Near the village of Svatý Jan pod Skalou, the Solvay Quarries open-air museum (skansen) is concerned with limestone quarrying and transport. The quarry started in 1916 to provide limestone to a factory [...] factory that produced soda ash with the Solvay method. Stone was worked by compressed-air tools then crushed and sorted in a mill. Transport was by a narrow-gauge railway and a 1.5-km aerial cableway. Later [...] closed in 1963. A preservation group began caring for the site in 1993. The quarry is a nature reserve open to visitors to walk around on marked trails with interpretation panels. Guided tours take visitors

Baltic port of Gdynia. The Open-Air Museum of Locomotives was created in 1993 by the State Railways with the help of local employees. In 2015 it became a branch of the Museum of the History of the City [...] objects on display in the open air alongside an indoor exhibition of scale-models, photographs, original artefacts and ephemera. In addition to its own collection, the museum has many exhibits on loan

electric locomotive EU07. There’s also a library with a rich collection of railway books. The open-air museum is a collection of 50 of the most valuable steam, diesel and electric locomotives and carriages [...] Museum Station is located on premises oft the former Warszawa Głowna (Warsaw main railway station), which served as the capital's main railway station until the opening of the Central Railway Station in

coal seams and the vents of industrialization turned this area black. All the buildings of the open-air museum are original and have been moved here to save them from development. Costumed staff bring the [...] have largely disappeared. Only the award-winning Black Country Living Museum is still deeply rooted in Victorian times. The Museum effortlessly transports visitors to the late 18th and early 19th century

Finland’s national open air museum was established, like those of other Scandinavian countries, in the period of Romantic nationalism before the First World War, at a time when Finland formed part of the [...] century from Hyrynsalmi in the Kainuu region shows how farmhouses in forest areas traditionally kept open house for many itinerant workers, loggers, reindeer herders, hunters and migrant farm labourers.

one of the first textile industry hubs in Poland, along with the Łódź City Culture Park, an open air museum setting with a collection of historic wooden houses and other buildings typical of the region [...] Open drawers, cables and tools, an ashtray, next to it a coffee pot and a clock - it appears as if the foreman has only just left his desk. This is how the Central Museum of Textiles recreates in detail

Visitors see exhibits largely in the condition in which they were rescued. Around the museum is the open-air village museum, which preserves over 20 buildings, among them a forge house of the 1930s, a carpenter’s [...] Hungary and Romania. This small railway museum among the ridges of the Carpathian mountains aims to save surviving elements of the Transcarpathia railway heritage. The museum consists of a single train with an

The Finnish Museum of Car and Road Mobilia is the national museum responsible for its special field, roads and road traffic. The museum is located by Lake Längelmävesi in Kangasala, about half an hour's [...] exhibitions include a permanent exhibition on the construction and use of Finnish roads, the Rally Museum, an open-air exhibition on the use of emergency labour in road construction, an annual main exhibition on [...] France in 1898, a Mercedes-Benz Waxemberger and many cars made in the Soviet bloc before 1990. The museum has strong links with motorsport and enthusiasts who collect particular marques, and has an ambitious

here in 1967 but the initiative to create a museum began in 1987. This opened as the naval airship museum in 1991. Cooperation with the German Maritime Museum at Bremerhaven allowed it to expand its remit [...] remit to other naval aircraft as Aeronauticum in 1997. The collection includes 17 aircraft in the open air, including a Breguet surveillance aircraft, a VFW 614 and two Tornado fighter planes. Exhibitions [...] Aeronauticum is the German museum of airships and naval aviation, situated near the North Sea port of Cuxhaven. It is located on an airfield that was created as a base for airships by the German navy at

1968. In the following decades local community initiatives led to the designation of a 7 ha open air museum, which includes the ‘big furnace’ with its Cowper stoves, a building housing a blowing engine [...] which was built in the classical style. Since 2000 this has been a municipal museum, the Jana Pazdura Nature and Technological Museum, that takes its name from the pioneer of Industrial Archaeology in Poland [...] from the remains of the ironworks the museum also displays the history of the Star Truck Co that has produced heavy motor vehicles in Starachowice since 1948. The museum also interprets the ecology of the

Near the city centre of Zaporizhia is The Boguslaev Technical Museum, also known as the Museum of Aviation and High-Tech “Motor Sich”. Opened in 2013, it is housed in an elegant building on the edge of [...] historical motorcycles and an elegantly displayed collection of samovars for heating water. Outside, an open-air exhibition of military equipment includes tanks, lorries, guns and aircraft. [...] engines and gas turbines. The factory was destroyed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The museum contains a unique and impressive display of piston and jet engines together with models and examples

The 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 [...] 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

that of the Finnish foundry industry. The museum complex consists of the Foundry Museum, the Högfors Blast Furnace and the Workers' Museum. The Foundry Museum shows the various stages in the history of [...] furnace, see the bellows and imagine the work required to stoke the flames. The Workers' Museum is an open-air museum that shows the regional living and working conditions between the 1850s and 1960s. Several [...] The Finnish Foundry Museum is located on the site of the Högfors foundry, which was founded in the 19th century and played an important role in Finnish iron production. Today, the well-preserved buildings

and restoration workshops are open to visitors. Hangers contain many exhibits that show the evolution of aircraft through the first half of the 20th century. The museum’s Blériot XI biplane from 1909 is [...] pilot, racing driver and mechanic. He rescued many old aircraft and vehicles. He died in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, but his mother Dorothy Shuttleworth continued to develop the collection

organised in Wiesmoor. It was one of the factors, with the building of baths, a health centre and an open-air theatre, that made the area attractive to holiday makers, and tourism is now one of its principal [...] replaced by a gas turbine power station which itself was demolished in 1995. The Peat and Colony Museum, created gradually since 1988, contains many buildings that show the new colonisation of the moorland

It formed part of a military air base in Charlais Park, served as a workshop for making balloons in the First World War, and for many years was an outpost of the air museum at le Bourget airport. It is

Association for the Mining Museum) was established in 1986 as mining was finally coming to an end, and opened the museum in 2001. Its headquarters is in an old slaughterhouse near a vast open-cast pit, Corta Concha [...] Guidance is provided to the monuments of the mining industry, open-cast pits, calcining kilns, ore-washing equipment and ropeways. The museum encourages research into mining operations and mining culture [...] from which siderite (iron carbonate) was extracted from the 1970s until its closure in 1993. The museum holds collections of tools, machines, oil lamps, dented helmets, miners’ footwear, drills and surveying

electric locomotive and trams, and mining equipment such as rock drills driven by compressed air. In the museum on the surface are samples of minerals, tools, safety equipment and models and displays about [...] until 1992 in the mountains on the present border of the Czech Republic and Poland. It opened as a museum in 2003. The minerals extracted at the mine included fluorite, barytes, galena and quartz, which

with an annual output of 31 million tonnes. The museum is based at a mine that began production in 1937. Shale from shallower deposits was extracted by open-cast working. Visitors are able to go 1 km underground [...] was burned. The museum has a collection of oil paintings of the mines, and a display of equipment includes Esku, the 50-ton-heavy bucket of a very large mechanical excavator used in open-cast workings.

mechanism pushes a little wooden bird into position and simultaneously raises two small bellows that emit air through two lip pipes: "Cuckoo!" For 300 years the people in the German Black Forest delivered handmade [...] combines such different attractions as the "watchmaker´s cottage" in Vöhrenbach, with the Clock Industry Museum in Schwenningen, whose many fully-working machines tell visitors about everyday life in the factory [...] And on your way, if you want, you can watch cuckoo-clock makers at work. Finally the German Clock Museum in Furtwangen offers visitors a comprehensive overall view of clock making in the region. Its 15