old city in which it stands were designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the following year. The Museum of the Old Bridge occupies the 5-storey Tara Tower, one of the towers that accommodated the bridge [...] bridge keepers, and also served as arsenals for the storage of weapons and ammunition. The museum consists of three sections devoted to the archaeology of the surrounding area, the restoration project of 2002-04
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, showcasing [...] seamless wire: this is what the world's first paper machine looks like. Visitors to the Laakirchen Museum of Papermaking and Print can see its replica in action. The technical relic is part of an exciting [...] audiovisual interpretation and tells, among other things, the story of the factory workers. A special museum deals with the history of local fire brigades, and the "ALFA" convention centre houses small and
Sardinian town of Carbonia. Its former colliery - Serbariu – now houses the most important coalmining museum in Italy. Just as the colliers once did, visitors first enter the lamp room which in this case has [...] where the miners once changed their clothes and received their pit lamps there is now a comprehensive museum dealing with their everyday work. Tools, a huge collection of photos and documents, and above all
and it is regularly opened. The textile museum is on the most important museum of this kind in Italy. Covering an area of 2,400 square metres, the Textile Museum displays an extensive range of textiles [...] trading in 1994. The work of the factory rehabilitation begun in 2000. In May 2003 Prato Textile Museum (just operating since 1975) has been definitively housed in the converted Campolmi textile mill.
but the former dyeshop of the cotton mill houses Työväenmuseo Werstas - the Finnish Labour Museum. The Museum tells the over two-hundred-year-old story of Tampere’s industry. The exhibition describes how [...] Tampere became the largest industrial city in the country, “the Manchester of Finland”. Impressive museum artefacts and photographs introduce visitors to the industrial enterprises and factory workers of [...] of Tampere. A large 1650 hp Sulzer steam engine with an 8 m flywheel is preserved in the museum.
marsh cultivation and mixed soil cultivation of sand and peat). All of them are displayed in the museum. The outdoor area covers 1.5 hectares and includes an experimental garden with 90 species of plants [...] the narrow-gauge steam locomotive "Katharina" and a steam tractor. Moored in the canal next to the museum are a traditional flatboat from 1900 (named Tjalk), the reconstruction (2002) of another traditional
freight wagons labelled "Deutsche Reichsbahn Königszelt" - the rolling stock owned by the Railway Museum in Silesia is as manifold as numerous, and it would take two kilometers of rails to have it lined [...] the middle of the 19th century, would become a fully-equipped transport hub one day. One of the museum‘s outstanding exhibits is the only functioning standard gauge steam locomotive in Lower Silesia - [...] engine shed. On weekends, a buffet car serves Polish dishes and snacks. ‚Steam galas‘, tours of the museum at night, a ride on an vintage car - a Warszawa M20 - converted into a rail trolley, and many other
evolved. The museum is a site of the Museum Network of the Cultural Foundation of the Piraeus Bank Group (PIOP). The permanent exhibition comprises a variety of original works in marble: mundane, ecclesiastical [...] quarryman and the marble craftsman. Finally, the exhibition extends into the museum's outdoor areas. In the square in front of the museum's entrance, a hoisting machine for blocks of marble and a trolley for [...] images of the corresponding in situ working environments. Facilities:The Museum has also a multi-purpose hall, a café, a museum shop and a parking lot for visitors.
closed down in 1978. In 2004 a Rooftile and Brickwork Museum in the factory's main facilities (5,000m2, or 53,820 ft2) was created. It is a site of the Museum Network of the Cultural Foundation of the Piraeus
The principal museum of technology in France dates from 1794, the time of the French Revolution, when a national conservatory of arts and trades (Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers) was created [...] with the patent system and acquired many models and drawings submitted by aspirant patentees. The museum’s Industrial Portfolio includes more than 20,000 drawings and paintings of industrial subjects, including [...] drawings by Jacques de Vaucanson (1709-82), the Grenoble-born inventor of automata. Selections from the museum’s collection of more than 80,000 artefacts are displayed in thematic rooms relating to such topics
began in 1916, and production reached a peak in 1980 with an annual output of 31 million tonnes. The museum is based at a mine that began production in 1937. Shale from shallower deposits was extracted by [...] buildings where oil-bearing shale was separated from other stones, and towers where it was burned. The museum has a collection of oil paintings of the mines, and a display of equipment includes Esku, the 50
production of bicycles and motorcycles, were also leading in Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries. The Museum of Industrial Culture, housed in a former screw factory from the 1920s, shows the history of ind [...] engine to the present day, combining technical, cultural and social history. Along the so-called Museum Street, 200 years of industrialisation are brought to life in historically recreated living and working [...] workers' flat to the talking kitchen, from the workers' club pub to the colonial goods shop and the museum cinema, everyday life in the shadow of the factory and the office is brought to life. Visitors of
Finland’s national open air museum was established, like those of other Scandinavian countries, in the period of Romantic nationalism before the First World War, at a time when Finland formed part of the
as a museum illustrating the manufacture of Portland cement, that is a branch of the National Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia (MNACTEC) and is part of its Territorial System of museums that
The museum at Alsemberg, in the Molembeek Valley, 12 km south of Brussels, consists of an ancient farmstead, which incorporates a corn mill, a paper mill with 16th century origins and a building of 1763 [...] engine. The complex has been restored with help from the King Baudouin Foundation and, apart from the museum, includes an inn and a conference venue.
to Seville; the mining museum revitalising the former compressor house with infinite audio-visual installations illustrating historical modes of extraction; and the mercury museum in a warehouse of 1941 [...] ce of mercury by offering interactive experiments. Even the Miners’ Hospital of 1752 partly is a museum today while the other part hosts the archives of the mines.
European mining history; a disaster that killed a total of 262 workers. A major section of the colliery museum erected on the site is devoted to the accident. Surrounding this section are the miners’ changing [...] dating back to 1904, and even a complete sheet-rolling mill from the middle of the 19th century. The museum tells of the people who came here from all over Europe to earn a living under harsh, and sometimes
from 9 m to 1200 m, the deepest of them known as the Frisch-Gluck-Schacht (the new luck shaft). The museum is based in the Kaiserin-Augusta-Schacht (the Queen Augusta mine), which was sunk to a depth of 260 [...] 260 m in 1869. From 1946 the mine was named after the philosopher Karl Liebknecht. The museum was established from 1976 by former miners and was officially opened in 1986. From 2002 visitors have been
combines such different attractions as the "watchmaker´s cottage" in Vöhrenbach, with the Clock Industry Museum in Schwenningen, whose many fully-working machines tell visitors about everyday life in the factory [...] And on your way, if you want, you can watch cuckoo-clock makers at work. Finally the German Clock Museum in Furtwangen offers visitors a comprehensive overall view of clock making in the region. Its 15 [...] collection of its type in the whole world. Along with its rich stock of international clocks, the museum provides a multifaceted picture of the history and technology of the phenomenon of time.
which was built in the classical style. Since 2000 this has been a municipal museum, the Jana Pazdura Nature and Technological Museum, that takes its name from the pioneer of Industrial Archaeology in Poland [...] from the remains of the ironworks the museum also displays the history of the Star Truck Co that has produced heavy motor vehicles in Starachowice since 1948. The museum also interprets the ecology of the [...] 1968. In the following decades local community initiatives led to the designation of a 7 ha open air museum, which includes the ‘big furnace’ with its Cowper stoves, a building housing a blowing engine of
