Dimitsana is a village some 30 km north-west of Tripolis in the Central Peloponnese. The museum, a site of the Museum Network of the Cultural Foundation of the Piraeus Bank Group (PIOP), is close to a celebrated

and interactive displays and an archive and library. The museum is surrounded by plantations of mastic trees. The museum is a site of the Museum Network of the Cultural Foundation of the Piraeus Bank Group [...] projects into the history of the industry took place in 2007-08, and in 2009 it was decided to build a museum on a site given by the Chios Mastic Growers Association, the co-operative that organises production

The Finnish Museum of Car and Road Mobilia is the national museum responsible for its special field, roads and road traffic. The museum is located by Lake Längelmävesi in Kangasala, about half an hour's [...] exhibitions include a permanent exhibition on the construction and use of Finnish roads, the Rally Museum, an open-air exhibition on the use of emergency labour in road construction, an annual main exhibition [...] France in 1898, a Mercedes-Benz Waxemberger and many cars made in the Soviet bloc before 1990. The museum has strong links with motorsport and enthusiasts who collect particular marques, and has an ambitious

history of motor transport generally and pay particular attention to motor cars built in Finland. The museum is the location for many events, particularly for gatherings of bikers. The shop prides itself in

were erected on the site, which even included its own workers´ quarter. Nowadays visitors to the museum can go on an impressive guided tour which includes a demonstration of glass production at close quarters

The glassworks museum is the historical site of a complete glassworks in the countryside in the centre of the Czech Republic, 85 km south-east of Prague. The Jakub glassworks was founded by Ferdinand Čapek [...] workshops with roof vents to remove the heat surround a tall brick chimney. The oldest buildings at the museum date from the 1820s. The site was further developed by the Rückel family from 1844 and then by the

Zastava and a Zagreb electric tram. The museum also maintains an archive of historic photographs and films that reach back to the early years of motoring. The museum is the home of the Society for the Study [...] The museum was begun in Zagreb in 2013 and moved just outside the city to the north-west in 2018. It is now at Westgate Shopping Centre, on the A2 highway between Jablanovec and Zaprešić. It was founded [...] in 1901 drove the first car in Zagreb and established a car dealership and maintenance garage. The museum contains over 100 cars, motorcycles and bicycles. The vehicles include early examples such as a

Historama is a large transport museum at Ferlach in the south of Austria. It is one of a network of heritage projects by the non-profit organisation Die Nostalgiebahnen in Kärnten (Nostalgia Railways of

have largely disappeared. Only the award-winning Black Country Living Museum is still deeply rooted in Victorian times. The Museum effortlessly transports visitors to the late 18th and early 19th century [...] seams and the vents of industrialization turned this area black. All the buildings of the open-air museum are original and have been moved here to save them from development. Costumed staff bring the period

Correspondingly there is a huge range of goods boasting the label “Made in Sheffield”. The Kelham Island Museum, housed on the site of a disused generating station, is an impressive presentation of the city’s

A branch of the German Agricultural Museum is based in the surroundings of the castle of Blankenhain in Saxony, together with its home farm. The grand complex with towers and mansard roofs stands next [...] the latest technology, including a steam engine, between 1860 and 1914. It became the base for the museum in 1981. It demonstrates changing technology in agriculture and rural transport through exhibitions [...] such as a caterpillar tractor made in Berlin, as well as tractors from the former Soviet Bloc. The museum claims the world’s largest collection of self-built tractors. A working threshing machine, ploughs

You want to know how industrialisation welds a small town and its people together into a whole? Then you have to go to Monfalcone in Italy. Since 1908, when the first ship was launched here - a place

century. The former colliery administration accommodates the original pithead baths and a mining museum featuring a rich collection of films, images and objects related to the region's mining history.

was rebuilt after a fire in the 1940s, and glass-cutters in the cutting room opened in 1895. The museum was created in the manager’s house in 1994. The displays include thousands of fine glass products

The hammer mill is a water-powered iron forge preserved by the Museum of West Bohemia. It is located 25 km east of the city of Pilsen. An ironworks existed on this site in the 1650s. At one time there

The Museum of Agricultural Machinery and Equipment is a branch of the National Museum of Agriculture at Čáslav, east of Prague. It is open from April to October. The focus of the displays is the development

private museum displays 350 examples of cars, motorcycles, tractors and other vehicles alongside other artefacts that show the central position of automobiles in recent social history. The museum was devoted [...] 1960s. The museum now has 150 motorcycles and cars and shows these alongside domestic objects such as period clothing, commercial packaging and reconstructions of period shops. Since 2023 the museum has also [...] widened to other automobiles in 2017 with the addition of exhibits from the Fritz B. Busch Automobile Museum. The largest part of the collection is still devoted to tractors and to rural life, with artefacts

The museum opened at the former Oberkaufungen brickworks in 2006. It was developed by a voluntary association with support from the local authorities. The works produced bricks, roof tiles and fine ar [...] (later extended to 98m but reduced in height after a fire). At this time it employed 100 people. The museum is housed in a fine group of buildings with round-headed cast-iron windows and a tall chimney at

now the Technical Museum. It continued to develop into the 1960s making railway vehicles and aircraft. The company later integrated with Thyssen, Mercedes-Benz and Bombardier. The museum association took [...] depicting Bebra railway junction, one of Germany’s most important. The separate Henschel-Museum Association also has a museum on the site (building R11) and cares for the archives of the company and family.

landmark. ‘Excavator 1452’ was preserved in 2001. This 33.5m-tall giant is the star exhibit in the museum. It has long steel booms and moves on caterpillar tracks. One boom holds the rotating excavator buckets