complete with sounds and illuminations. Finally, the exhibition in the visitor centre puts the whole experience in the context of regional mining history. After that it is high time to take a walk along the

hierarchy at the pit and the close intermeshing of the various working processes. Visitors can experience a typical day in the life of a collier, enter the director´s office (once the brain centre of the

a mountain? You knock it off. That’s the answer you’d get from a Welshman. The Welsh speak from experience. In North Wales they knocked off mountains en masse – in the form of hundreds of slate quarries

up in the early industrial era. A trip in the so-called “Kaiser’s wagon” promises a very special experience. This is the wagon in which Kaiser Wilhelm II and his wife took their places for an official preview [...] hundred years ago. If you leave the overhead railway at the 'Werther Brücke' stop, you will reach the experience museum 'Schwebodrom' after a short walk. In three sections, it presents the history of mobility

families. In two old pithead houses belonging to the former Lewis Merthyr pit, visitors can now experience multimedia shows recounting the dramatic history of the region, its mining disasters, the rebellions

explains the work and social background, the outside site is a place where visitors can get direct experiences. Right next to the forge is the old lime works, and the huge lime furnaces can still be seen on

‘Bolt Tower’. The former engine room U6 with its large machinery still in place invites children to experience the technical evolution from the steam era until today as an interactive journey resembling the

radio operators and the rest of the on-board crew perform? Exploring the museum makes it easy to experience the enthusiasm of the early pioneers. It starts with a big screen showing original footage of

hear and smell 19th Century textile machines working and meet skilled Millworkers with years of experience of working in the cotton industry. 4. The Great Iron Waterwheel and two Steam Engines Quarry Bank

n (2002) of another traditional vessel (named Muttschiff or Pogge) and a barge. A very special experience is a basin filled with a layer of mud to walk around for therapeutic purposes.

mill, hosting several museums and exhibitions side by side. Visitors are free to collect hands-on experiences, for example by making their own hand-made paper as in pre-industrial times. The printing museum

follow the Rat Trail. There are also opportunities for prospective young engineers to get hands on experience in an effort to help provide future engineers.

historical Museum of Hydroelectric Power, bathed in light, offer answers that affect all senses. The experience starts with the sphere's room: A double video projection on opposing semispheres follows a drop's

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 the past and future of human

literally up close manner, since the guided tour through the underground galleries is a sweaty experience and requires a good physical condition. The trip starts with putting on the right dress: change

levels in a town palace-like former manufactory building, the 'Weisbachschen Haus', visitors can experience the many facets of the Vogtland textile industry with all its highlights, but also its dark sides

Oliva offers information about locations and guided tours. In the factory next door, visitors can experience a museum of contemporary art, as well as an exhibition on the history of the Oliva company and

varied exhibition ranges from the construction of the Semmering Railway and a real-life "tunnel experience" to famous rail travellers on the "Train of Destinies" and a mysterious "Locomotive of the Senses"

The mining experience at Tytyri offers visitors the opportunity to explore spectacular underground caverns created by large-scale limestone mining which was begun by the company Oy Lohja AB in 1897. From [...] for testing and is in the process of installing Finland's fastest elevator as part of the visitor experience.

Montevecchio on the west coast of Sardinia runs right through an old metalliferous vein. Visitors experience first-hand how metal ores were mined here around the middle of the 19th century and marvel at the