small enterprises. The nearby birthplace of the poet Francis Ledwidge (1887-1917) is preserved as a museum, and is a good example of a farm worker’s cottage built under the Labourers’ Dwellings Act of 1886

environment', which was inscribed to Unesco World Heritage List in 2002. The Underground Railway Museum is located in the former terminus station, which was converted to an exhibition hall in 1975, and [...] and photographs illustrating, amongst other things, the construction of Metro lines M2 and M3. The museum was renovated in 1996 in commemoration of the centenary of the Metro.

Milos in the Aegean has a history of mining going back 10,000 years to the Neolithic. Milos Mining Museum opened in 1998 in a purpose-built building on the waterfront with three floors of displays. Neolithic [...] information about them. There is also a large collection of obsidian artifacts. The website of the museum has information and maps to help visitors take seven different ‘geo-walks’ to see aspects of the

worked at Lousal between 1906 and 1988. The project to conserve some of the workings as part of a museum dates from 1996 when proposals were made by the Frédéric Velge Foundation as part of a programme [...] Industrial Archaeology, and the centre was opened in its present form in 2010. The indoor part of the museum is located in the power station of 1934 that supplied the pyrites mines. Visitors can see other surface

mine. The centre is located in the former calciner at the King Edward Mine which is managed as a museum on behalf of the Trevithick Society and the Carn Brea Mining Society.

company. The mineralagical museum established by the Lavrion Studies Society (EMEL) in 1986 commemorates the work of the geologist and mining engineer A. Kordellas (1863-1909). The museum, in a building of 1873

in the twentieth century, and the whole area around the St Juan pit is interpreted as an open air museum. The principal monument is a lattice steel headstock, 44 m high, which visitors can climb in order [...] machines associated with the extraction of lignite are displayed in a park. The indoor section of the museum, in a former warehouse, is approached from the city of Andorra along a tree-lined avenue. It includes

ores, ceramics and glass manufactures and the mining of lignite for electric power stations. The museum, established in 1978, is housed in Schloss Thueurn, a late Baroque mansion dating from 1781 which [...] r systems of iron forges or corn mills which had closed. The glassworks buildings also contain a museum of electric power generation. The third building is a water-powered iron forge with three tilt hammers

the town of Beroum in the forest region 26 km south-west of Prague near to which are two important museums of the extractive industries that once flourished in the karst (limestone) region of Bohemia. To [...] some of the workings that remain accessible. A short distance south-west of Lodĕnice is an open air museum centred on the Parymple limestone quarries opened in 1916-18 to supply the chemical works at Neštemice

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 been created in the centre of Linares in the old goods shed of the Madrid railway station. The museum has information panels, historical objects and models and provides information about visiting the

also remains of processing buildings and some surviving timber ore-stamps. As well as seeing the museum, visitors can take organised walks that begin in the tunnels and end in Montecatini’s centre and

ground continue to house a mining museum, which offers guided tours of the site and operates a 500-metre-long narrow-gauge railway line around the mine site. The museum's exhibition hall houses vehicles

The mining museum situated in Landek Park opened in 1993, but incorporating collections that date from 1905, is based in a range of red brick colliery buildings, designed by Viennese architects between [...] typical for the 20th century. The wide array of things to see is what makes Landek Park the unique museum that it is. Descend down into the oldest mine in Ostrava together with a retired miner. His moving

The museum project at Velenje, the principal centre of lignit-mining in Slovenia, originated in 1956-7, but the present museum in the old shaft (Stari jasek) was opened in 1999. Visitors are able to explore

coal and iron ore in the Siegerland, a region celebrated for the production of iron and steel. The museum project was launched in 1986. Displays in an old school building tell the story of mining in the

Cultural Meuseo Minero (Cultural Association for the Mining Museum) was established in 1986 as mining was finally coming to an end, and opened the museum in 2001. Its headquarters is in an old slaughterhouse [...] from which siderite (iron carbonate) was extracted from the 1970s until its closure in 1993. The museum holds collections of tools, machines, oil lamps, dented helmets, miners’ footwear, drills and surveying [...] of the mining industry, open-cast pits, calcining kilns, ore-washing equipment and ropeways. The museum encourages research into mining operations and mining culture, and operates a children’s section

Austria from the Middle Ages onwards. In 1880 it made 60% of the iron in the Habsburg Empire. The museum of mining and foundry work at Gußwerk is in the impressive building of the former ‘kk’ iron foundry [...] expanded in the eighteenth century. The kk foundry produced cannons, machine parts and tools. The museum opened in 1998. It tells the story of iron mining in the region and displays the history, techniques

1924. Although mining stopped in 1966, today the shafts are used for the deep storage of waste. The museum is in the pit-head baths. Other building with new uses include winding-engine houses, a lamproom

This museum in the Auvergne region preserves the heritage of coal mining and railways at the site of the St Louis coal mine, which operated from 1928 to 1988. Mining began in the area in 1768. In 1931