Home Safety Committee in Britain, and in 1936 went to the United States where she saw the Edison Museum and power stations built by the Tennessee Valley Authority, and met Henry Ford (1863-1947). She was
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
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
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
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
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
reckoned to be expensive on fuel, but remained in use until 1958. An example is preserved in the railway museum at Mulhouse. Bugatti’s factories were destroyed by bombing in the Second World War, and after the
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.
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.
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
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)
bourgeois house of 1775, is preserved as part of the city`s history centre, which also includes a museum of industrial archaeology. He was the son of a cotton manufacturer, and spent three years in the
also active in banking and insurance and was an enthusiastic advocate of the Gewerbemuseum (trade museum) in Nürnberg, whose trust was established in 1860. After his death his company merged in 1898 with
but the project never materialised. Examples of his tools and models are displayed in the National Museum of Science & Technology, Stockholm, and at Falun.
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.
