Two of the most impressive mill engines in Lancashire are preserved at the Ellenroad Engine House near Rochdale. In 1890 the Ellenroad Spinning Company built a five-storey, 40-bay mill, designed by St

The Buckinghamshire Railway Centre is a museum with some exhibits of outstanding interest, based at a station with a long and complex history. The station lies 1 km from the village of Quainton, 10 km [...] on the main line were withdrawn. The Quainton Road Society was formed in 1969 and now operates the museum at the station as the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre. It is still linked to the national network [...] from various makers. A large collection of historic coaches and wagons is conserved in a substantial museum building. Outstanding amongst the passenger vehicles are a 12-wheel sleeping car and a dining car

iron wheel that remains in situ. When the mill passed out of use it was examined by the Oxfordshire Museum Service. The engine was restored and steamed in 1972. The Combe Mill Society was formed and the engine [...] first time in public in 1975. Since then the mill has gradually been developed into an industrial museum. There are demonstrations of blacksmithing , wheelwrighting and wood turning and a collection of

represented in large collections of artefacts. There are several churches in the museum of which the oldest dates from 1742. The museum is divided into two principal sections, one showing traditional rural life [...] This is a Skansen type museum concerned with the history of the people of the Dnieper plains. It was established in 1969, opened in 1976 and now extends over 150 ha to the south-west of Kyiv. In common [...] common with most museums of its kind it displays numerous rural buildings – about 200 in all - which have been removed from their original settings and re-erected. A particularly notable feature is an assembly

blown out in 1911, with its charcoal barn, calcining kilns, bellows and casting house. It is now a museum in which the methods of furnace operation can be studied in amazing detail – one of the exhibits

the history of the site. In the old Diesel Power Station the Baía do Tejo Industrial Museum is installed. The museum houses a significant collection of industrial equipment of various kinds, explains the [...] and social services. The museum can only be visited by appointment. It also organises guided tours of the former CUF area, visiting and explaining the Alfredo da Silva House Museum (Casa Museu Alfredo da

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

. Since 1983 visitors have been allowed inside this microcosm, thanks to the museum of mining. The round tour of the museum entitled "Between Men and Machines" gives a vivid picture of the strict hierarchy

The museum was begun by the master-printer Maurice Audin in 1964 and celebrated its half century with a major renovation in 2014. It occupies the Hôtel de la Couronne, a Renaissance house that became Lyon's

How does a drop of water transform into electric power? The high halls of Cedegolo's historical Museum of Hydroelectric Power, bathed in light, offer answers that affect all senses. The experience starts

Aitoneva, a part of the municipality of Kihniö around 100 km north of Tampere, houses the only museum which exhibits the history of industrial-scale peat production in Finland. The extraction and use of [...] This also includes some not so successful methods, including the use of heavy Russian machinery. The museum presents a wide range of exhibits on the production and use of peat, as well as the history and [...] t of the peat industry. The environmental management of peatlands is also addressed. Outside the museum, around sixty machines related to peat production are located in the woodland, the oldest of which

going 140 metres underground. And below the earth it is cold, damp and dark. The National Coalmining Museum for England, near Overton in West Yorkshire, is located in one of the oldest collieries in the United [...] steam-driven winding wheels which were in operation till 1970 are still working. In addition the museum has an audio-visual exhibition which takes visitors on a journey through more than two centuries [...] pit railway and travel to the next colliery just around the corner. This also forms a part of the museum complex.

the repair and maintenance sheds, dating back to the 19th century and forming the framework of the museum, hints to a precious relic of Portuguese railroad history. The train depot sits right next to the [...] collection that offers railway enthusiasts a splendid arrangement of historical rolling stock. The museum's four steam locomotives are joined by a large number of passenger and freight cars, partly used [...] António Egas Moniz (1874-1955), winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1949. An exciting part of the museum looks beyond train operation, illustrating the equipment of train depots at the turn of the 19th

18th century. The museum opened in 1981. Bladed weapons, small arms and artillery from 32 countries are displayed in the galleries and there are extensive reserve collections. The museum craftsmen, as well [...] The Arsenal museum in L’viv has large and valuable collections but its most interesting exhibit is the building in which it is housed. The arsenal is a 2-storey brick structure with a miniature octagonal

above it rises the remarkably genuine sound of crackling fire and bursting rock. The Rammelsberg Museum and Visitor Mine near Goslar stages 1,000 years of mining history; from the age-old method of mining

and modern living quarters, offices and leisure facilities. At the centre is the Nordwolle Factory Museum housed in the ornamented red brick building of the old turbine house which used to be the central

European mining history; a disaster that killed a total of 262 workers. A major section of the colliery museum erected on the site is devoted to the accident. Surrounding this section are the miners’ changing [...] dating back to 1904, and even a complete sheet-rolling mill from the middle of the 19th century. The museum tells of the people who came here from all over Europe to earn a living under harsh, and sometimes

the surface. More than one thousand years of the mine’s history are displayed in the local mining museum. Most spectacular is the coin cabinet with probably the heaviest and largest coins that were ever

businesses. The museum is part of the arts and events venue Centrum Praskie Koneser. It was formerly the rectification plant where the vodka was blended and infused in columns. The museum is stylishly designed [...] The Polish Vodka Museum is in brick buildings dating from around 1900 of the Koneser vodka distillery in Warsaw, where the brands Luksusowa and Wyborowa were formerly made. The distillery dominated the [...] tradition of making Polish vodka from grain or potatoes and the evolution of production technology. The museum is sponsored by the Polish Vodka Association. The tour ends with an opportunity to taste Polish vodkas

education, Macclesfield´s diverse textile industries, workers´ lives and historic machinery. The Silk Museum follows the story of silk from its origins in China, along the silk route to Britain and its est