example, at the innovation centre CIVON where visitors are invited to be key players of an interactive museum experience. Eight displays guide them through all stages of manufacture in the iron industry: from

most fashionable shopping district, where they still remain, although not in the same building. The museum is on the ground floor of the company store. Its core is a collection acquired by Theodore Beyer

village had become a town and the town the European centre of glass production. In 1996, a glass museum was opened in the former villa of the Gelsdorf family, which has set itself the task of preserving

dressing plant. The museum is the starting point for trails exploring the Grosse Pinge , which take in a powder house, headstocks and other evidence of Altenberg’s mining heritage. The museum is part of the [...] by the collapse of mine workings, about 12 ha. in area, 450 m. in diameter, and 150 m. deep. The museum is located in a large Pochwäsche building, used for crushing, washing and concentrating tin ore, [...] mill, of the kind depicted in Georgius Agricola’s De re metallica . The building was opened as a museum in 1957, alongside a small show tunnel in a former mine gallery. The whole complex was closed in

and excavation methods. The gallery has a low ceiling – some sections are only 1.4-m high. A mining museum displays tools, lamps and samples of minerals. Further mining equipment is displayed outside, including

principal streets run down a slope, and are linked by alleyways, making up a grid pattern. The Røros museum holds collections of historic documents and maps and takes responsibility for the conservation of

historic site of national importance, which should protect it from further developments. The mining museum provides access through adits to Roman workings, and its collection includes a Roman water wheel [...] schools, and places of worship for a variety of religious denominations. The outstanding items in the museum collection are wax tablets from Roman times, one of them dating from 131 ad.

in Budišov nad Budišovkou, where clay slate mining has been practised since the 19th century. The museum documents the history with tools, samples and products and is complemented by the presentation of

most important European salt works and even as a salt capital of the Middle Ages. The German Salt Museum/Industriedenkmal Saline Lüneburg [Lüneburg Salt Works Industrial Heritage Site] has commemorated [...] general global importance of salt in the past, present and future. The grounds of the German Salt Museum include several buildings and remnants which were placed under a preservation order in 1982 as an [...] the industrial heritage site. A third of the building (approximately 1,000m2) is now used for the museum. Thanks to preserved production facility parts, visitors can experience the most important salt

than 3,000 by 1900 when it was manufacturing two million pairs of shoes per annum. The company’s museum at Schönenwerd, a small town in the canton of Solothurn in northern Switzerland, was opened in 1942 [...] leather. Themes such as the use of shoes as status symbols and shoe fetishes are explored in the museum, and there are also displays of shoes of all sizes modelled in porcelain, glass, wood and other materials

With its extensive collection on everyday culture in the GDR, the 'Museum Utopie und Alltag' (Museum of Utopia and Daily Life Museum) aims to demonstrate what life was like for ordinary people in the former

factory as well as scale replicas of the railway vehicles it produced are on display in the Wagon Museum, which is set up on three floors in the stuccoed interiors of the Studénka castle. Other exhibition

of silk, tie and brocade production in the region has been set up as a branch of the Rýmařov City Museum. The textile factory dates back to the Schiel brothers, who founded a factory for the production

The museum at Golcar provides many illuminating insights into the lives of nineteenth-century makers of woollen cloth, and into the ways in which domestic manufacturing gradually evolved into factory-based [...] factory-based production. The museum occupies three of a terrace of four 3-storey cottages called Spring Rock, built in the 1840s by a family of independent woollen cloth makers whose descendants still live in

ERIH STANDS IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF UKRAINE The city of Baikonur and the area of Kosmodrome Baikonur are rented and administered by the Russian Federation as an enclave. Due to Russia's war o

ERIH STANDS IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF UKRAINE The city of Baikonur and the area of Kosmodrome Baikonur are rented and administered by the Russian Federation as an enclave. Due to Russia's war o

Tipoteca is a museum about type and printing, but also an archive and library, a printing shop, an exhibition gallery and a place for talks and conferences. It celebrates typefaces and the beauty of relief [...] The collection was built up by contacting hundreds of Italian printing shops and visiting them. The museum offers workshops in typesetting and letterpress printing, handwriting and fine bookbinding, using

France’s national museum of inland waterways and inland navigation was created in 1967 at the initiative of the journalist and politician Louise Weiss (1893-1983) with the curator François Beaudouin ( [...] conurbation, was a vital centre for river transport at the confluence of the Seine and the Oise. The museum is rich in high-quality scale-models, paintings and documents and includes important objects concerned [...] types of vessels across France and the history of systems of propulsion on inland waterways. The museum also has a place to watch historical films, an archive and a library.

The museum set up in the Ostrava-střed railway station documents the history of railway transport in the Ostrava region from the arrival of the first train on 1 May 1847 to the present day. On display

As a branch of the National Agricultural Museum in Prague, the Ostrava Museum is dedicated to food and also presents over 40 historical agricultural machinery, mainly tractors and machines for processing [...] Dolni Vitkovice steelworks complex, which were previously used as a magazine for the Agricultural Museum. In the 'Food Depot', visitors interactively learn all about food, get to know the basic types and