history of the town of Tramagal, which itself became a brand name. The museum opened in 2017 in the former MDF factory in Tramagal. The museum follows the history of the MDF company from when it was established

present day. The German Wire Museum exists since 1965. It was originally housed in a part of the mediaeval Altena Fortress but this was soon bursting at the seams. Since 1999 the museum has found a new home in [...] wire or wire netting you’re in for a huge and very pleasant surprise when you visit the German Wire Museum in Altena in the Sauerland region, south of the Ruhr. Here you can see everything which has been [...] measure extremely high temperatures and loads with the help of wire. It is no surprise that this museum is located in Altena. The industrial history of the town is brimming over with wire-drawers. Not

fabric. The ancient town of Largentière grew with many silk mills in the nineteenth century. The museum is in a factory that was built in 1795 on the site of an earlier corn mill. The exhibition traces [...] to the weaver’s loom. The vaulted cellars of the factory are a particularly impressive sight. The museum also has a shop with silk products, a tea room and the terraced garden of the factory owner.

The museum in Agia Paraskevi on the island of Lesvos,a site of the Museum Network of the Cultural Foundation of the Piraeus Bank Group (PIOP), is located in a former communal oil mill, in which both a

until 1992 in the mountains on the present border of the Czech Republic and Poland. It opened as a museum in 2003. The minerals extracted at the mine included fluorite, barytes, galena and quartz, which [...] electric locomotive and trams, and mining equipment such as rock drills driven by compressed air. In the museum on the surface are samples of minerals, tools, safety equipment and models and displays about the

building in 2012, an architecturally distinguished post office in the centre of the capital. The museum preserves objects and documents to present the history of postal services, telegraph, telephone, [...] tower built in in 1933 show why it is still the symbol of Hungarian broadcasting. Branches of the museum can be found in other parts of Hungary.

National Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia and welcomes visitors with a large number of historic textile machines. But this is only a part of the exhibition programme. The aim of the museum is to

handloom weaving and mechanised weaving. Many earlier examples of equipment are also preserved in the museum. Displays show the impact of the industry on the landscape and the history of the exploitation of [...] Damask cloths and stockings. Temporary exhibitions and cultural events are held. Visitors to the museum can also collect information to help them take walking tours of the local heritage.

1999 and it now houses a museum of the silk industry. The three-storey building appears like a palace, with grand staircase towers at the corners and courtyards inside. The museum has carefully recreated

border with Turkey in 1922 cut off Soufli from areas that had been its hinterland. The museum is a site of the Museum Network of the Cultural Foundation of the Piraeus Bank Group (PIOP). It has displays

The glassworks museum is the historical site of a complete glassworks in the countryside in the centre of the Czech Republic, 85 km south-east of Prague. The Jakub glassworks was founded by Ferdinand Čapek [...] workshops with roof vents to remove the heat surround a tall brick chimney. The oldest buildings at the museum date from the 1820s. The site was further developed by the Rückel family from 1844 and then by the

The Museum of Agricultural Machinery and Equipment is a branch of the National Museum of Agriculture at Čáslav, east of Prague. It is open from April to October. The focus of the displays is the development

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

mountain resort of Kandersteg, part of a building formerly used as Swiss army pharmacy has become a museum of cable cars or ‘aerial lifts’. Switzerland can be said to be the home of the aerial lift for passengers [...] visitors up mountains: cheaper to build and run than funicular railways and not disrupted by snow. The museum collections were made by enthusiasts who saved objects and equipment such as gondolas and chairlifts

establishment of the National Aviation Museum near to the city’s Zhulyany Airport, which opened in 2003. It has developed into one of the principal aviation museums in Europe with a display of more than

With about 300 vehicles on display, this is said to be the largest car museum in Sweden. It shows everyday and working vehicles alongside extraordinary cars. It opened in 2015 and is based on the personal [...] station built in the United States and installed in Sweden at Torsboda has been re-erected in the museum.

a centre for textile production from the late 19th century, specialising in lace embroidery. The museum occupies the villa and courtyard workshops of Max Vollstädt, built 1889-1902, which embroidered by [...] Maschinen Fabrik (VOMAG), which manufactured embroidery machines in Plauen from 1881 to 1938. The museum makes reproductions from patterns of the 1920s and 1930s for sale alongside the products of local

The museum is in the former canteen of a working locomotive depot at Meiningen station. It opened in 2024. The Werra Railway came to the town in 1858 and the depot was built in 1863 with a roundhouse and [...] trains are still serviced there and the workshops repair and reconstruct steam locomotives. In the museum, the main exhibit is a Prussian T 13 steam locomotive of the type built between 1909 and 1922. It

important inland waterways of Europe. Maasbracht became the largest inland port in the Netherlands. The museum tells the stories of the river and the Juliana Cana (completed 1935), shipping companies, the sand [...] started in 1985 and came to their present location in a former bank in 2014. In the harbour, the museum maintains a ship’s wheelhouse with a simulator for visitors to try and historic vessels, including

ideas that helped spread railways and locomotives across the world. The Stephenson Steam Railway Museum celebrates their achievements. It is located on a standard-gauge, single-track railway that runs [...] can take a ride on a 1950s passenger steam train or heritage diesel locomotives, which run from the museum to Percy Main.