the heritage of rural France in 1952. The family also operates the nearby Rural Museum in Chateau-Lambert and the Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions. [...] The Museum of Arts and Technology at Champlitte records French rural life in around 1900. It explores the technical changes that transformed villages and working life at the start of the twentieth century [...] a variety of vehicles including early motorbikes and the first car to be used in Champlitte. The museum was founded by Jean-Christophe Demard, the son of Albert and Félicie Demard, who began collecting

The museum of steam engines at Forncett St Mary in the heart of rural Norfolk was established by Dr Rowan Francis, an anaesthetist. It is open to the public two days a week through the year, and engines

metre below the outfall on the Wash in Norfolk, so pumps had to be efficient. On running days, the Museum powers up its original Mirlees pumping engine, dating from 1924 and believed to be the only blas

d by the Victorian agricultural improver John Mechi who originally developed the estate. The Jam Museum was opened in 1994 to display a range of jam making equipment that had been hidden in old buildings [...] Wilkins are assembling a collection of agricultural machinery formerly used on their farms. The Museum also features the “Crab & Winkle” railway line, a so-called Light Railway with restricted weight [...] coastal freighters. The Pier was demolished at the beginning of the Second World War. Next to the Museum are famous Tea Rooms where morning coffee, lunch and cream tea with Tiptree preserves, made in the

invention, that had such far-reaching consequences. Armed with these thoughts, a visit to the Pen Museum is an experience not to be missed. You can make your own steel pen nib exactly as was done by the

Dobrovická Muzea calls itself a museum of sugar, distilling, beet growing and the town of Dobrovice. It was opened in 2010 in a restored farmstead: the large courtyard of farm buildings was begun for the [...] century. The nearby Thurn and Taxis Dobrovice sugar factory and distillery was founded in 1831. The museum presents the history of Czech sugar production. Visitors can see a sugar laboratory, a metre-long

Opened in 1987, the Museum of Agricultural Equipment traces the history of agricultural production and especially the use of machinery and technical equipment. Six exhibitions are presented over 6000 m²

industrial culture help to create answers and find solutions? Can industrial heritage sites and museums be more than places of memory, focusing on the past? In what way can they provide a space to discuss [...] provide stimuli for a reimagined industrial culture. In addition to the presentation and mediation in museums in the light of digitalisation, participants will also discuss the question of what role art can [...] games, will be on display at the media art festival. They draw on the history of the 16 industrial museums operated by the two regional associations LWL and LVR and deal with topics such as power generation

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