tour of open air museums in Scandinavia and he took inspiration that lasted for the rest of his life from Skansen and other museums that he saw. In 1958 he became curator of the Bowes Museum at Barnard Castle [...] determined to follow a career in museums. He studied science at the University of Sheffield, after which he was employed for a time in a coke works before obtaining a job at the museum at Wakefield. In 1952 he [...] available at Beamish Hall in Co Durham, and Frank Atkinson was appointed to direct the museum in 1970. The museum opened the following year and its successes in the years that followed, when it was subject
Miller was a talented Bavarian electrical engineer who is best known as the founder of the Deutsches Museum in Munich. He was a member of a wealthy family and was admitted in 1875 to the Bavarian hereditary [...] possible the electrification of large parts of the Bavarian railway system. He founded the Deutsches Museum in 1903 at a meeting of the Verein Deutscher Ingenieure (VDI – German Engineers’ Association) at [...] Rathenau, Carl von Linde (1842-1934) and Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen (1845-1923). The foundation stone of the museum was laid on an island in the River Isar at Munich in 1906, but it was not until 1925 that the first
European Museum of the Year award in 1987. His name is retained in the Kenneth Hudson award for the most unusual and daring achievement that challenges common perceptions of the role of museums in society [...] society which since 2010, award by European Museums Forum. He wrote more than 50 books many of them on topics related to industrial heritage or museums but some on entirely different subjects. Amongst the [...] works, both written with Ann Nicholls, T he Cambridge Guide to the Museums of Britain and Ireland (1987) and The Cambridge Guide to the Museums of Europe (1991). He often showed impatience with the writings
was one of the founding trustees of the Industrieviertel-Museum (Industrial District Museum) in the city and served as its director. The museum’s displays include one that tells the story of slave labour [...] Communist governments before, during and after the Second World War are commemorated in several museums, notably that in Berlin. Karl Flanner suffered more than five years as a slave labourer and as a [...] workers and prisoners, he survived, and went on to establish a reputation as a historian and to found a museum of working class life in the town of his birth. Karl Flanner was born in Flugfeld, a working class
his collection to the Ateneum museum in Helsinki. The development of the Gosta Serlachius Museum of Fine Arts was encouraged by his son R Erik Serlachius (1901-80). The museum was opened in 1945 at the family [...] Gosta Serlachius Fine Arts Foundation in 1972. A full-time curator was appointed in 1973, and the museum now attracts up to 30,000 visitors a year. The company passed through a succession of mergers in [...] group. The White House in Mantta, its headquarters building of 1934, now houses the G A Serlachius Museum that interprets the process of industrialisation in Finland from the 1850s until the present.
Artur Hazelius founded the open air museum called Skansen at Stockholm, which has given its name to collections of buildings that have been scientifically removed from their original sites in many European [...] native country during which he developed a lively interest in folk lore. In 1872 he established a museum for Swedish ethnography, which has evolved into the present-day Nordiska Museet. After seeing the [...] by King Oskar II , he began to acquire buildings as well as artefacts, and in 1891 established a museum on Djurgarden, an island in Stockholm harbour that came to be called Skansen (i.e. fortifications)
passenger ship. The Turbinia is now displayed in the Discovery Museum in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and there are displays relating to Parsons in the museum of Irish scientists in his family home at Birr Castle.
significant role in the development of electric traction, building a locomotive, now in the Duetsches Museum, Munich, that pulled passengers along a 277 m long track at the Berlin exhibition of 1877, and building [...] from 1898 on a site subsequently named Siemenstadt, between Charlottenburg and Spandau. The works museum, founded in 1922, moved with the company after the Second World War to Munich, where company archives
North-Rhine Westphalia in 1783-4 he gave it the name Cromford. The building is now an industrial museum. Brügelmann grew up in a family of merchants at Elberfeld, now a district of Wuppertal. Elberfeld [...] baroque mansion for his family in 1787-90 next to the factory, which can also be visited as part of the museum. The community of workers’ dwellings that he built also survives. In 1789, he expanded with a works
Gare de l'Hôpital and the Arsenal. An original model of the double-acting engine of 1785 is in the Museum of Arts and Trades in Paris. By 1786, the company supplied 20,000 private houses as well as numerous [...] exceedingly well’. The works continued to make engines after the dispute was settled. The Littry mining museum in Normandy displays a winding engine made by them in 1800.
preserved in Britain, but a French example, Le Crampton , is one of the treasures of the railway museum at Mulhouse. From 1848 Crampton practised as a civil engineer, carrying out various projects for [...] town’s gasworks, and in 1859 formed the Broadstairs Water Company, whose waterworks is now the town museum, and includes the 24.38m high Crampton Tower, at the top of which is a 386,000 litre tank that provided
Midlands through his Baptist faith. There is a working replica of the engine in the nearby Black Country Museum. The engine’s piston propelled a balanced beam, to which the pump was attached, by admitting steam [...] nineteenth century engine is preserved in situ at Elsecar near Sheffield. Several more are held in museums, and the engine house that accommodated a Newcomen engine built by Martin Triewald in 1727 is preserved
the National Railway Museum and can be heard online at "Railwaystories". The Pegler family home the mid-eighteenth century Arncott House at Retford has housed the Bassetlaw Museum since 1986.
Oberland Dampfbahnverein. The station at Neuthal enables passengers to visit the Museum-Spinnerei (Spinning Factory Museum) in the former Guyer family cotton mill. Adolf Guyer-Zeller was also one of the
exhibitions in galleries in many countries. The contents of his workshop and its archives are held by the Museum of Industry and Labour at Sesto San Giovanni.
mechanical engineering and the structural use of iron and steel. An example is displayed in the Technical Museum in Vienna. He remained in Vienna after resigning his post in 1882 and was buried in the city’s Döbling
