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

people making linen and cotton. After the Second World War production expanded to several plants. The museum presents the history of the linen industry in part of the factory’s printing house. Working historical

was exporting worldwide. A new factory outside the town was built in 1913. The museum is operated by the district museum in collaboration with the Kopernik confectionary firm. There are interactive displays [...] Heritage site. The tradition of making gingerbread there goes back a thousand years. Opened in 2015, the museum is located in the Weese gingerbread factory in the heart of the old town, a dignified three-storey

The museum is in the area of early oil exploitation at Gorlice, south-east of Kraków, on the site of the former Magdalena oil well. After Ignacy Lukasiewicz invented the kerosene lamp at Kyiv in Ukraine [...] world’s first oil wells. The area became the cradle of the Polish oil industry. The centrepiece of the museum is the drilling tower, a conical structure of timber with an external staircase that visitors can [...] collection tanks, a ‘nodding donkey’ pump, a steam pump and a covered wagon for collecting oil drums. The museum was created in 2012 by former oil worker Kazimierz Dudek with the support of a voluntary association

designs on cans. These two museums are operated by MUST (Museum Stavanger) and bring the subjects together in a former fish canning factory near Stavanger harbour. The canning museum opened in 1982 and the

in a respectable historicist style.The railway generally operates from April to October. A small museum is housed in the former toilet building at the lower station.

The Museum is part of the Leitz-Park complex built in 2014 for the company that makes Leica cameras. Ernst Leitz I (1843-1920) and Ernst Leitz II (1871-1956) built their optics business making microscopes [...] 1920s (which in turn got its name from three letters of ‘Leitz’ and two letters of ‘camera’). The museum opened in 2021 with newly designed displays and a temporary exhibition space for leading photographers

company, near the centre of the city of Tübingen in south-west Germany. It began as a motorcycle museum but soon cars were added and later all kinds of toys. The collection now houses hundreds of exhibits [...] toy boats and planes, steam tractors and dolls’ houses. The Klinks pride themselves on having a museum without barriers where visitors can explore ‘hands-on’. Some of the exhibits, such as a model railway

machines) and Rüti (weaving machines). Since 1991 more than 70 volunteers have been running a unique museum of industrial culture in Neuthal. Visitors are immersed in a fascinating world and in a bygone age

1974. The first coal was mined here in 1898. The museum included the shaft hall, the winding tower and the winding machine house. Since 2022, the museum has been housed in the former 'Kneepkens' department [...] mining in the Limburg region ended in the 1960s and 1970s. To preserve this history, the Dutch Mining Museum was opened 40 years later. It was initially located at Shaft II of the Oranje Nassau I mine in Heerlen

Situated on the outskirts of Cardiff at St. Fagan’s, is one of Wales’ major visitor attractions. An attractive range of historic buildings from all over Wales are gathered in a beautiful natural woodl

host the Textile Industry Museum. The multi-part building with its workshops bathed in light is located at the Salhus Fjord right to the north of Bergen. Tours of the museum start in the oldest part of [...] were the working conditions like and how did they affect the employees? At the end the well-stocked museum shop invites everyone to buy the same socks and scarfs he or she just watched being produced.

port, and its first tramcar forms part of the museum collection. The museum holds an archives collection and has a substantial library. Currently the museum is closed for renovation. [...] at the Campo Marzio station, which ceased to be used by passenger trains in 1959, and has been a museum since 1984. It was also the terminus of the 0.76 m gauge line known as the Paric Railway, the Istrian [...] that extended 123 km to Parenzo in present-day Croatia, which worked between 1902 and 1935. The museum includes 11 steam locomotives made by several Italian companies, and by works in Wiener Neustadt

This museum, opened in 1997, reflects the ‘postal culture’ the accustomed means of carrying mail and despatching telegraphs in central Europe, and the wys of life of those employed in such work. It is [...] e for the similarly distinguished post office in Karlsbad (Karlovy Vary), completed in 1903. The museum also has important displays relating to the conveyance of letters and parcels by sea, and to the

of the port has diminished, it remains one of Europe’s principal centres for coffee trading. The museum reflects the city’s complex maritime past. It originated as a collection established by the local [...] equipment from his ship the Elettra, from which he despatched some of the first wireless telegraphs. The museum has an extensive library and archive.

The museum of Großalmerode, the „city of good clay”, takes its visitors on a trip through 800 years of clay work and glass-making, showing the development of local trades and their impact on the people

northeast of Marburg, in the heart of a region that relied on lignite mining for more than 400 years. The museum, founded in 1992 and located in a timber-framed building called Am Amtsgericht in the town centre [...] and cyclists providing access to 20 sites of historical interest in the coalfield, starts at the museum.

the manufacture of buttons and buckles. The main focus of the industrial exhibits in the historical museum is on the making of buttons and buckles, not just those that included iron wire but buttons made [...] demonstrations of metal-working and every August a smithy day is held to honour blacksmiths. The museum has links with Phänomenta, an interactive science and technology centre which is located nearby.

The museum occupies a silk spinning mill built in 1836-8 – the first in the region to use steam – that continued until 1965. By the middle of the nineteenth century, half the population of Saint-Jean-du-Guard [...] du-Guard was employed in the silk industry and there were 23 producers. The museum stands in a park in the centre of a block between Rue de l’Industrie, Grand Rue and the river – the pedestrian entrance [...] entrance is at 5 Rue de l’Industrie and the car park is off Grand Rue. The museum focuses on the social history and traditional culture of the Cévennes from the seventeenth century to twentieth. It began with

become Zuber and Company. The museum was established in 1983 based on the factory’s collections and has expanded with many more acquisitions. On the ground floor the museum uses rare examples of historical [...] The museum is in the classical ‘Commanderie’ building of the Order of Teutonic Knights at Rixheim in Alsace. Built in 1735, in 1797 it became a wallpaper factory owned by Hartmann Risler and Company, later [...] block or roller and surface treatment such as embossing or flocking. A remarkable feature of the museum upstairs is the display of panoramas developed by Zuber – wallpapers that show complete panoramic