collections include large numbers of nautical instruments, figureheads and ships’ cannon, and the role of shipbuilders in Dubrovnik is illustrated in all four sections. There is an important archive containing

industry in Denmark, from its use in lighting homes to its application to other household tasks and its role in industry. Displays illustrate such themes as the ways in which cooking facilities in people’s homes

examples of steam, diesel and electric traction. Its displays illustrate, amongst other things, the role of railways during the Second World War.

the period up to 1960, featuring steam- and diesel-powered trawlers, radio communications, and the role of the women of Ålesund in cutting and packing fish while waiting patiently for their menfolk to return

the artist Jean Tassell (1608-67). There are substantial sections on the First World War and on the role of the Free French forces under General Charles de Gaulle in the Second World War. Other parts of

follow several historic themes, including the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars of 1793-1815, the role of cavalry in the Dutch East Indies and the Second World War. The museum is part of the Bernhardkazeme

Georgetown – by the British in the 1770s. Its displays describe various conquests of Menorca, and the role of the Balearic Islands in the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39. Apart from the military museum the consortium

Moorish fortifications. The museum includes six restoration workshops. The Royal Arms Factory, whose role had for several decades been restricted to the supply of ceremonial weapons, closed in the 1980s,

villages were packed with collieries, ironworks, and other industrial concerns, playing a critical role in the economic development of the region. Like many villages in the area, it was for many years a

Cultures”. It houses historic locomotives given as loans from the European nations, thus adopting the role of ambassadors. The “World of Steam Locomotives” addresses a conglomeration of technology including

DieselHouse celebrates and explains the role of the diesel engine, particularly the marine diesel engine, during more than a century of development. It also commemorates the work of the outstanding Danish

display showing life in a ‘single end’ a one-room dwelling within a tenement block. The essential role of the ‘ steamies ’ the public baths and wash houses is described. Popular recreation is illustrated

one of the historic centres of the textile industry in Saxony, and is particularly important for its role in the development of hosiery technology. Johann Esche (1682-1752) built a silk stocking factory in [...] used in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the present day, and emphasises particularly the role of Limbach-Oberfrohna and of Saxony in general. The latter stages of the exhibition are largely devoted

Marandello opened in 1990 and was extended with a new wing in 2004. It is devoted principally to Ferrari’s role in international motor sport. A ‘pit stop wall’ shows visitors something of the tensions of racing

themes: the properties of salt; the salina as it is at the beginning of the twenty-first century; the role of salt in the past, and the evolution of saltworking techniques through the twentieth century. The

people came to understand electricity, with the first telegraphs, batteries and electric motors. The role of Alessandro Volta is fully explained. The section part shows developments in the late nineteenth

it get to the power plant, and how was it eventually turned into energy? Questions also include the role that women played in the process. Sounds like the puffing of a steam engine, the smell of lubricating

of motor vehicles. Under the GDR motor manufacturing plants fell into disrepute because of their role in providing munitions to the Third Reich. Nevertheless the motor industry under the GDR was relatively

highly distinctive windmills, a watermill, a pottery, and an oil well, a reminder of the important role of Galicia in the development of the petroleum industry in Europe in the nineteenth century.

awareness of the region’s industrial past and local productions. In effect, they have played an important role on both a national and international level. Founded in 2015 by three experts of industrial heritage