"Knotten" (lead ore deposits). The tour takes place in the Eifel region, in the galleries of the mining museum in Mechernich. Mining started here under the Romans, and since the 13th century the main product [...] the industrial history and traditions of the people of Mechernich. Over the following years a new museum with a permanent exhibition has been constructed on the edge of the former mining area. Furthermore [...] gallery has been converted into a visitors´ gallery, run by the Friends of the Mechernich Mining Museum. Here visitors can learn some interesting facts about regional mining history, and also view a section

The location and the building fit the museum perfectly: an old industrial quarter somewhat away from the centre of Liège, a disused sheet metal factory, which was set up by the Dothée brothers in 1848 [...] engineer named William Cockerill built an engine factory here. You can see a huge picture of him in the museum. Over the years the Cockerill dynasty set up further industrial plants, including the iron and steelworks

special museum. Here you can discover the exciting and turbulent history of people and machines over the last 150 years. All the different activities take place in and around the vicinity of the museum in the [...] abandoned by the workers. Here, with the help of so-called “research elements” located all over the museum, visitors can find out how a crankshaft works or how static electricity is put to use. Interactive

history of jenever production. The museum’s master piece can be found in the distillation room: a complete 19th century steam distillery. You can see the museum’s master distiller at work and the listed [...] jenever from the mediaeval alchemist´s chamber to industrial production. As you will learn in the museum’s jenever academy, jenever should be sipped rather than drunk. A dummy demonstrates how drink travels

only 1 metre runs along a 5.5 kilometre stretch of rail between Gillrath and Waldenrath. A large museum room in Schierwaldenrath offers the historic vehicles protection from the weather; and, on action

1758, and the museum, established in 1979 by Jean Martens (1919-2008), a member of the family who owned it, in a mansion opposite the brewery, is claimed to be one of the largest museums of brewing in

of the former importance of this area and the old machinery and facilities form a kind of open-air museum. The best way to understand the mining landscape is to join a guided tour adapted for visitors. This

The museum remembers the social and regional transformation that meant the settlement of a French company in this agricultural and livestock mountain area. From their industrial activity, it is interesting

of this activity are exhibited in two charming facilities: the Museo del Oro de Asturias, the gold museum in Navelgas (Tineo), located in the old Casona Capalleja, enabling visitors to appreciate how gold

mining regions in Spain and the museum at El Entrego, 3 km south of Langreo, provides evidence of the role of the mining industry in the 19th and 20th centuries. The museum is located in a spectacular series

most striking elements of the museum. The underwater mine continued working until the Cantabrian Sea partially flooded it in 1915. Currently, visitors can enjoy a museum with modern exhibition facilities

you can find the Küppersmühle museum, renowned for its top-class collection of contemporary art. A part of the exhibition on Duisburg history in the nearby Duisburg City Museum informs visitors about the

were manufactured. The first impressions make it unmistakably clear that the National Waterfront Museum in Swansea (Wales) prides itself on state-of-the-art computer technology. This is all about Wales

II, well hidden in the woods surrounding Bydgoszcz (Bromberg). The two-kilometre-long tour of the museum partly leads through subterranean concrete hallways uncovering a dark period. The core of the exposition [...] Other parts of the exhibition deal with the history of the DAG and its founder Alfred Nobel. The museum's largest building is devoted to a comprehensive historical review of the evolution of arms and explosive

years is told by an innovative visitor centre right next door using all the rules of interactive museum experience.

The museum celebrates the story of printing from its beginning with Johannes Gutenberg of Mainz in the 1430s. It opened first in Bern in 1900 but it moved to Fribourg in 2000. The oldest part of the museum’s

German pioneer of drilling technology, Anton Raky (1868-1943), which is displayed in the Deutsches Museum, Munich. Improvements in processing technology were incorporated in refineries opened at nearby Câmpina [...] recent decades many wells have run dry and the rate of extraction has been reduced. The National Museum of the Oil Industry was established in 1957, the centenary year of the industry. It holds extensive

Steelworks. The museum includes an underground mining display, and an energy collection with steam engines and turbines, but it is most important for its displays of decorative wrought iron. The museum is also [...] The Slovak Technical Museum originated in 1948, and gained its present name in 1983. It is located in an 18th century Baroque mansion in Kosice, the second town of the old kingdom of Hungary, an important

high-quality design and decoration. The company began its museum collection in 1947, which opened to the public in 1964. Between 2014 and 2016, the museum was renovated and expanded to include additional exhibition [...] drawings and paintings, photographs of the life of the factory, objects and equipment. As part of the museum tour, the chapel in honour of Nossa Senhora da Penha de França, built at the end of the 17th century

of airships they have sparked people's imagination. People are also the main focus of the Zeppelin Museum at Friedrichshafen. Who was this Count Ferdinand Zeppelin sticking against all odds with the idea [...] tasks did the captains, 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