supervisors and workers. One of the housing estates, a semi-detached house built in 1925, houses the 'Museum Miners' House' in the left part of the building. The house, which fell into serious disrepair after [...] municipality, restored to its original condition at the insistence of the civil society and opened as a museum in 1995. It is furnished in the style of the 1920s and 1930s. The cooker, which can be heated with [...] the heavy living room cupboard with the fine Sunday china are not missing in the living room. The museum flat is maintained and run on a voluntary basis by the Eisden Heritage Foundation (Stichting Erfgoed

1950, 1963 and 1968, and the store became part of the John Lewis Partnership in 1983-84. The local museum for the Welwyn and Hatfield district is in an operational watermill at Mill Green.

first road Roundabout is located in Letchworth on Sollershott East. The First Garden City Heritage Museum tells the story of the Garden City Movement from its origins to the present day. It is housed in

followed. By 1963, there was even an oil mine with a track length measuring 95 kilometres. The museum’s grounds, which have an area of 18,000m2, cover part of the old oil field and include various functioning

monument. After several years of use as a shopping centre and renewed restoration now it houses an amber museum. In the 15th century it was the largest building in Europe concerned with manufacturing.

in 2012 one of its locomotives was returned to Forst from the former DDR transport museum in Dresden. >>> The museum is closed until 2024 for structural repairs and subsequent redesign of the exhibition [...] closing stages of the Second World War but all closed were after the reunification of Germany. The museum opened in 1995 in a four-storey polychrome brick factory built in 1897 by Daniel Noack. Its exhibits

Nathaniel Clements (1705-77), whose grounds include a notable walled garden. The collection in the steam museum includes a single cylinder mill engine of 1900 by Victor Coates & Co, Belfast, which was used in [...] (1806-59), Richard Trevithick (1771-1833), Gustave Eiffel (1832-1923) and William Dargan (1799-1867). The museum also includes the Halpin Collection of artefacts relating to the first transatlantic cable between

factories. A large collection relating to the most famous of them, Huntley & Palmers, is held by the town museum, which originated in 1883 when the town corporation accepted a cabinet of curiosities donated by [...] use folding tins to display to buyers the full range of biscuits available. The collection in the museum includes about 300 tins, a range of advertising and marketing ephemera, and what is considered to

made earthenware, clay tobacco pipes and other ceramics on the site. Since the 1990s it has been a museum. The house of the original owners contains displays of painted Nantgarw china, tobacco pipes, earthenware

Overlooking St Helier Marina, the Maritime Museum tells the history of the island of Jersey’s maritime environment and seafaring past. It is housed in five granite warehouses built in the 1880s that became [...] became disused when trade was containerised. He museum opened in 1997. Topics covered include geology, tides, ecology, voyage histories, lifeboats and shipbuilding. Visitors can climb aboard a rocking ship’s

1846, Bury Transport Museum holds a collection of vintage vehicles, including double-decker buses, steam rollers, trams, tractors, commercial vehicles, cars and bicycles. The museum was begun by volunteers [...] railway furniture and models of houses, trains and vehicles. Craft workshops are held for children. The museum is operated as part of the East Lancashire Railway, a heritage railway that runs for 19 kilometres

Housed in an Art Deco building, the Kempton Steam Museum preserves two of the largest steam engines ever built. The triple-expansion engines are 19-m high and pumped drinking water into reservoirs for

The Cement Museum is a not-for-profit organisation under the Secil Group, a leading international cement and concrete producer. It aims to present the history of the Leiria Cement Company, which was founded [...] founded in 1923, and the Maceira-Liz plant. The museum opened in 1991 in the headquarters building and displays documents, photographs and films of the works from the 1930s. An observation point gives views

The Metallurgy Museum explores the heritage of the Ardennes mountain range as a former heartland of the iron industry. Opened in 1986, it occupies a large factory built in 1884, which produced nuts, bolts [...] bolts and fittings for the railway industry. The museum takes visitors on a journey through the evolution of iron making, beginning in the Middle Ages, when nails were forged by hand on the banks of the

this museum explores the history of glass and crystal-making from antiquity to the present day. Many of the processes of manufacture have changed little since the eighteenth century. The museum shows

industrial world. The museum opened in 1992 and has welcomed over 600,000 visitors. It occupies a water-powered paper mill dating from around 1820, sited at a weir on the River l’Indre. The museum contains more [...] This large technological history museum was established by Maurice Dufresne, a blacksmith and later an engineering entrepreneur and a specialist in salvage. Dufresne saved objects he believed to be re

extracted from shaft mines that gave access to underground chambers, drained by steam engines. The museum has developed from the work of the Friends of the Slate Industry, an association established in 1979

did not recover its prosperity until 1930. The slate mine finally closed in 1997 and the present museum was opened in 2008 in the building from which the mines were managed, which also accommodated a power

the mining and quarrying of slate from the 15th century until the last workings ceased in 1975. The museum was established around the headstock of the former Longchamps mine by the Perrayeurs Mayennais, the [...] massive electric motor of 1904 that powered winding apparatus and air compressors remains in place. The museum holds a particularly notable collection of tools. Displays show the methods used in mines and quarries

of war in 1914. The last open quarry in the area ceased work in 1920. The mine was re-opened as a museum in 2007. Visitors see an introductory film explaining the geology of the area, and the quality of