worn by men in this part of Albania. The fortress houses a museum in memory of Skanderberg. The site is also home to the National Ethnographic Museum, founded in 1989. It is housed in the villa built by Ismail [...] The fortress named after the national hero Georgius Kastrioti Skanderbeg (1405-68) stands in the centre of the northern Albanian town of Krujë. The restored bazaar from around 1800, when Krujë was part [...] part of the Ottoman Empire, is like a living museum where a wide range of craftsmen display their skills. You can see basket weavers, shoemakers, silversmiths and the makers of the characteristic white felt

south-west of Stockholm is the international headquarters of the Scania-Vabis company. Scania originated in Malmö in southern Sweden and Vabis at Södertälje. The museum is centred on the hall named after

dates to the 15th century. The operation of the Makkarakoski sawmill, now functioning as a sawmill museum, began in 1753. The machinery and equipment of the current sawmill are mostly from the 1880s. The [...] developed into its current splendour, with three successive generations' homes being built. The most internationally renowned of these homes is Villa Mairea, designed by Alvar and Aino Aalto (1939). The area also

extensive archives were transferred to the museum. The main exhibition of the Forssa Museum, the City of Colourful Cloth, tells the story of Forssa community. Museum Gallery Moletti, an atmospheric little [...] focuses on contemporary and textile art. Forssa Museum was the Museum of the Year 2014 in Finland and a nominee for the Emya prize in 2015. In 2021, the museum opens a new site Pattern Centre, dedicated to [...] Finlayson design. The museum is located on the Spinning Mill Area, which is a combination of 19th century factory architecture and historic parks, and a part of the Forssa National Urban Park.

The principal museum of technology in France dates from 1794, the time of the French Revolution, when a national conservatory of arts and trades (Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers) was created [...] archives and artefacts previously held by the Academie des Sciences, and exhibits from successive international exhibitions held in France. Until the 1880s the Conservatoire was involved with the patent system [...] system and acquired many models and drawings submitted by aspirant patentees. The museum’s Industrial Portfolio includes more than 20,000 drawings and paintings of industrial subjects, including notable

The Head of Steam Museum comprises North Road Station, opened in 1842 once part of the Stockton & Darlington, the adjacent goods shed and the nearby Hopetown Carriage Works. The museum opened as the Darlington [...] Coast Main Line, Locomotion from 1892 and Derwent from 1898, and both belong to the national collection. The museum includes two other locomotives both from the North Eastern Railway, a 2-4-0 of 1885 and [...] Darlington Railway Museum in 1975. Exhibits include George Stephenson’s Locomotion No 1 , which pulled the train on the opening day of the Stockton & Darlington Railway, and Derwent , built in Darlington

comprehensive collection of its type in the whole world. Along with its rich stock of international clocks, the museum provides a multifaceted picture of the history and technology of the phenomenon of time [...] combines such different attractions as the "watchmaker´s cottage" in Vöhrenbach, with the Clock Industry Museum in Schwenningen, whose many fully-working machines tell visitors about everyday life in the factory [...] And on your way, if you want, you can watch cuckoo-clock makers at work. Finally the German Clock Museum in Furtwangen offers visitors a comprehensive overall view of clock making in the region. Its 15

of the historicism and International Style (“Neues Bauen”), including Art Déco, Bauhaus and neoclassicism. Most important witnesses to the toy industry are the German Toy Museum, the New Townhouse as the [...] stores Kresge and Halbourne. Further highlights of Sonneberg are the German Teddy Bear Museum, the SOMSO Museum for anatomic models as part of the toy production, and St. Peter’s, an outstanding neo-Gothic [...] cenotaphs of the city’s toy traders. Numerous prominent buildings and mansions evoke Sonneberg’s international status as town of toys. Sonneberg is still home to several toy companies with factories or factory

This is the official museum of the French postal service and is recognised as a national museum under the Ministry of Culture. It began in 1946. In 1973 it moved to the 15th arrondissement and an expressive [...] of which are published stamps, associated design drawings and printing equipment. In addition, the museum displays photographs, models and artefacts such as post-boxes, uniforms and vehicles to illustrate [...] transport, the people who have made up the postal service and the art and manufacture of stamps. The museum also houses temporary exhibition galleries, an archive and a shop

The museum of tractors, together with a museum of agricultural machinery and a preserved landowner’s house, is in the countryside 80km west of Helsinki. The private collection was started in the 1970s [...] others are rare survivors. They include makes such as Ford, John Deere, Deering, Oliver, Fordson, International, Munktells, Takra and Deutz. The agricultural machinery includes horse-drawn vehicles such as

factory in the least. The impression from within is a complete contrast. The building houses the National Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia and welcomes visitors with a large number of historic [...] historic textile machines. But this is only a part of the exhibition programme. The aim of the museum is to provide visitors with a comprehensive overview of the history of knowledge and technology in Catalonia

as a museum illustrating the manufacture of Portland cement, that is a branch of the National Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia (MNACTEC) and is part of its Territorial System of museums that

Ukraine on 26 April 1992 was the worst in the history of nuclear power generation. The objective of the museum is to help humanity to understand the implications of what happened. Multi-media presentations explain [...] newborn humans and other animals are fully illustrated. This is the most disturbing of all industrial museums but the messages it conveys are of supreme importance.

Enigma is a museum of communications established in 1997. Its name comes from the Ancient Greek word for a spoken riddle. It is housed in the former post office in Østerbro, where it cares for Denmark's [...] Denmark's national collections of the post and telecommunications industries, including the country’s largest stamp collection. Through sophisticated interactive exhibitions it explores many historical and current

The museum was begun by the master-printer Maurice Audin in 1964 and celebrated its half century with a major renovation in 2014. It occupies the Hôtel de la Couronne, a Renaissance house that became Lyon's [...] Lyon's first city hall. It has an internationally significant collection. An enormous range of graphic materials is displayed – rare books, artists’ prints and posters, bus tickets and advertisements,

you’ll be going 140 metres underground. And below the earth it is cold, damp and dark. The National Coalmining Museum for England, near Overton in West Yorkshire, is located in one of the oldest collieries [...] steam-driven winding wheels which were in operation till 1970 are still working. In addition the museum has an audio-visual exhibition which takes visitors on a journey through more than two centuries [...] pit railway and travel to the next colliery just around the corner. This also forms a part of the museum complex.

Outhwaite Ropemakers is a working factory in the Yorkshire Dales National Park that produces ropes in traditional flax or cotton and man-made fibres. The business was established by the Wharton family [...] ropes are needed). Braiding machines can also be seen in operation. Nearby, the Dales Countryside Museum in the former railway station preserves a steam locomotive and carriages and includes displays about

the repair and maintenance sheds, dating back to the 19th century and forming the framework of the museum, hints to a precious relic of Portuguese railroad history. The train depot sits right next to the [...] collection that offers railway enthusiasts a splendid arrangement of historical rolling stock. The museum's four steam locomotives are joined by a large number of passenger and freight cars, partly used [...] António Egas Moniz (1874-1955), winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1949. An exciting part of the museum looks beyond train operation, illustrating the equipment of train depots at the turn of the 19th

centre on land for the Royal Navy’s submariners for more than a century. It is part of the National Museum of the Royal Navy and also of the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard group, and is linked with the Dockyard [...] The museum at Gosport provides an opportunity to observe how submarines are constructed as well as about the lives of the crews who manned them. It occupies the site of HMS Dolphin , the training centre [...] bus that plies the short distance across the mouth of Portsmouth Harbour. The centrepiece of the museum is HMS Alliance , a submarine of the Second World War. During a 45-minute tour visitors can see the

that it became the leading woollen manufacturer in Finland. At this time it was still small by international standards, with fewer than 50 workers. However, in 1847, Wahren and two partners built a new [...] Forssa became the largest in Finland under the brand Finlayson. Today Wahren’s spinning mill is a museum.