Opened in 2014, Liberec Technical Museum is housed in four modern pavilions. Pavilion A is focused on transport and exhibits cars, motorcycles, bikes and railway locomotives, mostly manufactured in the

The Museum Wäschefabrik (linen wear factory museum) at Bielefeld is one of the relatively few places at which the heritage of the manufacture of clothing (as distinct from the production of fabrics) is [...] the Föderverein Projekt Wäschefabrik, was established to ensure the preservation of the factory. A museum was opened in the building in 1997. Visitors can see how clothing was made in the mid-twentieth century [...] escaped. There are Stolpersteine (commemorative stones in the pavement) for the three women outside the museum in Bielefeld.

Aviation Museum originated in 1963 when a group of enthusiasts began to collect artefacts relating to the history of flying. The museum opened in 1982 and has been known as the Lithuanian Aviation Museum since [...] They successfully crossed Atlantic but crashed near Soldin (Pszczelnik) and both were killed. The museum has a collection of 43 aircraft and gliders. The indoor section uses images to tell the story of

Lithuania’s railway museum is located on the second floor of Vilnius station which dates from 1861. It was founded in 1966 by Georgijus Žemaitis. The indoor section is divided into three sections. The [...] track fastenings and tools. A 20 m timeline details the development of Lithuanian railways. The museum’s steam and diesel locomotives are displayed in the open about 200 m from the station.

iron mines in Normandy. The museum also features a video documentary on the history of the Littry mine and a reconstructed underground gallery 70 m long. At the end of the museum is an impressive working [...] the resumption of production, and mines in the area continued to work until the early 1950s. The museum, one of the first in France to be devoted to coal mining, dates from 1902, and provides a broad picture

Locomotion is a branch of the National Railway Museum (see York) that incorporates the earlier museum established in Shildon commemorating the achievements in the development of the steam locomotive of [...] In two large halls around 100 vehicles from the collection of the National Railway Museum are displayed. The museum complex includes Soho Cottage, the modest home of the Hackworth family, an iron merchant’s

trucks and vans and, from 1953, motor-scooters. From 1991 the company was part of Mercedes-Benz. The museum is run by the local authority and focuses on the industrial history of Ludwigsfelde from 1936. Its

the furnace pond had its use. It drove the furnace blowing engine via a waterwheel. Visitors to the museum can see for themselves - live - how this worked. An ancient steam engine is also still in operation

The MIK Osnabrück Museum of Industrial Culture is located on the Piesberg in the UNESCO Nature and Geopark TERRA.vita. Sandstone and coal have been quarried on the Piesberg since early modern times. A [...] industrially in underground mines, but due to problems with water drainage, mining ceased in 1898. The museum opened in 1994 in the Piesberg colliery's listed open-cast facilities. Its interactive permanent

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

The tile museum at the town of Onda, 50km north of Valencia, was started in 1968. It moved recently to a purpose-built and spacious gallery and was renamed for the Onda artist and ceramicist Manolo Safont [...] Safont (1928-2005). The museum is focused on architectural ceramics in Valencia. Onda is famous for its decorative tiles and ceramic murals and also for its decorated earthenware plates, bowls, jugs and [...] and basins. The museum collections totalling over 30,000 items, including tiles, vessels, tools, equipment and documents. They range in date from Roman times to the present day, and especially the 19 th and

Stefan, Mietek, Dolores and Ziuta are names that are close to the hearts of the local museum guides. For behind these names are four extant historic weaving looms that are regularly used to demonstrate [...] of the 19th century. Demonstrations are part of the interactive tour for visitors to the factory museum in the Manufaktura shopping complex which traces the path of cotton from the cotton bolls to the

sometimes even complete prefabricated houses and metal churches. The Maritime Museum throws open the gateway to the past. The museum is closed for renovation work until 2028 (estimated). [...] book of a Liverpool slave-trader: these are just two of the treasures to be found in the Maritime Museum. Here within the historic walls of the Albert Dock you can chart the history of one of the world’s

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

agents won the first Tour de Nice in 1899 in a vehicle named after his daughter. The Mercedes-Benz Museum displays a collection of 175 cars, the earliest of them a Karl Benz patent vehicle and a Daimler

Housed in the five-storey Perienes canning factory, the Museum of Labour opened in 1995. It grew from a collection dedicated to the world of work that was gathered by students in a project supervised by

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

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

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

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