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

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

small water-power site at an altitude of 1,250m in the Pyrenees is open from June to September as part of MNACTEC, the technical museums network of Catalunya. It comprises a sawmill, a flour mill and a

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

The exhibition of classic cars is open seasonally at selected weekends. It is organised by Muzeum Motoryzacji Skarb Narodu (Automotive Museum Treasure of the Nation) in cooperation with FOZPiT (Foundation

The museum is in a workers’ settlement in the Marttala district of the city of Kemi in Lapland. It is open on request and visited especially by educational groups to learn how people lived in the early [...] everyday objects in scenarios from the 1910s to the 1930s. Next to the museum is the Suomen Kähertäjämuseo, the Finnish barbers’ museum, with some 5,000 objects and a reconstructed barber’s shop. Barbers [...] carried out tooth extractions and small medical procedures for the workers. Both museums are run by the historical museum of Kemi.

Huta Stalowa Wola steelworks. The museum's permanent exhibition features many original military and civilian items made in the region: Defence equipment, machinery, air and land vehicles, workshop equipment [...] and reduce unemployment. The history, development and current situation of the COP are told at the Museum of the Central Industrial District in Stalowa Wola, a town built in 1937 in just 26 months and 26 [...] and multimedia presentations. Several large outdoor exhibits whet the appetite for a visit to the museum. A children's area (City for Children), a chemistry laboratory, an educational programme for schools

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

War, the brickworks closed in 1939. It was saved from demolition and conservation began for it to open to the public in 1994. It was further developed in 2020. Visits can be with guides or interactive

situ on a railway that served a continuous kiln 40m long, and there is a tall chimney for drawing the air.

celebrates the city’s special history in the reproduction of colour images. The workshop has been open to visitors since 2016. It began in 1796 as the Imagerie Pellerin. This printed woodcuts and coloured [...] tablet computers or by guides can watch techniques in use. Also in the Cité des Images complex is a museum that shows historical and newly created images from a collection of over 100,000 items representing

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

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

The Museum of Agricultural Machinery and Equipment is a branch of the National Museum of Agriculture at Čáslav, east of Prague. It is open from April to October. The focus of the displays is the development

Historama is a large transport museum at Ferlach in the south of Austria. It is one of a network of heritage projects by the non-profit organisation Die Nostalgiebahnen in Kärnten (Nostalgia Railways of [...] of Corinthia). The many exhibits are housed in an open-plan exhibition space of 4,700 square metres in a former factory building. They represent most modes of transport in Austria, including horse carriages

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

focuses on contemporary and textile art. Forssa Museum was the Museum of the Year 2014 in Finland and a nominee for the Emya prize in 2015. In 2021, the museum opens a new site Pattern Centre, dedicated to printed [...] extensive archives were transferred to the museum. The main exhibition of the Forssa Museum, the City of Colourful Cloth, tells the story of Forssa community. Museum Gallery Moletti, an atmospheric little [...] drawings from more than 130 designers with emphasis on the 1950s-1980s Finnish and Finlayson design. The museum is located on the Spinning Mill Area, which is a combination of 19th century factory architecture

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

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

The Maritime Centre Vellamo at Kotka is Finland’s national maritime museum, and is the responsibility of the National Board of Antiquities. It opened in 2008 and has a spacious boat hall and an auditorium [...] special emphasis on winter navigation in northern latitudes, together with the work of icebreakers. The museum has extensive archives with 2000 historical maps, more than 30,000 photographs and the database of [...] centre holds an annual public event, the Gulf of Finland Village, when visiting research ships are open to the public.