The 180 ha Veenpark is an open-air museum of the peat-digging industry, based in a village established in the 19th century by poor farmers from Hanover, who made habitable a region of impassable bogs.

view of the historic town and Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds from the brewery roof. Starting from the Museum, you tour the Brewery before tasting the different beers at the Brewery Tap. After your tasting,

L’viv is famous for the quality of its beer and the beer museum opened in 2005 on the 290th anniversary of the establishment of the city’s first large-scale brewery. It is housed in a 19th century brewery

fluorspar mine Fluorschacht. The mining museum opened five years later and shows underground the historical mining from the 17th to 19th century and in the above-ground museum the original and functional preserved [...] are well worth seeing. The most important buildings, machinery and equipment in the above-ground museum area are the old smithy, the lamp room, the winding engine house, the ship's diesel engine and the

1000. The Röhrigschacht (lit: Röhrig Shaft) is situated in the midst of this historic mining area. A museum has been housed in the surface buildings since 1987. Miners’ instruments, drills and loading equipment

scenarios make a trip round the museum a fascinating experience and there are plenty of opportunities for visitors to handle exhibits and try them out. The merchant’s house on the museum site was built in 1778 [...] foundation stone of a small local museum was laid for what was to become a constantly growing collection of tools. This eventually led to the opening of the German Tool Museum in 1970. It was converted and [...] spacious modern new building. From the outside alone it is evident that the Remscheid German Tool Museum and historic centre unites both past and present. Inside you can see almost everything to do with

Leverkusen suburb of Schlebusch the red brick walls of the Freudenthal Scythe Hammers Industrial Museum quiver and shake as they have done for centuries. Heavy hammer heads thunder down onto red-hot metal [...] 1950s and in 1987 the Hammer factory ceased operating for good – only to change into an industrial museum which graphically illustrates the transitional period from manual to factory production.

The museum of the chocolate industry in Cologne was founded by Dr Hans Imhoff who was born in 1921 within sight and small of Stollwerck, the city’s celebrated chocolate-manufacturing company. After the [...] at Bullay an der Mosel, but later returned to Cologne to re-invigorate Stollwerck, and set up the museum in a modern building alongside the River Rhine in the city’s harbour area in 1993. There are displays [...] chocolate and the origins of the beans used by modern manufacturers, but one of the strengths of the museum is its emphasis on marketing. Stollwerck first used vending machines for chocolate bars in 1887,

1960s. The museum tells the story of mining in the region, first documented in 1434. It explains geology and displays many fossils. This was one of the most dangerous mines in Europe, and the museum shows safety [...] operated by the Polish state coal company. It produced anthracite and refractory shale. It opened as a museum the year after mining ended in 1995. Preserved buildings include the headframe, winding engine house

Bokrijk is an open air museum in the tradition of Skansen, which reflects the social history and material culture of the Flemish provinces of Belgium. It was largely the creation of Dr J Weyns, its first [...] which was acquired by the Province of Limburg in 1938 and is now a recreational centre, of which the museum forms one element. Construction began in 1953 and the public were first admitted five years later

on as part of a spinning mill and even of an agricultural machinery factory. A department of the museum not directly connected with the castle's history, but still appropriate is the passementerie workshop

workers’ homes, and a workshop that since 2006 has housed a museum of fishing. The lake system is notable for carp, and visitors to the museums are able to take refreshment in the Karpfenclause, a characteristic [...] completely in 1898. The buildings were used by local fishing companies until 1973 when an ironworks museum was opened. Most of the buildings of the ironworks remain, including the blast furnace, two cupola

principal market for the town’s products. The scale of production has dwindled since the 1990s, but the museum, located in a three-storey former factory, provides through machines, displays of hats and photographs

If there is one feature which unites the exhibits in the Magdeburg Technical Museum, it is pioneering spirit. This is immediately obvious in the threshing equipment manufactured by the Magdeburg company [...] equipment and munitions here. It was later taken over by the Krupp company. In this way the site of the Museum alone - it opened in 1995 – reflects the industrial traditions of the city. The exhibition is notable [...] what principles a linotype machine in a traditional printing shop works. A separate section of the museum is devoted entirely to the pioneering aviator, Hans Grade who, in Magdeburg, was the first person

the work of sixteenth-century miners. A museum contains models, documents, geological samples and artefacts related to mining in the region, and another museum is concerned with canaries and their use [...] mine began at the end of the Middle Ages and expanded from 1521. It closed in 1910 but reopened as a museum as long ago as 1950. Visitors go to the wooden pithead building and into the mine. Underground they

range of activities offered by the museum. All this has only been made possible by the steadfast commitment of the Friends of the Museum who, after setting up the museum, are now responsible for running [...] opening of the Hugo Junkers Technology Museum on the site of the old Junkers works in Dessau marked the crowning moment of their efforts. The finest exhibit in the museum is a Ju 52/3m aircraft which was recovered [...] recovered in Norway and put back together again. The rest of the restored works hall which houses the museum and covers 4200 square metres, displays engines, driving mechanisms and model aircraft alongside

The air museum at Wernigerode near Halberstadt was established in 1999 and now displays about 50 planes and helicopters in four hangars. Particularly interesting examples are an Antonov An-2 biplane, a [...] several Soviet examples. Visitors can experience a Messerschmidt Me109 simulator, and, as in most air museums, the display of aircraft is backed up by a collection of aero engines.

nationalised concern which ceased operation in 1991, and the museum was established in 1994. For historians of printing the importance of the museum lies in its large collection of type in many alphabets, not [...] An historic printing works in Leipzig accommodates a museum which holds collections of international significance and offers to visitors opportunities for gaining an understanding of the technologies that [...] oldest fonts in the collection were cast in Nuremberg in the mid-sixteenth century. One section of the museum shows how printers met the challenge of reproducing musical scores. It concentrates particularly

"Knotten" (lead ore deposits). The tour takes place in the Eifel region, in the galleries of the mining museum in Mechernich. Mining started here under the Romans, and since the 13th century the main product [...] the industrial history and traditions of the people of Mechernich. Over the following years a new museum with a permanent exhibition has been constructed on the edge of the former mining area. Furthermore [...] gallery has been converted into a visitors´ gallery, run by the Friends of the Mechernich Mining Museum. Here visitors can learn some interesting facts about regional mining history, and also view a section

The location and the building fit the museum perfectly: an old industrial quarter somewhat away from the centre of Liège, a disused sheet metal factory, which was set up by the Dothée brothers in 1848 [...] engineer named William Cockerill built an engine factory here. You can see a huge picture of him in the museum. Over the years the Cockerill dynasty set up further industrial plants, including the iron and steelworks