were subsequently re-built. In 1961 the museum was taken over by the land government of Lower Saxony. Heinrich Ottenjann was succeeded as director of the museum by his son Helmut Ottenjann (1931-2010) [...] original object of the museum was to display the peasant house types of the western part of Lower Saxony (the Oldenburger Munsterland), and to demonstrate traditional crafts. The museum extends over 20 ha [...] barn. Historically significant artefacts on display include a cast iron fire plate dated 1544. The museum includes many buildings that might be regarded as industrial, including a bakehouse, a bleach green

In 1994, the Reinkenhagen Oil Museum opened in the social building of the former field headquarters. It is owned by the municipality of Sundhagen, but the only oil museum in the former GDR is operated

Spain's first oil museum is located in the Unesco Geopark Las Loras, on the edge of the Ayoluengo oil field discovered in 1964 in the town of Sargentes de la Lora, some 50 km north of the provincial capital

The museum opened in 2012 in the electricity generating station of Bursa Merinos woollen factory. The factory was built in 1938 and the dedicated power station continued in use until 1973, fired by coal [...] coal. It is still recognisable by its row of four steel chimneys at one end of the building. The museum explores the importance of electricity in daily life and industrial production through photographs

centuries. The maritime museum in the city focuses on fishing, with displays of historical artefacts, models, and activities such as knot-tying in which visitors can take part. The museum is supported by annual [...] dredger of 1906, and St Gilles a tug built in 1958. Some vintage yachts are also displayed at the museum. Perhaps the great pleasure for visitors is sitting in the bistro bar on the top deck of France I

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 [...] tailoring, printing and 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 [...] 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

Subsequently, at the wish of the last owner, it was taken over by the municipal authority as a technical museum. Every phase of the traditional tanning process is preserved in the works. There are machines to

factory. The formation of a museum was encouraged in the 1950s by the Deutsches Museum at a time when it was believed motor cycles would disappear as cars became cheaper. The museum is located on five floors

The Granite Quarrying Museum in the Königshain Hills 9 km West of Görllitz gives a realistic impression of the working and living conditions of the stone workers. The place where from 1844 to 1975 granite

The aeronautical collections of the Deutsches Museum in Munich have been displayed since 1990 on an airfield at Oberschleissheim on the northern side of the city that was constructed between 1912 and 1919 [...] are some of the earliest of their kind to survive anywhere in Europe. Visitors are able to see the museum’s well-equipped conservation workshops. Exhibits include 25 piston-engined aircraft, mostly German

was placed with much ceremony in the Deutsches Museum in 1958, although similar locomotives continued working until May 1965. Other sections of the museum are concerned with urban transport, particularly [...] The Deutsches Museum’s collections of railway and road vehicles were removed in 2003 to a former exhibition hall in the Theresienhöhe area of Munich. The collection of motor cars is one of the best in [...] in any museum in Europe, and includes a motorised tricycle made by Karl Benz (1844-1929), as well as racing cars and commercial vehicles. There are displays that illustrate methods of manufacturing motor

delivery centre for new cars with a leisure park and the 'ZeitHaus'. The 'ZeitHaus' is a cross-brand car museum that presents around 250 vehicles from over 60 different brands. The exhibition presents around 100

has always had some considerable concern with high-tech manufacturing. The Liechtenstein National Museum consists of two historical buildings dating back to the Middle Ages and a modern extension with a

The scale of fighting on the Western Front in the First World War surprised most military planners. Critics of the British government blamed it for a perceived shortage of shells at the Battle of Neuv

woodturners and 6 for stainers and polishers. A precursor of today's chair museum was established in 1931, and in 1978 the museum already moved to the farm buildings of the castle. Since 2005, a major attraction [...] of the chair-maker Kurt Aehlig, its equipment largely dating back to the early 20th century. The museum also displays chairs of different styles from the Baroque to “Rabenau Thonet chairs”, as well as

Horsens is a city with long commercial and industrial traditions. The Museum was opened in 1977 in the municipal power station building of 1906. Displays including steam engines, printing, brewing and

ly and on a grand scale. Some are now known only to specialists. In the Saxon Commercial Vehicle Museum in Hartmannsdorf near Chemnitz, approximately 50 restored pieces from the much larger inventory of

figures. The museum also features the products of the firm of S F Fischer, who pioneered the manufacture of toy building materials that reflected the theories of Friedrich Froebel. The museum holds extensive [...] town of Seiffen, 32 km south of Freiburg, has been one of the principal centres of the industry. The museum originated in a collection accumulated at the technical school for toy-makers, the Spielzeug-Werbe-Schau [...] which from 1936 was displayed to the public in a former hosiery factory. In its present form the museum dates from 1953. It has a collection of more than 3000 lathe-turned wooden toys and ornaments. The

Karl August Almgren established a silk mill in Stockholm in 1833, and it subsequently grew into a sizeable manufacturing complex, with some four-storey buildings. Some of the Jacquard looms that he in

Sweden’s national museum of science and technology was founded in 1924 under the patronage of several of the country’s leading learned societies and industrial organisations. It is located in a building