ships’ radio rooms. A gallery is also devoted to vintage motorbikes. Run by dedicated enthusiasts, the museum opened in 2003 and has continued to expand to accommodate the growing collection.

to pull the trains across the Semmering. Some of these engines are still on display at the Südbahn Museum, which opened in 2004. Two listed railway sheds and the historic roundhouse tell the story of the

workshop for making balloons in the First World War, and for many years was an outpost of the air museum at le Bourget airport. It is designated as an historical monument, and was inscribed on the French

of power by activating bigger or smaller gears. This factory, that much is clear, is not merely a museum, but a living place!

1836-38. The Church is a unique example of how cast iron can be used for ornamental purposes. The Magma Museum preserves and presents the history of the regional iron industry from a technical, artistic and social

precautions and social benefits in the wet and dark “mousetrap” as one of the pits on the mining museum’s site was infamously called. Former employees vividly explain to the visitors how they extracted

Albaola the Maritime Heritage Factory is a shipyard-museum dedicated to the promotion and development of Basque maritime heritage. It focuses particularly on the construction of historic boats and ships

past once more. The climax of this journey back in time is a visit to the Big Pit: National Coal Museum. Here visitors climb into a cage and descend 90 metres to the pit floor below. Former colliery workers

The centre at Guesnain 8km SE of Douai is the largest mining museum in France and occupies the surface buildings of the Delloye Colliery that was sunk in 1920. Most of the principal surface structures

has a set of rolls outside. One of the rolling mill buildings is a collections centre for Swansea museums. Another of the engine houses, which has a clocktower, later became a works canteen. Other buildings

bought by the municipality to be redeveloped. It is now occupied by CESMA, which is an archaeological museum, art gallery and conservation training service. The factory was built in 1872-4, designed by Adolf

The museum of Großalmerode, the „city of good clay”, takes its visitors on a trip through 800 years of clay work and glass-making, showing the development of local trades and their impact on the people

example, at the innovation centre CIVON where visitors are invited to be key players of an interactive museum experience. Eight displays guide them through all stages of manufacture in the iron industry: from

The museum of steam engines at Forncett St Mary in the heart of rural Norfolk was established by Dr Rowan Francis, an anaesthetist. It is open to the public two days a week through the year, and engines

area, restaurants, a theatre and a 45 m observation tower. The town’s history is portrayed in the Museum Scheveningen.

the town. Caudry is now, apart from Calais, the only town in France where lace is manufactured. The museum is located in the lace factory built in 1898 for Théophile and Jean-Baptiste Carpentier in 1898.

The railway museum at Savigliano, 50 km south of Turin, was established in 1978. Its locomotives and rolling stock are housed in a roundhouse locomotive depot and the adjacent sidings. The collection includes

Pelletier", named after the 1828 born scissor maker Nicolas Pierre Pelletier, opened in 1991 as a museum of the cutlery industry (Musée de la Coutellerie), displaying an excellent collection of typical

buildings erected for the telegraph service in 1861 remain, together with a 70 m radio mast. The museum was opened in 1996, and has displays relating to every aspect of the developments in telegraphs and

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