Italy, and the terminus of ferries linking the mainland with Sardinia and Corsica. The transport museum originated in 1986 and is based in a former trolley bus depot. Many of the exhibits are trolley buses [...] railway section with a variety of locomotives, carriages and wagons was officially opened in 2003. The museum includes a substantial library and documentation centre.

1981. The felt hats it produced were exported to all parts of the world. The factory now houses a museum which includes tools, machines and samples of products, and a documentary film illustrates the former

people, about 35 per cent of the population of Armenia, is one of the world’s oldest cities. Its museum of science and technology is a recent foundation, said by visitors to be small but interesting. It [...] emphasis on the work of the Yerevan Institute of Microelectronics, particularly on control devices. The museum plans to expand and is appealing for new exhibits.

the town. Caudry is now, apart from Calais, the only town in France where lace is manufactured. The museum is located in the lace factory built in 1898 for Théophile and Jean-Baptiste Carpentier in 1898.

able to travel on a 3.6 km section leading to the Kysuce open air museum at Cadca, which is responsible for its management. The museum was founded in 1974 to conserve buildings removed from the villages

is intended that the museum will in due course be incorporated with collections of historic road vehicles in a museum of transportation under the auspices of the Technical Museum of Slovenia. [...] The Slovenian railway museum originated in 1981 and has developed with two sections. At Parmova ulica 35 is the roundhouse of a former engine shed in which ten historic locomotives are exhibited. It was

Villafranca di Verona lies south of the city of Verona, near the southern tip of Lake Garda. The Nicolis Museum was the creation of Luciano Nicolis (1934-2012), who made a fortune from the paper industry, particularly [...] One outstanding exhibit is the Biciclo Michaux , exhibited at the Triennale di Milano 1865. The museum is accommodated in a specially-designed building in glass and steel, made possible by Luciano Nicolis

This museum holds one of Europe’s largest collections of historic motor cars, and is also notable for its innovative design and interpretation. It was formerly called the Ruffia Museum, and was established

car industry when visiting Turin are likely to be the Lingotto factory and Italy’s National Motor Museum, but, although it is open only on Sundays, the Fiat Historical Centre also provides much that is

wine, and the museum holds many engravings and paintings, most notably l’Infanzia de Bacco (the childhood of Bacchus) by Georgio Andreoli. The Lungarotti Foundation also manages a museum of olive oil at [...] red wines, which for many decades has been exported to other parts of Italy and overseas. The wine museum was established in 1974 by Countess Maria Grazia Lungarotti and her late husband, Count Giorgio

belonged to the Habsburg Empire. The industrial monuments in the region are interpreted by the Open Air Museum which provides trails identifying the principal buildings and explaining their histories, and a

documentation centre on the history of the local cutlery trade was set up in 1987. In 1995, the cutlery museum ‘Museo dei Ferri Taglienti’ was established in a defiant 14th-century palace, maintaining an original

The railway museum at Savigliano, 50 km south of Turin, was established in 1978. Its locomotives and rolling stock are housed in a roundhouse locomotive depot and the adjacent sidings. The collection includes

The strapline of the Lamborghini Museum is ‘unexpected experiences’. It is part of the car-maker’s factory between Bologna and Modena. The museum explains the history and iconic models of the Lamborghini [...] move into a completely new business producing high-performance sports touring cars. The two-storey museum aims to display a family tree of all the car models ever produced by the company. It begins with [...] the hybrid Asterion of 2014, the Centenario, the Huracán Performante and unique concept cars. The museum includes an interactive driving simulator and gives tours of the factory production lines.

city’s standard gauge commuter network. A voluntary group was formed in 2006 to set up a railway museum in the former station that had stood derelict for more than 20 years, and were given access to all [...] two years later a trust was constituted that was able to take formal charge of the property. The museum is now open for several days each week, and has been widely commended for the welcome it gives to

Ginevro. The mineralogy and history of the workings is illustrated by specimens, pictures and maps in a museum in the Palazzo Comunale (town hall) at Rio Marina.

The mining museums at Schneeburg, near St Leonard, which lies between Merano and the Austrian border are part of the Südtiroler Bergbaumuseum (South Tirol Mining Museum) which manages five sites in the [...] Valley, tell the story of lead and zinc mines that were worked from the middle ages until 1967. The museum also offers a lengthy tour of underground workings that was opened to the public in 1996. The two

The Museo dell’Acqua e del Gas (Museum of Water and Gas) tells the story of the two public utilities in the city of Genoa. From the early thirteenth century some of the city’s water was delivered by the [...] and continued until 1972 when the distribution of natural gas from Russia began. Displays in the museum include tools, analytical instruments, meters and advertisements. There are examples of many types [...] types of domestic appliance, including lighting systems, smoothing irons and heaters, and the museum also holds an important collection of specialised books and technical manuals relating to gas and water

resistant to insects, and it was used in many government and royal chancelleries across Europe. A museum was inaugurated in 1997 in one of the region’s oldest water-powered paper mills. The Mele mill is [...] area can be heated to dry paper hanging on racks. It was last used for this purposes in 1985. The museum includes examples of the equipment used to make paper by hand and some early paper-making machines

from the 1860s, and since 1905 the Società Petrolifera has been based in the town. The Petroleum Museum Park has exhibitions illustrating the history of oil extraction in the region but also displaying