Fosca. It began operation in 1914 after just two years of construction. The museum opened in 2001 and is part of mNACTEC, the Museums of Science and Technology of Catalunya. The large group of impressive stone [...] generators and switchgear and other installations such as the foundry and transformer station. The museum also tells the story of mining in the area: for lead, copper and later uranium.

The Glass Museum celebrates glassmaking in Portugal from the seventeenth century to the present. The collections come from several sources and includes glass products, machinery, tools and archives. Marinha [...] after the British industrialist William (Guillermo) Stephens settled set up a glassworks in 1769. The museum is in the neoclassical mansion that Stephens built for himself. On the first floor are displays of [...] also exhibitions of leading makers and designers in the centre for contemporary art connected to the museum. Marinha Grande is still an important centre for glass manufacturing and tours of working factories

family control and is based in Lausanne, with its own museum in Toronto. The shoe museum in a former office building in Zlin is managed by the Museum of South-East Moravia, and includes comprehensive collections

La Grange à Bécanes is a museum of motorcycles housed in a refurbished barn in the centre of the small town of Bantzenheim, in the Alsace region of north-east France. The collection was given by Raymond [...] Raymond Lemoine of Bantzenheim and the town council and the commune supported the creation of the museum, which opened in 2013. There are over 90 motorcycles dating from before the 1960s, including models by [...] brakes, headlights. The last area of the tour is a visit to the workshop where the Friends of the museum restore future exhibits.

voluntary association to restore as a museum, supported by the state of Styria. After structural repair, conservation and display, the site is now a registered museum and a Styria region landmark. There [...] the bank of the river, which provided waterpower. A tannery on the site was documented in 1548. The museum is named for the Salzer family who owned the tannery in the twentieth century. Leather production

This large, new museum brings together historical collections made in the town of Pritzwalk in north-east Germany since the 1930s. In 2002, the local council and the local history society opened the c [...] woollen factory next to the River Dömnitz. The factory and the brewery are now linked by a bridge. The museum was comprehensively redeveloped in 2018. The focus is on the social, technological and environmental [...] environmental aspects of industrialization and the wider history of the city. Original features of the museum’s buildings allow visitors to examine the history of brewing, cloth weaving and textile printing and

The museum was created by the collector and businessman Roy Richards and opened in 1984 in purpose-built premises near Birmingham Airport. It was rebuilt after a fire in 2004. The museum holds the largest [...] have existed in the United Kingdom. The best-represented makers are BSA, Triumph and Norton (the museum is close to Meriden, the home of the Triumph motorcycle factory from 1941 to 1983, and Birmingham

The museum is housed at the former railway station of the city of Bragança in the north of Portugal. The Tua narrow-gauge railway that connected the city to the Douro valley closed in 1991. The museum reopened [...] new buildings next to the old station in 2019. It is run in collaboration with the National Railway Museum Foundation. The rolling stock includes four German Esslingen steam locomotives of 1886 to 1907. In

Premià de Mar, built in 1884, is the only museum in Spain that specialises in textile printing. Some buildings of the gas works remain alongside the purpose-built museum, which opened in 2002. It explains the [...] collection of thousands of examples of printed textiles and an archive and library. It is also a museum for local history and archaeology from prehistory to the present.

strongly built of stone with a steel frame, cast-iron columns and large timbers. The museum is part of MNACTEC, the Museums of Science and Technology of Catalunya. It explains olive cultivation and harvesting [...] Olive oil is one of the iconic products of Spain. The museum is in the town of La Grandella in the north-east of Catalunya. It is housed in the buildings of the local oil cooperative, Sindicat Agrícola

Housed in the former Tennesson tannery, which worked from 1597 to 1978, this museum celebrates the town of Château-Renault’s leather-making history. At its peak in the nineteenth century over twenty tanneries [...] tanneries were located along the river here and Château-Renault had the nickname ‘City of Leather’. The museum was begun in 1985. It has a collection of over 1,000 objects, including traditional tools and machines [...] machines displayed alongside the surviving tanning pits and working floors of the building. The museum’s eight rooms guide visitors through the stages of leather making: the salting, soaking and rinsing

the Département Vaucluse acquired an old factory close to the town centre for the museum. The route around the museum traces the processes –making card, folding boxes, typography and lithography. There [...] printing. The industry produced attractive printed boxes for diverse products all over France. This museum traces the methods of making and printing cardboard boxes from the mid-nineteenth century to the

The Carolusgebouw is a building in the Valkenswaard museums quarter. One of the collections inside is devoted to lithography, the method of printing using polished stones invented in the 1790s by Alois [...] Alois Senefelder. This allowed much cheaper reproduction, especially for images. The museum has one of the largest collections in the world relating to lithography. It was begun by Peter-Louis Vrijdag and [...] hand-press. Printing demonstrations are given regularly, visitors can watch artists at work, and the museum runs workshops for both learners and professionals.

Netherlands. Sliedrechts Museum, which displays all aspects of the town’s history, was opened in the town hall in 1964. Such was the importance of dredging in the town’s past that a museum specifically concerned [...] concerned with the subject was opened ten years later. The National Museum of Dredging has working models showing the technology used in many different kinds of dredging operation, and a large collection of

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.

freight wagons, is reckoned to be one of the largest in Europe. Visitors can travel on a museum train and the museum has established a modest presence in the city of Parnu where a locomotive and other vehicles [...] km. The narrow gauge lines were closed and dismantled under Soviet rule in 1959-75, but in 1987 a museum was established at a former peat railway depot of 1922 at Lavassaare, 17 km north-west of Parnu.

making of shoes in favour of the manufacture of leather garments. The museum, which is managed by the Pirkanmaa Provincial Museum, opened in 1985 in a workshop formerly used for making heels. The collection [...] The Whitewater Museum at Korkeakiski, north-east of Tampere, is situated in the Juupajoki Korkeakiski leather factory, one of the enterprises set up in response to the opening of the Tampere-Haapamäki

includes 20 support vehicles including rail grinders and snow sweepers. The museum is a branch of the Helsinki City Museum. [...] Tramways form an essential and popular part of the city’s present-day public transport system. The museum is situated at the rear of the brick-built Toolo Hall depot, which dates from 1900. A representative

Prague’s museum of public transport occupies the Střešovice depot, constructed in 1909 to accommodate electric tramcars which had been operating in the city since 1896. The depot remained in use until [...] until 1992 and was designated an historical landmark in 1991. The museum, sponsored by the city transport authority, was opened in 1993. The collection consists of more than 40 tramcars and motor buses, ranging [...] from the city centre. It is also possible for groups to charter historic trams on journeys from the museum to other sections of the city’s network.

2010. A museum of carpets and other applied arts was opened within a fifteenth century mosque while Azerbaijan was part of the USSR in 1967, and the displays were later moved to the Lenin Museum. A new [...] Kuba, Baku, Shirvan, Karabagh and Tabris. There are demonstrations of carpet weaving techniques. The museum also includes displays of jewellery, copper goods, shoes and traditional clothes.