and modern achievements. The exhibition is further enhanced by two participatory laboratories: "Hands-On Chemistry" and "Getting to Grips with Technology". The laboratories can be used by school students [...] type of school. Since 1977 more than 55.000 school students from all over Germany have tried their hand at chemical, physical and technical experiments on subjects like synthetics, cosmetics and environmental [...] areas on the history and development of the region’s industrial heritage, and the enlargement of the hands-on laboratories to a science centre. In this way the German Chemistry Museum is becoming a meeting

and it still exists there, exporting its products globally. Files and rasps of different kinds are hand tools used since prehistoric times to work metals, wood and stone and essential in a wide variety [...] jewellery, locksmithing and watchmaking. Until the nineteenth century, files were manufactured by hand. Steel blanks were forged, ground on a wheel and annealed before the lines in the surface were cut [...] location for the industry as the exploitation of the huge pine forest of Pinhal de Leiria required hand tools and provided fuel for forges. Products could be taken from Vieira to the two great trading ports

foundries. You can also learn about the raw materials used in the foundries, how moulds were made by hand and by machine and how cast iron was processed. The museum also has a room for temporary exhibitions

play any significant role in economic development: although Finland’s farmers were never serfs, the handful of owners of large, profitable estates long dominated an overwhelming majority of day labourers and

tractors, sports cars and racing cars. Interactive displays and equipment let visitors learn through hands-on experience – including working models of aerodynamics and piston operation, driving simulators

artists and craftspeople working in felt. Workshops give visitors an opportunity to try felt-making by hand for themselves.

remaining fully functional mills in the country Fellenberg bears witness to the transition period from hand work to industrial factory production. In 1797 a flour mill was set up in the town of Merzig in a [...] action as if it were a completely normal working day. But the museum does not simply bear witness to hand work on the edge of the industrial revolution. Today it presents exhibitions of paintings, photography

extraction and processing techniques, the life of the slate miners and local history. They include hand tools, equipment, examples of slates, photographs and a video of modern slate mining. From there,

dissertation or a film project - a wide variety of projects are supported and history is offered as a hands-on experience.

bedroom, a laundry, a dairy and workshops for making metal and wooden tools. A gallery of original hand-tools for many purposes shows the development of different regional types. The machinery on show includes

vehicles, together with children’s pedal cars, artefacts from the Second World War, such as radios and hand weapons, model cars, vehicles for the disabled and tractors. Most are from the Soviet era with some

commercial hand embroidery in Plauen was well-known, and in 1828 more than 2,000 people were employed in whitework embroidery. The industrialization of the craft proceeded just as quickly. The first hand embroidery

take you underground but up into the sky. For you can climb this steel colossus – under the guiding hand of experienced guides - as part of a round tour of the site. The high point is a viewing platform

The Summer School combines interdisciplinary knowledge transfer with hands-on project activities and is designed for students enrolled in various disciplines. Among other things, they will be instructed

the beam engine Princess at the other. Princess was installed during the 1860s, but was then second hand, and was probably built by Bateman & Sherratt of Manchester in the 1820s. The mill was scheduled as

storage plant. Other museum sections are dedicated to the history of Vilnius industry as well as hands-on exhibits for children. The museum opened in 2003.

largest preserved peat excavator, whereas small tools refer to the times when peat was still cut by hand. Thus, the collection illustrates the development of regional peat mining from its origins to the

narrow boat cabins to experience how families lived and worked on the inland waterways, or try your hand at operating the interactive steam-powered crane. Then step back in time to visit the Victorian h

which can be also operated on request, are true marvels of technology, especially the “Black Giant”, a hand embroidery machine from 1860. In the rooms on the ground floor, examples of embroidery with a crochet

has survived as a visitor mine. Around the turn of the 20th century, iron ore was mostly mined by hand in narrow low gangways, with the help of gunpowder. The miners only began to use compressed air hammers