The museum at Le Bourget airport, Paris, is one of the oldest in the world to be concerned with aviation, having been established at the suggestion of the aeronautical engineer Albert Caquot (1881-1976) [...] objects. The earliest, from the sixteenth century, related to experimental flying apparatus, and the museum tells in some detail the story of Man’s subsequent attempts to fly, and has some important artefacts [...] found. The collection also includes some artefacts relating to airships of the 1920s and 30s. The museum displays a wide range of aircraft from fighters of the First World War, through a Supermarine Spitfire

The open air museum at Sanok, in the south-east of present-day Poland, includes 150 buildings, extends over 38 ha. and is claimed to be the largest of its kind in Poland. It was established in 1958 and [...] and set an example that was copied in other parts of the country. Like open air museums in other countries it portrays the ways of life of peasant societies before industrialisation, but, perhaps uniquely [...] Greek Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox and Roman Catholic, as well as a synagogue. The museum includes many peasant farmsteads, well heads and apiaries carved from tree trunks, highly distinctive

a village of about two thousand people, 21 km south-west of Warsaw. The automotive and technology museum, opened in 1995, holds a collection of more than 300 vehicles. Its principal emphasis is on motoring [...] cars from that period, including Trabants and a ZIS convertible, once used by Joseph Stalin. The museum organises tours of Warsaw in buses from the 1950s and 60s, and a range of exhibits commemorate Grand

science. Researchers at the museum study dialects and folk art. The museum incorporates the manor house and mausoleum of the former landowners the Bierbaum family. The museum has a branch at Uzrzewo, concerned [...] Polands National Museum of Agricultural is located at Komorniki, 10 km south of Poznań. The collection was established in 1964 and the museum gained national status in 1974. Its collection includes steam [...] Jaracz, opened in 1981, a section on basketry and hops at Nowy Tomyślu, opened in 1985, an open air museum of 1999 at Swarzedz, and a branch concerned with the place of meat in society established at Sielinko

traversed by the ancient route from Oslo to Trondheim. On the edge of the town is Maihaugen, an open-air museum incorporating the collections of Anders Sandvig (1862-1950), son of a local fishermen, who studied [...] collecting buildings and artefacts, following the example of Artur Hazelius (1833-1901) who opened the museum at Skansen in Stockholm in 1891. Sandvig first displayed his collection to the public in 1904. He [...] their work, for the design and furnishing of a home give a picture of the people themselves’. The museum has expanded, but it remains under the management of a private trust, and receives some government

Bakehouse Museum in Sopron is one of Europe’s livelier museums of the food industry. In Sopron, as in many other cities, bakers traditionally lived in a quarter outside the city wall. The museum is based [...] incorporated within the museum. Visitors can also see the adjoining flour store which became a sweet shop catering for Sunday afternoon walkers in the late nineteenth century. The museum is recognisable by

established by Henry David Wilchens (1763-1832). The museum occupies premises in the Estaházy palace alongside those of the Central Museum of Mining. It opened in 1983 and provides a comprehensive view of forestry [...] The Forestry Museum in Sopron is linked to the Faculty of Forestry in the University of Western Hungary, where the first collection of specimens and artefacts related to forest industries was established [...] ecology is explained in detailed. One display shows how trees are felled and progress to sawmills. The museum includes important records of surveying and cartography, the earliest of them a forest map of 1658

was established in 1972, and in 1992 the family’s residence became available for occupation by a museum, which opened to the public in 1999. Displays show the technology of various means of textile printing [...] examples of the products of the Goldberger workshops some of which feature in window displays. The museum organises walks around the city visiting sites connected with the Goldbergers and textile printing

parts. The Junghans company still manufactures in the town but on a smaller scale. The car and watch museum, opened in 2010, is located in the Hamburg Amerikanische (HAO) factory, which belonged to a company [...] techniques, hence the name. The building was designed by Phillip Jakob Manz (1861-1936). The watch museum is on the fourth floor and includes some of the outstanding innovations made by the Junghans company

The open air museum at Detmold, capital of the former principality of Lippe-Detmold, is reckoned the largest of its kind in Germany. It extends over 90 ha and its collection totals more than a hundred [...] peasant society in a prosperous agricultural region in the period before the Industrial Revolution. The museum project was launched in 1960 and the site was opened to the public in the early 1970s. Most of the [...] and a pottery with its clay warehouse. There are several impressive windmills and a water mill. The museum regularly demonstrates flour milling, blacksmithing and pottery manufacture, and illustrates important

The collection of the old museum at 32 Museumgade was closed in June 2014 and transferred to the Textilmuseum. In the museum park behind the old museum is a small open air museum with a farmhouse, yard, [...] town a shirt factory of circular design now accommodates the city’s art museum, and a former dress factory houses the Danish museum of photography. [...] domestic industry, was re-organised on a factory basis. The Textilforum, part of the mid-Jutland Museum Service, is based in a hosiery factory of 1876, a red brick building, with a 13-bay façade, and north-lit

about half-way between the towns of Borovnica and Vrhnika. The headquarters of Slovenia’s technical museum, which was founded in 1951, is a mansion in the centre of an estate that was once a Carthusian monastery

Mountains). Until 1945 the area was part of Germany and the village was called Wüstewaltersdorf. A museum opened in 1995 reveals the scale and horror of part of the Riese project carried out in 1943-45 by [...] tunnels go through hard gneiss rock, but are nevertheless lined with concrete. Visitors approach the museum over a Bailey Bridge of the Second World War across the Walinka River and can see an exhibition of [...] . There is evidence of ventilation systems, tunnel boring machines and underground railways. The museum is the starting point for a trail linking together places associated with the Riese project.

production of steel in electric furnaces and of aluminium was pioneered in the region. The principal museum of the industry is Hydrelec at Vaujany, near the plant below the Grand Maison dam, completed in the

cotton and linen textiles. Some handloom weavers’ cottages remain but the town also accommodates the museum, opened in 2001, that now portrays the area’s industrial history, along with collections of works

also demonstrated in the mill, where workers continuing to produce high grade paper for artists. The museum of papermaking, established in the 1980s, shows techniques used in an industry that has been important

in France began production at Besançon in 1892. The factory at Échirolles was opened in 1927. The museum describes its history up to its closure in 1989, showing both the technologies employed, illustrated

bordered by lines of Siberian Fir trees. It is open for visiting boats during the summer months. The museum is situated by the upper entrance to the canal and has displays illustrating the history of navigation

were made of gold from Haveri. Mining operations came to an end in 1961. The museum, managed by the Pirkanmaa Provincial Museum, is one of the attractions in what is now a location for holidays. It displays [...] mid-twentieth century – Piippulanrivi – have been restored, and in the summer holiday season the museum is the location for cultural events.

The museum on the banks of the River Cailly at Notre-Dame-de-Bondville, west of Rouen, is located in a former ropeworks, a partially timber-framed building of 1822. The factory was re-equipped in 1880