complete and least altered factory colony of the Industrial Revolution. It is of outstanding national and international importance. Founded in 1784 by a young textile merchant Samuel Greg, Quarry Bank Mill was [...] ocuments provide evidence about the life and work of the Greg family and their workforce. 3. A Living Museum Quarry Bank Mill and Styal Estate is still a working Cotton Mill producing over 9,000m (10,000 yards)

– in the form of hundreds of slate quarries. In the 19th century the slate tiles on almost every roof in Britain had been mined and cut by Welshmen.The National Slate Museum in Llanberis gives visitors [...] their masterly skills. It is located in the Victorian workshops of the vast Dinorwig slate quarry. Here you can see slate-splitting demonstrations by traditional hand-craftsmen revealing the skills and artistry

founded the German national organisation of hostels in 1919, and became involved in the international hostels movement. He is commemorated by a statue in the centre of Altena. The museum in the castle has [...] the region, including its industrial history. The entrance to the museum lies 300 m from the Deutsche Drahtmuseum (German wire museum).

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 [...] until 1984. 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

pot and a clock - it appears as if the foreman has only just left his desk. This is how the Central Museum of Textiles recreates in detail some 200 years of daily working life and textile history in Łódź [...] exciting retrospective takes us back to the time of the great factory foundations, recounts nationalisation, bankruptcy and unemployment, and ends with the revival of local factories in the more recent [...] of the first textile industry hubs in Poland, along with the Łódź City Culture Park, an open air museum setting with a collection of historic wooden houses and other buildings typical of the region.

The Maritime Centre Vellamo at Kotka is Finland’s national maritime museum, and is the responsibility of the National Board of Antiquities. It opened in 2008 and has a spacious boat hall and an auditorium [...] special emphasis on winter navigation in northern latitudes, together with the work of icebreakers. The museum has extensive archives with 2000 historical maps, more than 30,000 photographs and the database of

Finland’s national open air museum was established, like those of other Scandinavian countries, in the period of Romantic nationalism before the First World War, at a time when Finland formed part of the

and services of an international standing in Tampere. Vapriikki opened to the public in 1996, and the building was fully ready as a museum in 2000. The total floor area of the museum centre is approximately [...] Vapriikki is a versatile museum centre located by the Tammerkoski river, where visitors can explore over ten exhibitions on history, natural sciences and technology all at once. Together with other operators [...] the 1990s. The Swedish word ‘fabrik’ became the Finnish ‘vapriikki’ in the last century, and the museum centre was named Vapriikki to emphasise the significance of its location in Finnish industrial history

Sweden. The earlier collection is brought together with new acquisitions and loans from the National Museum of Science and Technology and the Nisse Nilsson Collection. The cars represent many countries [...] Autoseum is a museum of cars, mopeds, speedway bikes and aircraft. The collection began at Skokloster Castle in 1963 and passed through several owners. In 2008 it opened at Simrishamn, at the southern [...] and one by Renault. They are laid out in a large building of 4,000m 2 . The site also houses a toy museum, a collection of model aircraft and the Frasses and Marianne Musikmuseum, which is an important

Ukraine nationals have contributed much to the development of aircraft technology. There is a National Aviation University in Kyiv which sponsored the establishment of the National Aviation Museum near to [...] 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 60 aircraft, most of them built in the former USSR. The earliest

This brick warehouse is one of the prestigious museums in the Ironbridge World Heritage site. It was built in 1840 by the Coalbrookdale company to store iron products ready for shipment down the River [...] a vital trade route, connecting the Shropshire coalfield to the Atlantic port of Bristol and the national canal system. Iron goods were carried from the ironworks to the warehouse on horse-operated tramroads [...] architect Samuel Cookson as a public showpiece for the iron company in the Gothic Revival style. The museum is increasingly affected by floods and a scale model of the Severn Gorge has been removed for safekeeping

engine from a cider factory and a 1959 Bristol Proteus gas turbine that generated peak power for the national grid. The Sulzer injection diesel made at Ludwigshafen in 1912 is the oldest working diesel engine [...] ships’ radio rooms. A gallery is also devoted to vintage motorbikes. Run by dedicated enthusiasts, the museum opened in 2003 and has continued to expand to accommodate the growing collection.

The Museum of Liverpool is one of the group of national museums in the city that includes the International Slavery Museum and the Maritime Museum. It covers topics from prehistoric archaeology to The [...] The Beatles. It opened on the historic waterfront as the Museum of Liverpool Life in 1993 and moved in 2011 to a new building conceived by the Danish architects 3XN. The ground-floor displays focus on the

At Riihimaki, north of Helsinki, is Finland’s national museum of the glass industry. The origins of the museum were in 1961 but in 1980 it relocated to a former industrial building. This began in 1914 [...] crystal. The beautiful spaces and elegant displays of the museum were created by the leading designer Tapio Wirkkala. The focus of the museum is on the three centuries of the glass industry in Finland [...] design. There are temporary exhibitions of historical collections and contemporary glass artists. The museum also houses a research library and archive. Nearby are other glassworks buildings adapted to new

The national postal collections were started in 1881 and were first shown to the public at the national exhibition of 1885. Together with telegraph and broadcasting material, the collections had a permanent [...] 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.

during the scheme that have become wetlands of international importance. The principal historical interpretation is provided in the Valli d’Argenta Museum in a marsh house at Campotto, where there are displays [...] The ecomuseum at Argenta is a federation of several museums and nature reserves that interprets and provides access to some of the lands reclaimed in the delta of the River Po in the early 20th century

The museum is located at a railway roundhouse and turntable a short walk south-east of Sibiu passenger station in central Romania. The reinforced-concrete roundhouse curves through 120 degrees and was [...] Romania and other equipment such as stream cranes. Some were built in Romania by Malaxa and its nationalised successor the 23 August Works (later FAUR) in Bucharest and at the Domains factory at Reșița.

around 70 companies supplying the international fun-fair market. The museum opened in 1999 and was extended in 2011 as a collaboration between the local authorities and national institutions. It sets Bergantino’s [...] Bergantino in the Veneto is an international centre for the manufacture of rides and games for fairs and amusement parks. Two local bicycle mechanics, Umberto Bacchiega and Umberto Favalli, saw the first

This national aviation museum was founded in 1955 and moved to its present location at Lelystad airport in 2003. It includes over 100 aircraft in and around two hangers and a reconstruction of the first

The Nationales Automuseum in central Germany is one of the most comprehensive collections of cars in the world. It incorporates more than 50 brands and 150 cars across a span of more than 130 years, from [...] was created by the industrial entrepreneur Dr Friedhelm Loh and opened to the public in 2023. The museum is a university campus for courses in car design and conservation. The facilities include a cinema