producer in Europe, with 5,000 employees. Since privatisation, many mills continue in the town. The museum was opened by the council in 1998. It is housed in an impressive four-storey mill, built in the 1890s

1990. After work ceased, the former factory was preserved by the local authority and turned into a museum to present the history of brick manufacturing and the use of brick in building since the Babylonians

plants in Schleswig. Production continued until 1962. The museum began in 1997 as the collection of Gisela and Bodo Daetz. Since 2014, the museum has occupied three renovated halls in the copper mill. Original [...] photographs, and brassware products such as lanterns, kettles, teapots and baking tins. Near the museum is a small district of former workers’ houses and administrative buildings.

for 25 km and has a maximum gradient of 32 per cent. Hiking trails start near the stations. A small museum at Licthenhain, the Maschinarium, explains the technology of the railways.

factory was conserved after closure in 1979, preserving all its artefacts in situ, and it opened as a museum in 1992. The building is in the architectural tradition of the region but is the oldest surviving [...] surviving factory in Schwäbisch Gmünd, a city once reliant on the gold and silver industry. The museum traces the economic and cultural history of the Baden-Württemberg region. The tools and machines used by workers [...] office equipment such as a telephone, calculator and typewriter. Children can make jewellery in the museum’s workshops.

ceramics and Velten ceramics were exported to much of Europe, North America, Russia and Scandinavia. The museum collection was started in 1905 with the support of local producers. Since 1994, it has been housed

Located at Wilhelmshaven on the North Sea coast, the German Naval Museum was opened by volunteers in 1998. It is housed in one of the oldest surviving workshop buildings used for the city’s shipbuilding

the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, the Volkswagen AutoMuseum traces the history of one of the world’s most successful car manufacturers. The museum opened in 1985 in a former clothes factory. It was established

supervisors and workers. One of the housing estates, a semi-detached house built in 1925, houses the 'Museum Miners' House' in the left part of the building. The house, which fell into serious disrepair after [...] municipality, restored to its original condition at the insistence of the civil society and opened as a museum in 1995. It is furnished in the style of the 1920s and 1930s. The cooker, which can be heated with [...] the heavy living room cupboard with the fine Sunday china are not missing in the living room. The museum flat is maintained and run on a voluntary basis by the Eisden Heritage Foundation (Stichting Erfgoed

in 1974. In 1996, it took over the branch railway for the WTK coal mine at Ampflwang to create a museum. The entrance was the miners’ baths and the five-story main building was the coal preparation plant [...] Trains are run on the 10.5-km track to and from Timelkam. The Society also has a narrow-gauge railway museum on the Steyr Valley Railway (Steyrtalbahn) and operates the 1912 paddle steamer Schönbrunn on the

beyond. The brand continued as part of the Cycleurope group and Steyr-Daimler-Puch. Proposals for a museum dedicated to the company began in the 1970s and it opened finally in 2003, when Graz was European

The mechanization of agriculture and foreign competition led to closure of the factory in 1987. The museum was created by volunteers in 1992. It preserves a late-nineteenth-century scythe factory intact.

ERIH STANDS IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF UKRAINE Due to Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, we have suspended the description of this Russian site until further notice.

ERIH STANDS IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF UKRAINE Due to Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, we have suspended the description of this Russian site until further notice.

ERIH STANDS IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF UKRAINE Due to Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, we have suspended the description of this Russian site until further notice.

ERIH STANDS IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF UKRAINE Due to Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, we have suspended the description of this Russian site until further notice.

The Danube Museum is located in the centre of the small historic city of Esztergom on the River Danube. It aims to raise awareness of shared responsibilities for the protection of water, environment and [...] collection comprises some 150,000 objects including tools, machines, images, documents and maps. The museum presents a historical overview of the uses of water, from the toilet flush to the steam engine and

plans. Statutes of the royal couple and historical photographs decorate the building. It is now a museum and an event hall for weddings, concerts and conferences.

Opened in 1987, the Museum of Agricultural Equipment traces the history of agricultural production and especially the use of machinery and technical equipment. Six exhibitions are presented over 6000 m²

Dobrovická Muzea calls itself a museum of sugar, distilling, beet growing and the town of Dobrovice. It was opened in 2010 in a restored farmstead: the large courtyard of farm buildings was begun for the [...] century. The nearby Thurn and Taxis Dobrovice sugar factory and distillery was founded in 1831. The museum presents the history of Czech sugar production. Visitors can see a sugar laboratory, a metre-long