from an exhibition of traditional handicrafts organised by the Federation at the Victoria & Albert Museum. From 1953 she began to print her own silk screen designs on to scarves, napkins and tea towels which
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
career he was involved as an advisor or trustee in business development, education, training and museums. He argued for the importance of generalist technocratic leaders who brought together a range of
in 1869 and continues in use. The pumping engine house and shaft at Rotherhithe are now the Brunel Museum. The Thames Tunnel proved the concept of tunnels beneath rivers and led to many other examples. Brunel
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
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
made Marquis of Chávarri in 1914. A monument to him was put up in Portugalete in 1903 and the RIALIA museum shows material connected with his enterprises and those of his son, also called Victor Chávarri
taking the name of the Basque village where his ancestors had developed iron-ore mines. The RIALIA museum at Portugalete shows material related to Altos Hornos de Vizcaya and Babcock & Wilcox.
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
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
