during the period of French rule between 1794 and 1814 and subsequently a private residence. The museum was originally intended for viewing by professionals in the armaments trade who were visiting ma [...] can be seen on the Internet. The Musée d’Armes shares the Curtius mansion with other municipal museums, and its galleries were extensively refurbished in 2009.<//span>

uncertain of the true purposes of the blockhouses, but used it from February 1945 for testing bombs. A museum was opened to the public as a private venture in 1973. The site was designated an historical monument

Lamadeleine near Belfort in France-Comté within the Ballon des Vosges Regional Natural Park. The museum commemorate the Petitjean family, four generations of whom worked as artisan blacksmiths in the village [...] Like craftsmen in many parts of Europe they combined farming with working iron. Visitors to the museum see first a film entitled Camille le Forgeron (Camille the blacksmith) which shows the techniques [...] Petitjean family made edge tools as well as shoeing horses and repairing agricultural implements. The museum holds collections of tools, especially hammers, and of anvils of different sizes for various purposes

The maritime museum has been located since 1958 in one of the finest fortresses on the French coast, one that has walls surviving from Gallo-Roman fortifications of the 3rd century ad, but which is largely [...] largely the work of Sebastien, Marquis de Vauban (1633-1707) from the late 17th century. The museum displays are accommodated in three towers, the Tour Madeleine, the Portail Paradis and the Keep. Displays [...] s. Brest was one of the French ports principally concerned with trading to the Far East, and the museum also accommodates a section deal with the city’s East India Company.

This museum commemorates the work of an industrial pioneer who established a mechanical engineering company that produced a remarkable variety of products over more than two centuries. Frédéric Japy ( [...] sons, and his descendants were involved with the company for most of the rest of its history. The museum opened in 1986 on the ground floor of a four-storey brick and stone factory called "La Pendulerie" [...] factory), whose upper floors have been adapted as dwellings. The project was officially classified as a museum in 1996. The displays feature the astonishing variety of products made by the Japy company in the

The museum at Paddle in Normandy is one of the best places in Europe at which to observe the Walloon forge method of making wrought-iron, from which evolved the finery-and-chafery process. Ironworkers

transport. In the same year public passenger transport services began, but this time as part of the museum activities. This meant that a large part of the railway equipment could be saved from demolition [...] run the industrial monument, restore and maintain buildings and equipment on an honorary basis. The museum train sets out from the Klostermansfeld/Benndorf station, which features a historic waiting-room

of the steel industry in the Mała Panew Valley. Close to the Iron Bridge you can visit the iron museum, presenting product of the iron works and a model of the famous bridge.

including the Route du Feu at Blegny, the Bois du Cazier Mine at Marcinelle, le Grand Hornu, the mining museum at Bar-de-Luc and the PASS science centre at Frameries. La Chaine des Terrils has links with the

ores, ceramics and glass manufactures and the mining of lignite for electric power stations. The museum, established in 1978, is housed in Schloss Thueurn, a late Baroque mansion dating from 1781 which [...] r systems of iron forges or corn mills which had closed. The glassworks buildings also contain a museum of electric power generation. The third building is a water-powered iron forge with three tilt hammers

Transport Museum has two large exhibition halls to bring back memories for older visitors and show younger people life in the twentieth century. The main subject is transport, but the museum also shows

The Marinemuseum is in the old dockyards of the Royal Netherlands Navy, called Willemsoord. The first building is the Torentje, the clocktower house of 1827, which showed the time across the dockyards

The museum opened in 1978 in the village of Bourton-on-the-Water, which is often called the most beautiful village in England. It began with the work of a private collector, Mike Cavanagh, and now belongs [...] Volvo. Visitors can also see a reconstructed petrol station and a blacksmith’s shop. Part of the museum is devoted to toys, including pedal cars, toy cars and board games. The entrance building is a large

The East Anglian Railway Museum is not only home to the most comprehensive collection of period railway architecture and engineering in the Region, but is also based at a working railway station on historic [...] Victorian scene, railway buildings and rolling stock and recapture the thrill of travelling on a Museum Steam Day. The more adventurous can drive a steam locomotive and operate signalling on one of the [...] Heritage Railway Association and undertakes the restoration of locomotives and rolling stock from other museums. The amazing Chappel Viaduct is beloved of artists and photographers and runs across the valley just

Set in a country park the museum is run by a committed group of ex-miners. Main features include a traditional miners cottage scene, historic photographs illustrating the miners way of life, the poignant

The museum of pasta is located on the banks of the Taro river n the province of Parma between Collechio and Ozzaro Taro, 12 km from the city of Parma. It is one of several food museums in the region and [...] have been marketed and with the role of pasta in art and culture. The pasta museum shares its premises with a tomato museum, which opened in 2010. Visitors can learn about the different varieties of tomatoes [...] belonging to the Bishops of Parma. It accommodated a tomato processing factory until the 1960s. The museum displays the work of the Barilla company founded in Parma 1877, and supposedly the world’s largest

worked by the electric power company, Ene Nazional per l’Energia Electrica, was the last to work. The museum and documentation centre display tools, equipment and minerals from the workings, and also provide

glistening white range of peaks. The history of the marble industry is comprehensively displayed in the museum in the town, opened in 1982, and visitors can take guided tours of the quarries, that vary from three [...] three hours to a day, and incorporate displays of sculpture and other marble products, a museum quarry and parts of the ferrovia marmifera, the railway built in 1890 to convey marble from the workings

lead ores but also some copper and silver. The park incorporates an archaeological and mineralogical museum. Visitors can walk 360 m into the Miniera del Temperino, and see varied rocks and minerals as well

and carries the spirit of Emilia Romagna throughout the world. The Ducati story presented in the museum is one that spans over two centuries and explores the themes of engineering and fascinating, timeless