Greenland. The museum preserves a selection of historical vessels and large-scale models, from early sailing boats to modern trawlers. Visitors can go on board a cod boat to imagine the life of the men who
museum, specially designed in 1988, resembles the interior of an airship. It contains large-scale models, ranging from the first Zeppelin, launched in 1900, to the Graf Zeppelin II of 1938. Part of the
built for the Hindenburg will marvel at the luxurious interior design of this flying hotel. Detailed models as well as films and photographs recount the history of airship aviation from its beginnings in the
via an adventurous expedition through a mediaeval system of galleries, to the thunderous roar of modern mining and conveying techniques during a trip on the colliery railway. A fine example of industrial
journey through the centuries, starting with the extraction of the clay. Historic workshop equipment, a model kiln and entertaining videos illustrate the production of a grey-blue vessel. It shows how this unique [...] how the region developed into an important industrial centre with a wide range of applications for modern high-tech ceramics. On the upper floor, a variety of displays illustrate the importance of ceramics
of water supply in Kyiv along with water resources and waste treatment. The displays include scale models of the park and urban water-treatment plants, interactive graphics of the water system, original
terraces, large windows, central heating, telephones, lifts and other modern equipment. Mallet-Stevens designed all the furniture in Modernist style. The building was set in a geometrical parkland with lawns [...] The Villa Cavrois is the stylish Modernist house of the industrialist Paul Cavrois, owner of five textile factories at Roubaix, which was once known as the ‘city of a thousand chimneys’. Cavrois specialised [...] built his house he departed from traditional bourgeois villa architecture and chose the French Modernist architect Robert Mallet-Stevens. Completed in 1932, the house was built of brick, steel and glass
gatherings of bikers. The shop prides itself in being one of Europe’s best sources of model cars. Providing rare Soviet-made models is a speciality. [...] Längelmävesi lakes. The collection of 50 vehicles includes a Rolls Royce Silver Ghost of 1921, a Model-T Ford and a Trabant Limousine of 1977. The displays illustrate the history of motor transport generally
The city of Szentendre lies 15 km north of Budapest at end of the HÉV suburban railway which was modernised in 1991-92, when a depot dating from 1914, when the line was first electrified, was adapted as
collection ranges from a prototype from 1948 to new models and examples for a multitude of uses. As well as vehicles, the museum shows parts, cutaway models, photographs and films. Outside, a circuit gives
Copenhagen and a telephone booth from Frederiksberg. Other buildings display trams and buses, working models, posters, tickets and recreated shop windows.
Hurtu quadricycle made in France in 1899. In many cases, manufacturers are represented by multiple models across a long timeline, for example Aston Martin with 6 cars from 1969 to 2002, Cadillac with 11 [...] Examples of working vehicles include an early fire engine, a popcorn wagon and a Porsche tractor. All models displayed are kept in working order by the in-house team, who have restored many of the vehicles
steam engine in the world. Key objects include other stationary steam engines, William Murdock’s model for his steam carriage of 1784, locomotives and motor cars. An interactive gallery examines the science
France’s best-selling cars. The seventy vehicles displayed are arranged chronologically, starting with models such as the Ford F-472A and the 1920s Fiat-Simca cars assembled at Nanterre. The post-war era is
Holyhead Road, the journey time was reduced from 36 hours to 27 hours. The Bridge you see today was modernized and strengthened between 1939 and 1940. Britannia Rail Bridge Robert Stephenson chose to build
the car makers DS, Peugeot and Citroën. It is situated near Le Bourget airport north of Paris in a modern building of 6,500 m² – appropriately on the Boulevard André Citroën, which is named after the founder
Revolution period, and Temple Mill in Leeds is his most impressive memorial. After entering his father’s modest linen business in Leeds he acquired a taste for entrepreneurship, developing flax spinning technology [...] pioneered in the Ditherington mill. Temple Mill is wholly different, a single-storey structure, modelled on the Temple of Horus at Edfu in Egype and covering 0.8 ha. Light is admitted through 65 conical
instruments, trams, medical equipment, fire-engines and aircraft. A popular attraction is a working model with more than 500 m of track depicting Bebra railway junction, one of Germany’s most important. The
It is in the Vila Verde, an accommodation building for miners designed by Barreiros Leal in a modernist style in 1963. It contained reading and games rooms, a dining room, bathrooms and bedrooms for over [...] records of the São Pedro da Cova coal company and objects including banners, lamps, helmets, wagons, models and a rail car for transporting coal to the electricity generating station. A walk 1km to the south
, showed how it could be used to model buildings and busts of people. The museum occupies the first floors of two nearby houses in Dumtsa Jenöutca, and includes models of the Hungarian parliament building