0-6-2T tank locomotive of 1908 which worked on the Erzbergbahn. Vordernberg was linked with Eisenerz by an early railway with inclined planes, the Vordernberger Förderbahn, of which archaeological evidence can [...] the Verein Erzbergbahn, which operates trains for visitors in the summer months. A huge 2-12-2T tank locomotive built for the line in 1941 is preserved at the main station at Vordernberg, the terminus [...] Vordernberg was for many centuries the main centre of iron smelting south of the mountain. Most of the surviving monuments date from the reorganization of the trade in the mid-19th century. The centre

the city’s toy traders. Numerous prominent buildings and mansions evoke Sonneberg’s international status as town of toys. Sonneberg is still home to several toy companies with factories or factory outlets [...] Sonneberg, the town of toys, was founded in the Gründerzeit (Wilhelminian era) as an industrial settlement with checker-board pattern streets, composing a structure of urban blocks. Over 90 percent of [...] office, and the former US-American department stores Kresge and Halbourne. Further highlights of Sonneberg are the German Teddy Bear Museum, the SOMSO Museum for anatomic models as part of the toy production

Bicycle Collection and Motorbike Museum bring to life Nuremberg's heyday as a centre of two-wheeler production: Some 130 original vehicles from Nuremberg's production line illustrate the development from the [...] As early as the Middle Ages, Nuremberg was a leading location for highly specialised metalworking and a centre of supra-regional long-distance trade. This was one of the reasons why the city became the [...] century. This was aided by the construction of Germany's first passenger railway, which ran between Nuremberg and Fürth from 1835, and the development of the port, which was made accessible by the Ludwig-D

Museum of Industrial Culture is located on the Piesberg in the UNESCO Nature and Geopark TERRA.vita. Sandstone and coal have been quarried on the Piesberg since early modern times. A quarry that is still [...] but due to problems with water drainage, mining ceased in 1898. The museum opened in 1994 in the Piesberg colliery's listed open-cast facilities. Its interactive permanent exhibition focuses on the interplay

Bergantino in the Veneto is an international centre for the manufacture of rides and games for fairs and amusement parks. Two local bicycle mechanics, Umberto Bacchiega and Umberto Favalli, saw the first [...] extended in 2011 as a collaboration between the local authorities and national institutions. It sets Bergantino’s story in the context of amusement shows through history: from medieval and Renaissance fairs to

the old Fredriksberg School House after the Second World War. It consists of a collection of cottages, cabins and other rural buildings removed from their original settings. Carl-Erik Rehnberg founded

The collection of the transport museum was started by the head of transport in Stockholm, Ernst Hjortzberg, as early as 1900. It opened in 1922 and moved to its present location in 2022 in the redeveloped [...] laid out on a grid plan and designed in a simplified and functional Jugendstil style by Ferdinand Boberg. The museum explains public transport in the lives of Stockholmers for more than 150 years. The displays

Freudenberg, eleven kilometres west of Siegen, is known for its half-timbered houses in the old town. The town has a long industrial history, and in 1991, 25 people got together and founded the ‘Friends [...] ‘Friends of Historic Vehicles Freudenberg’. To provide space for their growing collection, they acquired the half-timbered hall of a former sawmill and rebuilt it together with a separate engine house and a

The museum at Alsemberg, in the Molembeek Valley, 12 km south of Brussels, consists of an ancient farmstead, which incorporates a corn mill, a paper mill with 16th century origins and a building of 1763

stroke of luck. It was built between 1916 and 1919 by a young Swiss architect called Otto Rudolf Salvisberg, and throughout its existence it has been spared the fate of individual privatisation, demolition [...] room for all the workers, from the shop floor to the management. To reflect the social hierarchy, Salvisberg designed seven different types of houses, with individual units ranging between 50 and 160 square

at Södertälje. The museum is centred on the hall named after the banker and industrialist Marcus Wallenberg (b 1956). Displays include early motors made by the two companies, and other products that they

owned cars. The collection includes a George Richard car made in France in 1898, a Mercedes-Benz Waxemberger and many cars made in the Soviet bloc before 1990. The museum has strong links with motorsport

white felt caps worn by men in this part of Albania. The fortress houses a museum in memory of Skanderberg. The site is also home to the National Ethnographic Museum, founded in 1989. It is housed in the

ages for typography and printing. The story begins with developments leading to the invention of Gutenberg, which transformed how knowledge and ideas could be communicated. It then explores the expansion

need for double tracks. It was made by Niklaus Riggenbach of the Internationalen Gesellschaft für Bergbahnen (International Mountain Railway Company) at Aarau. About 40 passengers at a time are lifted 98m

Southern Aegean Sea. The island produces crops of large cucumbers, Spanish vetchling, capers and aubergines. Cherry tomatoes cultivated there from the late nineteenth century have a distinctive flavour and

buildings brought to the site include a tram depot of 1901 from Copenhagen and a telephone booth from Frederiksberg. Other buildings display trams and buses, working models, posters, tickets and recreated shop

into action: above it rises the remarkably genuine sound of crackling fire and bursting rock. The Rammelsberg Museum and Visitor Mine near Goslar stages 1,000 years of mining history; from the age-old method

Intrepid ones can board it to get one and a half kilometres into the maze of tunnels beneath the Erzberg ("iron mountain"). Down here there was mining of iron ore, too, as is impressively demonstrated by

1834 the ironworks were comprehensively modernised for the first time by the then owner, Ignaz von Landsberg. The present equipment consisting of kilns, a foundry, a crane and a steam engine arrived in 1855