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ago? In the historic control center at the Olympia Stadium subway station, the Berlin Underground Museum provides a glimpse of the history, progress, and current operations of the subway system. In 1881 [...] streets on pedestals. The Berlin underground was one of the first projects of its kind in Germany. The museum provides a hands-on experience of many historic artefacts commemorating one century of underground

The museum of communications in Berlin claims to be Europe’s oldest postal museum. The collection was established in 1872 by the postmaster of imperial Germany, Heinrich von Stephan (1831-97), who, in [...] Strasse lay in East Berlin. The museum building was restored in a makeshift fashion by the DDR government in 1958, and displays were opened to the public. A parallel museum in West Berlin, the Berliner Post- [...] service, replacing that which had been provided over several centuries by the counts Tour et Taxis. The museum was located from 1898 in purpose-built premises in Leipziger Strasse. Most of the collection was

machining of the component parts. AEG products made in the Turbinenfabrik are displayed in the Deutsches-Museum in Munich, and elsewhere. The building was originally 123 m long, 25 m high, and 25 m wide, but was

brewery. This has been a centre of international light art since 2001, the world’s first and only museum dedicated exclusively to light art. The dark vaults of the building are transformed into a spectacular [...] character of the labyrinthine corridors, cooling rooms and fermentation plants in the least. Indeed the museum’s special atmosphere is enhanced even more by the light installations themselves. The Linden brewery [...] stands out on the urban horizon as a symbol of the town’s lively cultural activities. This unique museum is a rich blend of old brewing culture and highly modern contemporary art.

A new furnace was built in 1826 which worked for a few years but the site was closed in 1877. The museum is located in the former office and manager’s house next to the pond that supplied waterpower. The [...] displayed under a curving roof of galvanized steel that has won architectural prizes. The displays in the museum use models, artefacts, panels and 3-d animations to explain the technology of smelting iron and the

Rhineland Industrial Museum. The Museum of Heavy Industry opened its doors in 1997. Oberhausen, a traditional iron and steel town, is the ideal site for such a museum. Currently the museum is closed for re [...] what a grinding job it was to operate the powerful hammer. Indeed the museum, one of the six sites of the Rhineland Industrial Museum, has a huge collection of discarded steel-making machines in its collection: [...] very clear example is the ten metre high steam forging hammer dating back to 1900, which stands in a museum on the site of the Altenberg zinc factory in Oberhausen. You only have to stand in front of this

polluted. That is easy to forget. But not if you pay a visit to the Aquarius Water Museum in Mülheim an der Ruhr. The museum is housed in a listed redbrick water tower in the suburb of Styrum. Two lifts take [...] supplied water to the neighbouring industrial plants. In 1992 the RWW opened the Aquarius Industrial Museum in the redesigned tower and since then it has received several awards. What used to store water now

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