the surface is a grindery used for working precious stones. The museum forms part of the Sächsisches Industriemuseum (The Saxony museum of industry) and part of the Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirg

The water-powered Frohnauer Hammer is the centrepiece of a restored iron forge at Annaberg-Buchholz that is one of the most important iron-working monuments in the Erzgebirge. The timber-framed buildi

accessible for the public at this moment. The complex is to be redeveloped for housing, offices and a museum. The surroundings of Verkade are in the public area, the complex kan be viewed from outside.

a purpose-designed museum set in 26 ha. of grounds on a former RAF airfield where British Leyland had a test track, and where Aston Martin now has its manufacturing base. The museum proved popular and [...] The museum at Gaydon, a village 30 km. south of Coventry, has its origins in the tortuous takeovers that characterised the British industry in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. British Leyland Motor Holdings brought [...] Aston Martin and Morgan, as well as the products of Japanese companies with factories in England. The museum offers an archives service to the owners of classic cars. It holds a large collection of pictures

The National Science and Media Museum opened in 1983, is part of the Science Museum Group and occupies a seven-floor building in central Bradford. It includes three cinemas, one of them fitted for IMAX [...] negative, together with works by influential photographers, and extensive archives from the Kodak Museum, the Royal Photographic Society and the Daily Herald newspaper. The latter includes numerous images [...] and a huge collection of cameras and processing equipment. Long before the establishment of the Museum, Robert W Paul began the Cinematography collection in 1933. It now totals some 13,000 artefacts,

The mechanization of agriculture and foreign competition led to closure of the factory in 1987. The museum was created by volunteers in 1992. It preserves a late-nineteenth-century scythe factory intact.

beyond. The brand continued as part of the Cycleurope group and Steyr-Daimler-Puch. Proposals for a museum dedicated to the company began in the 1970s and it opened finally in 2003, when Graz was European

in 1974. In 1996, it took over the branch railway for the WTK coal mine at Ampflwang to create a museum. The entrance was the miners’ baths and the five-story main building was the coal preparation plant [...] Trains are run on the 10.5-km track to and from Timelkam. The Society also has a narrow-gauge railway museum on the Steyr Valley Railway (Steyrtalbahn) and operates the 1912 paddle steamer Schönbrunn on the

The Motorcycle Museum in Marseille traces the history of the motorcycle from its origin in 1885 to the present day. Located in a five-storey former flour mill, the collection is presented chronologically [...] Debon. The context for the motorcycles is enhanced with period costumes, posters and photographs. The museum also shows temporary exhibitions and has a library with more than 2,000 motorcycle journals and magazines

the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, the Volkswagen AutoMuseum traces the history of one of the world’s most successful car manufacturers. The museum opened in 1985 in a former clothes factory. It was established

Located at Wilhelmshaven on the North Sea coast, the German Naval Museum was opened by volunteers in 1998. It is housed in one of the oldest surviving workshop buildings used for the city’s shipbuilding

ceramics and Velten ceramics were exported to much of Europe, North America, Russia and Scandinavia. The museum collection was started in 1905 with the support of local producers. Since 1994, it has been housed

factory was conserved after closure in 1979, preserving all its artefacts in situ, and it opened as a museum in 1992. The building is in the architectural tradition of the region but is the oldest surviving [...] surviving factory in Schwäbisch Gmünd, a city once reliant on the gold and silver industry. The museum traces the economic and cultural history of the Baden-Württemberg region. The tools and machines used by workers [...] office equipment such as a telephone, calculator and typewriter. Children can make jewellery in the museum’s workshops.

for 25 km and has a maximum gradient of 32 per cent. Hiking trails start near the stations. A small museum at Licthenhain, the Maschinarium, explains the technology of the railways.

plants in Schleswig. Production continued until 1962. The museum began in 1997 as the collection of Gisela and Bodo Daetz. Since 2014, the museum has occupied three renovated halls in the copper mill. Original [...] photographs, and brassware products such as lanterns, kettles, teapots and baking tins. Near the museum is a small district of former workers’ houses and administrative buildings.

1990. After work ceased, the former factory was preserved by the local authority and turned into a museum to present the history of brick manufacturing and the use of brick in building since the Babylonians

This is the only museum in Germany that traces the history of roads, from footpaths to motorways. It was founded in 1989 by road and traffic engineers, and is housed in the former armoury of the impressive

Island of Rügen, the museum traces German automotive history from 1949 to 1989. It focuses on cars but also displays railway vehicles, fire-engines, trams, bicycles and models. The museum opened in 1994. It [...] stretched for 4.5 km. The buildings now house a hotel, a youth hostel and apartments as well as the museum. A collection of cars compares development in the divided East and West of Germany before Reunification

in traditional style with roofs to protect the platforms from snow. In the upper station a small museum which opened in 2013 traces Åre’s evolution from farming village to tourist destination. A second

were established across the Vosges mountain range, including four in the village of Ventron. The museum is housed in a four-storey weaving mill built in 1855 that is typical of the textile factories from [...] dry summer months. The mill closed in 1952 and was left complete and undisturbed until it became a museum thirty years later. The steam engine and its boiler room are on display. An array of machines and