coal seams and the vents of industrialization turned this area black. All the buildings of the open-airmuseum 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
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
one of the first textile industry hubs in Poland, along with the Łódź City Culture Park, an openairmuseum 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
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 last pit was closed in 1992. Today, the preserved open-cast facilities of the Anna 2 mine are home to the ENERGETICON energy experience museum. With the core message 'From the sun to the sun', it deals
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.
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 villa built by Ismail [...] The restored bazaar from around 1800, when Krujë was part of the Ottoman Empire, is like a living museum where a wide range of craftsmen display their skills. You can see basket weavers, shoemakers, si [...] Toptani in 1764. The multi-storey house is built into a hill, with walls up to 80 cm thick and an open staircase. The exhibition in the 15 rooms is dedicated to regional crafts, some of which are still
workers at various dates. During the summer in the Fiskars Museum, the scent of freshly baked bread, spun wool and linen laundry hovers in the air as the folks of the Ironworks are in the midst of their domestic [...] businesses, particularly craftsmen, and there are extensive conference and hotel facilities. The museum in Fiskars shows the culture of the ironworks from the seventeenth century to the present, and the
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 museumopens 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
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-airmuseum 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
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
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 airmuseum at le Bourget airport. It is
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
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
The Szabadteri Naprajzi Múzeum is the most important openairmuseum 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
1968. In the following decades local community initiatives led to the designation of a 7 ha openairmuseum, 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
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.
climbing the 22-metre open staircase. From up there, the panoramic view reveals a landscape where former open-cast lignite mines have been transformed into attractive lakes. In the museum itself, visitors breathe
leather industries were also of major importance. The city’s industrial museum is at Armley Mills, located between the River Aire and the Leeds & Liverpool Canal. There have been mills on the site since [...] site was purchased by Leeds City Corporation and opened as the city’s industrial museum in 1982. Visitors to the museum can see an array of textile machinery used and made in Leeds, together with their [...] the city’s printing industry is the board game Monopoly developed by John Waddington from 1922. The museum also displays examples of the products of the city’s extensive leather industry, and a small cinema
