business until 1876, and the museum, established in the following year, comprehensively displays the technology of printing from the 16th century until the 19th. The museum is one of the best-preserved

Eperon d’Or (the ‘golden spur’) is a museum in a factory of fine-quality shoes in the traditional centre of Belgian shoemaking. The company was started by Emiel Vandommele in 1863. It became the official [...] built in 1910 and an office in Art Deco style was added in 1930 by the architect Charles Laloo. The museum displays the whole production line of shoemaking in the 1950s, a large collection of beautiful shoes [...] town’s electricity generating station, opened in 1901, now the Stoom en Stroom (Steam and Electricity) museum, which can be visited by prior appointment.

reflects the state development of the region, parts of the plant were closed down in the 1990's. The museum is located in the former power plant building of the iron and steelworks. It tells the story of the

by the Companhia Carris de Ferro de Lisboa, which had its origins in Brazil in 1872. The company museum is adjacent to its headquarters at Santo Amaro, in the shadow of the Ponte de 25 Abril, a suspension

modernised in the 1960s and the company still produces salt today. The old plant is now a museum. The Solana Museum tells the story of salt production from the Neolithic period to the present day. It displays

old city in which it stands were designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the following year. The Museum of the Old Bridge occupies the 5-storey Tara Tower, one of the towers that accommodated the bridge [...] bridge keepers, and also served as arsenals for the storage of weapons and ammunition. The museum consists of three sections devoted to the archaeology of the surrounding area, the restoration project of 2002-04

by the schoolmaster and historian Hans Pemmer (1886-1972), and are displayed in the Prater Museum. The museum, originally established in 1933, has been housed in a modern wooden building next to the Ferris

smoking paper covered a large part of the Spanish market, South America and the Philippines. The museum is based in the Moli de la Vila, a 4-storey, 18-bay building of 1754. The technology of paper-making

Szentendre is the home of one of Europe’s most unusual food museums. In the 1930s the city was home to two outstanding confectioners, Mátyas Szamos and Károly Sabó, who developed new forms of marzipan [...] marzipan, and, in particular, showed how it could be used to model buildings and busts of people. The museum occupies the first floors of two nearby houses in Dumtsa Jenöutca, and includes models of the Hungarian

in 1991-92, when a depot dating from 1914, when the line was first electrified, was adapted as a museum which opened in 1994. There are five exhibitions rooms and two large display halls showing the history

Szabadteri Naprajzi Múzeum is the most important open air museum in Hungary and extends over 63 ha. It opened in 1967, becoming an independent museum from 1972. It was originally intended to show the folk [...] 1961-62. Such mills were once a feature of the Danube and of other major rivers in eastern Europe. The museum holds a large collection of documents, photographs and of the kinds of artefact displayed in the

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

Sea, beaches, canal-side houses – that's Zeeland at first glance. A visit to the Zeeland Industrial Museum reveals that the sunniest region of the Netherlands also has a lot to offer in terms of industry [...] development of bioenergy? Sweets such as Mentos mints also come from here. It is no coincidence that the museum, which includes a steam turbine and a Art Nouveau-style switchgear at its heart, is located in an [...] mysterious instructions challenge children to embark on quests for hidden treasures. After all, as the museum's motto puts it, the most adventurous discoveries are made with your hands.

The Tram Museum opened in 1978 and is run by volunteers from the Danish tramway historical society. It preserves trams, buses and trolleybuses, sited on a section of the former Sjællandske Midtbane (Zealand [...] (Zealand central railway). It has absorbed other collections to become the most important tram and bus museum in Denmark, with around 140 vehicles from Danish cities and systems around the world. A third of

Enigma is a museum of communications established in 1997. Its name comes from the Ancient Greek word for a spoken riddle. It is housed in the former post office in Østerbro, where it cares for Denmark's

This mining museum is sited at the former Julius III lignite mine, 30km north of Most. It was established in 2003 by the Association of North Bohemian Miners in collaboration with the Most museum to show the

capital investment from the 1920s. The Spoluka mine was worked out by around 1972 and opened as a museum in 2023. Visitors walk along a tunnel with the date 1961 above the entrance for around 140m to see

the age of 18 and became one of the world’s most prolific and influential automobile designers. The museum has aircraft, early electric carriages, tractors, sports cars and racing cars. Interactive displays [...] cars made by the company from the 1920s and tractors made with the Allgaier company from 1950. The museum offers chauffer-driven tours in vintage vehicles.

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.

Seydisfjordur (until recently spelt Seydhisfjordur) lies 400 km north-east of Reykjavik. The technical museum that illustrates many aspects of the history of the region has three principal exhibits that relate [...] a line from the terminal of the undersea cable to Reykavik. The third principal component of the museum is Fjardarselsvirkjun, the first hydro-electric power station in Iceland, erected in 1913. The turbine