playground areas or admiring the historic locomotives and wagons in the lovingly restored railway museum. Construction on the Maximilian park started in 1902 and nothing went right from the start. Water

Inland Waterways Museum in the Duisburg suburb of Ruhrort, directly next to the largest inland harbour in the world. That fits. Even the splendid “Jugendstil” building which houses the museum has been perfectly [...] back to the history of the museum. For the Oscar Huber was the first location in Duisburg for the permanent exhibition on inland waterways. Some time afterwards, when the museum moved to the old Ruhrort [...] barge jam-packed with things to discover. And all around on the surrounding arcades and galleries the museum presents the complete world of inland waterways from a stone age boat hollowed out of a tree trunk

letters conceal one of the largest, most innovative and exciting museums in Germany. Visitors walk through the various sections of the museum as if they are travelling in a time machine. Everything is so [...] message is clear. People at work are liable to injury and can only take a certain amount of strain. The museum vividly reveals the risks of the workplace and also shows how to avoid them. No expense has been [...] professional groups. In 1996 DASA was awarded the title of the “best new industrial and technical museum in Europe”.

enormous exhibition area of around 12,000 square metres, makes the German Mining Museum in Bochum the largest and most important museum of its kind in the world. [...] The equipment ranges from a mallet and gad to a fully-automatic disc shearer. But the German Mining Museum in Bochum is not content with machines, no matter how spectacular they might be. For the history [...] to the increasingly industrialised conditions in the 19th century. At the end of your tour of the museum you might like to take a trip to the 60 metre viewing platform at the top of the pithead gear. The

silk for hundreds of years. The working weavers of Lyon called themselves ‘canuts’, which is how the museum gets its name. It is an early example in Europe of preserving industrial heritage: it was set up [...] Lyon. The collections now belong to the city of Lyon and the building to a cooperative company. The museum reopened after a major refurbishment in 2009. The exhibitions explain the history of making silk

concerned with the history of the related trades of lace-making and embroidery. The museum is descended from the Museum of Art and Industry, established by Lyon’s Chamber of Commerce in 1864, which was visited [...] 18th century mansion of the Villeroy family, which it shares with the city’s museum of decorative arts. In 1985 the museum established the first workshop in France for the restoration of ancient fabrics [...] city go back centuries before the Industrial Revolution, and it is fitting that the displays in the museum take a long view of silk-manufacture. The making and trading of silk in Chinese, Coptic, Persian

well-known and popular part of the museum, and a speciality of the shop is the provision of Walloon delicacies including chocolate, pékèt (alcohol) and sirop de Liège. The museum holds many documents relating [...] The Musée de la Vie Wallone (Museum of Walloon Life) portrays many aspects of the social history of the French-speaking community in Belgium from the early nineteenth century onwards. Its collection of [...] (1872-1929) of mining subjects. Marissaux was born in the nearby industrial community of Seraing. The museum is located in a former monastery near the centre of Liège.

the Museum of Natural Sciences in Brussels, but their discovery is commemorated in the small Musee de l’Iguanodon in the Ruellle des Medicins in Bernissart. A few kilometres from the mining museum, you [...] Bernissart, with which it has been combined for local government purposes since 1976. The mining museum was created in the years 1988-89 by a local man, Jeannot Duquesney and displays all the paraphernalia [...] and of mining art, including works by Ernest Dubois (1863-1931). Visitors taking refreshment in the museum restaurant can admire a superb piece of stained glass from one of the surface buildings of the H

The military history museum in Berlin is part of the Bundeswehr Museum of Military History which is located in Dresden and is focussed on the cultural rather than the technical history of warfare, particularly [...] Bundeswehr, who continued to use half of it for operational purposes and used the rest as a museum. The museum has nine hangars, two of which are currently used for displays. The collection includes 214 [...] in 1987, was re-located to Gatow 1994, and became a branch of Dresden museum from 2010. The collection now incorporates the museum of the Luftwaffe.

technical exhibition about the boiler, the museum’s permanent exhibition addresses the history of medicine, hospitals and the architect Hermann Blankenstein. The museum’s volunteer employees are always happy [...] decades, is now a visitor attraction thanks to its status as a listed industrial heritage building, museum and events location. Highlights for fans of technology include furnaces from three generations (1892

Energy Museum that had been founded in 2001 thanks to the strong commitment and profound expert knowledge of BEWAG employees and retirees. Except for special event days, guided visits of the museum require [...] How does electricity get into the socket? The Energy Museum in Berlin does not only vividly illustrate how electricity is generated and distributed, but it also traces the development of communication [...] how the switchboard girl of yesteryear connected telephone lines can try it out for himself. The museum is part of a complex of buildings that is one of the best places in Berlin to study the rich history

inmates and thirteen staff. It is a place of mourning and a memorial as well as an historical museum. The museum has an extensive documentation centre, and substantial collections of photographs and small [...] dealing with the history of the camp has been open since 2006. The site is interpreted both as a museum and as an historical crime scene. The most prominent exhibit is a wagon used in taking away rock

recall the activities that once took place here day and night for 150 years. In the Michal Mining Museum and Cultural Centre in Ostrava (Czech Republic) visitors can follow the daily routine of colliers

Gaultier, Pierre Cardin or Chantal Thomass. The latter is the patron of the Museum for Lace and Fashion in Calais too. The museum, which opened in 2009, is housed in a historic weaving and lace-making factory [...] fascinating architectural ensemble is clearly a metaphor, not only of its ambitions as an industrial museum, but also as a shop window for contemporary fashion trends. Visitors arrive in a 3.000 square metre [...] to the 21st century, and a presentation of state-of-the-art manufacturing methods. In addition the museum has room for temporary exhibitions, a documentation centre, a room for fashion shows and spaces for

unique in Europe. The museum is run by an association of friends who demonstrate the old techniques. The former cutting and embroidery rooms have exhibitions and demonstrations. The museum offers activities [...] the Latin term 'paraments', which translates as 'prepared for the Lord's table'. The heart of the museum is the preserved weaving room, which was used until 1992, when the last owner, Erwin Maus, decided

households as well as industry. To this day, the company is owned by the two founding families. The museum tells the success story of the company and presents the diverse products it has manufactured over

a hotel bar, a hospital ward and a butcher’s shop have in common? Their tiles. At Jackfield Tile Museum, all of these places are recreated, showing the stunning tile-work which was the hall-mark of their [...] surface to protect it from the heat of re-entering the earth’s atmosphere. As the displays at the museum show, fashions may change, but tiles have never really gone out of fashion. Tiles are all around [...] see. Compare Pugin’s tile designs for the Houses of Parliament to the ones in your bathroom. The museum is housed in an original tile factory, and the gas-lit tile showroom and offices are preserved for

restored. Since 1989 it has functioned as an outside branch of the Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum in Hagen. The “Museum of the Hagen Impulse”, as it is now called, contains a huge number of legacies of local [...] the man who commissioned the work was a young banker’s son, patron and founder of the world’s first museum of contemporary art, Karl Ernst Osthaus. Both these men were responsible for making the Hohenhof [...] here he conducted an intense dialogue with artists, academics, politicians, cultural specialists and museum workers from all over the world. When he died in 1921 he was only 46. The garden city was never completed

1990. Those interested in culture can now find galleries for architecture and contemporary art, a museum for architectural drawings, a theatre and other event rooms at Pfefferberg. There are regular concerts

you should not miss a visit to the open-air museum at Saint-Martin Turm, which contains works by internationally renowned sculptors. Finally the local museum in the old 17th century vicarage offers insights