling, blacksmithing and pottery manufacture, and illustrates important

Friedrichshafen on shore of the Bodensee (Lake Constance) is best-known in industrial history as the manufacturing and operating base for the airships built by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838-1917) [...] areas of engineering, particularly the manufacture of hardware for space exploration. The Dornier Museum occupies a striking modern building and its 400 exhibits include twelve original aircraft and two [...] tour of the Bodensee in a flight simulator. There are joint ticketing arrangements with the Zeppelin museum and with the operators of the catamaran service from Konstanz to Friedrichshafen.

sections of the museum are currently closed for renovation. The Museum also manages the museums of foundry and electrical engineering in Budapest, of chemicals and the chemical Industry at Várpalota, of [...] The main site of the Hungarian Technical and Transport Museum in Pest is primarily concerned with transport, and includes a replica of a railway station of the early twentieth century and numerous railway

the nuclear power industry in other countries. A visitor centre opened in 1995, but three years early a museum collection was established with the aid of the National Technical Museum that was intended [...] intended to show the artefacts and images used in the nuclear power industry, particularly in its early decades. The museum opened to the public in 2012 and enables visitors to learn about such subjects as primary [...] primary and secondary circuits and radiation control. Some museum visits extend into operating areas of the plant.

The Forestry Museum in Sopron is linked to the Faculty of Forestry in the University of Western Hungary, where the first collection of specimens and artefacts related to forest industries was established [...] established by Henry David Wilchens (1763-1832). The museum occupies premises in the Estaházy palace alongside those of the Central Museum of Mining. It opened in 1983 and provides a comprehensive view of forestry [...] ecology is explained in detailed. One display shows how trees are felled and progress to sawmills. The museum includes important records of surveying and cartography, the earliest of them a forest map of 1658

Bakehouse Museum in Sopron is one of Europe’s livelier museums of the food industry. In Sopron, as in many other cities, bakers traditionally lived in a quarter outside the city wall. The museum is based [...] incorporated within the museum. Visitors can also see the adjoining flour store which became a sweet shop catering for Sunday afternoon walkers in the late nineteenth century. The museum is recognisable by

Szabadteri Naprajzi Múzeum is the most important open air museum in Hungary and extends over 63 ha. It opened in 1967, becoming an independent museum from 1972. It was originally intended to show the folk [...] was subsequently widened to include all the principal regions of Hungary. It includes numerous industrial history objects such as spinning and weaving shops, leather workers’ premises, wind and water mills [...] 1961-62. Such mills were once a feature of the Danube and of other major rivers in eastern Europe. The museum holds a large collection of documents, photographs and of the kinds of artefact displayed in the

south of the border. The silk museum was established in 1953 in a seventeenth century lakeside reeling mill and has some claim to have been the first museum of industrial archaeology in Italy. It was [...] section on new research that is continually being carried out on silk. The museum is linked with other silk-working sites and museums around Lake Como, where silk has been made since the early fifteenth century [...] silk garments. Silk is now silk imported from China and Brazil, but the mulberry groves around the museum at Garlate are a reminder that it was once produced from silk worms raised in the locality.

for enthusiasts for the history of the motor car industry when visiting Turin are likely to be the Lingotto factory and Italy’s National Motor Museum, but, although it is open only on Sundays, the Fiat

Verona, near the southern tip of Lake Garda. The Nicolis Museum was the creation of Luciano Nicolis (1934-2012), who made a fortune from the paper industry, particularly from re-cycling paper, in Verona. Its [...] One outstanding exhibit is the Biciclo Michaux , exhibited at the Triennale di Milano 1865. The museum is accommodated in a specially-designed building in glass and steel, made possible by Luciano Nicolis

basket making and violin making. The open-air museum effectively displays the architecture (chiefly wooden), arts and material culture of Gudbrandsdalen. Industrial buildings include a corn mill, a dyehouse [...] traversed by the ancient route from Oslo to Trondheim. On the edge of the town is Maihaugen, an open-air museum incorporating the collections of Anders Sandvig (1862-1950), son of a local fishermen, who studied [...] collecting buildings and artefacts, following the example of Artur Hazelius (1833-1901) who opened the museum at Skansen in Stockholm in 1891. Sandvig first displayed his collection to the public in 1904. He

the food industry and the history of the Polish countryside, on rural transport, on veterinary science, and on soil science. Researchers at the museum study dialects and folk art. The museum incorporates [...] Polands National Museum of Agricultural is located at Komorniki, 10 km south of Poznań. The collection was established in 1964 and the museum gained national status in 1974. Its collection includes steam [...] incorporates the manor house and mausoleum of the former landowners the Bierbaum family. The museum has a branch at Uzrzewo, concerned with hunting set up in 1977, a branch centred on milling and water-power at

The open air museum at Sanok, in the south-east of present-day Poland, includes 150 buildings, extends over 38 ha. and is claimed to be the largest of its kind in Poland. It was established in 1958 and [...] and set an example that was copied in other parts of the country. Like open air museums in other countries it portrays the ways of life of peasant societies before industrialisation, but, perhaps uniquely [...] Greek Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox and Roman Catholic, as well as a synagogue. The museum includes many peasant farmsteads, well heads and apiaries carved from tree trunks, highly distinctive