obtained. The park displaying the monuments of the industry was established in 2002. The adjacent museum uses film footage to show working conditions in the mines, and has exhibitions of tools and clothes

an electrical original mining train. The Clock Tower “Torre dell’Orologio” houses the historical museum about the mining park.

The museum at Tartu is primarily concerned with ethnography, but it has particularly important collections of clothing from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It was established in 1909 [...] century. The costumes include many leather garments and accessories. It is some indication of the museum’s lively thinking that the garments include a jacket worn by a Tallin punk between 1982 and 1985.

Estonia’s maritime museum was established 1935 although it had earlier antecedents. Since 1981 its headquarters has been the Fat Margaret artillery tower. It had been planned to open the museum the previous [...] Estonian economy. A particular feature is the role of the museum in marine archaeology in the Baltic. In 2012 a further section of the museum was opened at the former seaplane harbour in Tallin. It includes [...] member of the crew of a submarine. The displays also guide visitors to the ships preserved by the museum, the Lembit , a submarine built by Vickers Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness in 1937, the Suur Tõll

the building now serves as a conference centre. In Emmasingel in the centre of the city there is a museum in the original factory showing, amongst other things, how light bulbs were made in 1891, and how [...] been transformed by the 1920s by the introduction of machinery. A flashing light system links the museum with the modernistic Centre for Artificial Light in Art on the other side of the street.

area, restaurants, a theatre and a 45 m observation tower. The town’s history is portrayed in the Museum Scheveningen.

created the Ijsselmeer, in 1932. It is linked by a road across the dyke to Lelystad in Flevoland. The museum follows the tradition established at Skansen by Artur Hazelius (1833-1901), portraying through artefacts [...] the interface between land and sea around the shores of the Zuyder Zee before its enclosure. The museum was founded in 1948, but its open air section was only opened to the public, after many years of [...] windmill. The superbly-restored buildings include a toy shop and a tiny grocery shop. The symbol of the museum is a trio of limekilns on a peninsula extending into the Ijsselmeer which serve as a landmark for

The Netherlands Open Air Museum is one of several national museums inspired by the example of Skansen in Stockholm, that were established in north European countries in the decades before the First World [...] restored, but in the 1980s the museum was threatened with closure by cuts in public spending, and from 1991 became the responsibility of an independent foundation. The museum displays 85 buildings from all [...] Wind power has always been important in the history of The Netherlands, and it is fitting that the museum should include several windmills, amongst them a 26 m high tower mill from Delft, and a wind-powered

and of course the Zigzag kiln dating back to 1924, the last of its type in Western Europe. In the museum you can find out more about how bricks were made locally and learn about the long history of the

The Carolusgebouw is a building in the Valkenswaard museums quarter. One of the collections inside is devoted to lithography, the method of printing using polished stones invented in the 1790s by Alois [...] Alois Senefelder. This allowed much cheaper reproduction, especially for images. The museum has one of the largest collections in the world relating to lithography. It was begun by Peter-Louis Vrijdag and [...] hand-press. Printing demonstrations are given regularly, visitors can watch artists at work, and the museum runs workshops for both learners and professionals.

The Maliebaanstation which houses the railway, dates from 1874 and is the oldest remaining in Utrecht. The collection include a replica of De Arend of 1839, the first engine to work in the Netherlands

to lose their jobs, mainly because of foreign competition from outside Europe. The Dutch Textile Museum takes up this story in a very palpable fashion. What was it like to be a Tilburg weaver one hundred [...] mills? What were the reasons for the decline of the textile industry at the end of the 1950s? The museum will give you the answers to these and other questions because it all happened here in an old elaborately [...] n equivalents and steam-driven looms clatter away beside computerised textile machines. For this museum still produces articles. Visitors can experience a working mill which at the same time recounts its

Netherlands. Sliedrechts Museum, which displays all aspects of the town’s history, was opened in the town hall in 1964. Such was the importance of dredging in the town’s past that a museum specifically concerned [...] concerned with the subject was opened ten years later. The National Museum of Dredging has working models showing the technology used in many different kinds of dredging operation, and a large collection of

The tramway foundation opened a museum in a depot of 1904 at Delfshaven before moving in 2010 to the Hillegersberg tram depot. The museum opened the following year, and re-opened after substantial refurbishing [...] refurbishing in 2014. The museum holds a representative collection of about 50 of the tramcars once used in the city, approximately half of which are full restored and operational. They belong to several [...] whole site, and from time to time tramcars from the collection are able to go through the city. The museum is open to the public on the first Saturday of every month and on Architectural Heritage Day every

The Maritime Museum is the most ancient shipping Museum in the Netherlands. Since the establishment in 1874 it developed itself from a modest showroom to a large museum with contemporary exhibitions. The [...] The extensive Museum Collection belongs to the most important in the world. Meanwhile the number of Museum assets increased to more than half a million objects. The Nedlloyd Collection plays an important [...] important permanent role. Together with the Harbour Museum it is considered as Maritime Quarters Rotterdam. The collection of the Harbour Museum consists of working objects. These objects are connected by a

purchased steam tram equipment from 1965, and moved to the present museum at Ouddorp on the north side of Brouwersdam in 1989. The museum building was expanded in 2013-14, and models now show the full extent

polder extends over some 7200 ha, and currently has a population of about 8,550. There is a small museum in the village of Middenbeemster. Beemster Cheese made from the milk of cows grazing on the polder

The bakery museum in the old Zuider Zee port of Medemblik is one of the best places to gain an understanding of a traditional trade that was one found in every town in Europe. The museum is located in [...] There are excellent interactive displays designed for children. The museum is proud of its reputation as ‘the most delicious museum in the Netherlands’. [...] building of 19th century date where Cees de Boer began to work as a baker in 1930. It was adapted as a museum in 1985, and was visited by 2,000 people in its first year. It now attracts more than 50,000 visitors

the town museum, in a Gothic house, includes a horse-powered mill for grinding buckwheat, and a pearling mill. The former tobacco factory of Samuels & de Leeuw in the Butter Market is now a museum, whose

Horst is a small town in the northern part of Limburg province where the museum is concerned chiefly with the lace and embroidery industry that once flourished in the region. There are displays of tools [...] display of the products of the industry which is backed up with a substantial reserve collection. The Museum holds a photographic archive, and has an extensive library devoted to the textile industry and p [...] local history are covered in a varied collection of historical artefacts in the Antiquity Room. The Museum is the starting point for several cycling routes along which visitors can learn more of the history